International Peace Tour 1998

The 51st International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 8th to 17th, 1998.

The 51st edition of the International Peace Tour consisted of 10 individual stages and led over a total length of 1607 km from Poznań via Karlovy Vary to Erfurt . The team winner was Mroz . The best climber was Bert Dietz from the Deutsche Telekom team .

A total of 102 drivers were at the start.

Participants were:

Teams	Nations
Team Telekom ( Germany )	Czech Republic
Cantina Tollo / Acceptcard ( Italy / Denmark )	Germany
Team Saturn ( United States )	Poland
Agro Adler Brandenburg ( Germany )	Austria
Mroz ( Poland )	United States
Lada CSKA Samara ( Russia )	Slovakia
IPSO - Euroclean ( Belgium )	Ukraine
Midden Limburg ( Netherlands )
Team Bunte Berte ( Germany )
Sprandi ( Poland )

Details

Result
First	Uwe Ampler	ø 39.6 km / h	Team Mroz ( )
Second	Steffen Wesemann		Team Telekom ( )
Third	Dirk Mueller		Team Telekom ( )

stage	Start finish	Stage winner	Stage length	Travel time
01st stage	Around Poznań	Raimondas Rumšas ( Team Mroz )	130 km	2:49:10
02nd stage	Szamotuły - Gorzów Wielkopolski	Danilo Hondo ( Team Agro )	155 km	3:32:52
03rd stage	Torzym - Polkowice	Piotr Zaradny ( Sprandi )	174 km	4:35:05
04th stage	Legnica - Ještěd	Raimondas Rumšas (Team Mroz )	220 km	6:13:06
05th stage	Liberec - Ústí nad Labem	Oskar Cavagnis ( C / A / )	161 km	3:54:01
06th stage	Teplice - Karlovy Vary	Jürgen Werner ( TBB )	170 km	4:10:37
07th stage	Cheb - Zwickau	Bert Dietz ( Team Telekom )	239 km	6:11:32
08th stage	Zwickau - Halle (Saale)	Lutz Lehmann ( TBB )	199 km	5:01:48
09th stage	Freyburg - Erfurt	Oskar Cavagnis ( C / A / )	111 km	2:55:04
10th stage	Individual time trial Weimar - Erfurt	Thomas Liese ( TBB )	034 km	2:41:39

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