GDR tour 1984

32nd GDR tour 1984
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	June 19-24, 1984
Stages	7 + prolog
overall length	918 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Falk Boden 22: 24.00 h 2. Bernd Drogan + 1:02 min 3. Lutz Lötzsch + 1:59 min
Team evaluation	GDR I 66: 38.06 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Falk Boden
Team ranking	GDR I
Most active driver	Thomas Schenderlein
Mountain scoring	Olaf Ludwig
Most versatile driver	Olaf Ludwig
Young drivers	Jens Heppner
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The 32nd GDR tour took place from June 19 to 24, 1984 . With a prologue and seven stages, it led over 918 km. Overall winner was Falk Boden , who won the tour for the second time after 1980 .

Attendees

117 drivers (20 teams) from seven countries took part in the 32nd tour. A team from the ČSSR , Poland , Cuba , Bulgaria , Romania and, for the first time, from Australia were welcomed as guests .

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 918 km with a prologue and seven stages .

Prologue: Forest , 7 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	9:44 min
2.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	9:44 min
3.	Mario Hernig	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	9:45 min
4th	Falk Boden	GDR I	9:47 min
5.	Dan Radtke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	9:49 min
6th	Uwe Ampler	SC DHfK Leipzig	9:49 min

1st stage: Around the Cottbus district , 199 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	4:27:16 h
2.	Olaf Merkel	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:07 min
3.	Christo Saikow	Bulgaria	+ 0:13 min
4th	Jens Heppner	GDR I	+ 0:18 min
5.	Detlef Ernst	SC Cottbus	+ 0:18 min
6th	Jan Schur	GDR II	+ 0:20 min

2nd stage: Around Cottbus , 135 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Mario Hernig	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3:03:33 h
2.	Thomas Schenderlein	GDR II	+ 0:10 min
3.	Holger Muller	GDR II	+ 0:17 min
4th	Olaf Merkel	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:31 min
5.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:31 min
6th	Zdeněk Vanko	ČSSR	+ 0:31 min

3rd stage: Forst - Dresden , 177 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	4:15:00 h
2.	Jörg Windorf	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:05 min
3.	Dan Radtke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 0:10 min
4th	Jens Heppner	GDR I	+ 0:15 min
5.	Hans Matern	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 0:15 min
6th	Ricardo Salazar	Cuba	+ 0:15 min

4th stage: Dresden - Zwickau , 189 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	5:15:31 h
2.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	+ 0:15 min
3.	Mircea Romașcanu	Romania	+ 0:20 min
4th	Bodo Straubel	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 2:48 min
5.	Lubomir Burda	ČSSR	+ 2:48 min
6th	Falk Boden	GDR I	+ 2:48 min

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

	driver	team	time
1.	Mario Hernig	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	37:11 min
2.	Falk Boden	GDR I	+ 0:26 min
3.	Detlef Macha	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:52 min
4th	Holger Muller	GDR II	+ 1:09 min
5.	Volkmar Meinert	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 1:13 min
6th	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 1:20 min

6th stage: Criterion in Zwickau, 75 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	1:25:58 h
2.	Christian hunter	TSC Berlin	+ 0:05 min
3.	Andreas Wartenberg	SG Bismut Gera	+ 0:10 min
4th	Thomas Schenderlein	GDR II	+ 0:15 min
5.	Olaf Merkel	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:15 min
6th	Pavel Vopalka	ČSSR	+ 0:15 min

7th stage: Around Zwickau, 107 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Falk Boden	GDR I	3:06:33 h
2.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	+ 0:05 min
3.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
4th	Mario grief	GDR I	+ 0:15 min
5.	Frank Kühn	TSC Berlin	+ 0:15 min
6th	Olaf Merkel	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:15 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Falk Boden	GDR I	22:24:00 h
02.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	+ 01:02 min
03.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	+ 01:59 min
04th	Jens Heppner	GDR I	+ 03:24 min
05.	Hans Matern	SC Dynamo Berlin	+ 05:22 min
06th	Matthias Lendt	GDR II	+ 05:36 min
07th	Lubomir Burda	ČSSR	+ 07:36 min
08th.	Detlef Macha	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 08:23 min
09.	Jan Schur	GDR II	+ 10:47 min
10.	Christo Saikow	Bulgaria	+ 10:49 min

Blue jersey (team)

	team	time
1.	GDR I	66:38:06 h
2.	GDR II	+ 13:51 min
3.	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 28:05 min
4th	Romania	+ 38:05 min
5.	Bulgaria	+ 39:53 min
6th	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 41:17 min

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Thomas Schenderlein	GDR II	20th
2.	Jens Heppner	GDR I	19th
3.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	17th

Green jersey (best climber)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	48
2.	Nencho Stajkov	Bulgaria	29
3.	Torsten Kunath	SG Bismut Gera	22nd

Pink Jersey (Most Versatile Driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Olaf Ludwig	GDR I	20th
2.	Lutz Loetzsch	GDR II	09
3.	Thomas Schenderlein	GDR II	09

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team
1.	Jens Heppner	GDR I
2.	Dressel	mixed team I.
3.	Thomas Schmidt	SC Turbine Erfurt

annotation

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport84. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1984, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 276 .