Olympic champions in the preliminary entry list
July 26, 2005.

Ten foreign - including five continental - clubs and three national teams - and six Hungarian teams are planned to attend Tour de Hongrie this year. Last year Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungarian Youth and Sport Minister (now he is the Prime Minister) and Jean-Marie Leblanc, director of the Tour de France, attended to the official ceremony. Mr. Leblanc handed over the yellow jersey to Zoltán Remák...

CK ZP Podbrezová (Slovakia), team of Zoltán Remák (two times victory at Tour of Hungary) has to be mantioned firstly. Martin Prazdnovsky, national champion of Slovakia, first place at Gemenc GP is member of team CK ZP Podbrezová, as well as Miroslav Keliar, Jan Kruzic, Ondrej Slobodnik and Radovan Husar.

Other strong teams are Cyclingnews.com from Australia, Apac from the Netherlands (Maink Berkenbosch, Nico van Dijk, Folkert de Haan, Adriaan Helmantel, Florian Smiths and Peter Westenberg) and Norvegian Maxbo-Bianchi (Christopher Myhre, Lars Petter Nordhaug, Erik Vold Svein, Stian Sommerseth, Frederik Willmann and Leonard Snoeks) too.

Members of German Akud Arnold’s Sicherheit team are the new German champion Gerald Ciolek, Ralph Scherzer, Felix Oberdecht, Henrich Habenicht, Mitja Schütler, Gregor Willwohl, and Gerhard Trampusch, who has been member of world’s strongest professional teams. He was a team-mate of László Bodrogi in Mapei-Quick Step and Jan Ullrich in Telekom. Trampusch won mountain time trial of the Tour of Austria in 2004.

Austrian national U23 team is going to attend to Tour of Hungary as well. Members are (according to the preliminary entry lis) Christian Ebner, Ciemens Fankhauser, Georg Hausbacher, Hanno Hofmeister, Matthias Schröger és Christoph Sokoll.

In the German national track team we will see two olympic champions: Robert Bartko and Guido Fulst!

Farid Achache, Romain Appert, Julien Modenese, Arnaud Rivoalen and Nicolas Venaut represent the French CSM Puteaux team. Members of German BBC team are Thomas Herbstreit, Marco Kiritschenko, Fabian Matthes, Manuel Reuter, Jürgen Wörn and Tilo Schüler, who was member of BH Dessau professional team, and finished in one of the first three positions at U23 world cup three years ago.

Six teams represent Hungary at the race. The strongest club is P Nívó-Betonexpressz 2000 SE, which is going to be represented by two teams. Cyclist of the club - attend to Tour of Hungary - are Gábor Arany, László Garamszegi, Péter Kusztor, Tamás Lengyel, Csaba Szekeres, Dániel Zsombók, István Cziráki, Ákos Haiszer, Gábor Kiskó, Krisztián Ördög, Gábor Szőke and Barnabás Vizer.

Attila Árvai is the skipper of team FTC (Hungary), he is going to be supported by András Berkesi, Balázs Szórádi, Bence Szuromi, Viktor Speciár and Balázs Rónaszéki at Tour of Hungary.

Hungarian Tamási KE is going to be represented by Zoltán Horváth, Csaba Hrotkó, Gergő Kiss, Béla Grósz, János Hemmert and Gyula Nagy.

Team Békéscsabai KK participates at Tour of Hungary again. Beside Norbert Ábrók and Bálint Szeghalmi four Slovakian cyclists are representing this club: Andrei Lalinsky, Michal Skvarka, Juraj Karas and Ivan Viglasky.

Team Cornix Mix from Pécs attends to the tour according to the entry list.

Publications:

		Prologue: Remak in yellow again!
		Stage 3: The german champion is the winner
		Stage 4: Worst day of Haynes
		Tamás Lengyel won the 32nd Tour de Hongrie