GDR tour 1978

26th GDR tour 1978
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	August 5th to 11th, 1978
Stages	7th
overall length	1,029 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Bernd Drogan 26:16:38 h 2. Peter Richter + 2:05 min 3. Thilo Fuhrmann + 3:15 min
Team evaluation	DDR I 78:56:38 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Bernd Drogan
Team ranking	GDR I
Most active driver	Bernd Drogan
Mountain scoring	Nencho Stajkov
Young drivers	Uwe Freese
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The 26th GDR tour took place from August 5th to 11th, 1978 . With seven stages it led over 1,029 km. As in the previous year, Bernd Drogan was able to win this tour .

Scoring jerseys

In this tour five were classification jerseys awarded: the yellow jersey of the overall best, the blue of the best team , the Violet of the most active rider, the green of the best mountain rider , and the white of the best young rider.

Stages

The round trip extended over 1,029 km with seven stages .

1st stage: Around Gernrode , 136 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	3:33:32 h
2.	Peter Richter	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:10 min
3.	Tadeusz Skrzypek	Poland	+ 0:41 min
4th	Gottfried Preising	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:51 min
5.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	+ 1:11 min
6th	Peter Koch	GDR I	+ 1:11 min

2nd stage: around the Harz , 136 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Adam Jagla	Poland	3:22:39 h
2.	Lars Ericsson	Sweden	+ 0:10 min
3.	Peter Koch	GDR I	+ 0:20 min
4th	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 0:30 min
5.	Martin Goetze	GDR I	+ 0:30 min
6th	Detlef Bönisch	GDR II	+ 0:30 min

3rd stage: Quedlinburg - Jena , 162 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	4:12:01 h
2.	Lothar Fischbach	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:37 min
3.	Grzegorz Banaszek	Poland	+ 0:47 min
4th	Thilo Fuhrmann	GDR II	+ 0:57 min
5.	Detlef Stoltze	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:57 min
6th	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 0:57 min

4th stage: Jena - Dessau , 162 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Thilo Fuhrmann	GDR II	4:34:07 h
2.	Lothar Fischbach	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:10 min
3.	Nencho Stajkov	Bulgaria	+ 0:20 min
4th	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 0:30 min
5.	Peter Greiner	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 0:30 min
6th	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 0:30 min

5th stage: Around Dessau, 135 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin	3:14:02 h
2.	Matthias Vierke	GDR II	+ 0:10 min
3.	Marek Szymaniak	Poland	+ 0:20 min
4th	Detlef Kletzin	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:30 min
5.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus	+ 0:30 min
6th	Lutz Loetzsch	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:30 min

6th stage: Wittenberg - Forst , 163 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Peter Koch	GDR I	3:55:14 h
2.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 0:11 min
3.	Hans-Joachim Schippel	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:26 min
4th	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR I	+ 0:41 min
5.	Detlef Bönisch	GDR II	+ 0:41 min
6th	Detlef Kletzin	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:41 min

7th stage: Around the Forst district , 135 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Matthias Vierke	GDR II	3:20:36 h
2.	Andreas Petermann	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
3.	Ulrich Borrmann	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. II	+ 0:20 min
4th	Detlef Stoltze	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:34 min
5.	Peter Koch	GDR I	+ 2:35 min
6th	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 2:35 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	26:16:38 h
02.	Peter Richter	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 02:05 min
03.	Thilo Fuhrmann	GDR II	+ 03:15 min
04th	Peter Koch	GDR I	+ 03:46 min
05.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR I	+ 06:27 min
06th	Hans-Joachim Schippel	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 06:32 min
07th	Andreas Petermann	GDR I	+ 08:10 min
08th.	Lothar Fischbach	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 13:55 min
09.	Roman Szczur	Poland	+ 14:44 min
10.	Adam Jagla	Poland	+ 16:05 min

Blue jersey ( team )

	team	time
1.	GDR I	78:56:38 h
2.	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 07:51 min
3.	GDR II	+ 30:10 min
4th	Poland	+ 35:52 min
5.	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 41:50 min
6th	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 58:09 min

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	23
2.	Peter Richter	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	16
3.	Detlef Kletzin	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	13

Green jersey ( best climber )

	driver	team	Points
1.	Nencho Stajkov	Bulgaria	41
2.	Holger Kickeritz	GDR II	27
3.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	22nd

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin	18th
2.	Peter Koch	GDR I	18th
3.	Matthias Vierke	GDR II	10

annotation

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1978, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 211 .