International Peace Tour 1962

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The 15th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 2nd to 17th, 1962. The road bike race ran over 14 stages from East Berlin via Prague to Warsaw and had a total length of 2407 kilometers. The individual classification was won by the Soviet driver Gainan Saidchushin , the Soviet Union won the team classification.

Attendees

121 drivers from 21 countries started in East Berlin. For the first time, a team from Morocco took part, and for the first time, Tarek Aboul-Zahab from Lebanon was an individual participant. During the tour, 41 drivers retired, including the 1960 amateur world champion Bernhard Eckstein from the GDR team . The following teams made up the field of drivers:

also Tarek Aboul-Zahab, Lebanon as a single starter

The following drivers were nominated for the GDR team:

Race course

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As in the previous year, the Soviet Union was the dominant team. Of the 14th stages, Soviet riders won the daily standings nine times. Alexej Petrow was successful five times alone, but only came in 5th place in the final accounts. Gainan Saidchushin from the Soviet Union won the individual competition with a two-minute lead over his team-mate Yuri Melichow . Since the Soviet Union with Kapitanow (8th) and Tscherepowitsch (10th) brought two more drivers into the top ten, they also won the team championship with ease .

At first it looked as if the Dutch driver Henk Nijdam could stand up to the Soviet drivers. He had won the individual time trial on stage 5 and wore the yellow jersey of the front runner up to stage 7. On the 7th stage, however, he lost over seven minutes to the previous fifth Saidchushin, who was now ahead in the individual standings. While Saidchushin was able to defend the yellow jersey as far as Warsaw, Nijdam fell back from stage to stage and was finally eliminated in the 13th stage. A victory on the 7th stage and fourth place in a leading group with eight minutes lead was enough for Stanisław Gazda from Poland to finish third.

The GDR team competed for the first time in ten years without their two-time world champion Gustav-Adolf Schur and had to be content with third place in the team classification. It was the worst result since 1956. The best single driver in the GDR was newcomer Klaus Ampler, who achieved 7th place. The 1960 world champion Bernhard Eckstein had to give up the race after the 9th stage.

The Lebanese Aboul-Zahab, who was driving without any team support, crossed the finish line in Warsaw in 41st place, one hour behind the leader.

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length		 Time (h)
01. Around Berlin Anatoly Tscherepowitsch (Soviet Union) 116 km 2:38:06
02. Berlin - Leipzig Anatoly Tscherepowitsch (Soviet Union) 209 km 5:17:04
03. Leipzig - Erfurt Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 192 km 5:16:36
04th Erfurt - Karl-Marx-Stadt Henk Nijdam (Netherlands) 204 km 5:15:06
05. Karl-Marx-Stadt - Karlsbad Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 123 km 3:27:22
06th Karlovy Vary - Prague Christian Paillier (France) 172 km 4:13:33
07th Prague - Brno Stanisław Gazda (Poland) 220 km 6:09:12
08th. Brno - Gottwaldov Gainan Saidchushin (Soviet Union) 137 km 3:17:25
09. Gottwaldov - Ostrava Roger de Breuker (Belgium) 184 km 4:28:44
10. Ostrava - Opole Ferdinand Bracke (Belgium) 188 km 4:20:46
11. Opole - Wroclaw
team time trial		 Soviet Union 100 km 2:59:50
12. Wroclaw - Poznan Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 178 km 4:37:38
13. Poznan - Bydgoszcz Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 140 km 3:20:23
14th Bydgoszcz - Warsaw Alexei Petrov (Soviet Union) 250 km 6:18:57

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team Time (h)
01 . Gainan Saidchushin Soviet Union 58:58:04
02. Yuri Melichow Soviet Union 59:00:32
03. Stanislaw Gazda Poland 59:04:53
04th Roger de Breuker Belgium 59:09:50
05. Alexei Petrov Soviet Union 59:10:20
06th Gabriel Moiceanu Romania 59:11:30
07th Klaus Ampler GDR 59:11:44
08th. Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union 59:12:52
09. Hans Scheibner GDR 59:13:59
10. Anatoly Cherepovich Soviet Union 59:15:48
11. Jaap de Waard Netherlands 59:16:06
12. Janos Juszko Hungary 59:16:39
...
17th Dieter Wiedemann GDR 59:22:35
34. Lothar Höhne GDR 59:48:20
38. Klaus Kellermann GDR 59:51:37
...
80. Mohamed Ibrahim VAR 75:49:28
Retired, among others:
Bernhard Eckstein (GDR)
Team ranking
team time
01. Soviet Union 180: 07: 19 h
02. Poland + 19:46 min
03. GDR + 35:14 min
04th Hungary + 48:24 min
05. Belgium + 1:08:24 h
06th Romania + 1:12:15 h
07th Czechoslovakia + 1:51:19 h
08th. France + 1:51:51 h
09. Bulgaria + 2:03:12 h
10. Great Britain + 2:22:50
11. Austria + 2:38:20 h
12. Yugoslavia + 3:27:27 h
13. Denmark + 5:23:55 h
14th Morocco + 6:53:42 h
15th Finland + 10:46:22 h
16. Norway + 23:24:35 h
Eliminated:
Egypt
Netherlands
Sweden
Tunisia

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 , pp. 245-250.
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , April / May 1962 issues
  • 15th International Peace Trip 1962. New Germany, Berlin 1962, 34 pages

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