Ore Mountains tour
The Ore Mountains Tour was a road bike race in the GDR , which was held from 1954 by the German Cycling Association of the GDR (DRSV). The start and finish point of the race was Karl-Marx-Stadt . It also took place under the name Rund um das Erzgebirge .
| Ore Mountains tour | |
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| Competition period | 1954-1989 |
| overall length | 165-190 km |
history
The race was included in the DRSV calendar for the first time in 1954. Several times it had the character of a selection race in the GDR performance class to determine the team for the UCI road world championships . It usually took place in July or August.
The greatest difficulties of the mountain course were the Einsiedler Berg and the Wolkenstein ascent . In 1954 the Ore Mountains Tour was also held as the GDR road race championship, Gustav-Adolf Schur won with a five-minute lead over Detlef Zabel and Benno Funda .
The race was later re-organized by the Chemnitz Police Sports Association (CPSV) as a cycle race for recreational athletes.
winner
- 1954 Gustav-Adolf Schur ( SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig )
- 1955 Horst Tüller ( SC unit Berlin )
- 1956 Emil Reinecke (SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig)
- 1957 Günter Lörke (SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig)
- 1958 Johannes Schober ( SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt )
- 1959 Johannes Schober (SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1960 Helmut Stolper (SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1961 Egon Adler (SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1962–1972 not held
- 1973 Wolfgang Lötzsch ( BSG Motor Ascona Karl-Marx-Stadt )
- 1974 Wolfgang Lötzsch (BSG Motor Ascona Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1975–1981 not held
- 1982 Thomas Barth ( SG Wismut Gera )
- 1983 Wolfgang Lötzsch (BSG Motor Ascona Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1984 not held
- 1985 Wolfgang Lötzsch (BSG Motor Ascona Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1986 Wolfgang Lötzsch (BSG Motor Ascota Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1987 not held
- 1988 Lutz Lötzsch ( SC Karl-Marx-Stadt )
- 1989 Dirk Schiffner (SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig)
Individual evidence
- ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 33/1958 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1958, p. 8 .
- ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 24/1954 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1954, p. 3 .
- ↑ Stefan Baldauf: The 38th Ore Mountains Tour 2017. In: cpsv.de. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .