GDR tour 1981

29th GDR tour 1981
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	June 22-28, 1981
Stages	7 + prolog
overall length	914 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Lutz Lötzsch 10:43:15 pm 2. Thomas Barth + 1:26 min 3. Hans-Joachim Hartnick + 5:30 min
Team evaluation	GDR 68:25:34 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Lutz Loetzsch
Team ranking	GDR
Most active driver	Thomas Barth
Mountain scoring	Thomas Barth
Young drivers	Hubert Denstedt
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The 29th GDR tour took place from June 22nd to 28th, 1981 . With a prologue and seven stages, it led over 914 km. Overall winner of the tour was Lutz Lötzsch .

Jerseys

Five jerseys were awarded during this tour: the yellow jersey for the best overall, the blue jersey for the best team , the purple jersey for the most active driver, the green jersey for the best climber and the white jersey for the best young driver .

Stages

The tour extended over 914 km with a prologue and seven stages .

Prologue: Round in Klingetal (team time trial ), 9 km

	team	time
1.	GDR	10:53 min
2.	ČSSR	+ 0:09 s
3.	Netherlands	+ 0:18 s
4th	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:19 s
5.	SC Cottbus I.	+ 0:24 s
6th	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:34 s

1st stage: Around the Scharmützelsee , 145 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Martin Goetze	SC DHfK Leipzig I	3:21:35 h
2.	Matthias Kittel	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:05 min
3.	Matthias Vierke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:10 min
4th	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min
5.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus I.	+ 0:15 min
6th	Bernd Kaiser	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:15 min

2nd stage: Lübben - Zwickau , 206 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Bodo Straubel	SC DHfK Leipzig I	4:52:45 h
2.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR	+ 0:05 min
3.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus I.	+ 0:10 min
4th	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	+ 0:15 min
5.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min
6th	Thomas Barth	GDR	+ 0:15 min

3rd stage: Around the Ore Mountains , 169 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR	4:11:37 h
2.	Thomas Barth	GDR	+ 0:08 min
3.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR	+ 4:07 min
4th	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	+ 4:41 min
5.	Jonny Böhme	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 4:41 min
6th	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus I.	+ 4:41 min

4th stage: To the Sachsenring , 134 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR	3:29:36 h
2.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	+ 0:20 min
3.	Hardy Groeger	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:25 min
4th	Thomas Barth	GDR	+ 0:30 min
5.	Hubert Denstedt	GDR	+ 0:30 min
6th	Bodo Straubel	SC DHfK Leipzig I	+ 0:30 min

5th stage: Zwickau - Neumark - Zwickau (individual time trial), 22 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	29:34 min
2.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR	+ 0:07 min
3.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:20 min
4th	Mario grief	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 1:01 min
5.	Hubert Denstedt	GDR	+ 1:21 min
6th	Thomas Barth	GDR	+ 1:31 min

6th stage: Criterion in Zwickau, 78 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	1:33:43 h
2.	Hubert Denstedt	GDR
3.	Bernd Kaiser	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.
4th	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR
5.	Ulf Gebeler	SC Cottbus I.
6th	Hans Baudoin	Netherlands

7th stage: Around Venusberg , 151 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus I.	4:43:06 h
2.	Wobble	Poland	+ 0:05 min
3.	Udo Smektalla	SG Bismut Gera	+ 0:10 min
4th	Uwe Adler	SC DHfK Leipzig I	+ 0:15 min
5.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	+ 0:22 min
6th	Hubert Denstedt	GDR	+ 0:22 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR	22:43:15 h
02.	Thomas Barth	GDR I	+ 01:26 min
03.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR	+ 05:30 min
04th	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	+ 06:40 min
05.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 07:19 min
06th	Hardy Groeger	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 09:42 min
07th	Bodo Straubel	SC DHfK Leipzig I	+ 10:31 min
08th.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus I.	+ 11:55 min
09.	Hubert Denstedt	GDR	+ 12:51 min
10.	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	+ 13:21 min

Blue jersey ( team )

	team	time
1.	GDR	68:25:34 h
2.	ČSSR	+ 0:28:35 h
3.	SC Cottbus I.	+ 0:42:58 h
4th	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:48:32 h
5.	SC DHfK Leipzig I	+ 0:49:56 h
6th	Netherlands	+ 1:02:56 h

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Thomas Barth	GDR	33
2.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	31
3.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR	23

Green jersey ( best climber )

	driver	team	Points
1.	Thomas Barth	GDR	58
2.	Hardy Groeger	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	39
3.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR	38

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team
1.	Hubert Denstedt	GDR
2.	Hans Matern	SC Dynamo Berlin
3.	Johannes Lammerts	Netherlands

annotation

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISBN 3-328-00129-8 , ISSN  0232-203X , p. 261-262 .