Peace Race/Course de la Paix 1948-2000
Year Winner  Second Third Best Team 1
1948a 2 Alexander Zoric 3  [YUG] Eman Krejcu [CSR] Jozef Kapiak [POL] POLAND  I
1948b 2 Augustin Prosenik [YUG] Roman Sieminski [POL] Waclaw Wojcik [POL]  POLAND  I 
1949 Jan Vesely [CSR] Herbulot [FRA] Riegert [FRA] FRANCE  II
1950 Willy Emborg [DEN] Bron. Klabinski [FRA/POL] 4 Vlastimil Ruzicka [CSR] CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1951 Kai Allan Olsen [DEN] Lothar Meister [GDR] Feri [ITA] CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1952 Ian Steel [ENG] Jan Vesely [CSR] Jean Stablewski [FRA/POL] ENGLAND
1953 Christian Pedersen [DEN] Hans Andersen [DEN] Gustav Adolf Schur [GDR} GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1954 Eluf Dalgaard [DEN] Vlastimil Ruzicka [CSR] Rene Van Meenen [BEL] CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1955 Gustav Adolf Schur [GDR] Jan Vesely [CSR] Stanley Britain [ENG] CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1956 Stanislaw Krolak [POL] Constantin Dumitrescu [ROM] Nikolaj Kolumbet [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1957 Nenco Christov [BUL] Stanley Britain [ENG] Viktor Kapitonov [USSR] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1958 Piet Damen [NED] Boris Bebenin [USSR] Alphons Hermans [BEl]5 SOVIET UNION
1959 Gustav Adolf Schur [GDR] Rene Vanderveken [BEL] Romeo Venturelli [ITA] SOVIET UNION
1960 Erich Hagen [GDR] Jean-Baptiste Claes [BEL] Willy Vandenberghen [BEL] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1961 Jurij Melichov [USSR] Viktor Kapitonov [USSR] Bernard Eckstein [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1962 Gajdan Sajdchuzin [USSR] Jurij Melichov [USSR] Stanislaw Gazda [POL] SOVIET UNION
1963 Klaus Ampler [GDR] August Verhaegen [BEL] Camille Wyncke [BEL] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1964 Jan Smolik [CSSR] Guenter Hoffmann [GDR] Dieter - Wiedemann [GDR] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1965 Genadij Lebedev  [USSR] Pavel Dolezel [CSSR] Jan Kudra [POL] SOVIET UNION
1966 Bernard Guyot [FRA] Alexander Dochljakov [USSR] Alex Peschel [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1967 Marcel Maes [BEL] Angel Kirilov [BUL] Jan Magiera [POL] POLAND
1968 Axel Peschel [GDR] Karel Vavra [CSSR] Jan Magiera [POL] POLAND
1969 Jean-P. Danguillaume [FRA] Ryszard Szurkowski [POL] Dieter Gonschorek [GDR] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1970 Ryszard Szurkowski [POL] Marcel Duchemin [FRA] Zygmund Hanusik [POL] POLAND
1971 Ryszard Szurkowski [POL] Zenon Czechowski [POL] Anatolij Starkov [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1972 Vlastimil Moravec [CSSR] Vladimir Neljubin [USSR] Wolfram Kuehn [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1973 Ryszard Szurkowski [POL] Stanislaw Szozda [POL] Valerij Lichacev [USSR] POLAND
1974 Stanislaw Szozda [POL] Nikolaj Gorelov [USSR] Milos Hrazdira [CSSR] POLAND
1975 Ryszard Szurkowski [POL] Hans J. Hartnick [GDR] Aavo Pikkuus [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1976 Hans J. Hartnick [GDR] Stanislaw Szozda [POL] Gerhard Lauke [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1977 Aavo Pikkuus [USSR] Vladimir Osokin [USSR] Tadeusz Mytnik [POL] SOVIET UNION
1978 Alexander Averin [USSR] Jurij Zacharov [USSR] Mircea Romascanu [ROM] SOVIET UNION
1979 Serg. Suchorucenkov [USSR] Andreas Petermann [GDR] Krysztof Sujka [POL] SOVIET UNION
1980 Jurij Barinov [USSR] Peter Winnen [NED] Olaf Ludwig [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1981 Sachid Zagretdinov [USSR] Serg. Suchorucenkov [USSR] Ivan Miscenko [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1982 Olaf Ludwig [GDR] Sachid Zagretdinov [USSR] Jurij Barinov [USSR] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1983 Falk Boden [GDR] Oleg Cuzda [USSR] Olaf Ludwig [GDR] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1984 Serg. Suchorucenkov [USSR] Nenco Stajkov [BUL] Olaf Ludwig [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1985 Lech Piasecki [POL] Andrzej Mierzejewski [POL] Uwe Ampler [GDR] SOVIET UNION
1986 Olaf Ludwig [GDR] Vladimir Pulnikov [USSR] Asjat Sajtov [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1987 Uwe Ampler [GDR] Petar Petrov [BUL] Andrzej Mierzejewski [POL] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1988 Uwe Ampler [GDR] Vladimir Pulnikov [USSR] Piotr Ugrjumov [USSR] SOVIET UNION
1989 Uwe Ampler [GDR] Olaf Jentsch [GDR] Zenon Jaskula [POL] GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REP.
1990 Jan Svorada [CSFR] Bert Dietz [GER] Pavel Padrnos [CR]  CZECH-SLOVAK FED. REP.
1991 Viktor Rjaksinski [UKR] Dariusz Baranowski [POL] Miroslaw Liptak [CR] POLAND
1992 Steffen Wesemann [GER] Bert Dietz [GER] Tomasz Brozyna [POL] GERMANY
1993 Jaroslav Bilek [CR-a] Frantisek Trkal [CR] Pavel Padrnos [CR]  CZECH REPUBLIC A
1994 Jens Voigt [GER] Ralf Grabsch [GER] Frantisek Trkal [CR] CZECH REPUBLIC
1995 Pavel Padrnos [CR] - TICO Bayer Dariusz Baranowski [POL] Tomasz Brozyna [POL] POLAND
1996 Steffen Wesemann [GER]  - Telekom M. Andersson [SWE] - Telekom Sergei Ivanov [RUS] - Lada-CSKA TEAM TELEKOM
1997 Steffen Wesemann [GER] - Telekom Christian Henn [GER] - Telekom Jens Voigt [GER] - ZVVZ Giant-AIS TEAM TELEKOM
1998 Uwe Ampler [GER]  - Mroz Steffen Wesemann [GER] -Telekom Piotr Wadecki [POL] - Mroz TEAM MROZ
1999 Steffen Wesemann [GER] - Telekom Raimondas Rumsas [LIT] - Mroz Tomasz Brozyna [POL] - Mroz TEAM MROZ
2000 Piotr Wadecki [POL] - Mroz Supradyn Piotr Przydzial [POL] - MAT-CCC Steffen Wesemann [GER] -Telelom TEAM NUERNBERGER
2001 Jakob Piil Storm [DEN] - CSC Aitor Garmendia Arbilla [SPA] - Coast Radoslaw Romanik [POL] - MAT-CCC TEAM TELEKOM
2002 Ondrej Sosenka [CR] - CCC6 Aitor Garmendia Arbilla[SPA] - Coast Piotr Chmielewski [POL] Mroz TEAM MROZ
2003 Steffen Wesemann [GER] - Telekom7 Ondrej Sosenka [CR] - CCC-Polsat8 Tomas Konecny [CR] - eD'system -ZVVZ8 TEAM CCC-POLSAT
2004 Michele Scarponi [Ita] - Domina Vacanze Slawomir Kohut [Pol] - Hoop CCC - Polsat Roger Beuchat [Swi] - Vini Caldirola-Mobili Rubinetteri TEAM T-MOMILE
2005
58th edition  CANCELED !
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2006 Giampaolo Cheula [Ita] Barloworld Andrea Tonti [Ita] Acqua e Sapone Christian Gasperoni [Ita] Naturino-Sapore Di Mare TEAM UNIBET.COM
2007
59th edition  CANCELED !
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FOOTNOTES:
1. The Peace Race had a very strong focus on Team Competition. Unlike in other UCI sanctioned stage races the Team overall time was not  (except for a few years in the late 1960's, if my memory serves me right ....) the aggregate of the team's top three individual general classification riders' overall times, but rather the three top placed  riders (from each team) in every stage "scored" time to be added to their team's total  time, irrespective of their standing in individual general classification. This effctively made the Team Competition a distinctly separate event from the race for the individual winner's yellow jersey.
2.  In 1948 two editions of the took place at the same time, one traveling from Prague to Warsaw and the other  from Warsaw to Prague
3.  All the proper nouns are given in their original form, if  Anglicized "customary" conventions are followed, where possible, to accomadate the predominanrly English language "focused" WEB browsers. Readers should also note that many city names have now reverted to their pre-communist era form, like Gottwaldov to Zlin in the Czech Republic.
4.  In 1950 six French riders of Polish heritage started as the French-Poles Team. The French-Poles team  was part of the Peace Race until its 1954 edition.
5. Some records of the 1958 edition of the Peace Race list Kocev [BUL] as coming 3rd overall and put Hermans [BEL] as 4th.
6. Piotr Przydzial [POL] - CCC declassified because of EPO doping on the 4th stage.
7. Steffen Wesemann's victory in 2003 makes him the one and only Peace race rider to ever win the Great Rae overall Five Times!
8. Ondrej Sosenka's and Tomas Konecny's 2nd and 3rd places was the first time since the 1990's that Czech riders occupied two steps on the final Peace Rae podium. In  1993  Jaroslav Bilek, Frantisek Trkal and Pavel Padrnos actually swept Top 3 places and 1990 when Jan Svorada won, Pavel Padrnos was 3rd. Of course the 1993 and 1990 events were very "regional" and "under-subscribed" in comparison with memorable 2003 edition of the Great Race.
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