A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
The Baltic Sea Friendship Race 1986–1989 – A Unique Effort in the History of Finnish Bicycle Racing
Subtitle: A Unique Effort in the History of Finnish Bicycle Racing
Authors: Ville Laamanen
Editors: Rob Van der Plas, Nicholas Oddy, Nick Clayton
Conference name: International Cycling History Conference
Publishing place: San Francisco
Publication year: 2008
Book title : Bicycle History 18: Proceedings of the 18th International Cycling History Conference
First page : 113
Last page: 119
Number of pages: 7
ISBN: 978-1-892495-62-4
Web address : http://www.cyclepublishing.com/cyclingbooks/his18.html
As soon as the first edition of the Baltic Sea Friendship Race started on Thursday, May 29th, 1986 with a three-kilometre prologue in Turku,a coastal city of some 160,000 people in the South-Western coast of Finland, international cycling history was made. It was the first time that the route of a high-profile road cycling race included stages on both sides of the iron curtain.
