The Baltic Sea Friendship Race 1986–1989 – A Unique Effort in the History of Finnish Bicycle Racing



: A Unique Effort in the History of Finnish Bicycle Racing

: Ville Laamanen

: Rob Van der Plas, Nicholas Oddy, Nick Clayton

: International Cycling History Conference

: San Francisco

: 2008

: Bicycle History 18: Proceedings of the 18th International Cycling History Conference

: 113

: 119

: 7

: 978-1-892495-62-4

: 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.




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