GDR tour 1958
The 1958 GDR tour was held from July 4th to 12th. The stage race took place for the tenth time on the territory of the GDR and was won by Erich Hagen from Leipzig . In the team competition , the GDR team won I.
Attendees
At the start of the jubilee tour were 85 racing cyclists , who started in 17 teams with five drivers each. (The Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR) had not named a team despite being invited and had not allowed its regional associations to participate either.) These included seven GDR sports clubs, several regional selection teams from the GDR, two teams from the GDR national team and four foreign selection teams. The field consisted of the following teams:
- England
- Belgium
- Poland
- Hungary
- GDR I
- GDR II
- Berlin district
- Dresden district
- Halle district
- Cottbus district
- SC science
- SC unit
- SC Dynamo
- SC bismuth
- SC rotation
- SV locomotive
- ASK forward
route
The 1,468-kilometer course began and ended in Berlin. The route was divided into eight stages, after the fourth stage there was a rest day in Halle. The seventh stage was divided into a time trial and a road race as half-stages.
The first stage from Berlin to Rostock was the longest section of the tour at 239 kilometers. The fifth stage went over the Kyffhäuser in the Harz Mountains , while the sixth to eighth stage largely led through the Thuringian Forest . The stage winners each received a one-minute time credit, the second-placed thirty seconds each.
Race course
With Erich Hagen, Bernhard Eckstein and Gustav-Adolf Schur , three drivers already took first place in the first stage, who then also came out on top in the final ranking. Erich Hagen did not give up the yellow jersey of the front runner until the end of the tour and won the next three stages. Only on the Kyffhäuser stage was Eckstein a new winner. Egon Adler spurted victory out of a six-man breakaway group on the 6th stage. In the individual time trial (half stage) over 38 kilometers there was the only victory of a foreign driver: the Belgian Adolf Verpaelt surprisingly won with a lead of more than 2 minutes over Schur. The overall ranking of the 7th stage went to Adler after a strong collective performance by the DDR I team. The final stage to Berlin, which ended on the cinder track in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Stadium, was won by Schur in front of the Belgian Aerts in a sprint of a small breakaway group. 65 of the 85 starters crossed the finish line, with Wolfgang Jaeger from Berlin taking the last place . 15 teams came into the evaluation, England and the district selection Cottbus were eliminated. Egon Adler won the mountain classification of the tour.
Stage overview
stage | Start finish | Length (km) | winner | team | Time (h) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Berlin - Rostock | 239 | Erich Hagen | GDR I | 6:16:05 |
2 | Rostock - Schwerin | 137 | Erich Hagen | GDR I | 3:36:42 |
3 | Schwerin - Magdeburg | 223 | Erich Hagen | GDR I | 5:32:55 |
4th | Magdeburg - hall | 162 | Erich Hagen | GDR I | 4:02:25 |
5 | Halle - Gotha | 186 | Bernhard Eckstein | GDR I | 5:01:54 |
6th | Gotha - Gera | 142 | Egon Adler | GDR I | 3:30:04 |
7th | Gera - Zwickau | 38 | Adolf Verpaelt | Belgium | 0:54:29 |
8th | Riesa - Berlin | 196 | Gustav-Adolf Schur | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 5:32:11 |
Final results
driver | team | Time (h) | |
1 . | Erich Hagen | GDR I | 38:45:38 |
2. | Gustav-Adolf Schur | GDR I | 38:49:54 |
3. | Egon Adler | GDR I | 38:52:36 |
4th | Bernhard Eckstein | GDR I | 38:52:41 |
5. | Adolf Verpaelt | Belgium | 38:55:21 |
6th | Bogusław Fornalczyk | Poland | 38:58:09 |
7th | van Wynsberghe | Belgium | 38:58:14 |
8th. | Wolfgang Grabo | GDR I | 38:59:39 |
9. | Helmut Stolper | SC bismuth | 39:02:06 |
10. | Erwin Wittig | SC unit | 39:04:42 |
11. | Wolfgang Kappel | SC unit | 39:04:59 |
12. | Johannes Schober | GDR I | 39:05:26 |
team | time | |
1 . | GDR I | 116: 35: 38 h |
2. | Belgium | 117: 05: 16 h |
3. | GDR II | 117: 13: 55 h |
5. | Poland | |
13. | Hungary |
literature
- Cycling week, No. 26/1958
- Cycling week, No. 27/1958
- Cycling week, No. 28/1958
Individual evidence
- ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 26/1958 . Berlin 1958, p. 6 .