International Peace Tour 1959

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The 12th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 2nd to 16th, 1959. The tour consisted of 13 individual stages and covered a total length of 2057 km from East Berlin via Prague to Warsaw . East Berlin was the starting point of the tour for the first time. The overall winner was the GDR participant Gustav-Adolf Schur , who was the first driver to win the tour for the second time. The team winner was the Soviet Union . The best climber was the Englishman Brian Haskell . Of the 108 drivers who started, 92 reached their destination in Warsaw.

Attendees

In 1959, drivers from 18 countries took part in the peace drive, two fewer than a year ago. Compared to the previous year, there were no Austria , Sweden or the West German Association of German Cyclists . Monaco had reported as a newcomer whose drivers were independent (i.e. also authorized to compete with professional drivers ). The following teams took part:

The German Cycling Association of the GDR had nominated the following six athletes:

Race course

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There was a constant change of the yellow jersey on the first three stages. The winner of the 1st stage was the Russian Juri Melichow , he lost the lead to René Vanderveken from Belgium on the 2nd day of the race , after the 3rd stage the GDR driver Bernhard Eckstein was ahead in the overall classification. Then the Italian Romeo Venturelli triumphed , who drove in yellow for three days of racing after his victory in the 4th stage. On the first mountain stage from Karl-Marx-Stadt to Karlovy Vary (5th, 137 km) there was the first GDR stage victory by Egon Adler. The 7th stage ( Prague - Brno ) brought a preliminary decision for the individual evaluation . On the 225 km longest stage, the two GDR drivers Adler and Schur succeeded in joining a 16-man breakaway group that had a twelve-minute lead over the main field at the finish. In the main field was also the bearer of the yellow jersey Venturelli, who lost almost ten minutes on the third stage Schur and had to give him the lead in the overall standings, in which Adler had worked his way up to second with his stage win. For a long time it looked like a double victory for the GDR, because until the 11th stage Adler was able to defend his 2nd place behind Schur. On the 12th stage of the tour, however, Adler lost almost four minutes to the trio Venturelli, Schur and the Dutchman Ab Geldermans , so that Venturelli was able to work his way up to second place. On the final stage Lodz - Warsaw , the GDR team made sure that the repeated attempts to break away could no longer pose a threat to Gustav-Adolf-Schur, who rode in the yellow jersey, and that he could safely drive home the overall victory. Shortly before the finish line, the Italian Venturelli became a tragic figure, who - injured by his fall - lost more than a minute and dropped to 3rd place in the overall standings behind the Belgian Vandervecken.

In the battle for the blue jerseys in the team classification , the GDR team had a good chance of winning the overall victory for a long time. Even after the 5th stage, the men led by Schur were three minutes ahead of the overall standings, but on the 7th stage of the tour they lost 12 minutes to the Soviet Union, which then put on the blue jerseys. On the penultimate stage, the GDR drivers attacked again, but only managed to shorten the lead by just six minutes. No team was able to make up ground on the last stage, so that in the end the Soviet team won the team championship with a lead of over three minutes over the GDR.

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length		 Travel time
01st stage Around East Berlin Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 119 km 2:53:34
02nd stage East Berlin - Magdeburg René Vanderveken (Belgium) 170 km 4:21:22
03rd stage Magdeburg - Leipzig Boris Bebenin (Soviet Union) 150 km 3:34:10
04th stage Leipzig - Karl-Marx-Stadt Romeo Venturelli (Italy) 183 km 4:42:55
05th stage Karl Marx Stadt - Karlovy Vary Egon Adler (GDR) 137 km 3:47:54
06th stage Karlovy Vary - Prague Roger Vindevogel (Belgium) 175 km 4:46:28
07th stage Prague - Brno Egon Adler (GDR) 225 km 6:57:41
08th stage Brno - Gottwaldov Romeo Venturelli (Italy) 137 km 3:33:12
09th stage Gottwaldov - Ostrava Henry de Wolf (Belgium) 140 km 3:45:12
10th stage Ostrava - Krakow Giuseppe Tonucci (Italy) 190 km 5:03:23
11th stage Krakow - Katowice Roger Vindevogel (Belgium) 132 km 3:13:42
12th stage Katowice - Łódź Romeo Venturelli (Italy) 167 km 4:24:32
13th stage Łódź - Warsaw Gabriel Moiceanu (Romania) 132 km 3:14:10

Final results

Individual evaluation

Overall winner for the second time: G.-A.-Schur (GDR)
driver team time
01. Gustav-Adolf Schur GDR 54:48:59
02. René Vanderveken Belgium 54:54:13
03. Romeo Venturelli Italy 54: 54.24
04th From Geldermans Netherlands 54:54:33
05. Egon Adler GDR 54:55:12
06th Nentscho Christow Bulgaria 54:65:22
07th Yuri Melichow Soviet Union 54:57:31
08th. Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union 54:58:45
09. Dave Bedwell England 55:01:38
10. Bogusław Fornalczyk Poland 55:02:29
11. Vagn Bangsborg Denmark 55:03:55
12. Josef Křivka Czechoslovakia 55:04:26
13. Bernhard Eckstein GDR 55:04:39
14th Pavel Wostryakov Soviet Union 55:04:43
15th Miroslav Mareš Czechoslovakia 55:07:05
16. Stanislaw Gazda Poland 55:08:22
17th Livio Trapè Italy 55.10: 10
18th Günter Loerke GDR 55:14:20
19th Constant Goossens Belgium 55:16:13
20th Joe Christison England 55:16:44
...
22nd Johannes Schober GDR 55:19:50
26th Wolfgang Braune GDR 55:29:07
...
90. Claude Rico Monaco 60:57:10
91. Pavel Zidan Yugoslavia 61:00:01
92. Sauli Uusi-Kokko Finland 64:35:59

Team ranking

team time
01. Soviet Union
Yuri Melichow (7th), Viktor Kapitonov (8th),
Pawel Wostryakov (14th), Anatoli Tscherepowitsch (24th)
Nikolai Columbet (38th), Boris Bebenin (46th)		 164: 31: 13
02. GDR 164: 34: 46
03. England 164: 47: 50
04th Belgium 164: 55: 39
05. Poland 165: 00: 14
06th Netherlands 165: 10: 11
07th Bulgaria 165: 10: 27
08th. Czechoslovakia 165: 17: 35
09. Romania 165: 47: 14
10. Italy 166: 13: 20
11. Denmark 166: 17: 47
12. Hungary 167: 23: 47
13. Monaco 167: 32: 45
14th France 168: 29: 19
15th Yugoslavia 168: 55: 32
16. Finland 170: 34: 13
17th Switzerland 170: 43: 58
18th Luxembourg 178: 33: 12

Mountain scoring

driver team Points
1. Brian Haskell England 26th
2. Henri Epalle France 20th
3. Giuseppe Tonucci Italy 15th
4th Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union 15th
5. Johannes Schober GDR 12

literature

  • German sports echo , May 1959
  • XII. International Peace Tour Berlin-Prague-Warsaw 1959. Sport im Bild, Berlin 1958, 32 pages
  • That was the XII. Peace ride. New Germany, Berlin 1959, 32 pages
  • Twelfth International Long Distance Cycle Tour for Peace. New Germany, Berlin 1959, 34 pages

Web links

Commons : 12th Peace Trip 1959  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hönel, Olaf Ludwig: 100 Highlights Peace Trip . Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00717-2 , p. 30 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Braune
  3. ↑ a b Roger Vindevogel (born October 17, 1937) → sport.org (English)
  4. ↑ Giuseppe Tonucci (* March 9, 1938, † October 11, 1988) → cyclingranking.com (English), sports-reference.com (English) He drove the Giro d'Italia three times.