GDR tour 1957
The 1957 GDR tour was held from July 11th to 20th. The stage race took place for the ninth time on the territory of the GDR and was won by the Belgian Eddy Pauwels . In the team standings , the team won the SC DHfK Leipzig .
Attendees
70 racing cyclists took part in 14 teams. These included four GDR sports clubs , several regional national teams from the GDR and the Federal Republic, and the Belgian club WAC from Hoboken , which operated as the Belgian national team. The field consisted of the following teams:
- SC Dynamo Berlin
- SC unit Berlin
- SC DHfK Leipzig
- SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Sports Association Locomotive
- District selection Cottbus
- District selection Halle
- District selection Karl-Marx-Stadt
- District selection Leipzig
- Racing collective Berlin
- Racing collective Mecklenburg
- Selection Bavaria
- Selection of North Rhine-Westphalia
- WAC Hoboken
route
The 1,513 kilometer long course began and ended in East Berlin , with 12 of the 14 GDR districts being crossed. The route was divided into nine stages, the seventh day segment from Riesa to Dresden was divided into a 40 km time trial race and a circuit race in Dresden. The first stage from East Berlin to Rostock was the longest section of the tour at 239 kilometers. There were two mountain stages between Magdeburg and Gera , which led over the Harz Mountains and through the Thuringian Forest .
Race course
As in 1956, Eddy Pauwels, a driver from the Amsterdam suburban club WAC Hoboken, won the individual classification of the GDR tour in 1957 . Pauwels laid the foundation for the overall victory on the third stage when he moved up to second place in the overall classification after a 15-kilometer solo trip with the Berliner Kappel. The Belgian took over the overall leader's yellow jersey on the next stage after the previous leader Kirchhoff had lost track of Pauwels and thus lost a lot of time during the race. On the fifth part of the day, Pauwels was able to show off his mountain qualities and extend his lead in the overall standings to over three minutes. After that, he was already certain of overall victory because the competition did not have the tactical class to steal the yellow jersey from the Belgian. During the penultimate stage, Pauwels won another mountain classification and was able to extend his lead in the overall standings to another minute. The Berliner Gerhard Löffler was able to take this away from him with his victory of the day in East Berlin, but Pauwels remained the sovereign tour winner even though he did not achieve a single stage win. Equally superior, Pauwels won the mountain classification with 17 points ahead of Manfred Weißleder from Karl-Marx-Städter (8 points).
The team from SC DHfK Leipzig won the team competition with a clear lead of more than five minutes over SC Einheit Berlin . The Leipzig team had already taken the lead in the team classification after the first stage and only lost it to SC Einheit for one day. After that, the SC DHfK was able to temporarily extend its lead to seven minutes over the WAC Hoboken, which was able to maintain second place for several stages. Only after the seventh stage did the Belgians drop to third place, which they were able to defend until the finish in East Berlin.
| stage | Start finish | Length (km) | winner | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Berlin - Rostock | 239 | Wolfgang Grabo | SC DHfK Leipzig | 6:30:24 |
| 2 | Rostock - Schwerin | 136 | Rudi Kirchhoff | SC Dynamo Berlin | 3:31:48 |
| 3 | Schwerin - Magdeburg | 220 | Horst Kappel | SC unit Berlin | 5:44:00 |
| 4th | Magdeburg - Gotha | 187 | Bernhard Eckstein | Karl-Marx-Stadt district | 5:24:10 |
| 5 | Gotha - Gera | 171 | Peter Härtel | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 4:17:30 |
| 6th | Gera - Riesa | 145 | Günter Oldenburg | SC unit Berlin | 3:36:54 |
| 7th | Riesa - Dresden | 102 | Lothar Höhne | Halle district | 2:43:57 |
| 8th | Dresden - Senftenberg | 145 | Manfred Weißleder | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 3:36:51 |
| 9 | Senftenberg - East Berlin | 168 | Gerhard Loeffler | SC Dynamo Berlin | 4:35:54 |
Final results
| driver | team | Time (h) | |
| 1 . | Eddy Pauwels | WAC Hoboken | 40:13:57 |
| 2. | Gerhard Loeffler | SC Dynamo Berlin | 40:16:52 |
| 3. | Günter Oldenburg | SC unit Berlin | 40:20:16 |
| 4th | Rolf Töpfer | SC DHfK Leipzig | 40:20:25 |
| 5. | Bernhard Eckstein | District Karl-Marx-Stadt | 40:21:50 |
| 6th | Wolfgang Grabo | SC DHfK Leipzig | 40:21:57 |
| 7th | Manfred Weißleder | SC Bismuth KMSt. | 40:22:09 |
| 8th. | Erwin Wittig | SC unit Berlin | 40:22:32 |
| 9. | Karel De Laet | WAC Hoboken | 40:26:53 |
| 10. | Heinz Zimmermann | SC DHfK Leipzig | 40:27:32 |
| 11. | Horst Hanske | Selection Bavaria | 40:28:10 |
| 12. | Jürgen Burek | Leipzig district | 40:32:16 |
| ... | |||
| team | time | |
| 1 . | SC DHfK Leipzig | 121: 13: 24 h |
| 2. | SC unit Berlin | + 5:30 min |
| 3. | WAC Hoboken | + 6:52 min |
| 4th | Sports Association Locomotive | + 47:14 min |
| 5. | SC Dynamo Berlin | + 54:03 min |
| 6th | Selection Bavaria | + 59:13 min |
| 7th | Racing collective Berlin | + 1:06:42 h |
| 8th. | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | + 1:11:37 h |
| 9. | District selection Cottbus | + 2:02:02 h |
| 10. | District selection Leipzig | + 2:30:34 h |
| 11. | Racing collective Mecklenburg | + 2:45:51 h |
| 12. | District selection Karl-Marx-Stadt | + 4:11:14 h |
literature
- Neues Deutschland , issues July 12-21, 1957