(Twelth Edition-8 Stages-1266 Km)

(17 Teams-85 Starters-60 Finishers)
Average speed36;760 Km/h
(Stage Winner gets 1mn bonus; runner-up 30scs)

Note A:14 Bulgarian Teams and 3 foreign teams; Dukla Brno (Czechoslovakia), East Germany (D.D.R) & Yugoslavia
Note B:For the first time ever, an individual time-trial stage is run, stage 3, on September 24, 1962 and is won by the Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov