International Peace Tour 1966
The 19th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 9th to 25th, 1966. The 2340-kilometer stage race for amateurs led from Prague via Warsaw to East Berlin and was divided into 15 stages. The drivers' championship was won by Frenchman Bernard Guyot , the Soviet Union won the team championship and the purple jersey of the most active driver was won by Axel Peschel from the GDR .
Attendees
102 drivers from 17 countries started in Prague. Compared to the previous year, the teams from England, Italy, Morocco and Norway were there again. Last year's exotics Cuba and Mongolia were missing this time. The following cycling associations reported in detail:
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The GDR Cycling Association had nominated the following six riders:
Race course
The route was only slightly longer than on the previous year's tour and had the same number of stages. The longest part of the day was 246 kilometers between Schwerin and Potsdam . The destination was the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion . This time there were four mountain stages, all of which had to be mastered in the territory of Czechoslovakia. A criterion was held for the first time in Wismar . The yellow jersey of the front runner changed only three times, on the third day of the tour it was conquered by Bernard Guyot, who defended it to the finish in East Berlin. For the blue jersey of the fastest team, a duel broke out between the Soviet Union and Poland, which were never more than three minutes apart until the last stage. Only on the final stage, the individual time trial from Strausberg to East Berlin, did the Soviet riders lose almost three minutes to the Poles, but were still able to save the overall victory with a six-second lead. The GDR had to do without its captain Klaus Ampler for the first time in four years and had to do without the injured newcomer Bernd Patzig after the ninth stage. Nevertheless, she still reached third place in the team classification, where Axel Peschel also landed in the individual classification. The best team that did not compete with state amateurs was, as in the previous year, France, which this time improved by one place to fourth thanks to the outstanding Guyot. 88 of the 107 participants reached East Berlin.
Route map
Stage overview
stage | Start finish | Stage winner | Stage length |
Time (h) | km / h |
1 | Around Prague | Axel Peschel (GDR) | 117 km | 2:57:44 | 40.1 |
2 | Prague - Liberec | Pietro Guerra (Italy) | 130 km | 3:18:18 | 40.0 |
3 | Tanvald - Hradec Králové | Bernard Guyot (France) | 125 km | 2:52:30 | 44.0 |
4th | Hradec Králové - Brno | Jan Kudra (Poland) | 144 km | 3:26:20 | 42.1 |
5 | Brno - Otrokovice | Antal Megyerdi (Hungary) | 130 km | 3:14:14 | 40.0 |
6th | Gottwaldov - Katowice | János Juszkó (Hungary) | 209 km | 5:12:12 | 40.4 |
7th | Katowice - Łódź | Günter Hoffmann (GDR) | 205 km | 5:04:47 | 40.3 |
8th | Around Warsaw | André Desvages (France) | 108 km | 2:30:00 | 43.2 |
9 | Kutno - Poznan | Willy Van Neste (Belgium) | 176 km | 3:51:14 | 45.9 |
10 | Poznan - Szczecin | Pietro Guerra (Italy) | 228 km | 5:20:21 | 42.8 |
11 | Szczecin - Rostock | Jan Smolík (ČSSR) | 205 km | 5:24:33 | 37.8 |
12 | Wismar (criterion) | Antonio Paolo Albonetti (Italy) | 93 km | 2:09:36 | 42.8 |
13 | Rostock - Schwerin | Alexei Petrov | 180 km | 4:57:03 | 36.6 |
14th | Schwerin - Potsdam | Ján Wenczel (ČSSR) | 246 km | 6:13:18 | 39.9 |
15th |
Strausberg - East Berlin (individual time trial) |
Jan Magiera (Poland) | 44 km | 0:54:54 | 47.8 |
Final results
Individual evaluation | |||
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driver | team | time | |
1. | Bernard Guyot | Poland | 57:49:33 h |
2. | Alexander Dochlyakov | USSR | + 1:39 min |
3. | Axel Peschel | GDR | + 3:45 min |
4th | Willy Van Neste | Belgium | + 3:47 min |
5. | Pietro Guerra | Italy | + 4:48 min |
6th | Alexei Petrov | USSR | + 6:19 min |
7th | Jan Kudra | Poland | + 6:24 min |
8th. | Antal Megyerdi | Hungary | + 6:58 min |
9. | Jan Smolík | ČSSR | + 7:38 min |
10. | Antonio Paolo Albonetti | Italy | + 9:05 min |
11. | Dieter Vogelsang | GDR | + 9:13 min |
12. | Rajmund Zielinski | Poland | + 10:20 min |
13. | Pavel Doležel | ČSSR | + 10:22 min |
14th | Jiří Háva | ČSSR | + 11:11 min |
15th | Jan Wouters | Belgium | + 11:29 min |
16. | Anguel Kirilov | Bulgaria | + 11:33 min |
17th | Marian Kegel | Poland | + 11:33 min |
18th | Günter Hoffmann | GDR | + 11:33 min |
19th | Ivan Bobekov | Bulgaria | + 12:16 min |
20th | Vladimir Sharkov | USSR | + 12:48 min |
21st | Lothar Appler | GDR | + 13:09 min |
... | |||
38. | Eberhard Butzke | GDR | + 24:11 min |
... | |||
88 | Belkacem Chibane | Algeria | + 9:17:40 h |
u. a. retired: Bernd Patzig (GDR) |
Team ranking | |||
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team | time | ||
1. | Soviet Union | 173: 37: 13 h | |
2. | Poland | + 0:06 min | |
3. | GDR | + 7:55 min | |
4th | France | + 13:09 min | |
5. | Czechoslovakia | + 15.55 min | |
6th | Belgium | + 19:52 min | |
7th | Bulgaria | + 21:57 min | |
8th. | Italy | + 25:10 min | |
9. | Hungary | + 30:15 min | |
10. | Yugoslavia | + 37:33 min | |
11. | Denmark | + 39:28 min | |
12. | Romania | + 1:14:05 h | |
13. | Norway | + 2:46:15 h | |
14th | England | + 3:36:04 h | |
15th | Morocco | + 5:46:54 h | |
16. | Finland | + 7:27:44 h | |
17th | Algeria | + 9:39:05 h |
Purple leotard | |||
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driver | team | Points | |
1. | Axel Peschel | GDR | 48 |
2. | Alexei Petrov | USSR | 39 |
3. | Jan Smolík | ČSSR | 32 |
4th | Alexander Dochlyakov | USSR | 32 |
5. | Jan Magiera | Poland | 29 |
6th | Ján Wenczel | ČSSR | 29 |
Driver profiles
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↑ Ján Wenczel → Cycling pages 44960
- 1966 - 3rd in the 3rd stage, part b of the peace ride
- 1966 - 2nd in the 4th stage of the peace drive
- 1966 - Winner in the 14th stage of the peace drive
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↑ Alexander Dochljakow → Radsportseiten 44959
- 1965 - 2nd in the 13th stage of the Peace Tour
- 1966 - 2nd in the 3rd stage, part a peace ride
- 1966 - 3rd in the 7th stage of the Peace Tour
literature
- Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 . Pp. 266-272
- GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , April / May 1966 issues
- XIX. Internationale Friedensfahrt 1966. Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1966, 32 pages
- That was the XIX. Peace ride. New Germany, Berlin 1966, 40 pages
- The nineteenth. Program booklet. Deutsches Sportecho, Berlin 1966, 40 pages