Peace Race

The Peace Race is a cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

 event held in May. It traditionally took place in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 (since 1993 the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

), though it also included other countries, especially in recent years.

History

The first Peace Race was held in 1948, when there were two editions connecting cities of Warsaw and Prague. The one to Prague was won by August Prosinek, the other one to Warsaw by Alexander Zoric, both from Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

. During the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 the Peace Race was known as the 'Tour de France

Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

 of the East'.

Because cyclists from the Eastern Bloc

Eastern bloc

The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...

 were not allowed to become professional it was an amateur race. It attracted the best cyclists from communist countries, plus guest teams from non-communist countries. Communist-bloc riders tended to dominate the event, but there were exceptions: Briton

United Kingdom

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 Ian Steel won the 1952 race, and the British League of Racing Cyclists

British League of Racing Cyclists

The British League of Racing Cyclists was an association formed in 1942 to promote road bicycle racing in Great Britain. It operated in competition with the National Cyclists' Union, a rivalry which lasted until the two merged in 1959 to form the British Cycling Federation.-Background:The National...

 team also won the team competition - the first time that both classifications had gone to the same nation.

One of the later winners was Sergei Sukhoruchenkov

Sergei Sukhoruchenkov

Sergei Nikolaevich Sukhoruchenkov is a former Soviet cyclist and Olympic Champion. He won gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, on the Individual Road Race....

, who also won the gold medal on the Olympic

Olympic Games

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 Road Race in 1980.

The most successful riders in the Peace Race were Ryszard Szurkowski

Ryszard Szurkowski

Ryszard Jan Szurkowski is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland.He won twice Olympic silver medal in team time trial at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976....

 from Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and Uwe Ampler

Uwe Ampler

Uwe Ampler is a retired track and road cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Jan Schur, Mario Kummer, and Maik Landsmann. His father, Klaus Ampler, was...

 from East Germany who each won the race 4 times and Steffen Wesemann

Steffen Wesemann

Steffen Wesemann is a retired professional road racing cyclist. Wesemann most recently rode for the professional continental team Cycle Collstrop after riding a year with the Team Wiesenhof-Felt squad. He had previously spent the other years of his career at Telekom who later became Team T-Mobile...

 from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 who won the race 5 times. Gustav-Adolf Schur

Gustav-Adolf Schur

Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur is a former German cyclist and one of the most popular sportspeople in East Germany. He was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships and the Peace Race...

, who won the race twice, was voted the most popular East German sportsman ever in 1989.

After the end of the Cold War the race rapidly lost importance. For 2005 the race was cancelled, but its tradition resumed again in 2006.
The 2006, 58th edition took place on May 13–20. It started in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

's Linz

Linz

Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

 and via Czech Republic headed to Germany where it ended in Hannover. No capital city of these countries were crossed during the race.

After 2006, the race has been cancelled from the cycling calendar.

List of Peace Races

Year	Route	Length	Stages	Overall Winner	Winning Team
1948	Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...  - Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...	1104 km	7	August Prosinek	Poland I   [1/9]
1948	Prague - Warsaw	842 km	5	Alexander Zoric	Poland I   [2/9]
1949	Prague - Warsaw	1259 km	8	Jan Veselý Jan Veselý Jan Veselý is a Czech professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association in the United States. Standing at 6 ft 11 in , Veselý plays the small forward and power forward positions...	France II
1950	Warsaw - Prague	1539 km	9	Willi Emborg	Czechoslovakia   [1/5]
1951	Prague - Warsaw	1544 km	9	Kay Allan Olsen	Czechoslovakia   [2/5]
1952	Warsaw - Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...  - Prague	2135 km	12	Ian Steel Ian Steel John "Ian" Steel is a Scottish racing cyclist who in 1952 won the Peace Race, an eastern European race between Warsaw, Berlin and Prague. He was the first Briton to win and the first to win any major race...	United Kingdom
1953	Bratislava Bratislava Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...  - Berlin - Warsaw	2231 km	12	Christian Pedersen	East Germany   [1/10]
1954	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2051 km	13	Eluf Dalgaard	Czechoslovakia   [3/5]
1955	Prague - Berlin - Warsaw	2214 km	13	Gustav-Adolf Schur Gustav-Adolf Schur Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur is a former German cyclist and one of the most popular sportspeople in East Germany. He was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships and the Peace Race...    [1/2]	Czechoslovakia   [4/5]
1956	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2212 km	12	Stanislaw Krolak	Soviet Union   [1/20]
1957	Prague - Berlin - Warsaw	2220 km	12	Nencho Khristov	East Germany   [2/10]
1958	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2210 km	12	Piet Damen	Soviet Union   [2/20]
1959	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2057 km	13	Gustav-Adolf Schur   [2/2]	Soviet Union   [3/20]
1960	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2290 km	13	Erich Hagen	East Germany   [3/10]
1961	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2435 km	13	Yuriy Melikhov	Soviet Union   [4/20]
1962	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2407 km	14	Gainan Saydkhushin	Soviet Union   [5/20]
1963	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2568 km	15	Klaus Ampler	East Germany   [4/10]
1964	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2246 km	14	Jan Smolík	East Germany   [5/10]
1965	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2318 km	15	Gennady Lebedev Gennady Lebedev Gennady Victorovich Lebedev — Russian economist, representative of Austrian School, businessman and politician. Adherent of freedom of enterprise and laissez-faire.- Biography :...	Soviet Union   [6/20]
1966	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2340 km	15	Bernard Guyot	Soviet Union   [7/20]
1967	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2307 km	16	Marcel Maes	Poland   [3/9]
1968	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2352 km	14	Axel Peschel	Poland   [4/9]
1969	Warsaw - Berlin	2036 km	15	Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Jean-Pierre Danguillaume was a French professional road bicycle racer. Between 1970 and 1978, Danguillaume won 7 stages in the Tour de France.- Palmarès :19691970...	East Germany   [6/10]
1970	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1976 km	15	Ryszard Szurkowski Ryszard Szurkowski Ryszard Jan Szurkowski is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland.He won twice Olympic silver medal in team time trial at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976....    [1/4]	Poland   [5/9]
1971	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1895 km	14	Ryszard Szurkowski   [2/4]	Soviet Union   [8/20]
1972	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2025 km	14	Vlastimil Moravec	Soviet Union   [9/20]
1973	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2076 km	P, 16, E	Ryszard Szurkowski   [3/4]	Poland   [6/9]
1974	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1806 km	14	Stanislaw Szozda	Poland   [7/9]
1975	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1915 km	P, 13	Ryszard Szurkowski   [4/4]	Soviet Union   [10/20]
1976	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1974 km	P, 14	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Soviet Union   [11/20]
1977	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1648 km	13	Aavo Pikkuus	Soviet Union   [12/20]
1978	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1796 km	P, 12	Alexander Averin	Soviet Union   [13/20]
1979	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1942 km	P, 14	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov Sergei Sukhoruchenkov Sergei Nikolaevich Sukhoruchenkov is a former Soviet cyclist and Olympic Champion. He won gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, on the Individual Road Race....    [1/2]	Soviet Union   [14/20]
1980	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2095 km	P, 14	Yuriy Barinov	Soviet Union   [15/20]
1981	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1887 km	P, 14	Shakhid Zagretdinov	Soviet Union   [16/20]
1982	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1941 km	P, 12	Olaf Ludwig Olaf Ludwig Olaf Ludwig is a former German racing cyclist. His career began at the SG Dynamo Gera/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. As an East German, he raced as an amateur until reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with Panasonic team...    [1/2]	East Germany   [7/10]
1983	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1899 km	P, 12	Falk Boden	East Germany   [8/10]
1984	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1689 km	P, 11	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov   [2/2]	Soviet Union   [17/20]
1985	Prague - Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...  - Warsaw - Berlin	1712 km	P, 12	Lech Piasecki Lech Piasecki Lech Piasecki is a Polish former racing cyclist. Born in Poznań, he became the first Polish cyclist to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, in 1987....	Soviet Union   [18/20]
1986	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....  - Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2138 km	P, 15	Olaf Ludwig   [2/2]	Soviet Union   [19/20]
1987	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1987 km	P, 14	Uwe Ampler Uwe Ampler Uwe Ampler is a retired track and road cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Jan Schur, Mario Kummer, and Maik Landsmann. His father, Klaus Ampler, was...    [1/4]	East Germany  [9/10]
1988	Bratislava - Katowice Katowice Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...  - Berlin	2008 km	P, 13	Uwe Ampler   [2/4]	Soviet Union   [20/20]
1989	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1927 km	12	Uwe Ampler   [3/4]	East Germany   [10/10]
1990	Berlin - Slušovice Slušovice Slušovice is a small town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It was known as Sluschowitz in German. It is well-known in the former Czechoslovakia due to being the site of a socialist Collective farming , reputed to be the best and most technologically advanced in the country.-History:The...  - Bielsko-Biała Bielsko-Biała -Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...	1595 km	P, 11	Ján Svorada Ján Svorada Ján Svorada is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.- Palmarès :19901994Ján Svorada is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.- Palmarès :1990:Peace Race1994...	Czechoslovakia   [5/5]
1991	Prague - Warsaw	1261 km	P, 9	Viktor Rakshinsky	Poland   [8/9]
1992	Berlin - Karpacz Karpacz Karpacz is a spa town and ski resort in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland, and one of the most important centres for mountain hiking and skiing, including ski jumping. Its population is about 5,000...  - Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, on the left bank of the Jizera river about 50 km northeast of Prague.Founded in the second half of the 10th century by King Boleslav II as a royal castle...	1348 km	P, 9	Steffen Wesemann Steffen Wesemann Steffen Wesemann is a retired professional road racing cyclist. Wesemann most recently rode for the professional continental team Cycle Collstrop after riding a year with the Team Wiesenhof-Felt squad. He had previously spent the other years of his career at Telekom who later became Team T-Mobile...    [1/5]	Germany
1993	Tábor Tábor Tábor is a city of the Czech Republic, in the South Bohemian Region. It is named after Mount Tabor, which is believed by many to be the place of the Transfiguration of Christ; however, the name became popular and nowadays translates to "camp" or "encampment" in the Czech language.The town was...  - Nový Bor Nový Bor Nový Bor is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. There is developed production of glass artifacts, small precision motors and, increasingly, tourism.-History:...	1342 km	P, 9	Jaroslav Bílek	Czech Republic   [1/2]
1994	Tábor - Trutnov Trutnov Trutnov is a city in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has a population of 31,239 and lies in the Krkonoše in the valley of the Úpa River....	1354 km	P, 9	Jens Voigt Jens Voigt Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton...	Czech Republic   [2/2]
1995	České Budějovice Ceské Budejovice České Budějovice is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia and the Academy of Sciences...  - Oberwiesenthal Oberwiesenthal Oberwiesenthal is a town and a ski resort in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony in Germany. It is situated in the Erzgebirge mountains, on the border with the Czech Republic, 19 km south of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 23 km northeast of Karlovy Vary. At , it is the highest town in Germany...  - Brno Brno Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...	1379 km	P, 10	Pavel Padrnos Pavel Padrnos Pavel Padrnos is a Czech professional road racing cyclist since 1996, most recently with Discovery Channel whom he was with between 2002 and 2007...	Poland   [9/9]
1996	Brno - Żywiec Zywiec Żywiec is a town in south-central Poland with 32,242 inhabitants . Between 1975 and 1998, it was located within the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship, but has since become part of the Silesian Voivodeship....  - Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...	1703 km	P, 10	Steffen Wesemann   [2/5]	Team NE Telekom
1997	Potsdam Potsdam Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....  - Żywiec - Brno	1629 km	P, 10	Steffen Wesemann   [3/5]	Team Deutsche Telekom   [1/2]
1998	Poznań Poznan Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...  - Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary is a spa city situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague . It is named after King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded the city in 1370...  - Erfurt Erfurt Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in the southern part of the Thuringian...	1591 km	10	Uwe Ampler   [4/4]	Team Mroz   [1/3]
1999	Znojmo Znojmo Znojmo is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, near the border with Lower Austria, connected to Vienna by railway and road . The royal city of Znojmo was founded shortly before 1226 by King Ottokar I on the plains in front of Znojmo Castle...  - Polkowice Polkowice Polkowice is a town in south-western Poland with 22,279 inhabitants . It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...  - Magdeburg Magdeburg Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....	1613 km	10	Steffen Wesemann   [4/5]	Team Mroz   [2/3]
2000	Hannover - Kudowa Zdrój - Prague	1608 km	10	Piotr Wadecki Piotr Wadecki Piotr Wadecki is a Polish former professional road racing cyclist. He has been professional since 1997.-Team membership:...	Team Nürnberger
2001	Łódź - Plzeň - Potsdam	1611 km	10	Jakob Piil Jakob Piil Jakob Storm Piil is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer, where he later lived many years in Odense. He is an all-round rider, known for his aggressive style of riding, whose speciality is to pick the right breakaways. He is the cousin of Danish former professional bicycle racer Jørgen V...	no competition
2002	České Budějovice - Chemnitz Chemnitz Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...  - Warsaw	1470 km	10	Ondřej Sosenka Ondrej Sosenka Ondřej Sosenka is a Czech professional cyclist and rides for the UCI Professional Continental team PSK Whirlpool-Author. He won the Peace Race in 2002. He broke the nine-year old UCI hour record on July 19, 2005 in Moscow, Russia, riding in one hour.Sosenka was known as one of the largest...	Team Mroz   [3/3]
2003	Olomouc Olomouc Olomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic...  - Wałbrzych - Erfurt	1552 km	9	Steffen Wesemann   [5/5]	Team CCC Polsat
2004	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...  - Wrocław - Prague	1580 km	9	Michele Scarponi Michele Scarponi Michele Scarponi is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI ProTeam .In 2006, Scarponi was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case...	T-Mobile Team   [2/2]
2006	Linz Linz Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...  - Karlovy Vary - Hannover	1283 km	8	Giampaolo Cheula Giampaolo Cheula Giampaolo Cheula is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .- External links :*...	Team Unibet.com

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Most Wins

Cyclists with three wins at least listed

Overall:

• 5 wins: Steffen Wesemann
• 4 wins: Ryszard Szurkowski, Uwe Ampler

Sprinter competition:

• 8 wins: Olaf Ludwig
• 3 wins: Ryszard Szurkowski

Mountain climbers competition:

• 3 wins: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov, Uwe Ampler, Jaroslav Bílek

Teams competition:

• 20 wins: Soviet Union
• 10 wins: East Germany
• 9 wins: Poland
• 5 wins: Czechoslovakia
• 3 wins: Team Mroz

Winners by country

Individual overall competitions were won by cyclist from following countries:

• 12 wins: East Germany
• 10 wins: Soviet Union
• 7 wins: Poland, Germany
• 5 wins: Denmark
• 4 wins: Czechoslovakia
• 3 wins: Czech Republic
• 2 wins: SFR Yugoslavia, France, Italy
• 1 win: United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Netherlands

External links

• Unofficial site, in English