Here are the top 18 fastest Paris-Roubaix editions – the winner, average speed, winning time, and weather conditions.
The average speed of the fastest Paris-Roubaix ever (2024 edition) was 47.8 km/h (29.7 mph), won by the Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck.
A beautiful photo of the two cycling giants: Bernard Hinault and Francesco Moser, during the 1981 Paris-Roubaix. The photo was taken by Albert Van Donghe. Hinault won the race prevailing in front of former four times winner Roger De Vlaeminck and reigning triple winner Francesco Moser on a rainy and muddy day. Ironically, Paris-Roubaix was the race that Bernard Hinault hated the most and despite that, he managed to win with the world champion’s rainbow jersey on his back.
Santini Paris-Roubaix Collection 2022: Santini is celebrating the Paris-Roubaix, one of the five Great Classics, with two special collections. One collection contains a jersey and a technical t-shirt, for both men and women, inspired by the colors and patterns used to mark out the cobblestone sectors along the route. The L’Enfer du Nord capsule collection, however, features fiery colors in a nod to the Hell of the North. The jerseys and technical t-shirts of both collections are combined with bibshorts, baselayer, jacket, vest, and accessories.
Santini will provide cycling wear for northern classics in the 2022 season: Santini Cycling Wear and A.S.O. (Amaury Sport Organisation) are delighted to announce that from 2022, their partnership will extend beyond the Tour de France Yellow Jersey towards A.S.O.’s other prestigious events Paris-Roubaix, Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Paris-Tours. Santini will also be partner of Paris-Roubaix Femmes, Flèche Wallonne Femmes and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes.
One of the first projects to stem from this partnership expansion is a cycling wear collection for each of the four Northern European classics, to be unveiled by Santini in the New Year.
The riders of French UCI ProTeam Delko will wear a LOOK 1985 “La Vie Claire”-inspired Mondrian kit in the 2021 Paris-Roubaix.
The original 1985 La Vie Claire jersey was perhaps one of the most beautiful cycling jerseys of all time, and the new Team Delko kit is also strikingly beautiful.
eSAS, the world’s first front and rear electronically-controlled suspension system for road and gravel bikes has passed the test of the Paris-Roubaix’s notorious pavé with flying colors. The high-tech solution developed by the Milan-based electronic suspension leader, HiRide, was used with great success both during an exclusive international media road test and on some of the pro bikes during the grueling race itself.
Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) won Paris-Roubaix 2018: the triple world champion attacked from a group of favorites with 54 km to go, caught the two remnants of the early break (Silvan Dillier of AG2R la Mondiale and Jelle Wallays of Lotto Soudal). Wallays quickly dropped, but Dillier was still going strong, he started sharing the work with Sagan and they were never seen again.
Greg Van Avermaet, BMC Racing Team’s Belgian rider won Paris-Roubaix 2017, the 115th edition of the “Queen of the classics” with a record average speed of 45.129 kph (28.042 mph). Avermaet broke Peter Post’s record of 45.204 kph (28.088 mph) which was set in 1964.
Paris-Roubaix 2015 Route and Cobbled sectors: the 113th edition of Paris-Roubaix will be running from Compiègne – Clairoix to Roubaix and will cover a total distance of 253.5 kilometers. There are 27 cobbled sectors (a total of 52,7 km).
This year’s route is not completely flat, especially the first part contains many roller-coaster climbs and downhills. The first cobbled sector, Troisvilles is at 98.5km.
Today’s historic photo of the day: KAS rider Alfred Achermann crashes heavily and retires from the race on the Paris-Roubaix cobbles, in the Arenberg Forest. 86th edition of the “Queen of the classics”, Sunday, April 10, 1988.
1988 Paris-Roubaix surprisingly won by Belgian Dirk Demol (later, he was the Directeur sportif of the UCI Pro team RadioShack). With 27 km to go, a group of unknown riders broke away. The peloton did nothing to chase them down. It was on a section of cobblestones outside Roubaix that Swiss rider Thomas Wegmuller (KAS) and Dirk Demol (AD Renting) broke away from the lead group to search for the victory.