55th Peace Race/Course de la Paix - 2.3

Czech Republic, May 10-18, 2002

2001 Results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners

The Stages

Stage 1 - May 10: Ceské Budejovice (Cze) - Ceské Budejovice (Cze), 137.7 km
Stage 2 - May 11: Trebon (Cze) - Pardubice (Cze), 183.9 km
Stage 3 - May 12: Pardubice (Cze) - Hradec Králové (Cze), 181.6 km
Stage 4 - May 13: Mladá Boleslav (Cze) - Chemnitz (Ger), 231.4 km
Stage 5 - May 14: Zwönitz (Ger) - Riesa (Ger), 163.3 km
Stage 6 - May 15: Oschatz (Ger) - Riesa (Ger) TTT, 34.9 km
Stage 7 - May 15: Riesa (Ger) - Hoyerswerda (Ger), 97.7 km
Stage 8 - May 16: Wroclaw (Pol) - Belchatow (Pol), 223.2 km
Stage 9 - May 17: Piotrków Trybunalski (Pol) - Warszawa (Pol), 194.3 km
Stage 10 - May 18: Warszawa (Pol) - Warszawa (Pol) ITT, 39.8 km

Preview

The Peace Race will be run for the 55th time this year, starting on May 10 from the Czech Republic (Ceske Budejovice) with a 138 kilometre stage, and passing through Germany and Poland before the finish in Warsaw on May 18. The race totals 1488 kilometres run over 10 stages, and has been upgraded this year to a UCI 2.2 classification.

20 teams will start, after Domo and Mapei were late withdrawals. CSC-Tiscali, the team of last year's winner Jakob Storm Piil, will start again with Piil and Michael Blaudzun as their main men, but will face tough competition from the likes of Telekom (Kevin Livingston, Robert Bartko), Team Coast (Aitor Garmendia), Gerolsteiner (Olaf Pollack), CCC-Polsat (Piotr Przydzial, Ondrej Sosenka), Mroz (Zbigniew Piatek), and Rabobank (Traksel, De Jongh).

Start List

Team CSC Tiscali                     Team Telekom
 
1 Jakob Piil (Den)                   7 Robert Bartko (Ger)
2 Michael Blaudzun (Den)             8 Gian Natteo Fagnini (Ita)
3 Martin Rittsel (Swe)               9 David Kopp (Ger)
4 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den)         10 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita)
5 Bjarke Nielsen (Den)               11 Dirk Reichl (Ger)
6 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel)               12 Stefan Schumacher (Ger)
 
Team Coast                           Rabobank
 
19 Daniel Becke (Ger)                31 Matthe Pronk (Ned)
20 Aitor Garmendia Arbilla (Spa)     32 Coen Boerman (Ned)
21 Bekim Christensen (Den)           33 Marcel Duijn (Ned)
22 Steffen Radochla (Ger)            34 Bobbie Traksel (Ned)
23 Thorsten Rund (Ger)               35 Roy Sentjens (Ned)
24 David Plaza Romero (Spa)          36 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned)
 
Gerolsteiner                         Index Alexia
 
37 Uwe Hardter (Ger)                 43 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita)
38 Uwe Peschel (Ger)                 44 Fabiano Ferrari (Ita)
39 Olaf Pollack (Ger)                45 Damiano Giannini (Ita)
40 Volker Ordowski (Ger)             46 Andris Reiss (Lat)
41 Marcel Strauss (Swi)              47 Gianluca Valoti (Ita)
42 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)              48 Sebastiano Scotti (Ita)
 
Mroz                                 CCC-Polsat
 
49 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol)             55 Piotr Przydzial (Pol)
50 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol)           56 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze)
51 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr)            57 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol)
52 Remigius Lupeikis (Ltu)           58 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol)
53 Eugen Wacker (Kgz)                59 Sariusy Skoczylas (Pol)
54 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu)        60 Cezary Zamana (Pol)
 
Servisco-Koop                        Mikomax-Browar Staropolski
 
61 Krzysztof Ciesielski (Pol)        67 Artur Krasinski (Pol)
62 Marek Kaminski (Pol)              68 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol)
63 Robert Radosz (Pol)               69 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol)
64 Daniel Majewski (Pol)             70 Jaroslaw Ryszewski (Pol)
65 Daniel Czajkowski (Pol)           71 Robert Koj (Pol)
66 Marek Maciejewski (Pol)           72 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol)
 
Team Nürnberger Versicherung         Team Cologne
 
73 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut)          79 Bjorn Glasner (Ger)
74 Sasa Sviben (Slo)                 80 Ryan Cox (Rsa)
75 Jens Lehmann (Ger)                81 Dirk Muller (Ger)
76 Thomas Liese (Ger)                82 Heiko Szonn (Ger)
77 Lubor Tesar (Cze)                 83 Christian Heule (Swi)
78 Christian Werner (Ger)            84 Klaus Mutschler (Ger)
 
Team Wiesenhof                       De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa
 
85 Michael Giebelmann (Ger)          91 Seweryn Kohut (Pol)
86 Nick Gates (Aus)                  92 Martin Prazdnovsky (Svk)
87 Martin Muller (Ger)               93 Andrus Aug (Est)
88 Enrico Poitschke (Ger)            94 Igor Kranjec (Slo)
89 Timo Scholz (Ger)                 95 Maros Kovac (Svk)
90 Andre Schulze (Ger)               96 Simone Cadamuro (Ita)
 
Palmans-Collstrop                    Wüstenrot-ZVVZ
 
97 Max Becker (Lux)                  103 Petr Bencik (Cze)
98 Thierry De Groote (Bel)           104 Martin Laciak (Cze)
99 Eric De Clercq (Bel)              105 Lubomir Kejval (Cze)
100 Frederik Penne (Bel)             106 Christian Lademann (Ger)
101 Bert Roesems (Bel)               107 Michal Precechtel (Cze)
102 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel)          108 Frantisek Trkal (Cze)
 
Joko Velamos                         Czech Republic National Team
 
109 Radek Blahut (Cze)               115 Ladislav Fabisovsky (Cze)
110 Tomas Buchacek (Cze)             116 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze)
111 Jan Faltynek (Cze)               117 David Kupka (Cze)
112 Vojtech Muchka (Cze)             118 Lukas Pavlech (Cze)
113 Tomas Hanauer (Cze)              119 Kamil Vrana (Cze)
114 Martin Kankovsky (Cze)           120 Petr Sestak (Cze)
 
Vlaanderen-T Interim                 Ambra, Centrum Obuwia
 
121 Stijn De Volder (Bel)            127 Slawomir Chrzanowski (Pol)
122 Jurgen Guns (Bel)                128 Dariusz Wojciechowski (Pol)
123 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel)        129 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol)
124 Jan Kuyckx (Bel)                 130 Michal Kalenda (Cze)
125 Jehudi Schoonacker (Bel)         131 Marcin Sapa (Pol)
126 Rudolf Wentzel (Rsa)             132 Tomasz Lesniak (Pol)

Past winners

2001 Jakob Storm Piil (Den) CSC-World Online
2000 Piotr Wadecki (Pol)
1999 Steffen Wesemann (Ger)
1998 Uwe Ampler (Ger)
1997 Steffen Wesemann (Ger)
1996 Steffen Wesemann (Ger)
1995 Pavel Padrnos (Cze)
1994 Jens Voigt (Ger)
1993 Bilek (Cze)
1992 Steffen Wesemann (Ger)
1991 Rjaksinski (Rus)
1990 Jan Svorada (Cze)
1989 Uwe Ampler (E.Ger)
1988 Uwe Ampler (E.Ger)
1987 Uwe Ampler (E.Ger)
1986 Olaf Ludwig (E.Ger)
1985 Lech Piasecki (Pol)
1984 Suchorutchenkov (Rus)
1983 Falk Boden (E.Ger)
1982 Olaf Ludwig (E.Ger)
1981 Zagretdinow (Rus)
1980 Barinow (Rus)
1979 Suchorutchenkov (Rus)
1978 Awerin (Rus)
1977 Pikkuus (Rus)
1976 H.-J. Hartnick (E.Ger)
1975 Szurkowski (Pol)
1974 Szozda (Pol)
1973 Szurkowski (Pol)
1972 Moravec (Cze)
1971 Szurkowski (Pol)
1970 Szurkowski (Pol)
1969 Danguilaume (Fra)
1968 Peschel (E.Ger)
1967 Maes (Bel)
1966 Guyot (Fra)
1965 Lebedjew (Rus)
1964 Smolik (Cze)
1963 Klaus Ampler (E.Ger)
1962 Saidchushin (Rus)
1961 Melichow (Rus)
1960 Hagen (E.Ger)
1959 Gustaf-Adolf Schur (E.Ger)
1958 Damen (Ned)
1957 Christow (Bul)
1956 Krolak (Pol)
1955 Gustaf-Adolf Schur (E.Ger)
1954 Dalgaard (Den)
1953 Pedersen (Den)
1952 Steel (GB)
1951 Olsen (Den)
1950 Emborg (Den)
1949 Vesely (Cze)
1948 Zoric (Yug)
1948 Prosinek (Yug)


Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com