International Peace Trip 1997

The 50th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 9th to 18th, 1997.

The 50th edition of the International Peace Tour consisted of 10 individual stages and led over a total length of 1594 km from Potsdam via Rybnik to Brno . The team winner was Deutsche Telekom . The best climber was Christian Henn from the Deutsche Telekom team.

A total of 113 drivers were at the start.

Participants were:

Teams	Nations
Deutsche Telekom ( Germany )	Germany
Amore Vita ( Italy )	Italy
Cantina Tollo-Carrier ( Italy )	South Africa
Saturn ( United States )	Austria
Vosschemie Tönnisteiner ( Ukraine )	United States
ZVVZ Giant ( Czech Republic )	Poland
Lada CSKA Samara ( Russia )	Czech Republic
Mroz ( Poland )	Slovakia
Agro Adler Brandenburg ( Germany )	Moldova
Team Bunte Berte ( Germany )

Details

Result
First	Steffen Wesemann	ø 39.6 km / h	Telecom ( )
Second	Christian Henn		Telecom ( )
Third	Jens Voigt		ZVVZ Giant ( )

stage	Start finish	Stage winner	Stage length	Travel time
0opening	Criterion in Potsdam	Steffen Wesemann Telecom ( )
01st stage	Potsdam - Magdeburg	Jaczek Mickiewicz Mroz ( Poland )	148 km	3:53:13
02nd stage	Wernigerode - Freyburg	Steffen Wesemann Telecom ( )	173 km	4:09:45
03rd stage	Freyburg - Dresden	Steffen Wesemann Telecom ( )	188 km	4:41:32
04th stage	Bautzen - Nowa Ruda	Marcin Gebka Poland	224 km	5:16:17
05th stage	Paczków - Rybnik	Jaczek Mickiewicz Mroz ( Poland )	161 km	3:54:01
06th stage	Ustroń - Żywiec	Christian Henn Telecom ( )	165 km	4:23:23
07th stage	Prudnik - Praděd	Steffen Wesemann Telecom ( )	135 km	4:01:40
08th stage	Opava - Pustevny	Nikolai Koudriawtsew LAS ( Russia )	184 km	5:05:00
09th stage	Valašské Meziříčí - Brno	Steffen Blochwitz AAB ( Germany )	166 km	3:53:26
10th stage	Individual time trial in Brno	Thomas Liese Germany	050 km	1:04:38

Web links

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