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- ↑ "Tour de Pologne". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ XV Course de la Paix Bulletin 4. Berlin: Neues Deutschland, Rude Pravo, Tribuna Ludu. 1962. p. 5.
