International Peace Tour 1965

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FF.65.Logo.jpg

The 18th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that took place from May 8th to 23rd, 1965. The 2318-kilometer amateur cycling race led in 15 stages from East Berlin via Prague to Warsaw . The individual winner was the Soviet driver Gennady Lebedev , the team championship was also won by the Soviet Union, and the purple jersey of the most active driver was also won by a member of the Soviet team, Gainan Saidchushin .

Attendees

101 drivers from 17 teams started in East Berlin. As in 1964, there was again a mixed team, but this time there were only five drivers: two Englishmen , two Luxembourgers and the Lebanese Tarek Aboul Zahab, known from earlier peace drives. The cycling nation Italy was missing again , but the Dutch were there again. For the first time, drivers from Mongolia also took part . The field of drivers consisted of the following teams:

The following six riders started for the GDR Cycling Association :

Race course

FF 54 route.jpg

Seven stage victories and the purple jersey of the most active driver for the Soviet Union testify to the recovery of the team around the peace drive veteran Gainan Saidchushin . While Alexej Petrow, who was also already experienced in peacekeeping , had worn the leader's yellow jersey up to the fifth stage, his teammate Gennady Lebedev then took over the top position, which he was able to defend until the finish in Warsaw. On the fifth leg of the day he drove away from the field with a five-man leading group, which reached the finish in Prague with a lead of over two minutes. A second place behind local hero Pavel Doležel was enough for Lebedjew to take the lead in the individual standings. As one of four Soviet stage winners, he won the tenth stage from Tatranská Lomnica to Bielsko-Biała over the Tatra Mountains . The blue jerseys of the best team were won by the Soviet drivers on the third part of the day when they took three minutes from the former GDR team.

The two-time amateur world champion Täve Schur was no longer part of the GDR team, but two newcomers, Eberhard Butzke and Axel Peschel. For the team around captain Klaus Ampler there was only one stage win in the team time trial on the second day of the race. Lothar Appler had to give up due to illness already after the third individual segment, after falling back from eighth to 73rd place. The GDR team only came third in the overall team standings, almost 14 minutes behind the Soviet Union and just under two minutes behind the Polish drivers. The best GDR driver was Axel Peschel in sixth place.

After the amateurs from Western Europe had disappointed in the previous year, they were able to present themselves better again in 1965. With André Desvages from France and the Dutchman André van Middelkoop , they achieved two stage wins. The best amateur was Roger Swerts from Belgium in seventh place. In the team ranking, France was the best Western European team in fifth place.

Of the 101 drivers who started, 75 made it to the finish in Warsaw. In the previous year three teams were eliminated prematurely, this time only the international team was not included in the ranking.

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length		 Time (h) km / h
01 Around Berlin Alexei Petrov (USSR) 110 km 2:29:24 044.0
02 Königs Wusterhausen - Cottbus Team time trial: GDR 100 km 2:13:13 044.4
03 Cottbus - Zittau Alexei Petrov (USSR) 180 km 4:30:55 040.0
04th Zittau - Dresden Ladislav Heller (CSSR) 134 km 3:24:24 039.2
05 Dresden - Prague Pavel Doležel (CSSR) 167 km 4:11:20 040.1
06th Chlumec nad Cidlinou - Pardubice Rajmund Zieliński (Poland) 054 km 1:15:49 043.2
07th Pardubice - Otrokovice André Desvages (France) 201 km 4:53:42 040.9
08th Gottwaldov - Dubnica Gainan Saidchushin (USSR) 138 km 3:19:03 041.1
09 Dubnica - Svit Yuri Melichow (USSR) 215 km 5:05:04 042.3
10 Tatranská Lomnica - Bielsko-Biała Gennady Lebedev (USSR) 178 km 4:41:07 038.1
11 Bielsko-Biała - Krakow Yuri Melichow (USSR) 088 km 1:57:07 045.9
12 Krakow - Opole Gainan Saidchushin (USSR) 173 km 4:19:09 039.9
13 Kluczbork - Poznan André van Middelkoop (Netherlands) 218 km 5:35:26 039.0
14th Poznan - Toruń Piet Deenen (Netherlands) 146 km 3:53:18 038.1
15th Toruń - Warsaw Roger Spriet (Belgium) 218 km 6:41:19 032.7

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01. Gennady Lebedev USSR 56:41:26 h
02. Pavel Doležel CSSR + 2:08 min
03. Jan Kudra Poland + 2:19 min
04th Gainan Saidchushin USSR + 2:22 min
05. Constantin Dumitrescu Romania + 2:59 min
06th Axel Peschel GDR + 3:37 min
07th Roger Swerts Belgium + 3:50 min
08th. Oie knight Denmark + 4:26 min
09. Rajmund Zieliński Poland + 4:33 min
10. Klaus Ampler GDR + 4:36 min
11. Eberhard Butzke GDR + 5:35 min
12. Jan Magiera Poland + 6:10 min
13. Rudolf Schejbal CSSR + 7:04 min
14th Daniel Labrouille France + 7:35 min
15th Alexander Dochlyakov USSR + 7:59 min
16. Marian Kegel Poland + 9:34 min
17th Günter Hoffmann GDR + 10:35 min
18th Stanislaw Gazda Poland + 11:48 min
19th Ludovic Zanoni Romania + 13:15 min
20th Per Norup-Hansen Denmark + 14:29 min
21st Dieter Mickein GDR + 14:36 ​​min
0 ...
75. Rudolfo Noriega Cuba + 14:11:03 h
Team ranking
team time
01. Soviet Union 172: 16: 40 h
02. Poland + 12:02 min
03. GDR + 13:55 min
04th Czechoslovakia + 25:02 min
05. France + 28:58 min
06th Romania + 30:49 min
07th Belgium + 37:39 min
08th. Hungary + 45:37 min
09. Denmark + 1:04:19 h
10. Yugoslavia + 1:12:45 h
11. Netherlands + 1:17:43 h
12. Bulgaria + 1:40:03 h
13. Algeria + 6:37:53 h
14th Finland + 7:56:18 h
15th Cuba + 15:52:32 h
16. Mongolia + 19:52:13 h
retired:
Int. team
Purple leotard
driver team Points
01. Gainan Saidchushin USSR 66
02. André Desvages France 47
03. Roger Swerts Belgium 41
04th Axel Peschel GDR 41
05. Gennady Lebedev USSR 40

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 . Pp. 260-266
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , April / May 1964 issues
  • XVIII. Internationale Friedensfahrt 1965. Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1965, 34 pages
  • That was the XVIII. Peace ride. New Germany, Berlin 1965, 40 pages

Web links