International Peace Tour 1959
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
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 |
1st stage | Around East Berlin | Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) | 119 km | 2:53:34 |
2nd stage | East Berlin - Magdeburg | René Vanderveken (Belgium) | 170 km | 4:21:22 |
3rd stage | Magdeburg - Leipzig | Boris Bebenin (Soviet Union) | 150 km | 3:34:10 |
4th stage | Leipzig - Karl-Marx-Stadt | Romeo Venturelli (Italy) | 183 km | 4:42:55 |
5th stage | Karl Marx Stadt - Karlovy Vary | Egon Adler (GDR) | 137 km | 3:47:54 |
6th stage | Karlovy Vary - Prague | Roger Vindevogel (Belgium) | 175 km | 4:46:28 |
7th stage | Prague - Brno | Egon Adler (GDR) | 225 km | 6:57:41 |
8th stage | Brno - Gottwaldov | Romeo Venturelli (Italy) | 137 km | 3:33:12 |
9th 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
driver | team | time | |
1. | Gustav-Adolf Schur | GDR | 54:48:59 |
2. | René Vanderveken | Belgium | 54:54:13 |
3. | Romeo Venturelli | Italy | 54: 54.24 |
4th | From Geldermans | Netherlands | 54:54:33 |
5. | Egon Adler | GDR | 54:55:12 |
6th | Nentscho Christow | Bulgaria | 54:65:22 |
7th | Yuri Melichow | Soviet Union | 54:57:31 |
8th. | Viktor Kapitonov | Soviet Union | 54:58:45 |
9. | 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 |
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22nd | Johannes Schober | GDR | 55:19:50 |
26th | Wolfgang Braune | GDR | 55:29:07 |
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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 | |
1. |
Soviet Union Yuri Melichow (7th), Viktor Kapitonov (8th), Pawel Wostryakov (14th), Anatoli Tscherepowitsch (24th) Nikolai Columbet (38th), Boris Bebenin (46th) |
164: 31: 13 |
2. | GDR | 164: 34: 46 |
3. | England | 164: 47: 50 |
4th | Belgium | 164: 55: 39 |
5. | Poland | 165: 00: 14 |
6th | Netherlands | 165: 10: 11 |
7th | Bulgaria | 165: 10: 27 |
8th. | Czechoslovakia | 165: 17: 35 |
9. | 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
- Start list friedensfahrt-info.de
- Stage statistics at friedensfahrt-info.de
- Color photographs of the 5th stage in Karl-Marx-Stadt in the Chemnitz film archive
- History of the peace ride on cycling4fans.de
- Sport-complete
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Hönel, Olaf Ludwig: 100 Highlights Peace Trip . Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00717-2 , p. 30 .
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↑ Wolfgang Braune
- drove 1957-59 in the peace team of the GDR . → live cycling
- 1957 - 3rd of the 4th stage
- 1960 - 3rd tour of Egypt → cycling websites
- drove 1957-59 in the peace team of the GDR . → live cycling
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↑ a b Roger Vindevogel (born October 17, 1937) → sport.org (English)
- 1958 - Paris – Tours - 46.
- 1959 - Belgian Championships - 17th
- 1960 - Nokere-Koerse - 9.
- 1961 - Omloop Het Volk - 24.
- 1961 - Gent – Wevelgem - 23.
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↑ Giuseppe Tonucci (* March 9, 1938, † October 11, 1988) → cyclingranking.com (English), sports-reference.com (English)
- 1960 - 19 - Summer Olympics
- 1961 - Participation - Paris – Nice , Milan – San Remo
- 1962 - 89th - Tour de France
- 1962 - Winner - 10th stage Giro d'Italia 1962
- 1963 - Participation - Paris – Nice , Milan – San Remo