Paris – Roubaix 1994

Race result
winner	Andrej Tschmil	7h 28 '02 "
2.	Fabio Baldato	+ 1:13 min.
3.	Franco Ballerini	equal time
4th	Olaf Ludwig	+ 1:26 min.
5.	Sean Yates	equal time
6th	Johan Capiot	equal time
7th	Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle	equal time
8th.	Ludwig Willems	+ 1:31 min.
9.	Frankie Andreu	+ 4:14 min.
10.	Nico Verhoeven	equal time

Andrej Tschmil

The one-day race Paris – Roubaix 1994 was the 92nd edition of the cycling classic and took place on Sunday, April 10, 1994.

The race led from Compiègne , around 80 kilometers north of Paris , to Roubaix , where it ended in the Vélodrome André-Pétrieux . The entire route was 270 kilometers long. 191 drivers started, 48 of whom were able to place. The winner Andrej Tschmil completed the race with an average speed of 36.160  km / h .

In the days before the race it had rained heavily, the day before it was raining and snowing, and a strong and cold wind was blowing. On the day of the race it was very windy and it was snowing out of black clouds. At the start it was three degrees Celsius, but the rain and snow subsided. About 20 kilometers after the Trouée d'Arenberg , the race was led by a group consisting of Tschmil, Nico Verhoeven , Johan Museeuw , Adrie van der Poel , Franco Ballerini and Bruno Boscardin . Tschmil attacked, and quickly a gap opened up behind him. He rode solo on the last 60 kilometers and won, despite being chased by a dedicated group of chasers around Museeuw and Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle . He was the first native Russian to win Paris – Roubaix ; at the time of his victory, however, he was a Moldovan citizen.

Web links

• Paris Roubaix 1994 on YouTube , December 26, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paris - Roubaix 1994. In: radsportseiten.net. Retrieved June 18, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 1994 Paris - Roubaix bicycle race complete results. In: BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved June 18, 2015 .