Peace Race - "Course de la Paix"

Peace Race - "Course de la Paix" was the biggest cycling race around the World for non-professional racers, which was organized between Prague, Warsaw and Berlin. The first volume was in 1948 and last In 2003. Next three years (2004 - 2006) it was local race in the Czech republic only under the same name. Next years this race was not organized because sponsors was not interested. It was really big and very famous race especially before 1989 and for a few generation of racers it was absolutely top peak their career.

Josef Regec, ex member the Czech cycling team for Peace Race who spent ten days in yellow jersey try to organize this race again under new name "New Peace Race" from 2014. We wish to him success for this idea.

New website "La Nouvele Course de la Paix 2014": http://www.zavodmiru.cz/

The atmosphere 1948 - 1993

Závod Míru - Peace Race

Year	Route	Length (km)	Stages	Overall winner	Winning team
1948	Warsaw - Prague	1104	7	August Prosinek	Poland I [1/9]
1948	Prague - Warsaw	842	5	Alexander Zoric	Poland I [2/9]
1949	Prague - Warsaw	1259	8	Jan Veselý	France II
1950	Warsaw - Prague	1539	9	Willi Emborg	Czechoslovakia [1/5]
1951	Prague - Warsaw	1544	9	Kay Allan Olsen	Czechoslovakia [2/5]
1952	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2135	12	Ian Steel	United Kingdom
1953	Bratislava - Berlin - Warsaw	2231	12	Christian Pedersen	East Germany [01/10]
1954	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2051	13	Eluf Dalgaard	Czechoslovakia [3/5]
1955	Prague - Berlin - Warsaw	2214	13	Gustav-Adolf Schur [1/2]	Czechoslovakia [4/5]
1956	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2212	12	Stanisław Krolak	Soviet Union [01/20]
1957	Prague - Berlin - Warsaw	2220	12	Nencho Khristov	East Germany [02/10]
1958	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2210	12	Piet Damen	Soviet Union [02/20]
1959	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2057	13	Gustav-Adolf Schur [2/2]	Soviet Union [03/20]
1960	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2290	13	Erich Hagen	East Germany [03/10]
1961	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2435	13	Yuriy Melikhov	Soviet Union [04/20]
1962	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2407	14	Gainan Saydkhushin	Soviet Union [05/20]
1963	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2568	15	Klaus Ampler	East Germany [04/10]
1964	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2246	14	Jan Smolík	East Germany [05/10]
1965	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2318	15	Gennady Lebedev	Soviet Union [06/20]
1966	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2340	15	Bernard Guyot	Soviet Union [07/20]
1967	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2307	16	Marcel Maes	Poland [3/9]
1968	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2352	14	Axel Peschel	Poland [4/9]
1969	Warsaw - Berlin	2036	15	Jean-Pierre Danguillaume	East Germany [06/10]
1970	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1976	15	Ryszard Szurkowski [1/4]	Poland [5/9]
1971	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1895	14	Ryszard Szurkowski [2/4]	Soviet Union [08/20]
1972	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	2025	14	Vlastimil Moravec	Soviet Union [09/20]
1973	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	2076	P, 16, E	Ryszard Szurkowski [3/4]	Poland [6/9]
1974	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1806	14	Stanisław Szozda	Poland [7/9]
1975	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1915	P, 13	Ryszard Szurkowski [4/4]	Soviet Union [10/20]
1976	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1974	P, 14	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Soviet Union [11/20]
1977	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1648	13	Aavo Pikkuus	Soviet Union [12/20]
1978	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1796	P, 12	Alexander Averin	Soviet Union [13/20]
1979	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1942	P, 14	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov [1/2]	Soviet Union [14/20]
1980	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2095	P, 14	Yuriy Barinov	Soviet Union [15/20]
1981	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1887	P, 14	Shakhid Zagretdinov	Soviet Union [16/20]
1982	Prague - Warsaw - Berlin	1941	P, 12	Olaf Ludwig [1/2]	East Germany [07/10]
1983	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1899	P, 12	Falk Boden	East Germany [08/10]
1984	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1689	P, 11	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov [2/2]	Soviet Union [17/20]
1985	Prague - Moscow - Warsaw - Berlin	1712	P, 12	Lech Piasecki	Soviet Union [18/20]
1986	Kiev - Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	2138	P, 15	Olaf Ludwig [2/2]	Soviet Union [19/20]
1987	Berlin - Prague - Warsaw	1987	P, 14	Uwe Ampler [1/4]	East Germany [09/10]
1988	Bratislava - Katowice - Berlin	2008	P, 13	Uwe Ampler [2/4]	Soviet Union [20/20]
1989	Warsaw - Berlin - Prague	1927	12	Uwe Ampler [3/4]	East Germany [10/10]
1990	Berlin - Slušovice - Bielsko-Biała	1595	P, 11	Ján Svorada	Czechoslovakia [5/5]
1991	Prague - Warsaw	1261	P, 9	Viktor Rakshinsky	Poland [8/9]
1992	Berlin - Karpacz - Mladá Boleslav	1348	P, 9	Steffen Wesemann [1/5]	Germany
1993	Tábor - Nový Bor	1342	P, 9	Jaroslav Bílek	Czech Republic [1/2]
1994	Tábor - Trutnov	1354	P, 9	Jens Voigt	Czech Republic [2/2]
1995	České Budějovice - Oberwiesenthal - Brno	1379	P, 10	Pavel Padrnos	Poland [9/9]
1996	Brno - Żywiec - Leipzig	1703	P, 10	Steffen Wesemann [2/5]	Team NE Telekom
1997	Potsdam - Żywiec - Brno	1629	P, 10	Steffen Wesemann [3/5]	Team Deutsche Telekom [1/2]
1998	Poznań - Karlovy Vary - Erfurt	1591	10	Uwe Ampler [4/4]	Team Mroz [1/3]
1999	Znojmo - Polkowice - Magdeburg	1613	10	Steffen Wesemann [4/5]	Team Mroz [2/3]
2000	Hannover - Kudowa Zdrój - Prague	1608	10	Piotr Wadecki	Team Nürnberger
2001	Łódź - Plzeň - Potsdam	1611	10	Jakob Piil	no competition
2002	České Budějovice - Chemnitz - Warsaw	1470	10	Ondřej Sosenka	Team Mroz [3/3]
2003	Olomouc - Wałbrzych - Erfurt	1552	9	Steffen Wesemann [5/5]	Team CCC Polsat