Paris – Roubaix 1897

Race result
winner	Maurice Garin	9h 57 ′ 21 ″
2.	Mathieu Cordang	equal time
3.	Michel Frédérick	+ 30:21 min
4th	Gaston Rivierre	+ 50:39 min
5.	Jules Cordier	+ 1:42:52 h
6th	Boinet	+ 1:43:03 h
7th	Henri Ariès	+ 1:53:12 h
8th.	Guillochin	+ 2:03:30 h
9.	Léopold Trousselier	equal time
10.	Marcel Kerff	+ 4:16:39 h

Maurice Garin

The one-day race Paris – Roubaix 1897 was the second edition of the cycling classic and took place on Sunday, April 18, 1897.

The race went over 280 kilometers. 32 professional cyclists and 26 amateurs were at the start. The winner Maurice Garin , who won the first Tour de France in 1903 , completed the race at an average speed of 28.124 kilometers per hour .

At the start in Paris the streets were wet, but a little later the sun came out. The two leading drivers, the French Garin and the Dutch Mathieu Cordang drove into the Velodrome roubaisien together , but Cordang fell. He got back on his bike and within the six laps that still had to be completed on the velodrome , he came within two meters of Garin, who finally won the race.

References and comments

1. ↑ Maurice Garin was a native Italian. It is not known exactly when he took French citizenship. In the winners' lists, however, he is listed as a French.
2. ↑ ^{a b} 1897 Paris - Roubaix bicycle race complete results. In: BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved May 27, 2015 .