The 35th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 9th to 23rd, 1982.
The 35th edition of this bike race consisted of 12 individual stages and led over a total length of 1,941 km from Prague via Warsaw to Berlin . 94 drivers from 16 countries started in Prague, 87 of them reached the finish in Berlin. Olaf Ludwig from the GDR won the yellow jersey of the overall individual winner. He also won the pink jersey for the most versatile, the purple for the most active and the white for the driver with the highest points. The team winner was the GDR. The best climber and therefore the winner of the green jersey was Henryk Santysiak from Poland.
94 drivers from 16 countries started the prologue in Prague. 87 of them reached their destination in Berlin. Six drivers were allowed per team. Morocco and Yugoslavia started with just five drivers. With Shachid Sagretdinow , Sergei Sukhorutschenkow and Ivan Mistschenko , the top three of last year's peace run were at the start again. With Sukhorutschenkow (1979), Juri Barinow (1980) and Sagretdinow (1981), the winners of the last three tours were also there.
Six jerseys were awarded during this tour: the yellow jersey for the best overall, the blue jersey for the best team, the pink for the most versatile driver, the purple for the most active driver, the green for the best climber and the white for the driver with the best points.
At the end of each stage (not the prologue) the winner received 10 seconds, the second 6 seconds and the third 3 seconds less for the overall standings - and thus for the yellow jersey. On last year's tour it was five, three and one seconds.
The first three of the final scores for the purple, green and white jerseys also received 10, 6 and 3 seconds credit.
With the exception of the time trial, three premium sprints were held on each stage. There were a total of eight category II mountain ratings and three category I mountain ratings. The last mountain rating of the tour was already on the 5th stage.
Jerseys in the course of the tour
The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.
The first stage led on a hilly route from Prague to Hradec Králové . After 129 km a 28-strong group formed - without Olaf Ludwig, who wore the yellow jersey. 7 km from the finish, the Dutchman Johannes Lammerts pulled away, won the stage and took over the yellow jersey.
The second stage led from Hradec Králové to Olomouc on an initially flat and later mountainous route . Johannes Lammerts , who wore the yellow jersey, fell after only five kilometers and fell back over twelve minutes in the overall standings. A top group of 26 formed on the way to the second mountain classification after 112 km. Riho Suun from the USSR won the stage ahead of Thomas Barth from the GDR. In the overall standings, Thomas Barth and Lutz Lötzsch were simultaneously in the lead. Since, according to the rule, the better daily placements decided in the event of a tie, Barth took over the yellow jersey.
The third stage led on a mountainous route with five mountain ratings from Olomouc to Dubnica nad Váhom . After only 3 km a sextet withdrew. The Pole Henryk Santysiak secured all five mountain classifications from this group and thus took over the green jersey, which he should not give up until the end of the tour. Before the group was caught, the French Christian Sobota set himself apart and was only caught 9 km before the finish. He took over the purple and pink jerseys at the end of the stage. The stage win was determined in the sprint. Like the day before, Rihu Suun from the USSR won. Thanks to the 10 second time credit, he took over the yellow jersey.
The fourth stage led from Dubnica nad Váhom to Ostrava . It was initially mountainous and later became flat. In the mountains the field stayed together. After a good 100 km, Olaf Ludwig starts a solo attempt to escape, but was arrested after a few kilometers. There were further attacks from other drivers. 8 km before the finish the field was closed again and the stage was decided in the finish line. Olaf Ludwig won ahead of the Italians Marco Vitali and Patrizio Gambirasio .
The fifth stage led over initially hilly and later flat terrain from the Czechoslovakian Opava to the Polish Częstochowa . With the exception of individual escape attempts, the field remained together. The attack by Frenchman Michel Charréard was only ended 180 m from the finish. The Italian Patrizio Gambirasio won in the sprint . With the six second time credit, Schachid Sagretdinow pushed past his compatriot Rihu Suun in the overall standings and took over the yellow jersey.
The seventh stage led on flat terrain from Piotrków Trybunalski to the Polish capital Warsaw . After 120 km, a group of 14 pulls away, with a lead of up to 55 seconds. The field started a race to catch up and swallowed the group almost two kilometers from the finish. In the photo finish, overall leader Schachid Sagretdinow won ahead of Poland's Lechosław Michalak and Olaf Ludwig .
On the ninth stage, the drivers left Poland and crossed the finish line in the GDR, in Frankfurt (Oder) . The flat stage was initially characterized by many attacks. A quartet consisting of the French Marceau Pilon , the Italian Giovanni Bottoia , the Romanian Cornel Nicolae and the Cuban Orestes Mora was able to break away decisively, as the field followed too late this time. Shortly before the end, Mora and Pilon tried to break away from this group with individual actions, but without success. The Italian Giovanni Bottoia finally secured the stage win.
10th stage: Frankfurt (Oder) - Neubrandenburg, 198 km
On the tenth and longest stage of this year's tour, the drivers drove on flat to hilly terrain from Frankfurt (Oder) to Neubrandenburg . After 78 km a promising top group formed with Juri Barinow, Thomas Barth, Jiří Škoda and Elias Campos. The field follows immediately and places the four. The field gave a subsequent quartet of outsiders a lead of five minutes, but swallowed this again. At kilometer 149 there was a mass fall in which Shachid Sagretdinow , the wearer of the yellow jersey, was also involved. However, the fall did not have any significant consequences for the course of the race. The last outlier of this stage, the Romanian Mircea Romașcanu , was set 500 meters from the finish. Olaf Ludwig secured his third stage win in the sprint that followed.
11th stage: individual time trial in Neubrandenburg, 30 km
Olaf Ludwig was 14th overall, 2:12 minutes behind the leader Schachid Sagretdinow . On the 30 kilometers of the hilly route from Neubrandenburg to Usadel and back, Ludwig took 3:05 minutes from him (including time credit for the stage win) and left all other competitors well behind. Ludwig won the time trial and took over the yellow jersey with a lead of almost a minute.
2nd premium sprint in Fürstenberg / Havel ; from left: Falk Boden (GDR), Karoly Jenei (UNG), Olaf Ludwig (GDR)
87 drivers went on the last leg of the tour from Neubrandenburg to Berlin . The USSR drivers made attacks from the start to attack the overall classification again. The GDR team thwarted all attempts and so Olaf Ludwig secured the yellow jersey. With a second and a first place in the three premium sprints, Ludwig also finally secured the purple jersey.
In Berlin there was a curiosity about the Peace Tour, namely two winners of the day. The Romanian Mircea Romașcanu and the Frenchman Philippe Saudé jumped out of the field and defended the narrow lead to the goal. Romascanu was instructed incorrectly here and thus lost the decisive meters on Saude. As a Solomonic judgment, the jury finally decided on both of them as winners. (x)
During the 35th International Peace Tour there were a total of five different people wearing the yellow jersey. For the longest time, six stages, last year's winner Shachid Sagretdinov wore it . Rihu Suun and Olaf Ludwig drove two stages in yellow, Thomas Barth and Johannes Lammerts one each.
Overall rating
Mountain scoring
Henryk Santysiak
Most active driver
Best sprinter
Most versatile driver
Best team
Michal Klasa
Johannes Lammerts
Jarmo Sorsa
Marco Vitali
Carlos Santos
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Mircea Romașcanu
Orestes Mora
Marceau Pilon
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Nenczo Stajkow
Hungary
Morocco
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Yugoslavia
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Mongolia
