1955

16th Tour de Hongrie

Győző Török did not want to wait for too long: he won the 1st stage by 4 minutes, and kept his lead through the remaining 4 days.

He wasn't even bothered when he - and his two compatriot, József Albert and Lajos Szabó - lost a 7-minute lead because of a railway barrier on Stage 3.

Another interesting fact about this race is that the Hungarian sports daily became discredited by the government, because it wrote about the road conditions during the race...

The National Team of Hungary in 1955: (from the left) János Juszkó, Győző Török, Ferenc Horváth,
Antal Megyerdi, József Szerencsés and Lajos Aranyi (Photo: MTI/László Mikó)

16th Tour de Hongrie (13-17 September 1955, 938 km)

Stage winners:
Stage 1 (Budapest - Miskolc, 182 km): Győző Török (Hungarian, Honvéd)
Stage 2 (Miskolc - Debrecen, 138 km): Márton Bencze (Hungarian, Vörös Lobogó)
Stage 3 (Debrecen - Szeged, 227 km): György Viszt (Hungarian, Vörös Lobogó)
Stage 4 (Szeged - Pécs, 195 km): Mihály Csikós (Hungarian, Vörös Lobogó)
Stage 5 (Pécs - Budapest, 196 km): János Ötvös (Hungarian, Dózsa)

General Classification:
1. Győző Török (Hungarian, Honvéd) 29:48:11
2. József Albert (Hungarian, Kinizsi) 29:52:45 (+4:34)
3. Lajos Szabó (Hungarian, Dózsa) 29:58:43 (+10:33)

Winner of the Teams Classification: Honvéd