International Peace Tour 1948
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.
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:
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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 | 32.4 |
2 | Łódź - Wroclaw | August Prosinek (Yugoslavia) | 219 km | 6:50:41 | 31.0 |
3 | Wroclaw - Jelenia Góra | Lucjan Pietraszewski (Poland I) | 143 km | 4:58:53 | 28.7 |
4th | Jelenia Góra - Liberec | Jan Veselý (CSR I) | 84 km | 2:22:45 | 35.3 |
5 | Liberec - Prague | Jan Veselý (CSR I) | 236 km | 6:42:38 | 35.2 |
Final results
Individual evaluation | |||
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driver | team | time | |
1. | August Prosinek | Yugoslavia I. | 26:52:20 h |
2. | Roman Siemiński | Poland I. | + | 4:59 min
3. | Wacław Wójcik | Poland I. | + | 5:46 min
4th | Karel Cibula | Czechoslovakia I. | + | 9:25 min
5. | Jan Veselý | Czechoslovakia I. | + 11:07 min |
6th | Marian Rzeznicki | Poland I. | + 12:22 min |
7th | Branko Bat | Yugoslavia I. | + 13:33 min |
8th. | Miloslav Loos | Czechoslovakia II | + 13:43 min |
9. | Karoly Notas | Hungary I | + 17:52 min |
10. | Kvetoslav Bohdan | Czechoslovakia I. | + 19:24 min |
... | |||
52. | Moldovansky | Bulgaria / single eleven | + 2:31:05 h |
Team ranking | |||
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team | time | ||
1. | Poland I. | 80:51:57 h | |
2. | Czechoslovakia I. | + 17:50 min | |
3. | Yugoslavia I. | + 30:22 min | |
4th | Hungary I | + 34:40 min | |
5. | Czechoslovakia II | + 1:08:54 h | |
6th | Poland II | + 1:34:44 h | |
7th | Hungary II | + 2:42:47 h | |
8th. | Bulgaria | + 2:47:30 h | |
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 | 35.1 |
2 | Pardubice - Brno | Marin Niculescu (Romania) | 129 km | 4:34:39 | 28.2 |
3 | Brno - Gottwaldov | Waclaw Wrzesinski (Poland I) | 137 km | 5:05:13 | 26.0 |
4th | Gottwaldov - Žilina | Emanuel Krejčů (CSR II) | 151 km | 4:53:00 | 30.7 |
5 | Žilina - Katowice | Emanuel Krejčů (CSR II) | 244 km | 7:21:31 | 33.2 |
6th | Katowice - Krakow | Team time trial: Yugoslavia | 76 km | 2:07:03 | 35.9 |
7th | Krakow - Kielce | Milan Poredski (Yugoslavia) | 126 km | 3:54:30 | 35.9 |
8th | Kielce - Warsaw | Waclaw Wrzesinski (Poland I) | 190 km | 6:21:12 | 32.2 |
Final results
Individual evaluation | |||
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driver | team | time | |
1. | Aleksandar Zorić | Yugoslavia | 33:53:16 h |
2. | Emanuel Krejcu | Czechoslovakia II | + | 5:22 min
3. | Józef Kapiak | Poland I. | + | 6:50 min
4th | Milan Peric | Czechoslovakia I. | + 19:02 min |
5. | Waclaw Wrzesinski | Poland I. | + 24:44 min |
6th | Ilya Krestev | Bulgaria | + 25:01 min |
7th | Jan Dordik | Czechoslovakia II | + 28:02 min |
8th. | Zdenek Stepanek | Czechoslovakia / individual eleven. | + 33:02 min |
9. | Nicolae Chicomban | Romania | + 33:08 min |
10. | Vladimir Siegl | Czechoslovakia I. | + 39:38 min |
... | |||
39 | Boleslaw Lazarczyk | Poland II | + 4:18:22 h |
Team ranking | |||
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team | time | ||
1. | Poland I. | 108: 16: 56 h | |
2. | Romania | + 21:14 min | |
3. | Czechoslovakia I. | + 22:11 min | |
4th | Czechoslovakia II | + 36:45 min | |
5. | Bulgaria | + 2:09:35 h | |
6th | Poland II | + 3:39:57 h | |
eliminated: Yugoslavia |
Driver profiles
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↑ 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