International Peace Tour 1958
The amateur bike race Internationale Friedensfahrt (Course de la paix) took place for the 11th time in 1958 and ran over twelve stages between Warsaw , East Berlin and Prague from May 2nd to 15th . The total distance was 2,210 km, the individual winner was the Dutchman Piet Damen , the team championship was won by the Soviet Union . Viktor Kapitonov from the Soviet Union won the jersey of the best climber .
Participating countries
20 national teams with six drivers each (120 in total) took part in the 11th Peace Tour. That was six teams more than in the previous year, but three fewer than in 1956. After the West German Association of German Cyclists did not take part in the Peace Tour in 1957, it sent another team in 1958. The following national teams started:
German participants
The German Cycling Association of the GDR (DRSV) had nominated the following drivers:
- Egon Adler , 21 years old, SC Rotation Leipzig
- Günter Grünwald , 22, SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
- Erich Hagen , 21, SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
- Roland Henning , 22, SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
- Gustav-Adolf Schur , 27, SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
- Rolf Töpfer , 25, SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
The Association of German Cyclists sent six amateur racing drivers:
- Horst Dreske , 24 years old, Hanover
- Friedhelm Fischerkeller , 23, Cologne-Longerich
- Horst Hanske , 22, Regensburg
- Georg Piepenbrink, 23, Hanover
- Willi Reuter, 21, Hameln
- Siegfried Schönberg, 24, Schopp (Palatinate)
Race course
The individual winner, with an hourly average of 37.1 km, Piet Damen, laid the foundation for his success on the 3rd stage when he fought for the stage win from a five-man leading group. He took 14 minutes from the previous leader Kapitonow (Soviet Union). In the further course of the race, the Soviet driver Bebenin and the Belgian Hermans remained his toughest competitors. However, in the time trial of the 8th stage, women managed to distance both Bebenin and Hermans by one minute each. In the end, Damen won with two minutes ahead of Bebenin and seven minutes from Hermans. Kapitonow was able to win a stage three times. Drivers from the GDR also won a stage three times, Schur twice, plus Egon Adler. Adler was also able to place himself in 5th place in the overall classification as the best German driver. The best German participant was Friedhelm Fischerkeller in 13th place.
The Soviet Union sent the most balanced team. The three drivers relevant for the team standings Boris Bebenin (2nd), Pawel Wostrjakow (6th) and Wiktor Kapitonow (7th) ensured a sovereign team victory in front of last year's winner, the GDR, who with Egon Adler (5th), Gustav- Adolf Schur (8th) and Erich Hagen (23rd) needed 54 minutes longer. Thanks to their tour winner Piet Damen, the Dutch team finished 3rd, 1:02 hours behind the winners. The amateurs from the Federal Republic of Germany with their three competition drivers Friedhelm Fischerkeller (13th), Horst Hanske (42nd) and Horst Dreske (79th) ended up in 14th place, over six hours behind.
With Wiktor Kapitonow there was a triple stage winner (2nd, 5th and 12th), Gustav-Adolf Schur won the 4th and 8th stage. Egon Adler achieved the third GDR success on the 5th stage. On the mountain stages, Viktor Kapitonow also proved to be the best climber and won the mountain classification.
stage | Start finish | Stage winner | Stage length |
Travel time |
1st stage | Around Warsaw | Vendramino Bariviera (Italy) | 110 km | 2:34:18 |
2nd stage | Warsaw - Łódź | Viktor Kapitonov (Soviet Union) | 140 km | 3:56:44 |
3rd stage | Łódź - Katowice | Piet Damen (Netherlands) | 215 km | 5:24:56 |
4th stage | Katowice - Wroclaw | Gustav-Adolf Schur (GDR) | 181 km | 4:55:52 |
5th stage | Breslau - Görlitz | Viktor Kapitonov (Soviet Union) | 193 km | 5:35:08 |
6th stage | Görlitz - East Berlin | Egon Adler (GDR) | 231 km | 5:37:21 |
7th stage | East Berlin - Leipzig | Raymond Mastrotto (France) | 207 km | 5:41:11 |
1st part (EZ) |
8th stage Leipzig - Halle (Saale) | Gustav-Adolf Schur (GDR) | 40 km | 1:02:10 |
2nd part |
8th stage Halle (Saale) - Karl-Marx-Stadt | Yevgeny Klewzow (Soviet Union) | 143 km | 3:55:44 |
9th stage | Karl Marx Stadt - Karlovy Vary | René Vanderveken (Belgium) | 141 km | 3:41:47 |
10th stage | Karlovy Vary - Tábor | Zbigniew Głowaty (Poland) | 207 km | 5:29:20 |
11th stage | Tábor - Brno | William Bradley (England) | 177 km | 5:02:46 |
12th stage | Brno - Prague | Viktor Kapitonov (Soviet Union) | 225 km | 5:59:00 |
Final results
Individual evaluation
driver | team | time | |
1. | Piet ladies | Netherlands | 59:27:05 |
2. | Boris Bebenin | Soviet Union | 59:29:33 |
3. | Alfons Hermans | Belgium | 59:34:17 |
4th | Bojan Kozew | Bulgaria | 59:34:44 |
5. | Egon Adler | GDR | 59:34:57 |
6th | Pavel Wostryakov | Soviet Union | 59:36:07 |
7th | Viktor Kapitanov | Soviet Union | 59:37:42 |
8th. | Gustav-Adolf Schur | GDR | 59:42:35 |
9. | Stan Brittain | England | 59:46:33 |
10. | Ivan Levacic | Yugoslavia | 59:46:51 |
... | |||
13. | Friedhelm Fischerkeller | Federal Republic | 59:50:07 |
23. | Erich Hagen | GDR | 60:11:17 |
31. | Günter Grünwald | GDR | 60:28:46 |
42. | Horst Hanske | Federal Republic | 61:22:29 |
59. | Roland Henning | GDR | 62:15:54 |
71. | Rolf Töpfer | GDR | 63:11:23 |
79. | Horst Dreske | Federal Republic | 64:32:04 |
82. | Siegfried Schoenberg | Federal Republic | 65:26:39 |
88 | Willi Reuter | Federal Republic | 67:19:31 |
Georg Piepenbrink, Federal Republic, resigned |
Team ranking
team | time | ||
1. |
Soviet Union (Boris Bebenin 2nd, Pawel Wostryakov 6th, Viktor Kapitanov 7th, Nikolai Columbet 29th, Yevgeny Klewzow 33rd, Yuri Koledov 35th) |
178: 04: 44 | |
2. | GDR | 178: 58: 32 | |
3. | Netherlands | 179: 06: 13 | |
4th | Romania | 179: 08: 54 | |
5. | Poland | 179: 13: 25 | |
6th | Belgium | 179: 16: 40 | |
7th | England | 179: 25: 19 | |
8th. | France | 180: 15: 56 | |
9. | Bulgaria | 180: 26: 49 | |
10. | Yugoslavia | 180: 56: 25 | |
11. | Denmark | 181: 35: 49 | |
12. | Czechoslovakia | 182: 49: 22 | |
13. | Italy | 184: 03: 36 | |
14th | Federal Republic | 184: 27: 31 | |
15th | Hungary | 187: 25: 17 | |
16. | Austria | 188: 41: 58 | |
17th | Finland | 189: 15: 14 | |
18th | Sweden | 189: 19: 31 | |
19th | Luxembourg | 194: 59: 45 | |
Switzerland eliminated after the 12th stage |
Mountain scoring
driver | team | Points | |
1. | Viktor Kapitonov | Soviet Union | 15th |
2. | Rene Vanderveken | Netherlands | 13 |
3. | Erich Hagen | GDR | 10 |
Yevgeny Klewzow | Soviet Union | 10 | |
5. | Gustav-Adolf Schur | GDR | 8th |
literature
- GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Born in 1958
- That was the XI. Peace ride. New Germany, Berlin 1958, 32 pages
- The eleventh. XI. International peace trip. New Germany, Berlin 1958, 34 pages
- XI. International Peace Tour Prague-Berlin-Warsaw 1958. Sport im Bild, Berlin 1958, 32 pages