1979 27th Tour of Britain : 22nd Milk Race

Credit: International Cycle Sport, July 1979 and Milk Race Official Programme 1979

Just partial stage and GC results for the race - but hopefully more will follow.

However even from these limited results you can see that the home nations were totally outclassed by the Eastern European teams.

Start List
taken from the official Milk Race programme

Race Route P Sun 27-May-1979 Brighton Prologue 1a Mon 28-May-1979 Brighton-Basingstoke 1b Mon 28-May-1979 Basingstoke Circuit 2 Tue 29-May-1979 Swindon-Weston super Mare 3 Wed 30-May-1979 Merthyr Tydfil-Great Malvern 4 Thu 31-May-1979 Wolverhampton-Llandudno 5 Fru 1-Jun-1979 Llandudno-Stoke on Trent 6 Sat 2-Jun-1979 Stoke on Trent-Leicester 7 Sun 3-Jun-1979 Leicester-Skegness 8 Mon 4-Jun-1979 Lincoln-Huddersfield 9 Tue 5-Jun-1979 Huddersfield-Harrogate 10 Thu 7-Jun-1979  Harrogate-Middlesborough 11 Fri 8-Jun-1979 Darlington-South Shields 12 Sat 9-Jun-1979 Barnard Castle-Blackpool       Stage Results Final General Classification Stage 1st Time 2nd 3rd P Vladimir Kaminsky 4m10s Zbigniew Szczepkowski Joe Waugh 1a Algirdas Motskus   Stefan Ciekanski Henrik Rasmussen 1b Gerry Taylor   Yuri Kashirin Stefan Ciekanski 2 Jan Hoegh   Janusy Pozack Thomas Eriksson 3 Yuri Kashirin   Zbigniew Szczepkowski Yuri Sakharov 4 Joe Waugh   Zbigniew Szczepkowski Yuri Sakharov 5 Valery Chaplygin   Vladimar Dolek Stanislaw Kirpszr 6 Lechoslaw Michalek   Janusy Pozack Yuri Kashirin 7 Zbigniew Szczepkowski   Henning Joerensen Stefan Ciekanski 8 Mats Gustavsson   Vladimir Kaminsky Lechoslaw Michalak 9 Alan Jacobsen   Jostein Wilmann Yuri Kashirin 10 Yuri Sakharov   Zbigniew Szczepkowski Lechoslaw Michalak 11 Yuri Sakharov   Yuri Kashirin Jostein Wilmann 12 Ray Lewis   Yuri Sakharov Tony Lally Pos Rider Time 1 Yuri Kashirin 45:31:26 2 Janusy Pozack 45:35:49 3 H Dvoracek 45:36:23 4 Valery Chaplygin   5 Yuri Sakharov   6 L Michalek   7 J Rasmussen   8 L Mraz   9 V Vondracek   10 N Scheler   11 Vladimir Kaminsky   12 Stefan Ciekanski   13 P Larrinage   14 Ray Lewis   15 H Joergensen   16 P-H Hansen   17 S Kirosza   18 M Swinnerton   19 Steve Lawrence   20 Z Szczepkowski   21     22     23     24     25     26     27     28     29     30     31     32     33     34     35     36     37     38     39     40     41     42     43     44     45     46