Paris – Roubaix 1999

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Race result
winner ItalyItaly Andrea Tafi 6h 44 '15 "
2. BelgiumBelgium Wilfried Peeters + 2:14 min.
3. BelgiumBelgium Tom Steels + 2:26 min.
4th United StatesUnited States George Hincapie equal time
5. BelgiumBelgium Jo Planckaert equal time
6th NetherlandsNetherlands Léon van Bon equal time
7th BelgiumBelgium Frank Vandenbroucke equal time
8th. BelgiumBelgium Andrej Tschmil + 2:40 min.
9. BelgiumBelgium Johan Museeuw equal time
10. DenmarkDenmark Lars Michaelsen + 2:53 min.
Andrea Tafi (1998)

The one-day race Paris – Roubaix 1999 was the 97th edition of the cycling classic and took place on Sunday, April 11, 1999.

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 273 kilometers long. 183 drivers started, 66 of whom were able to place. The winner Andrea Tafi completed the race at an average speed of 40.519  km / h .

29 kilometers from the finish, Andrea Tafi broke out of a leading group of seven. Next to him were two other drivers - Wilfried Peeters and Tom Steels - from Mapei on the podium. His win at Paris – Roubaix was the Mapei team's fourth in five years, and it was also the third time in four years that Mapei took the top three places in the classic.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paris - Roubaix 1999. In: radsportseiten.net. Retrieved June 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b 1999 Paris - Roubaix bicycle race complete results. In: BikeRaceInfo. Retrieved June 19, 2015 .