GDR tour 1983

31. GDR tour 1983
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	June 20-26, 1983
Stages	7 + prolog
overall length	938.8 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Olaf Ludwig 25:03:24 h 2. Uwe Ampler + 1:37 min 3. Jiří Škoda + 2:11 min
Team evaluation	GDR I 75:15:46 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Olaf Ludwig
Team ranking	GDR I
Most active driver	Andreas Petermann
Mountain scoring	Olaf Jentzsch
Most versatile driver	Olaf Ludwig
Young drivers	Uwe Ampler
← 1982	1984 →

The 31st GDR tour took place from June 20 to 26, 1983 . With a prologue and seven stages, it led over 938.8 km. Overall winner was Olaf Ludwig , who won the tour for the first time .

Jerseys

Six 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 for the best climber , the pink for the most versatile driver and the white for the best young driver.

Stages

The tour extended over 938.8 km with a prologue and seven stages .

Prologue: Zwickau , 3 miles

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	5:41 min
2.	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	5:48 min
3.	Falk Boden	GDR I	5:56 min
4th	Uwe Raab	GDR I	5:58 min
5.	Michal Klasa	Bohemia selection	6:00 min
6th	Peter Scheibner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	6:00 min

1st stage: Around Zwickau, 142 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	3:37:02 h
2.	Luděk Štyks	ČSSR	+ 0:05 min
3.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 1:08 min
4th	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 1:13 min
5.	Matthias Kittel	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 1:13 min
6th	Martin Goetze	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 1:13 min

2nd stage: To the Sachsenring , 134 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Andreas Petermann	GDR I	3:30:57 h
2.	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	+ 0:05 min
3.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 0:26 min
4th	Tadeusz Krawczyk	Poland	+ 0:31 min
5.	Hubert Denstedt	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:31 min
6th	Frank Herzog	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:31 min

3rd stage: To the Schleizer Dreieck , 181 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Falk Boden	GDR I	4:39:25 h
2.	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	+ 0:05 min
3.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	+ 0:10 min
4th	Matthias Vierke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 0:15 min
5.	Holger Muller	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:15 min
6th	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 0:24 min

4th stage: Around the Vogtland , 169 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	4:41:22 h
2.	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	+ 1:08 min
3.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	+ 1:13 min
4th	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	+ 1:18 min
5.	Martin Goetze	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 5:39 min
6th	Falk Boden	GDR I	+ 5:39 min

5th stage: Zwickau - Reichenbach - Zwickau (individual time trial), 29 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	36:42 min
2.	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	+ 0:21 min
3.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 0:36 min
4th	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	+ 0:46 min
5.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 0:54 min
6th	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	+ 0:55 min

6th stage: Criterion in Zwickau, 75 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	1:36:01 h
2.	Luděk Štyks	ČSSR	+ 0:05 min
3.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 1:15 min
4th	Hubert Denstedt	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 1:20 min
5.	Matthias Kittel	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 1:20 min
6th	Hardy Groeger	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 1:20 min

7th stage: Around the Ore Mountains , 204 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	6:12:46 h
2.	Hardy Groeger	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 0:05 min
3.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
4th	Hubert Denstedt	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min
5.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 0:15 min
6th	Matthias Kittel	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	25:03:24 h
02.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	+ 1:37 min
03.	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	+ 2:11 min
04th	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	+ 4:27 min
05.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 5:41 min
06th	Milan Jurčo	ČSSR	+ 6:51 min
07th	Falk Boden	GDR I	+ 6:57 min
08th.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 7:07 min
09.	Olaf Jentzsch	GDR II	+ 7:20 min
10.	Holger Muller	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 7:40 min

Blue jersey ( team )

	team	time
1.	GDR I	75:15:46 h
2.	ČSSR	+ 07:50 min
3.	GDR II	+ 13:19 min
4th	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 22:50 min
5.	Cuba	+ 32:25 min
6th	Poland	+ 44:33 min

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Andreas Petermann	GDR I	15th
2.	Jiří Škoda	ČSSR	14th
3.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	13

Green jersey ( best climber )

	driver	team	Points
1.	Olaf Jentzsch	GDR II	43
2.	Andrzej Mierzejewski	Poland	42
3.	Matthias Vierke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	24

Pink Jersey (Most Versatile Driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	14th
2.	Andreas Petermann	GDR I	12
3.	Luděk Štyks	ČSSR	10

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team
1.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I
2.	Uwe Raab	GDR I
3.	Mario grief	GDR II

annotation

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport83. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1983, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 270 .