Blog - Paris-Roubaix

Fabian Cancellara does a double victory with Paris-Roubaix 2010 after the Tour of Flanders!

The scenario was almost the same as in the Tour of Flanders 2010 which he won last week: Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank) placed an attack at the right moment in the 108th edition of Paris-Roubaix, continued as if he was doing an individual time trial and finished as the winner in the Vélodrome of Roubaix!

His main competitor Tom Boonen (Quick Step) finished 5th behind Thor Hushovd (Cervélo TestTeam), Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) and Roger Hammond (Cervélo TestTeam).

A summary of Paris-Roubaix 2010

The liste of participating riders for Paris-Roubaix 2010 and their numbers

This article has not been translated in English. However, you can still consult it below to discover the full list of participating riders to Paris-Roubaix 2010 and their numbers.

Au vue de l'immense popularité de mon article avec le parcours et l'itinéraire horaire de Paris-Roubaix 2010, je me suis dit que la liste des partants et leurs numéros de dossard allait également vous intéresser !

En cadeau, je vous donne également les liens vers les interviews avec quelques uns des coureurs qui seront aujourd'hui au départ de Paris-Roubaix 2010 à Compiègne.

La liste des partants des 25 équipes de Paris-Roubaix 2010

The Paris-Roubaix 2010 route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

This Sunday, between Compiègne and Roubaix, the queen race of the classics, the 108th edition of Paris-Roubaix will take place.

The Paris-Roubaix 2010 route, also known as the Hell of the North, hasn't changed since last year, but you'll find it for the very first time, as a whole, with all cobble zones, on Google Maps on paris.thover.com. In this article you can also download the route in Google Earth which for example allows you to do a virtual fly-over.

The Paris-Roubaix 2010 route on Google Maps

Tom Boonen won the Hell of the North (Paris-Roubaix) for the third time yesterday

After 2005 and 2008, Tornado Tom won his third Paris-Roubaix yesterday in Roubaix.
In the Vélodrome he crossed the finish line way before number two, Filippo Pozzato.

Just like last year and as it's usually the case in the race which is also called the Hell of the North, the 27 cobble stone zones - of 52,9 kilometers from a total of 259 kilometers - gave several falls, flat tyres and sometimes clouds of dust.

The description of the race

Tom Boonen wins the Hell of the North (Paris-Roubaix)

Paris-Roubaix, the race which is also called the Hell of the north (for the north of France) or also la Dure des dures, has taken place today under a lightly clouded sky (with sometimes even some sun) and thus without the rain which had been announced before the start of the race. The 28 cobbled road zones with a total length of 52,8 kilometers of the total 259,5 kilometers did however have the same effect as usual with some falls, flat tyres and sometimes even some dust clouds.

Tom Boonen passed the finish line on Roubaix' vélodrome first and thereby won this difficult classic cycling race.

After a few escapes without many success three riders finally took a lead when they jumped away at 10 kilometers from the first cobbled stone zone: the Dutch Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop), the Belgian Jan Kuycks (Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner) and the Russian Alexander Serov (Tinkoff Credit Systems).

One of the favourites for the race victory, Thor Hushovd, abandonned ...