International Peace Tour 1955

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The overall winner Gustav-Adolf Schur at the award ceremony, May 18, 1955

The International Peace Tour 1955 (Course de la paix) , a three-country stage race, ran from Prague via East Berlin to Warsaw from May 2nd to 17th, 1955 . The tour, which was held for the eighth time, was won by the GDR driver Gustav-Adolf Schur . The Czechoslovakia took victory in the team classification.

Attendees

106 drivers who were grouped into 18 teams took part in the eighth Peace Tour. As a rule, each team consisted of six athletes, only Albania and Norway each waived a starting place. Compared to the previous year, Egypt and Austria were new, while the Netherlands and Hungary were missing. Overall, the field of participants consisted of the following teams:

Benno Funda , Wolfgang Grupe , Lothar Meister II , Emil Reinecke , Gustav-Adolf Schur and Detlef Zabel started for the GDR .

Route

Route

The 8th Peace Tour had a length of 2214 kilometers and was divided into 13 stages. There were two interruptions to the route: after the first stage “Around Prague”, the race was continued in Kolín , 50 kilometers away . There was another interruption after the ninth stage, when the field of drivers had to cover 90 kilometers to Zgorzelec in Poland for the tenth stage of the day . The longest stage led from Tábor to Karlsbad on the fourth day of the race . Only 103 kilometers were driven on the sixth and shortest stage from Dresden to Karl-Marx-Stadt . On the first third of the peace ride, except for the first stage between Kolín and Dresden, only mountain stages were driven.

Race course

Drive through Kolín

The tour was dominated by the driver trio Stan Brittain , Gustav-Adolf Schur and Jan Veselý . The Englishman Stan Brittain was the first to claim the overall victory. On the third stage he dominated the race for a long time and finally took over the yellow jersey of the overall leader after a fifth place . Among other things, he benefited from the fall of the previous leader Jan Kubr from CSR. Brittain lost the lead again on the seventh stage, when he had to let a group of eleven go, from which the GDR driver Gustav-Adolf Schur and the Belgian Joseph Verhelst sprinted into places one and two. Brittain lost over four minutes in the overall standings, now led by Verhelst. One day later, Verhelst lost touch with the top group and eleven minutes behind the new yellow jersey wearer, Gustav-Adolf Schur. He was now four minutes ahead of Brittain and the Czechoslovak Jan Veselý . This trio stayed together until the end of the tour, whereby Veselý still managed to overtake Brittain and secure second place behind Schur in the final standings. Schur won the 8th Peace Drive with a margin of 8:28 minutes and was celebrated as the first GDR Peace Drive winner. Of the 106 riders who started, 80 reached Warsaw.

In the team classification, the Czechoslovak team marched through, whose drivers led the classification from the second to the last stage. The GDR team was able to follow CSR to some extent with a final eleven minutes deficit, Bulgaria in third place was already an hour and 15 minutes behind. The co-host country Poland had to be satisfied with a disappointing sixth place. Egypt. India and Norway were not included in the ranking because they lost more than three drivers during the race.

Stage overview
stage Start finish Stage
length		 Stage winner Time (h) km / h
01. Around Prague 120 km Maurice Boeckx (Belgium) 3:14:34 36.6
02. Kolín - Brno 185 km Jan Kubr (CSR) 4:47:22 38.5
03. Brno - Tábor 175 km Zdeněk Klich (CSR) 5:07:35 33.9
04th Tábor - Karlovy Vary 215 km Josef Křivka (CSR) 6:22:18 33.6
05. Karlsbad - Dresden 175 km Joseph Verhelst (Belgium) 4:30:14 39.9
06th Dresden - Karl-Marx-Stadt 103 km Pierre Gouget (France) 2:50:42 36.4
07th Karl-Marx-Stadt - Leipzig 206 km Gustav-Adolf Schur (GDR) 5:24:54 37.9
08th. Leipzig - East Berlin 200 km Benno Funda (GDR) 5:15:16 37.9
09. East Berlin - Cottbus 126 km Jan Veselý (CSR) 2:56:11 42.7
10. Zgorzelec - Wroclaw 174 km Jan Veselý (CSR) 4:28:34 38.7
11. Wroclaw - Katowice 200 km Maurice Van Der Daele (Belgium) 4:55:21 40.5
12. Katowice - Łódź 205 km Gustav-Adolf Schur (GDR) 5:25:48 37.8
13. Łódź - Warsaw 130 km Joseph Verhelst (Belgium) 3:11:29 40.6

Final results

Täve Schur with the winning team from Czechoslovakia
Individual evaluation
driver team Time (h)
01. Gustav-Adolf Schur GDR 58:51:20
02. Jan Veselý CSR 58:59:48
03. Stan Brittain England 59:02:34
04th Karl-Magnus Amell Sweden same time
05. Stanislaw Królak Poland 59:03:10
06th Joseph Verhelst Belgium 59:03:24
07th Viktor Vershinin Soviet Union 59:07:41
08th. Frans van Looveren Belgium 59:12:19
09. Detlef Zabel GDR 59:12:39
10. Christian Pedersen Denmark 59:15:13
11. Lothar Master II GDR 59:20:14
12. Paul Nyman Finland 59:26:14
0 ...
20th Emil Reinecke GDR 60:01:35
26th Wolfgang Grupe GDR 60:16:50
36. Benno Funda GDR 60:44:11
0 ...
80. Dhana Singh India 87:15:58
Team ranking
team time
01. Czechoslovakia 176: 45: 17
02. GDR 176: 56: 33
03. Bulgaria 178: 00: 18
04th Soviet Union 178: 01: 22
05. Belgium 178: 05: 55
06th Poland 178: 06: 11
07th Denmark 178: 40: 56
08th. Sweden 179: 49: 01
09. France 180: 01: 19
10. Romania 180: 06: 08
11. France-Poland 182: 23: 26
12. Finland 182: 28: 45
13. England 182: 37: 29
14th Austria 192: 56: 55
15th Albania 205: 53: 40
eliminated:
Egypt
India
Norway

Driver data

  1. ↑ Zdeněk Klich → Cycling pages 42660
    • 1954 - 02nd in the 11th stage of the Peace Tour
    • 1955 - 03rd in the 8th stage of the Peace Tour
    • 1955 - 02nd in the 12th stage of the Peace Tour
  2. ↑ Joseph Křivka → Cycling Archives 42662

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May , Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, pp. 210-214, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 .
  • VIII. International Peace Trip Prague-Berlin-Warsaw 1955. Sport im Bild, Berlin 1955, 16 pages

Web links

Commons : 8th Peace Tour 1955  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files