GDR tour 1989

37th tour of the GDR in 1989
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	September 9-17, 1989
Stages	9 + prolog
overall length	1,011.5 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Uwe Ampler 37:30:16 h 2. Eddy Bouwmans + 1:36 min 3. Dirk Schiffner + 2:01 min
Team evaluation	GDR I
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Uwe Ampler
Team ranking	GDR I
Most active driver	Frank Augustin
Mountain scoring	Uwe Ampler
Most versatile driver	Uwe Raab
Young drivers	Eddy Bouwmans
← 1988

The 37th GDR tour took place from September 9th to 17th, 1989 . With a prologue and nine stages, it led over 1,011.5 km. The overall winner was Uwe Ampler , who won the tour for the third time after 1986 and 1987 .

Teams

A total of 112 drivers from 19 teams took part. Foreign teams came from Belgium , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Romania and the ČSSR. There was also a Slovakia selection. The drivers from the GDR were divided into two GDR selection teams, two teams from a so-called Berlin selection, a BSG selection with athletes such as Wolfgang Lötzsch and Martin Goetze, some of whom had fallen out of favor, and sports clubs such as SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , SC Cottbus , ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt / Oder and the SC Turbine Erfurt . The team of the SC DHfK Leipzig with Uwe Ampler , Uwe Raab , Bert Dietz , Steffen Rein , Thomas Liese and Jan Schur started as GDR selection I.

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 covered 1,011.5 km with a prologue and nine stages .

Prologue: Dresden (individual time trial), 5.5 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	6:52 min
2.	Thomas Liese	GDR I	+ 0:02 min
3.	Jürgen Werner	GDR II	+ 0:03 min
4th	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:05 min
5.	Udo Schwarzbach	Berlin selection I	+ 0:05 min
6th	Frank Kühn	Berlin selection II	+ 0:06 min

1st stage: Around the Eastern Ore Mountains , 160 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus	4:31:10 h
2.	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:05 min
3.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
4th	Uwe Zeidler	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min
5.	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands	+ 0:15 min
6th	Dan Radtke	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:15 min

2nd stage: Dresden - Zwickau , 160 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Ronald Rauch	SC Turbine Erfurt	4:17:13 h
2.	Jan Schur	GDR I	same time
3.	Stephan Gottschling	SC Cottbus	same time
4th	Frank Augustin	GDR II	+0: ​​17 min
5.	Pierre Herrinne	Belgium	+0: ​​17 min
6th	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+0: ​​17 min

3rd stage: Around the Vogtland , 170 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	4: 30.54 h
2.	Ralf Schmidt	Berlin selection I	+ 0:23 min
3.	Bart Leysen	Belgium	+ 0:27 min
4th	Steffen Uslar	GDR II	+ 0:30 min
5.	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 2:16 min
6th	Bert Dietz	GDR I	+ 2:16 min

4th stage: Around Zwickau, 82 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Steffen Rein	GDR I	2:03:12 h
2.	Jürgen Werner	GDR II	same time
3.	Mario grief	SC Turbine Erfurt	same time
4th	Gerd Audehm	SC Cottbus	same time
5.	Christian hunter	Berlin selection II	same time
6th	Danny In´t ven	Belgium	same time

5th stage: Criterion in Zwickau, 63 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	1:28:43 h
2.	Frank Augustin	GDR II	same time
3.	Christian hunter	Berlin selection II	same time
4th	Uwe Zeidler	SC Turbine Erfurt	same time

6th stage: Zwickau - Schwarzenberg , 155 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	4:14:30 h
2.	Frank Augustin	GDR II	+ 0:05 min
3.	Marc Siemons	Netherlands	+ 0:10 min
4th	Uwe Preißler	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:15 min
5.	André Hans	BSG selection	+ 0:15 min
6th	Paweł Czopek	Poland	+ 0:15 min

7th stage: around the Ore Mountains , 146 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Steffen Uslar	GDR II	4:13:34 h
2.	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 0:38 min
3.	Frank Augustin	GDR II	+ 0:43 min
4th	Uwe Preißler	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:48 min
5.	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:48 min
6th	Martin Goetze	BSG selection	+ 0:48 min

8th stage: Raschau - Markersbach (mountain time trial), 10 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	18:38 min
2.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus	+ 0:28 min
3.	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands	+ 0:39 min
4th	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 0:40 min
5.	Thomas Liese	GDR I	+ 0:44 min
6th	Stephan Gottschling	GDR II	+ 0:45 min

9th stage: Around Schwarzenberg, 60 km

	driver	team	time
1.	Jan Schur	GDR I	1:41:57 h
2.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	+ 0:06 min
3.	Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus	+ 0:11 min
4th	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands	+ 0:16 min
5.	Mario grief	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:16 min
6th	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 0:16 min

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	37:30:16 h
02.	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands	+ 1:36 min
03.	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	+ 2:01 min
04th	Uwe Raab	GDR I	+ 3:40 min
05.	Uwe Zeidler	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 3:50 min
06th	Stephan Gottschling	GDR II	+ 5:25 min
07th	Bart Leysen	Belgium	+ 5:47 min
08th.	Ronald Rauch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 7:28 min
09.	Andrzej Lewinski	Poland	+ 7:46 min
10.	Jan Schur	GDR I	+ 7:49 min

Blue jersey ( team )

	team	time
1.	GDR I
2.	GDR II
3.	SC Turbine Erfurt

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Frank Augustin	GDR II	48
2.	Ralf Schmidt	Berlin selection I	37
3.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	25th

Green jersey ( best climber )

	driver	team	Points
1.	Uwe Ampler	GDR I	57
2.	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands	33
3.	Jürgen Werner	GDR II	25th

Pink Jersey (Most Versatile Driver)

	driver	team
1.	Uwe Raab	GDR I

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team
1.	Eddy Bouwmans	Netherlands
2.	Dirk Schiffner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3.	Uwe Zeidler	SC Turbine Erfurt

annotation

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

literature

• New Germany . No. 213-220 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1989, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 5, 1989 p. 6
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 18, 1989 p. 7