Paris – Roubaix
Paris – Roubaix is one of the most famous classic one-day races in road cycling and is one of the five monuments of cycling . The sections on cobblestones ( pavé sectors ) are characteristic of the approximately 250-kilometer race .
The race, first held in 1896, takes place annually on a Sunday in mid-April in northern France and is known as The Queen of the Classics (La Reine des Classiques), or the Hell of the North (L'Enfer du Nord). The name Hell of the North got the race after the First World War , which devastated the region in which the race takes place.
Since 1977 is spring classics no longer in Paris , but around 80 km north, in front of the palace in Compiegne , started. The finish is in the Velodrome of Roubaix .
The race is organized by the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), which also organizes the Tour de France .
history
A forerunner of today's Roubaix cycle track , the "Vélodrome roubaisien", was built in the Parc Barbieux in 1895 and was the site of numerous track races such as the French stay-up championships and the Bol d'Or in the following years . Two entrepreneurs from Roubaix, Theo Vienne and Maurice Pérez, had initiated the construction of the 333.33-meter-long runway and finally the idea of organizing a race that would end on this velodrome: Paris-Roubaix . They turned to the editor-in-chief of the French cycling magazine Le Vélo , Paul Rousseau . He sent his colleague Victor Breyer to explore the route. As far as Amiens , Breyer drove with a colleague in the car, the next day by bike. When he got to Roubaix he was so dirty and frozen that he thought of canceling the race. But after a bath and a good dinner he changed his mind, it is reported, and the first edition of Paris – Roubaix was held in 1896.
The first edition of the 1896 race took place on April 19, 1896 with 48 participants; It was won by the German Josef Fischer , and he remained the only German Paris – Roubaix winner until John Degenkolb's victory in 2015 . The two Belgians Roger De Vlaeminck , who celebrated his four triumphs on the Roubaix Velodrome between 1972 and 1977 (and received a trophy in the shape of a cobblestone), and Tom Boonen achieved the most victories in the Hell of the North with four wins each in the period from 2005 to 2012. With five wins in six years, the Mapei team dominated the cobblestone classic in the second half of the 1990s . Twice (1996 and 1998) the team was even able to occupy all three podium places.
Until 1923, the race took place annually on Easter Sunday , which is why it was nicknamed La Pascale . In the first years it took place behind pacemakers (bicycles or motorcycles), from 1898 to 1900 these were automobiles. In 1908 and 1909, pacemakers were only permitted up to Beauvais and were forbidden from 1910 onwards.
From 1989 until the end of the 2004 season, Paris – Roubaix was part of the ten-race cycling World Cup, and from 2005 it was part of the newly introduced UCI ProTour , a series of the most important cycling races of the year, for three seasons . The race has been part of the UCI WorldTour successor series since 2011 . The route from Paris - Roubaix changes only marginally from year to year.
Every two years, the Vélo Club Roubaix organizes an edition for everyone , in which, in addition to partial routes of 120 or 190, or even the complete route of the professional race of around 260 kilometers, with the goal in the Vélodrome in Roubaix , can be completed on the original course .
The French sports journalist Jacques Goddet regarded the professional race Paris – Roubaix as “a last remnant from the heroic past, the last link to tradition to which cycling owes its greatness”.
In February 2019 it became known that the junior competition of the Le Pavé de Roubaix race , which is not organized by the ASO but by the VC Roubaix , may not take place for financial reasons. John Degenkolb , winner of the elite race in 2015 , then launched a fundraising campaign and contributed 2,500 euros himself. Thanks to his initiative, the event could be secured.
In 2020, the race was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . At the beginning of May it was announced that the race would be postponed to October 25th and that a race for women would also be held for the first time. Due to the increasing number of infections in the metropolitan region of Lille , to which Roubaix also belongs, the race was finally canceled in October 2020 and the next edition planned for April 11, 2021. On April 1, 2021, the first staging of the women's race was postponed to October 2 and the men's race to October 3, 2021.
Pavé sectors
The Arenberg Forest on April 13, 2008
Characteristic of the classic, which takes place on completely flat terrain, are the famous pavés , cobblestone passages : paths - some dating back to the 19th century - with coarse cobblestones, which make the race an extraordinary ordeal, especially in wet conditions and diffuse lighting. Originally the cobblestones were the usual road surface in northern France; But after these streets were increasingly paved, the organizers decided in 1967 to integrate cobblestone passages on field and forest paths into the race. Today, many pavés are given by the French government especially for the classic bike ride. The Les Amis de Paris – Roubaix association has been trying since 1977 to preserve and restore cobblestone passages, develop new sections and secure them for the race.
When planning the route for the first race in 1896, Victor Breyer tried to avoid cobblestone passages, called Belgian blocks , because they wanted to run an "easy" race - "easy" as opposed to the previous "monster races" over several a hundred kilometers, such as Bordeaux – Paris . The pavés could only be found for the last 30 kilometers, where the racing drivers drove over sidewalks to avoid them. “The cobblestones that have been added to the route today are grimmer and more primitive than the roads that were driven 100 years ago. Today's classic Paris – Roubaix is the reconstruction of a past that never existed. "
Probably the most notorious pavé section is the one through the forest of Wallers -Arenberg, the Trouée d'Arenberg , which often resulted in a preliminary decision after two thirds of the 250 km long race. In 2005, part of the pavement was extensively restored, the section as a whole somewhat defused; it has nevertheless retained its rating as a 5-star section (highest level of difficulty). In the similarly difficult pavé sections of Mons-en-Pévèle and Carrefour de l'Arbre , which follow in the last racing district, a preliminary decision is also often made.
During the 111th edition in 2013, the drivers had to negotiate a total of 27 cobblestone passages. The sectors are divided into categories 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest level of difficulty. The decisive factor for the categorization is the condition of the cobblestones, the length of the section and also the location in the race. In 2013 the forest of Arenberg , Mons-en-Pévèle and the Carrefour de l'Arbre were classified in category 5. A total of 52.6 kilometers of cobblestones had to be overcome.
Sector no. | Surname | Racing kilometers | Length (in m) | category |
---|---|---|---|---|
27 | Troisvilles - Inchy | 98.5 | 2200 | 3 |
26th | Viesly - Quiévy | 105 | 1800 | 3 |
25th | Quiévy - Saint-Python | 107.5 | 3700 | 4th |
24 | Saint Python | 112.5 | 1500 | 2 |
23 | Vertain - Saint-Martin-sur-Écaillon | 120 | 2300 | 3 |
22nd | Verchain-Maugré - Quérénaing | 130 | 1600 | 3 |
21 | Quérénaing - Maing | 133 | 2500 | 3 |
20th | Maing - Monchaux-sur-Écaillon | 136.5 | 1600 | 3 |
19th | Haveluy - Wallers | 149.5 | 2500 | 4th |
18th | Trouée d'Arenberg | 158 | 2400 | 5 |
17th | Wallers - Hélesmes | 164 | 1600 | 3 |
16 | Hornaing - Wandignies-Hamage | 170.5 | 3700 | 4th |
15th | Warlaing - Brillon | 178 | 2400 | 3 |
14th | Tilloy - Sars-et-Rosières | 181.5 | 2400 | 4th |
13th | Beuvry-la-Forêt - Orchies | 188 | 1400 | 3 |
12th | Orchies | 193 | 1700 | 3 |
11 | Auchy-lez-Orchies - Bersée | 199 | 2600 | 4th |
10 | Mons-en-Pévèle | 205 | 3000 | 5 |
9 | Mérignies - Avelin | 211 | 700 | 2 |
8th | Pont-Thibaut - Ennevelin | 214.5 | 1400 | 3 |
7th | Templeuve (Moulin-de-Vertain) | 220.5 | 500 | 2 |
6th |
Cysoing - Bourghelles Bourghelles - Wannehain |
227 229.5 |
1300 1100 |
3 3 |
5 | Camphin-en-Pévèle | 234 | 1800 | 4th |
4th | Carrefour de l'Arbre | 236.5 | 2100 | 5 |
3 | Gruson | 239 | 1100 | 2 |
2 | Willems - Hem | 246 | 1400 | 2 |
1 | Roubaix , Allée Charles Crupelandt | 253 | 300 | 1 |
In the race on April 8, 2018, the 23-year-old Belgian Michael Goolaerts fell due to cardiac arrest on the left edge of the track, this happened around race kilometer 100 on the second Pavé passage no.28 from Viesly to Briastre with a slight gradient. Although Goolaerts was resuscitated by paramedics after several minutes, he died that same evening in a hospital in Lille.
Allée Charles Crupelandt
The last 300 meters before the Roubaix Velodrome are named after the only Paris – Roubaix winner from Roubaix, Charles Crupelandt , Allée Charles Crupelandt . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Crupelandt's victories in 1912, small granite stone tablets with the names of the previous winners were inserted between the paving stones there .
Palmarès
Professionals / elite
1896 to 1980
From 1981
year | winner | head Start | Second | Third | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1981 | Bernard Hinault | currently | Roger De Vlaeminck | Francesco Moser | In the world champion jersey, Hinault won out of an enormously prominent group of six. He is the last Tour de France winner to date , who also won in Roubaix. He underscored his legendary aversion to the cobblestone track by saying after his victory: "This race is great nonsense." |
1982 | Jan Raas | 16 s | Yvon Bertin | Gregor Braun | |
1983 | Hennie Kuiper | 1:15 min | Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle | Francesco Moser | |
1984 | Sean Kelly | currently | Rudy Rogiers | Alain Bondue | |
1985 | Marc Madiot | 1:51 min | Bruno Wojtinek | Sean Kelly | |
1986 | Sean Kelly | 1 s | Rudy Dhaenens | Adrie van der Poel | Kelly became the first driver to win Milan – Sanremo and Paris – Roubaix in the same year . |
1987 | Eric Vanderaerden | currently | Patrick Versluys | Rudy Dhaenens | |
1988 | Dirk Demol | 2 s | Thomas Wegmüller | Laurent Fignon | Fignon reached the finish almost two minutes after Demol and Wegmüller. |
1989 | Jean-Marie Wampers | currently | Dirk De Wolf | Edwig Van Hooydonck | The two Belgians were 59 seconds ahead of the next group of four. |
1990 | Eddy Planckaert | currently | Steve Bauer | Edwig Van Hooydonck | |
1991 | Marc Madiot | 1:07 min | Jean-Claude Colotti | Carlo Bomans | |
1992 | Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle | 34 p | Olaf Ludwig | Johan Capiot | Ludwig achieved the best result for a German since Josef Fischer in 1900. |
1993 | Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle | currently | Franco Ballerini | Olaf Ludwig | The 38-year-old Duclos-Lassalle won with a wafer-thin lead of a few centimeters. Third placed Ludwig was more than 2 minutes behind. |
1994 | Andrej Tschmil | 1:13 min | Fabio Baldato | Franco Ballerini | |
1995 | Franco Ballerini | 1:56 min | Andrej Tschmil | Johan Museeuw | |
1996 | Johan Museeuw | currently | Gianluca Bortolami | Andrea Tafi | The 100th anniversary of the race. The famous Mapei triple: team-mates Museeuw, Bortolami and Tafi win with a 2:38 minute lead. Mapei sports director Patrick Lefevere had set the order. See Paris – Roubaix 1996 . |
1997 | Frédéric Guesdon | currently | Jo Planckaert | Johan Museeuw | Frédéric Guesdon won the sprint of an unusually large group of eight drivers for Roubaix standards. He is the last French winner of the race so far. |
1998 | Franco Ballerini | 4:16 min | Andrea Tafi | Wilfried Peeters | |
1999 | Andrea Tafi | 2:14 min | Wilfried Peeters | Tom Steels | |
2000 | Johan Museeuw | 15 s | Peter Van Petegem | Erik Zabel | Erik Zabel's best placement in Roubaix. |
2001 | Servais Knaven | 34 p | Johan Museeuw | Romāns Vainšteins | |
2002 | Johan Museeuw | 3:04 min | Steffen Wesemann | Tom Boonen | |
2003 | Peter Van Petegem | currently | Dario Pieri | Vyacheslav Yekimov | |
2004 | Magnus Backstedt | currently | Tristan Hoffman | Roger Hammond | |
2005 | Tom Boonen | currently | George Hincapie | Juan Antonio Flecha | |
2006 | Fabian Cancellara | 1:23 min | Tom Boonen | Alessandro Ballan | |
2007 | Stuart O'Grady | 52 p | Juan Antonio Flecha | Steffen Wesemann | |
2008 | Tom Boonen | currently | Fabian Cancellara | Alessandro Ballan | An attack by Cancellara 36 km from the finish could only be followed by Boonen and Ballan. At the finish the three drivers had a lead of 3:39 minutes. |
2009 | Tom Boonen | 47 p | Filippo Pozzato | Thor Hushovd | |
2010 | Fabian Cancellara | 2:00 min | Thor Hushovd | Juan Antonio Flecha | Cancellara had already attacked 45 kilometers from the finish. |
2011 | Johan Vansummeren | 19 s | Fabian Cancellara | Maarten Tjallingii | |
2012 | Tom Boonen | 1:39 min | Sébastien Turgot | Alessandro Ballan | |
2013 | Fabian Cancellara | currently | Sep Vanmarcke | Niki Terpstra | |
2014 | Niki Terpstra | 20 s | John Degenkolb | Fabian Cancellara | |
2015 | John Degenkolb | currently | Zdeněk Štybar | Greg Van Avermaet | John Degenkolb won the sprint of a group of seven drivers, which was large by Roubaix standards, the largest group since 1997. Degenkolb was the first German to win since 1896 and, alongside Sean Kelly , was the second driver to win the double from Milan-Sanremo and Paris in 1986 in the same year –Roubaix. |
2016 | Mathew Hayman | currently | Tom Boonen | Ian Stannard | With Mathew Hayman, an Australian won only the second time after Stuart O'Grady in 2007, in the sprint of a group of four drivers. Tom Boonen narrowly missed out on becoming the record winner at Paris-Roubaix with 5 victories with second place. |
2017 | Greg Van Avermaet | currently | Zdeněk Štybar | Sebastian Langeveld | Greg Van Avermaet won the race from a group of initially three and then five drivers. The main field followed, twelve seconds behind. It was Van Avermaet's first victory in a “Monument to Cycling” . |
2018 | Peter Sagan | currently | Silvan Dillier | Niki Terpstra | Peter Sagan won the race with an attack 50 km from the finish and prevailed against Silvan Dillier in a sprint. |
2019 | Philippe Gilbert | currently | Nils Politt | Yves Lampaert | |
2020 | because Corona pandemic canceled |
U23 / amateurs
- 2020 for Corona pandemic canceled
- 2019 Thomas Pidcock
- 2018 Stan Dewulf
- 2017 Nils Eekhoff
- 2016 Filippo Ganna
- 2015 Lukas Spengler
- 2014 Mike Teunissen
- 2013 not held
- 2012 Bob Jungels
- 2011 Ramon Sinkeldam
- 2010 Taylor Phinney
- 2009 Taylor Phinney
- 2008 Coen Vermeltfoort
- 2007 Damien Gaudin
- 2006 Tom Veelers
- 2005 Dmitri Kosontschuk
- 2004 Koen de Kort
- 2003 Sergey Lagutin
- 2002 Mikhail Timoshin
- 2001 Yaroslav Popovych
- 2000 Eric Baumann
- 1999 Sébastien Joly
- 1998 Thor Hushovd
- 1997 Marc Chanoine
- 1996 Dany Baeyens
- 1995 Damien Nazon
- 1994 Kurt Dhont
- 1993 Marek Leśniewski
- 1992 Stéphane Chanteur
- 1991 Eric Larue
- 1990 Thierry Gouvenou
- 1989 Frédéric Moncassin
- 1988 Laurent Bezault
- 1987 Franck Boucanville
- 1986 Vincent Thorey
- 1985 Christian Chaubet
- 1984 Thierry Marie
- 1983 Frank Verleyen
- 1982 Rudy Rogiers
- 1981 Kenny De Maerteleire
- 1980 Stephen Roche
- 1979 Marc Madiot
- 1978 Alfons De Wolf
- 1977 Michel Lloret
- 1976 Gérard Simonnot
- 1975 Pol Verschuere
- 1974 Marc Steels
- 1973 Patrick Beon
- 1972 Yvan Benaets
- 1971 Louis Verreydt
- 1970 Enzo Mattioda
- 1969 Roger Desmaret
- 1968 Alain Vasseur
- 1967 Georges Pintens
Juniors
The junior competition runs under the name Le Pavé de Roubaix . The race has been part of the UCI Men Juniors Nations' Cup since 2007 .
- 2019 Hidde van Veenendaal
- 2018 Lewis Askey
- 2017 Thomas Pidcock
- 2016 Jarno Mobach
- 2015 Bram Worlds
- 2014 Magnus Klaris
- 2013 Mads Pedersen
- 2012 Mads Würtz Schmidt
- 2011 Florian Sénéchal
- 2010 Jasper Stuyven
- 2009 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
- 2008 Andrew Fenn
- 2007 Fabien Taillefer
- 2006 Raymond Kreder
- 2005 Michael Bear
- 2004 Geraint Thomas
- 2003 Anthony Colin
See also
Web links
- Official website (men's races)
- Official website (women's races)
- Paris – Roubaix - the queen of the classics, la Pascale, the hell of the north. cycling4fans.com, accessed April 26, 2015 .
- Tortur de France - Paris-Roubaix cycling classic. spiegel.de, accessed on April 26, 2015 .
- Paris – Roubaix in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Paris-Roubaix Espoirs in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Paris-Roubaix Juniors in the ProCyclingStats.com database
literature
- Philippe Bouvet, Pierre Callewaert, Jean-Luc Gatellier: Paris – Roubaix. The hell of the north . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7688-3268-7 .
- Pascal Sergent: Paris-Roubaix. Chronique d'une legend. 1896-1991 . Editions VC Roubaix, 1990. (French)
- Pascal Sergent: A century of Paris-Roubaix. Bromley Books, England. ISBN 0-9531729-0-2 . (English)
- Un siècle de Paris – Roubaix. Editions Eekloonaar, Eeklo, 1996. (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Procycling. (German edition), April 2013, p. 94 ff: Paris-Roubaix racing preview.
- ↑ Jessica Bretsch: Spring Classics - History and Marketing . In: Lars Nuschke / Christian Becker (eds.): Quo vadis cycling? The "scandal sport" between doping and sponsors . Sterke, Göttingen 2008, p. 135 .
- ↑ Les Woodland: The real Hell of the North. In: Cyclingnews. April 18, 2006, accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ^ Distance cycling race Paris-Roubaix. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the New Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , April 20, 1896, p. 399 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Distance ride and armband. : Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , year 1896, p. 399 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Jessica Bretsch: Spring Classics - History and Marketing . In: Lars Nuschke / Christian Becker (eds.): Quo vadis cycling? The "scandal sport" between doping and sponsors . Sterke, Göttingen 2008, p. 134 .
- ↑ Quoted from: Benjo Maso : The sweat of the gods. The history of cycling . Covadonga Verlag , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-936973-60-0 , p. 278 .
- ^ Nico Dick: Organizer Parijs-Roubaix U19: "Degenkolb is een zegen voor onze sport". In: WielerFlits. Retrieved February 17, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ Because of the corona virus: The death of the bike races. In: wort.lu. March 18, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ The first Paris-Roubaix for women is eagerly awaited. In: classic.rad-net.de. May 6, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Paris-Roubaix 2020 canceled due to rising corona numbers. In: classic.rad-net.de. October 9, 2020, accessed October 9, 2020 .
- ^ Paris-Roubaix postponed to autumn. In: rad-net.de. April 1, 2021, accessed April 1, 2021 .
- ↑ Benjo Maso: The Sweat of the Gods. The history of cycling . Covadonga Verlag , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-936973-60-0 , p. 279 .
- ↑ 111. Paris-Roubaix with 27 Pavé sectors. radsport-news.com, April 3, 2013, accessed April 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Inquiétude pour Michael Goolaerts, victime d'un malaise en course sur Paris-Roubaix lequipe.fr, April 8, 2018, updated 3:29 pm, accessed April 9, 2018. (French)
- ^ Paris-Roubaix: Michael Goolaerts est décédé. L'Équipe , April 8, 2018, accessed April 9, 2018 (French).
- ↑ La marbrerie Vandermalière grave les pavés du nom des vainqueurs de Paris-Roubaix. In: lavoixdunord.fr. April 11, 2019, accessed June 2, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Follow the Badger. (No longer available online.) Rouleur.cc, archived from the original on September 7, 2015 ; accessed on April 26, 2015 .
- ^ Paris-Roubaix: cinq arrivées mythiques. europe1.fr, April 10, 2011, accessed on April 26, 2015 (French).