Around Berlin
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Around Berlin there was a road bike race for men that was held in West Berlin from 1950 to 1990.
history
The oldest German street race around Berlin has been held in Berlin since 1896 . After the Second World War , this tradition was resumed for all of Berlin in 1946. In 1949, however, the “zone rulers blocked the streets of their area for West German and Berlin drivers” so that a staging of Rund um Berlin could be organized solely from the eastern part of the city and on the soil of the GDR . Thereupon the regional association of Berlin initiated a similar competition in the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer , which was supposed to serve as a West Berlin replacement race for Rund um Berlin . "For West Berlin the own cycling event had a high political symbolic character, with which the front town demonstrated its sporting independence and survivability."
Up to and including 1953 the event was called Durch die western Sectors Berlin , from 1954 Rund in Berlin . The start and finish were both in the heart of the city. The route ran along the zone boundaries, on the outermost periphery of Berlin, and its length fluctuated between around 150 and 220 kilometers over the years. The race was held until 1990.
winner
- 1950 Willi Irrgang
- 1951 Heiner Schmidt
- 1952 Hans Brun
- 1953 Werner Malitz
- 1954 Walter Becker
- 1955 Jos Hoevenaers
- 1956 Jos Hoevenaers
- 1957 Frans Demulder
- 1958 Werner Kappes
- 1959 Wolf-Jürgen Edler
- 1960 Dieter Puschel
- 1961 Hugo Scrayen
- 1962 Rudolf Hauser
- 1963 Herman Vranken
- 1964 Hans Luethi
- 1965 Burkhard Ebert
- 1966 Wim Dubois
- 1967 Burkhard Ebert
- 1968 Klaus Simon
- 1969 Michael Becker
- 1970 did not take place
- 1971 Gustaaf Van Cauter
- 1972 Wilfried Trott
- 1973 Willem Peeters
- 1974 Olaf Paltian
- 1975 Michael Becker
- 1976 Roger Poulain
- 1977 Friedrich von Loeffelholz
- 1978 Peter Weibel
- 1979 Volker Kassun
- 1980 Harry Hannus
- 1981 Joachim Schlaphoff
- 1982 Werner Wüller
- 1983 Frank Plambeck
- 1984 Thomas Freienstein
- 1985 Zdzisław Wrona
- 1986 Ulrich Rottler
- 1987 Andreas Klaus
- 1988 Frank Plambeck
- 1989 Rolf Aldag
- 1990 Artūras Kasputis
literature
- Ronald Huster: Duel on the Spree - cycling in divided Berlin . In: Sports City Berlin during the Cold War. Prestige struggles and system competition . Ch.links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-399-3 , p. 285-314 .
Web links
- Around Berlin in the Radsportseiten.net database
- 'Around Berlin' and 'Around in Berlin'. In: Cycling4fans. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .