International Peace Tour 1987

International Peace Tour 1987
Competition period	May 8-23, 1987
Stages	14 stages
overall length	1987 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Uwe Ampler 48:45:41 hours 2. Petar Petrow    3. Andrzej Mierzejewski
Team evaluation	GDR
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Uwe Ampler
Mountain scoring	Uwe Ampler
Most active driver	Olaf Ludwig
Best sprinter	Uwe Raab
Most versatile driver	Uwe Ampler
Best team	GDR
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The 40th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that took place from May 8th to 23rd, 1987.

The 40th edition of the International Peace Tour consisted of 14 individual stages and led over a total length of 1987 km from East Berlin via Prague to Warsaw . The team winner was the GDR . The best mountain driver was Uwe Ampler from the GDR.

Klaus Ampler had won the Peace Tour 24 years earlier . This year his son Uwe Ampler won . He also won the individual time trial in Harrachov, which ended at the ski jumping hill table. Most of the riders pushed or carried their bikes up the 30% steep driveway.

A total of 156 drivers from 26 nations were at the start. Participating nations were:

Bulgaria	Netherlands	People's Republic of China	Norway	Cuba
Spain	GDR	Poland	Portugal	Finland
Romania	France	Hungary	Italy	Sweden
Switzerland	Syria	Mexico	Czechos.	Belgium
Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	United States	Mongolian VR	England
FRG

Details

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  Peloton in Gera

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  Uwe Ampler

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  Peloton

stage	Start finish	Stage winner	Stage length	Travel time
0prolog	Parallel time trial in Berlin	Vasily Zhdanov ( Soviet Union )	007 km	2: 48:32
01st stage	Circuit in Berlin	Olaf Ludwig ( GDR )	108 km	2:17:40
02nd stage	Berlin - Magdeburg	Uwe Raab ( GDR )	172 km	4:04:29
03rd stage	Magdeburg - Gera	Morten Saether ( Norway )	186 km	4:25:26
04th stage	Circuit in Gera	Olaf Ludwig ( GDR )	056 km	1:15:11
05th stage	Gera - must	Johannes Draaijer ( Netherlands )	168 km	4:30:25
06th stage	Most - Prague	William Bishop ( United States )	152 km	3:53:25
07th stage	Prague - Pardubice	Jamolidin Abduschaparov ( Soviet Union )	148 km	3:43:59
08th stage	Pardubice - Harrachov	Uwe Ampler ( GDR )	158 km	4:14:15
09th stage	Individual time trial in Harrachov	Uwe Ampler ( GDR )	022 km	2:33:00
10th stage	Harrachov - Karpacz	Uwe Ampler ( GDR )	128 km	3:28:49
11th stage	Karpacz - Legnica	Jamolidin Abduschaparov ( Soviet Union )	160 km	3:41:56
12th stage	Legnica - Wrocław	Johannes Draaijer ( Netherlands )	180 km	4:11:11
13th stage	Oleśnica - Łódź	Remig Stumpf ( Federal Republic of Germany )	184 km	4:32:39
14th stage	Łódź - Warsaw	Jamolidin Abduschaparov ( Soviet Union )	158 km	3:40:14

literature

• 40th Friedensfahrt 1987, Neues Deutschland, Berlin 1987, 34 pages

Web links

Commons : 40th Peace Trip 1987  - Collection of images

• Peace ride
• Sport-complete
• The history of the peace ride on cycling4fans.de