International Peace Tour 1953

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The 6th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycle race that was held from May 2nd to 17th, 1953 as a stage race in Czechoslovakia , the GDR and Poland . Christian Pedersen from Denmark won the individual competition and the GDR emerged victorious for the first time in the team competition.

Attendees

16 teams with a total of 93 drivers took part in the peace drive. Teams from Norway and Sweden took part for the first time. Compared to the previous year, there were no drivers from Albania, Italy and the Netherlands. None of the top three drivers in the 1952 Peace Run started. The driver field was made up of the following teams:

The following drivers started for the GDR: Paul Dinter , Lothar Meister I , Erich Schulz , Gustav-Adolf Schur , Bernhard Trefflich and Erich Zawadski .

Route

Route

The tour had a length of 2231 kilometers and was divided into 13 stages. For the first time, the start was not held in a capital of the host countries, but in the Slovak metropolis of Bratislava . The tour led to Warsaw via Prague and East Berlin . On the eighth stage from East Berlin to Görlitz , the longest distance was covered at 226 kilometers, while the final stage from Łódź to Warsaw was the shortest at 139 kilometers. Four mountain stages had to be completed between Brno in the Czech Republic and the district capital of Saxony, Karl-Marx-Stadt . At the borders between Czechoslovakia and the GDR as well as between the GDR and Poland there were different destination and starting locations with Děčín / Bad Schandau and Görlitz / Zgorzelec .

Race course

The GDR team at the start in Leipzig

The 6th Peace Drive suffered from extreme weather conditions, and in cold weather the drivers had to struggle with snowfalls again and again. Of the 93 drivers who started, only 38 arrived at their destination in Warsaw. The two GDR drivers Schulz and Zawadski were among those who were eliminated. The tour developed into a duel between teams from the GDR and from Denmark. With Christian Pedersen, Hans Edmund Andresen and Finn Thygesen the Danes had a strong trio at the start and with Pedersen they also provided the tour winner. From the sixth stage onwards, the leader's yellow jersey only changed between Pedersen and his teammate Andresen, before Pedersen finally took the top position after the eighth section of the day. The Danes wore the blue jerseys of the team's best from the third to the eleventh stage, only briefly interrupted for a day by the English. After the ninth day of the race, the GDR was still in second place 21:17 minutes behind the Danes, but then started a furious race to catch up. Already on the tenth stage, 20:25 minutes could be made up, and the next day the Danes lost more than three minutes, which dropped them to second place. At the finish in Warsaw, the GDR team finally had a lead of 2:41 minutes. The best GDR driver was Gustav-Adolf Schur from Magdeburg , who came in third behind the two Danes. The Karl-Marx-Städter Bernhard Trefflich won the first stage win for the GDR in Görlitz. The difficult weather conditions also resulted in unusually long time gaps in the final ranking. Schur was already 5:15 minutes behind the leader. The Bulgarian Kozew was in tenth 28:45 minutes back.

stage Start finish Stage
length		 Stage winner Time (h) km / h
01. Bratislava - Brno 166 km Albert Eloot (Belgium) 4:24:26 37.6
02. Brno - Prague 224 km Christian Pedersen (Denmark) 6:08:27 36.7
03. Prague - Karlovy Vary 173 km Franz Deutsch (Austria) 4:45:19 36.5
04th Karlovy Vary - Děčín 160 km Vlastimil Ružička (ČSR) 4:21:07 36.9
05. Bad Schandau - Karl-Marx-Stadt 195 km Bojan Kozew (Bulgaria) 6:15:38 31.3
06th Karl-Marx-Stadt - Leipzig 187 km Miroslav Malek (ČSR) 5:37:32 33.4
07th Leipzig - East Berlin 198 km Hans Andresen (Denmark) 5:40:11 35.3
08th. East Berlin - Goerlitz 226 km Bernhard Trefflich (GDR) 5:54:37 38.4
09. Zgorzelec - Wroclaw 165 km Stanisław Królak (Poland) 4:14:47 39.2
10. Wroclaw - Katowice 193 km Mieczysław Wilczewski (Poland) 5:04:52 38.2
11. Katowice - Łódź 206 km Alexander Pawlisiak (France / Poland) 5:30:16 37.4
12. Łódź - Warsaw 139 km Stanisław Królak (Poland) 3:21:39 41.7

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01 . Christian Pedersen Denmark 62:41:12 h
02. Hans Andresen Denmark + 2:45 min
03. Gustav-Adolf Schur GDR + 5:15 min
04th Bernhard Trefflich GDR + 7:50 min
05. Aleksander Pavlisiak France / Poland + 11:30 min
06th Franz German Austria + 18:35 min
07th Louis van Schil Belgium + 18:38 min
08th. Stanislaw Królak Poland + 25:21 min
09. Christian Radigon France + 28:29 min
10. Bojan Kozew Bulgaria + 28:45 min
11. Mieczysław Wilczewski Poland + 36:14 min
12. Lothar Master I. GDR + 39:58 min
13. Finn Thygesen Denmark + 41:33 min
14th Jacques Rebry Belgium + 52:56 min
15th Stanley Jones England + 58:56 min
...
28. Paul Dinter GDR + 2:13:32 h
...
38. Max Bulla Austria + 12:45:29
Team ranking
team time
01. GDR 188: 14: 15 h
02. Denmark + 2:41 min
03. France / Poland + 18:56 min
04th Czechoslovakia + 1:32:43 h
05. Bulgaria + 1:46:33 h
06th Poland + 3:19:11 h
07th Austria + 3:53:44 h
08th. France + 4:14:49 h
09. Romania + 12:35:04 h
Eliminated:
Belgium
England
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Hungary
Trieste

Driver data

  1. ↑ Albert Eloot
  2. ↑ Alexander Pawlisiak → Friedensfahrt starter list
    • Pole living in France.
    • Also took part in the 1954 Peace Trip.

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May , Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, pp. 200–204, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 .
  • Prague-Berlin-Warsaw. A picture report. New Germany, Berlin 1953, 32 pages
  • VI. International long-distance cycling for peace. New Germany, Berlin 1953, 36 pages

Web links

Commons : 6th Peace Tour 1953  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files