International Peace Tour 1963
The 16th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 9th to 25th, 1963. The stage trip had a total length of 2568 kilometers and ran from Prague via Warsaw to East Berlin . The GDR driver Klaus Ampler won the individual classification, the GDR team also won the team classification. The violet jersey of the most active driver was won by the Belgian Joseph Haeseldonckx , the mountain classification was won by Jozef Gawliczek from Poland.
Attendees
115 drivers took part in the 1963 peace run, among them again the single starter Tarek Aboul-Zahab from Lebanon. After the previous year's participants had not reported Sweden, Egypt and Tunisia again and the Scottish Cycling Association participated for the first time, riders from the following 19 national associations started:
- plus single starter Tarek Aboul-Zahab ( Lebanon )
The cycling association from the GDR had nominated the following riders:
Route
The 2568 kilometers were divided into 15 stages, of which the 13th day section from Dresden to Erfurt was the longest at 245 kilometers and the time trial stage from Bautzen to Dresden the shortest day section. The 16th tour had the many neutralized routes as a special feature. From Banská Bystrica to Zvolen 19 kilometers were cycled without evaluation, from Košice to Prešov (33 km) and from Rzeszów to Warsaw (350 km) the athletes were transported by train. A 45-kilometer route was covered by bus between Görlitz and Bautzen. On the 3rd stage Hustopeče - Bratislava there was a team time trial, the individual time trial was held on the 13th stage Bautzen - Dresden.
Race course
For a long time it didn't look like a double success for the GDR team. Although the GDR had won the team time trial of the 3rd stage, it suffered a slump on the following stage that threw them back to 6th place. Only the good results in the individual time trial of the 12th stage with Ampler as the winner brought the GDR team back to the top. On the following stages, the GDR team was able to keep the competitors in check and thus secure the overall victory. The Belgian riders presented themselves as surprisingly strong on this tour, above all 21-year-old August Verhaegen . He wore the yellow jersey on five stages and won the 14th day from Erfurt to Magdeburg. He finished second in the final, his teammate Camiel Vyncke reached 3rd place, which was enough for Belgium to place 2nd in the team classification.
The triumphant of the 16th Peace Tour was 22-year-old Klaus Ampler. It didn't look successful for him either. On the 4th stage he had dropped to 22nd place, six minutes behind, but then worked his way up place by place. After the 8th stage he was only 32 seconds behind front runner Verhaegen in 2nd place and made a decisive attack on the 12th stage of the tour from Bautzen to Dresden. He took Verhaegen from over three minutes and took the lead in the overall standings. The final decision in favor of Amplers was made on the 13th stage from Dresden to Erfurt, when he drove away from Verhaegen by another four minutes.
The dominator of the last two peace drives, the Soviet team, started in 1963 with a strongly changed team and could no longer build on past successes. In the team standings she only landed in 3rd place, the best individual driver was Anatoly Tscherepowitsch in fifth.
stage | Start finish | Stage winner | Stage length |
Time (h) |
1 | Around Prague | Anatoly Tscherepowitsch (Soviet Union) | 123 km | 3:04:53 |
2 | Prague - Brno | Antonio Tagliani (Italy) | 220 km | 5:39:58 |
3 | Hustopeče - Bratislava | Team time trial: GDR | 109 km | 2:23:21 |
4th | Bratislava - Banská Bystrica | Jean Pierre Genet (France) | 209 km | 5:14:34 |
5 | Zvolen - Košice | Klaus Ampler (GDR) | 221 km | 6:08:11 |
6th | Prešov - Rzeszów | Zdeněk Hasman (Czechoslovakia) | 185 km | 4:45:45 |
7th | Around Warsaw | Lothar Appler (GDR) | 135 km | 3:03:16 |
8th | Warsaw - Toruń | Klaus Ampler (GDR) | 226 km | 5:21:27 |
9 | Toruń - Poznan | Severino Andreoli (Italy) | 150 km | 3:41:22 |
10 | Poznan - Zielona Góra | Józef Beker (Poland) | 123 km | 2:58:27 |
11 | Zielona Góra - Görlitz | Viktor Kapitonov (Soviet Union) | 175 km | 4:15:20 |
12 | Bautzen - Dresden | Klaus Ampler (GDR) | 57 km | 1:17:39 |
13 | Dresden - Erfurt | Gennady Lebedev (Soviet Union) | 245 km | 6:03:42 |
14th | Erfurt - Magdeburg | August Verhaegen (Belgium) | 202 km | 5:26:37 |
15th | Magdeburg - East Berlin | Antonio Tagliani (Italy) | 188 km | 4:34:48 |
Final results
Individual evaluation | |||
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driver | team | time | |
1. | Klaus Ampler | GDR | 61:53:51 h |
2. | August Verhaegen | Belgium | + 5:51 min |
3. | Camiel Vyncke | Belgium | + 8:53 min |
4th | Constantin Dumitrescu | Romania | + 10:05 min |
5. | Anatoly Cherepovich | Soviet Union | + 12:05 min |
6th | Josef Timmerman | Belgium | + 12:53 min |
7th | Jan Kudra | Poland | + 13:05 min |
8th. | Viktor Kapitonov | Soviet Union | + 13:23 min |
9. | Anatoly Olisarenko | Soviet Union | + 15:46 min |
10. | Gustav-Adolf Schur | GDR | + 16:41 min |
11. | Pavel Dolezel | Czechoslovakia | + 17:32 min |
12. | Lothar Appler | GDR | + 17:52 min |
... | |||
18th | Günter Lux | GDR | + 27:17 min |
19th | Manfred Brüning | GDR | + 19:10 min |
27. | Manfred Weißleder | GDR | + 51:47 min |
... | |||
84. | By Örn | Norway | + 14:23:34 h |
Team ranking | |||
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team | time | ||
1. | GDR | 188: 35: 29 h | |
2. | Belgium | + 3:21 min | |
3. | Soviet Union | + 3:44 min | |
4th | Poland | + 15:18 min | |
5. | Romania | + 28:34 min | |
6th | Italy | + 1:31:41 min | |
7th | Bulgaria | + 1:18:57 h | |
8th. | Czechoslovakia | + 1:48:37 h | |
9. | Yugoslavia | + 2:09:33 h | |
10. | Hungary | + 2:55:19 h | |
11. | Denmark | + 3:38:36 h | |
12. | Finland | + 6:44:04 h | |
13. | Morocco | + 6:56:55 h | |
14th | England | + 7:54:49 h | |
15th | Scotland | + 10:24:14 h | |
16. | Australia | + 14:30:40 h | |
17th | Norway | + 26:16:31 h | |
eliminated: France, Netherlands |
Purple leotard |
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1. Joseph Haeseldonckx (Belgium) |
2. Klaus Ampler (GDR) |
3. Rajmund Zielinski (Poland) |
Mountain scoring |
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1. Jozef Gawliczek (Poland) |
2. Matej Laczo (Czechoslovakia) |
3. Camiel Vyncke (Belgium) |
literature
- Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 , pp. 250-255.
- GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , April / May 1963 issues
- XVI. Internationale Friedensfahrt 1963. Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1963, 34 pages
- That was the XVI. Peace ride. New Germany, Berlin 1963, 32 pages