International Peace Tour 2003

The 56th International Peace Tour (Course de la paix) was a cycling race that was held from May 9th to 17th, 2003.

The 56th edition of the International Peace Tour consisted of 9 individual stages and led over a total length of 1552 km from Olomouc via Wałbrzych to Erfurt .

Team winner was CCC Polsat ( Poland )  . The best climber was Arkadiusz Wojtas from the CCC Polsat team ( Poland )  .

A total of 127 drivers were at the start. Up to 8  drivers per team are allowed.

Participants were:

Teams
CCC Polsat ( Poland )	Team Telekom ( Germany )
Team CSC ( Denmark )	Lampre ( Italy )
Team Gerolsteiner ( Germany )	Palmans Collstrop ( Belgium )
Alessio ( Italy )	Mercatone Uno-Scanavino ( Italy )
Mroz ( Poland )	Ed 'System ZVVZ ( Czech Republic )
Team Wiesenhof ( Germany )	Saturn Cycling Team ( United States )
Servisco-Koop ( Poland )	Joko Velamos ( Czech Republic )
National Team Russia ( Russia )	Flanders-Iteamnova ( Russia )

Details

Result
First	Steffen Wesemann	ø 39.6 km / h	Team Telekom ( )
Second	Ondřej Sosenka		CCC Polsat ( )
Third	Tomáš Konečný		Ed 'System ZVVZ ( )

stage	Start finish	Stage winner	Stage length	Travel time
01st stage	Around Olomouc	Danilo Hondo ( Team Telekom )	111 km	2:38:25
02nd stage	Uničov - Opava	Danilo Hondo (Team Telekom )	155 km	3:58:39
03rd stage	Krnov - Polanica-Zdrój	Steffen Wesemann (Team Telekom )	189 km	5:06:08
04th stage	Kłodzko - Wałbrzych	Ondřej Sosenka ( CCC Polsat )	175 km	4:37:36
05th stage	Jawor - Zielona Góra	Thomas Bruun Eriksen ( Team CSC )	213 km	5:09:37
06th stage	Krosno - Frankfurt (Oder)	Andrea Moletta ( MUS. )	147 km	3:20:41
07th stage	Luebben - Naumburg	Bartosz Huzarski ( Mroz )	214 km	5:28:25
08th stage	Freyburg - Klingenthal	Tomáš Konečný ( ESZ. )	187 km	4:46:19
09th stage	Bad Elster - Erfurt	Enrico Degano ( MUS. )	161 km	4:05:59

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