1) Selvino Poloni (Italy) 45h 33m 00s
2) Bernhard Knispel (D.D.R) 45h 35m 41s
3) Stanislaw Labocha (Poland) 45h 37m 04s
4) Vincenzo Suriani (Italy) 45h 37m 08s
5) Jörgen Timm (Denmark) 45h 37m 30s
6) Slavcho Nikolov (Bulgaria) 45h 37m 58s
7) Józef Gawliczek (Poland) 45h 38m 17s
8) Rados Cubric (Yugoslavia) 45h 38m 25s
9) Czeslaw Polewiak (Poland) 45h 40m 18s
10) Ove Jensen (Denmark) 45h 40m 21s
11) Yani Tchakarov (Bulgaria) 45h 40m 35s
12) Michael Schifner (D.D.R) 45h 41m 36s
13) Stefano Benvenuti (Italy) 45h 42m 50s
14) Aleksandr Gusyatnikov (U.S.S.R) 45h 43m 06s
15) Siegfried Huster (D.D.R) 45h 43m 26s
16) Giuliano Fontana (Italy) 45h 43m 56s
17) Eigil Sørensen (Denmark) 45h 44m 18s
18) Tadeusz Prasek (Poland) 45h 44m 19s
19) Jirí Mainus (Czechoslovakia) 45h 44m 50s
20) Vasile Budia (Romania) 45h 45m 40s

Team Ranking
1) East Germany (D.D.R)…………………………………………………..136h 49m 30s
2) Bulgaria (Dimitar Kotev{Captain}/Slavcho Nikolov/Yni Tchakarov/Parush Ivanov/Ivan Stefanov)………..(Coach = Bojan Kotsev)…………………………………….136h 49m 36s
3) Poland…………………………………………………………….…………136h 51m 36s

Selvino Poloni, that would happen to be the only Italian ever, winning the Tour of Bulgaria, turned professional in 1970, just for two years, never winning anything anymore. His younger brother Pietro, was a (modest) professional rider too.

Regarding the (individual) final ranking, this is the worst edition ever for Bulgaria with only 2 riders in the top-20 !

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