International Peace Tour 1966

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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:

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

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Stage overview

stage Start finish Stage winner Stage
length		 Time (h) km / h
01 Around Prague Axel Peschel (GDR) 117 km 2:57:44 40.1
02 Prague - Liberec Pietro Guerra (Italy) 130 km 3:18:18 40.0
03 Tanvald - Hradec Králové Bernard Guyot (France) 125 km 2:52:30 44.0
04th Hradec Králové - Brno Jan Kudra (Poland) 144 km 3:26:20 42.1
05 Brno - Otrokovice Antal Megyerdi (Hungary) 130 km 3:14:14 40.0
06th Gottwaldov - Katowice János Juszkó (Hungary) 209 km 5:12:12 40.4
07th Katowice - Łódź Günter Hoffmann (GDR) 205 km 5:04:47 40.3
08th Around Warsaw André Desvages (France) 108 km 2:30:00 43.2
09 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) 093 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) 044 km 0:54:54 47.8

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team time
01. Bernard Guyot Poland 57:49:33 h
02. Alexander Dochlyakov USSR + 1:39 min
03. Axel Peschel GDR + 3:45 min
04th Willy Van Neste Belgium + 3:47 min
05. Pietro Guerra Italy + 4:48 min
06th Alexei Petrov USSR + 6:19 min
07th Jan Kudra Poland + 6:24 min
08th. Antal Megyerdi Hungary + 6:58 min
09. 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
0...
38. Eberhard Butzke GDR + 24:11 min
0 ...
88 Belkacem Chibane Algeria + 9:17:40 h
u. a. retired: Bernd Patzig (GDR)
Team ranking
team time
01. Soviet Union 173: 37: 13 h
02. Poland + 0:06 min
03. GDR + 7:55 min
04th France + 13:09 min
05. Czechoslovakia + 15.55 min
06th Belgium + 19:52 min
07th Bulgaria + 21:57 min
08th. Italy + 25:10 min
09. 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
driver team Points
01. Axel Peschel GDR 48
02. Alexei Petrov USSR 39
03. Jan Smolík ČSSR 32
04th Alexander Dochlyakov USSR 32
05. Jan Magiera Poland 29
06th Ján Wenczel ČSSR 29

Driver profiles

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 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

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