1) Bojan Kotsev (Bulgaria Team) 39h54m04s
2) Lex Van Kreuningen (Netherlands) at 6m 25s
3) Boguslaw Fornalczyk (Poland)at 9m 32s
4) Jim “James Frederick” Hinds (England)at 10m 13s
5) Stefan Neytchev (CDNA Sofija Team)at 10m 57s
6) Eugenuisz Pokorny (Poland)at 11m 28s
7) Marin Iliev (Burgas Team) at 14m 00s
8) William Holmes (England) at 16m25s
9) Bernard Pruski (Poland)at18m 13s
10) Ivan Levacic (Yugoslavia)at 19m 45s
11) Nikola Filipov (Bulgaria Team)at 21m 11s
12) John Grønvall (Denmark)at 22m 02s
13) Christo Iliev (Bulgaria Team) at22m 59s
14) Nikola Traykov (CDNA Sofija Team)at 23m 59s
15) Stojan Georgiev (Lokomotiv Sofija Team) at 25m 18s
16) Gabriel De Loof (Belgium) at26m 53s
17) Ljuboslav Venkov (WIF Sofija Team)at 27m 09s
18) Janez Zirovnik (Yugoslavia)at 29m 25s
19) Jan Rademakers (Netherlands)at31m 49s
20) Ilia Krastev (Sliven Team) at 32m 50s
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30) Jan Janssen (Netherlands)


Team Ranking

1) Bulgaria (Bojan Kotsev/Nikola Filipov/Nentcho Christov/Christo Iliev/ Ivan Bobekov)…………………………………………………………….……126h07m54s
2) Poland……………………………………………………………..at7m59s
3) England……………………………………………………………at24m00s


Note:Of all foreign riders participating at this edition, worth mentioning are Boguslaw Fornalczyk, 5x times national champion, 1958 Tour of Poland winner; Eugeniusz Pokorny, 1962 Milk Race winner; Bill “William”Holmes, 1961 Milk Race winner; Lex Van Kreuningen, 1963 Ronde van Nederland winner and………….. being part of the Dutch team, a young, promising 19 years old rider going by the name of Jan Janssen, most probably the only Tour de France winner to have raced the Tour of Bulgaria.

Note B:There’s some dispute as the right name/right spelling of the Belgium rider having won stage 7. His name is translated as Kalens.

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