Grand Opel Prize of Germany 1927
| Final result after the 15th race | ||
| winner | Rudolf Cloud | 133: 33: 38 h (29.391 km / h) |
| Second | Erich Reim | + 30:11 min |
| Third | Richard Rösch | + 58:30 min |
| Fourth | Walter Geisdorf | |
| fifth | Karl Kohl | |
The Grand Opel Prize of Germany was a road bike race and a forerunner of today's Germany Tour . It was held from April 3 to October 9, 1927 , five years after the previous cycle stage race through Germany. In contrast to the two previous editions, it was not about a cycling tour in the true sense, but several contiguous individual races that stretched over the entire road cycling season. The first race started in Berlin , the last ended in Frankfurt am Main . The total distance of the 15 races was 3,890.1 kilometers.
The tour was financially supported by the automobile company Opel , which also gave the tour its name.
run
| Stages | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st race | 3rd of April | Berlin - Glogau | 230 | Willi Meyer |
| 2nd race | 10th of April | Glogau - Wroclaw | 248 | Rudolf Cloud |
| 3rd race | April 18 | Breslau - Görlitz | 272.9 | Rudolf Cloud |
| 4th race | 1st of May | Goerlitz - Leipzig | 235 | Otto Gugau |
| 5th race | May 26 | Leipzig - Bayreuth | 243 ( EZF ) | Josef Zind |
| 6th race | June 5th | Bayreuth - Nuremberg | 251 | Otto Gugau |
| 7th race | 6th of June | Nuremberg - Munich | 280 | Bruno Cloud |
| 8th race | June 19th | Munich - Stuttgart | 295 | Richard Rösch |
| 9th race | July 31 | Stuttgart - Mainz | 217.3 | Rudolf Cloud |
| 10th race | August 14th | Mainz - Dortmund | 310 | Karl Tschudi |
| 11th race | September 11 | Dortmund - Hanover | 258.3 | Richard Rösch |
| 12th race | September 18 | Hanover - Hamburg | 218.3 | Rudolf Cloud |
| 13th race | 25th of September | Hamburg - Magdeburg | 295 | Kurt Stöpel |
| 14th race | October 2nd | Magdeburg - Kassel | 284.1 | Alfred Schmidt |
| 15th race | 9th October | Kassel - Frankfurt am Main | 242.2 | Rudolf Cloud |
Top 10 placements
| total | Surname | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | 9. | 10. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Rudolf Cloud | 5 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Erich Reim | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 8th | Richard Rösch | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Oskar Michael | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 7th | Walter Geisdorf | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Bruno Cloud | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 6th | Otto Gugau | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Ernst Schugk | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Hans Mandelartz | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 4th | Karl Kohl | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Josef Zind | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Siegfried Dahms | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Alfred Ebeling | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Willi Müller | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| 3 | Richard Feather | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Heinrich Keßmeier | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Josef Dumm | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Richard Schröder | 2 | 1 |
Web links
- Grand Opel Prize of Germany 1927 on cycling4fans.de
- Results in the CycleBase database