International Peace Tour 1961

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Overall winner Juri Melichow (middle), 3rd corner stone (right)
The victorious team of the Soviet Union: Moskvin, Tscherepowitsch, Melichow, Petrow , Saidchushin and Kapitonow (from right to left)

The 14th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 2nd to 16th, 1961. The tour ran over 2,435 kilometers with 13 stages from Warsaw via East Berlin to Prague . The individual competition was won by the Soviet driver Yuri Melichow , the team classification by the Soviet Union and the mountain classification by Alexei Petrow , also from the Soviet Union.

Attendees

15 countries had registered for the 14th Peace Tour, five fewer than in the previous year. This time Austria and Switzerland were missing . Each country was represented by six athletes, so that 90 riders started in Warsaw. Only 61 made it to the destination in Prague.

The GDR Cycling Association had nominated the following riders:

Race course

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The 14th edition of the Peace Tour was a total triumph for the Soviet team, which came out on top in all categories. In the individual ranking she won a double victory with Juri Melichow and Viktor Kapitonow . The GDR drivers, who had to cope with the failure of Egon Adler, secured second place in the team standings, Bernhard Eckstein came in third as the best GDR representative. While the GDR team was able to book two stage wins through Höhne (1st) and Hagen (7th), the Soviet Union secured eight daily victories. The sovereign tour winner Melichow won four times alone.

The decision in the team ranking was made on the 5th stage. At the finish, the Soviet Union had three drivers in front and increased its lead over Poland to more than a minute. The GDR team was only third for a long time and was more than eleven minutes behind Poland as second between the 8th and 11th stage. On the 12th stage, however, the GDR drivers managed to take 24 minutes from Poland and thus finally secure space.

The individual winner Juri Melichow wore the yellow jersey of the overall leader unchallenged from the 2nd to the last stage. His most stubborn pursuer was DDR driver Bernhard Eckstein, who followed him in second place until the 5th stage. On the 6th stage, a storm trip from Stettin to Rostock, Eckstein lost ten minutes and fell back to third place, which he was able to defend until the end. Egon Adler was already weakened by a cold and left the 5th stage.

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length
Time (h)
01st stage Around Warsaw Lothar Höhne (GDR) 136 km 3:14:53
02nd stage Warsaw - Olsztyn Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 206 km 4:40:00
03rd stage Olsztyn - Gdansk Gabriel Moiceanu (Romania) 204 km 4:54:35
04th stage Świecie - Bydgoszcz Soviet Union 42 km (MZ) 1:03:34
Bydgoszcz - Poznan Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 191 km 4:34:22
05th stage Poznan - Szczecin Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 155 km 4:05:49
06th stage Szczecin - Rostock Ion Cosma (Romania) 206 km 5:56:54
07th stage Rostock - East Berlin Erich Hagen (GDR) 240 km 5:42:55
08th stage Berlin - Leipzig Anatoly Tscherepowitsch (Soviet Union) 209 km 5:27:27
09th stage Leipzig - Halle Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 40 km (single room) 1:02:57
Halle - Karl-Marx-Stadt Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 143 km 3:45:49
10th stage Karl-Marx-Stadt - Karlsbad Ladislav Heller (Czechoslovakia) 107 km 2:42:13
11th stage Karlovy Vary - Tábor Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 177 km 4:21:33
12th stage Tábor - Brno Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 125 km 2:46:29
13th stage Brno - Prague Yuri Melichow (Soviet Union) 224 km 6:28:03

EZ = individual time trial
MZ = team time trial

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team Time (h)
01. Yuri Melichow Soviet Union 61:15:24
02. Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union 61:26:29
03. Bernhard Eckstein GDR 61:30:14
04th Anatoly Cherepovich Soviet Union 61:32:11
05. Vagn Bangsborg Denmark 61:32:22
06th Gunnar Göransson Sweden 61:33:05
07th Ion Cosma Romania 61:34:06
08th. Gustav-Adolf Schur GDR 61:36:12
09. Erich Hagen GDR 61:37:56
10. Trygve Lullau Norway 61:39:39
11. Manfred Weißleder GDR 61:42:24
12. lb Varbaek Denmark 61:43:05
...
28. Lothar Höhne GDR 61:51:50
...
61. Matti Hovi Finland 68:11:16
retired:
Egon Adler
GDR
Team ranking
team Time (h)
01. Soviet Union 185: 09: 52
02. GDR 185: 36: 01
03. Romania 185: 54: 24
04th Poland 186: 00: 22
05. Sweden 186: 02: 13
06th Czechoslovakia 186: 12: 07
07th Hungary 186: 30: 20
08th. Bulgaria 186: 42: 30
09. Great Britain 186: 49: 08
10. Denmark 186: 56: 06
11. France 187: 51: 43
12. Yugoslavia 188: 47: 22
13. Norway 189: 51: 38
14th Finland 196: 42: 05
eliminated:
Netherlands
Mountain scoring
driver team Points
01. Alexei Petrov Soviet Union 27
02. Gainan Saidchushin Soviet Union 26th
03. Bernhard Eckstein GDR 20th
04th Ken Laidlaw Great Britain 20th
05. Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union 15th

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich : Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 . s. 239 ff
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , April / May 1961 issues
  • That was the XIV. Peace Tour. New Germany, Berlin 1961, 32 pages
  • 14th International Peace Tour 1961. New Germany, Berlin 1961, 34 pages

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