International Peace Tour 1948

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The 1st International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 1st to 9th, 1948.

Organized by the daily newspapers Trybuna Ludu from Poland and Rudé právo from Czechoslovakia , it took place with two stage races. One tour ran from Warsaw to Prague over 842 km from May 1st to 5th, and from May 1st to 9th the participants drove 1144 km from Prague to Warsaw. In Prague the Yugoslav August Prosenik won , in Warsaw Aleksandar Zorić from Yugoslavia.

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Attendees

65 drivers took part in the trip from Warsaw to Prague. Among them were 16 individual drivers (5 from Poland, 9 from Czechoslovakia and 2 from Bulgaria) who did not belong to any team. The other active players belonged to the following teams:

The field of drivers in the parallel event had the same nine team names, but Yugoslavia only reported one team there. Single drivers came here again from Poland (5) and Czechoslovakia (10). A total of 53 drivers took part in the counter tour.

Race course

Warsaw - Prague (May 1st to 5th)

The 842-kilometer course had three Polish and two Czechoslovak destinations. The Polish route consisted mainly of flat stages, while the Giant Mountains had to be crossed between the Polish Jelenia Góra and the Czech Liberec . The longest stage led over 236 kilometers from Liberec to Prague. The course of the race was shaped by two drivers, the Czechoslovak Jan Veselý and the Yugoslav August Prosinek . Prosinek, who had taken the yellow jersey from Veselý in the second part of the day, won the tour with a margin of almost five minutes. Veselý won three stages, but was thrown back by numerous breakdowns and a time penalty of five minutes for unauthorized wheel changes. In addition, there were no time credits for the winner of the day on the first peace trip. Also in the team standings there was a clear winner with the Poland I team. The Poles were able to place three drivers in the top ten and thus won with a margin of 17:50 minutes over Czechoslovakia I.

Stage mirror

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length
Time (h) km / h
1 Warsaw - Łódź Jan Vesely (CSR I) 190 km 5:51:28 032.4
2 Łódź - Wroclaw August Prosinek (Yugoslavia) 219 km 6:50:41 031.0
3 Wroclaw - Jelenia Góra Lucjan Pietraszewski (Poland I) 143 km 4:58:53 028.7
4th Jelenia Góra - Liberec Jan Veselý (CSR I) 084 km 2:22:45 035.3
5 Liberec - Prague Jan Veselý (CSR I) 236 km 6:42:38 035.2

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01. August Prosinek Yugoslavia I. 26:52:20 h
0 2. Roman Siemiński Poland I. + 04:59 min
0 3. Wacław Wójcik Poland I. + 05:46 min
0 4th Karel Cibula Czechoslovakia I. + 09:25 min
0 5. Jan Veselý Czechoslovakia I. + 11:07 min
0 6th Marian Rzeznicki Poland I. + 12:22 min
0 7th Branko Bat Yugoslavia I. + 13:33 min
0 8th. Miloslav Loos Czechoslovakia II + 13:43 min
0 9. Karoly Notas Hungary I + 17:52 min
10. Kvetoslav Bohdan Czechoslovakia I. + 19:24 min
0 ...
52. Moldovansky Bulgaria / single eleven + 2:31:05 h
Team ranking
team time
01. Poland I. 80:51:57 h
0 2. Czechoslovakia I. + 17:50 min
0 3. Yugoslavia I. + 30:22 min
0 4th Hungary I + 34:40 min
0 5. Czechoslovakia II + 1:08:54 h
0 6th Poland II + 1:34:44 h
0 7th Hungary II + 2:42:47 h
0 8th. Bulgaria + 2:47:30 h
0 9. Romania + 2:59:42 h
eliminated:
Yugoslavia II

Prague - Warsaw (May 1-9)

The field of drivers starting in Prague had to cope with 1144 kilometers around three hundred kilometers more than the oncoming crowd. The stage winner was welcomed four times each on Czechoslovak and Polish territory. On the two stages between Gottwaldov and Kattowitz , the riders had to climb over the mountains of the West Beskids . As on the counter tour, there was also a Yugoslav winner in Warsaw, Aleksander Zorić . Even up to the seventh stage, the Czechoslovakian Emanuel Krejčů looked like the sure tour winner who, after two stage wins, started the race from Krakow to Kielce with six and a half minutes ahead of Zorić on the penultimate stage . On this part of the day he fell victim to the tactics of the Yugoslav team, from which Milan Poredski and Zorić escaped the field for five minutes and left the previous wearer of the yellow jersey by almost twelve minutes. In Warsaw, Zorić, who had not won a stage, finally had a lead of 5:22 minutes over Krejčů in the final standings. As in the counter race, the team from Poland I clearly won the team with a lead of over 21 minutes. In Katowice, the times of the drivers had to be estimated because the referee's car had lost its way on the track and only reached the destination after the field.

Stage mirror

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length
Time (h) km / h
1 Prague - Pardubice Milan Poredski (Yugoslavia) 127 km 3:25:57 035.1
2 Pardubice - Brno Marin Niculescu (Romania) 129 km 4:34:39 028.2
3 Brno - Gottwaldov Waclaw Wrzesinski (Poland I) 137 km 5:05:13 026.0
4th Gottwaldov - Žilina Emanuel Krejčů (CSR II) 151 km 4:53:00 030.7
5 Žilina - Katowice Emanuel Krejčů (CSR II) 244 km 7:21:31 033.2
6th Katowice - Krakow Team time trial: Yugoslavia 076 km 2:07:03 035.9
7th Krakow - Kielce Milan Poredski (Yugoslavia) 126 km 3:54:30 035.9
8th Kielce - Warsaw Waclaw Wrzesinski (Poland I) 190 km 6:21:12 032.2

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01. Aleksandar Zorić Yugoslavia 33:53:16 h
0 2. Emanuel Krejcu Czechoslovakia II + 05:22 min
0 3. Józef Kapiak Poland I. + 06:50 min
0 4th Milan Peric Czechoslovakia I. + 19:02 min
0 5. Waclaw Wrzesinski Poland I. + 24:44 min
0 6th Ilya Krestev Bulgaria + 25:01 min
0 7th Jan Dordik Czechoslovakia II + 28:02 min
0 8th. Zdenek Stepanek Czechoslovakia / individual eleven. + 33:02 min
0 9. Nicolae Chicomban Romania + 33:08 min
10. Vladimir Siegl Czechoslovakia I. + 39:38 min
0 ...
39 Boleslaw Lazarczyk Poland II + 4:18:22 h
Team ranking
team time
01. Poland I. 108: 16: 56 h
0 2. Romania + 21:14 min
0 3. Czechoslovakia I. + 22:11 min
0 4th Czechoslovakia II + 36:45 min
0 5. Bulgaria + 2:09:35 h
0 6th Poland II + 3:39:57 h
eliminated:
Yugoslavia

Driver profiles

  1. Emanuel Krejčů → cycling pages 41479
    • 1948 - Winner 4th stage of the Friedensfahrt (Gottwaldov – Žilina)
    • 1948 - winner of the 5th stage of the Peace Tour (Žilina – Katowice)

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich: Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 . Pp. 181-185

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