GDR tour 1972

20th GDR tour 1972
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	August 8-16, 1972
Stages	6th
overall length	763 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Fedor den Hertog 19:17:52 h 2. Hennie Kuiper + 4:05 min 3. Dieter Gonschorek + 4:36 min
Team evaluation	Netherlands 58:08:11 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Fedor the Hertog
Team ranking	Netherlands
Most active driver	Fedor the Hertog
← 1971	1973 →

The 20th tour of the GDR took place from August 8 to 16, 1972 . It led over 763 km with six stages . With Fedor den Hertog , a Dutchman became the overall winner of the tour for the first time .

Scoring jerseys

During this tour , three evaluation jerseys were awarded: the yellow jersey for the best overall, the blue jersey for the best team and the purple jersey for the most active driver.

Stages

The round trip extended over 763 km with six stages .

1st stage: Around the Cottbus district , 145 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Jaroslav Poslušný	ČSSR	3:25:30 h
2.	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	+ 0:10 min
3.	Wolfgang Wesemann	GDR I	+ 1:35 min
4th	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	+ 1:45 min
5.	Manfred Kummich	SV locomotive	+ 1:45 min
6th	Lutz Schulze	ASK forward Leipzig	+ 1:45 min

2nd stage: Around the Niederlausitz , 146 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Michael Milde	GDR I	3:27:50 h
2.	Dieter Gonschorek	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
3.	Horst Wagner	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:20 min
4th	Bernhard Fielsch	TSC Berlin	+ 0:30 min
5.	Manfred Kummich	SV locomotive	+ 0:30 min
6th	Wolfgang Fiedler	GDR II	+ 0:30 min

3rd stage: Cottbus - Forst - Cottbus (individual time trial), 40 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Dieter Gonschorek	GDR I	51:46 min
2.	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	+ 0:30 min
3.	Wolfgang Fiedler	GDR II	+ 1:43 min
4th	Karl-Heinz Oberfranz	GDR I	+ 2:03 min
5.	Uwe Raidt	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 2:08 min
6th	Juliusz Firkowski	Poland	+ 2:36 min

4th stage: Cottbus - Mittweida , 180 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Manfred Kummich	SV locomotive	4:43:07 h
2.	Skořepa	ČSSR	+ 0:10 min
3.	Robert Thalmann	Switzerland	+ 0:20 min
4th	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	+ 0:30 min
5.	Joachim Müller	TSC Berlin	+ 3:15 min
6th	Dietmar Käbisch	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 3:28 min

5th stage: Mittweida - Langenau , 109 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Jaroslav Poslušný	ČSSR	3:08:00 h
2.	Wolfgang Fiedler	GDR II	+ 0:10 min
3.	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	+ 0:35 min
4th	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	+ 2:15 min
5.	Cees Priem	Netherlands	+ 2:55 min
6th	Detlef Kletzin	ASK forward Leipzig	+ 2:55 min

6th stage: around Langenau, 143 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Karl-Heinz Oberfranz	GDR I	3:36:32 h
2.	Ueli Sutter	Switzerland	+ 0:10 min
3.	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	+ 0:20 min
4th	Uwe Kay	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:30 min
5.	Joachim Müller	TSC Berlin	+ 0:48 min
6th	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	+ 1:13 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	19:17:52 h
02.	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	+ 04:05 min
03.	Dieter Gonschorek	GDR I	+ 04:36 min
04th	Manfred Kummich	SV locomotive	+ 06:08 min
05.	Wolfgang Fiedler	GDR II	+ 06:12 min
06th	Jaroslav Poslušný	ČSSR	+ 07:42 min
07th	Cees Priem	Netherlands	+ 10:30 min
08th.	Ueli Sutter	Switzerland	+ 11:27 min
09.	Michael Milde	GDR I	+ 11:51 min
10.	Robert Thalmann	Switzerland	+ 12:10 min

Blue jersey (team)

	team	time
1.	Netherlands	58:08:11 h
2.	GDR I	+ 15:03 min
3.	ČSSR	+ 25:29 min
4th	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 32:16 min
5.	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 40:32 min
6th	SV locomotive	+ 41:39 min

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Fedor the Hertog	Netherlands	79
2.	Hennie Kuiper	Netherlands	34
3.	Dieter Gonschorek	GDR I	33

annotation

1. ↑ The stage time credits are already included in all times.

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1973 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1972, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 186 .