The price is 253 kilometers long and takes riders over 52.7 kilometers cobblestones, 1.6 kilometers more than last year. 27 Paris-Roubaix cobblestones there has to be one less than last year.
The first hundred kilometers is still relatively quiet steps for the riders, who are then faced with the cobbled streets. One is the Hélesmes à Wallers, where Lars Boom searched in the fifth stage of the Tour de France 2014 attack, and then as the winner to the finish line.
The cobblestones in the Wallers, the Trouée d’Arenberg, can cause crashes. The strip goes downhill, so the leaders have to sit in the front care, so as not to be held up by a possible crash
Photo Series:. Last ten winners Paris-Roubaix:
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Three of the cobblestones that Sunday will be held, also in the course of the fourth stage of the Tour de France : Quiévy à Saint-Python Saint-Python and Verchain-Maugré
Paris-Roubaix, the WorldTour rate consistently in the second weekend of April and one week after the Tour of Flanders is held,. begins Sunday at 10:30.
The cobbled classic forms together with the Tour of Flanders, Milan-San Remo, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy one of the five ‘monuments’.
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Contenders
Given its profit last year Niki Terpstra perhaps the big favorite for Sunday to write the classic in its name. The rider of Etixx-QuickStep took in 2014 at three kilometers from the measured distance of the leading group and finished first. Terpstra’s in shape and ended last Sunday in the Tour of Flanders took second.
The number one in Flanders, Alexander Kristoff , is also not depreciate in the Inferno of the North ‘. The Katyusha rider had in previous years never easy in Paris-Roubaix, but should not be forgotten.
In addition Terpstra and Kristoff can John Degenkolb (Giant Alpecin) Sep Vanmarcke (Lotto Jumbo) and Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep) participate to the finish, located in the Velodrome. The three riders finished in the previous edition, respectively, second, fourth and fifth.
In the ‘Hell of the North’ is also sometimes outsiders surfaced as recent winners as Magnus Backstedt (2004) and Johan Vansummeren (2011 )
The multiple winner Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellara miss Paris-Roubaix by impact of a crash
Top 5 in 2014:..
1. Niki Terpstra
2. John Degenkolb
3. Fabian Cancellara
4. Sep Vanmarcke
5. Zdenek Stybar
Record number of victories: Tom Boonen and Roger De Vlaeminck (4 victories)
First edition: in 1896, won by Josef Fischer
Participating teams with brackets the leader (s):
AG2R (Johan Vansummeren, Sébastien Turgot); Astana (Lars Boom); BMC (Greg Van Avermaet); Bora-Argon (Jan Barta); Brittany (Brice Feillu); Cannondale Garmin (Sebastian Langeveld); Cofidis (Cyril Lemoine); Etixx-QuickStep (Niki Terpstra, Zdenek Stybar); Europcar (Alexandre Pichot, Jimmy Engoulvent); FDJ (Arnaud Démare); Allegiant Alpecin (John Degenkolb); IAM Cycling (Sylvain Chavanel); Katyusha (Alexander Kristoff); Lampre-Farnese Vini (Filippo Pozzato); Lotto Jumbo (Sep Vanmarcke); Lotto Soudal (André Greipel, Jurgen Roelandts); Movistar (José Joaquín Rojas); MTN (Tyler Farrar); Orica-GreenEDGE (Jens Keukeleire); Team Sky (Geraint Thomas, Bradley Wiggins); Team Saxo Bank-SunGard (Peter Sagan); Topsport Vlaanderen (Edward Theuns, Jelle Wallays); Trek (Jasper Stuyven, Stijn Devolder); United Healthcare (Alessandro Bazzana, Robert Forster, Daniel Summerhill); Wanty Groupe Gobert (Björn Mans)
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