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2000 Paris–Roubaix

These are the results for the 2000 edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycling classic, in which Johan Museeuw took his second Roubaix win.


1981 Paris–Roubaix

In the velodrome, Hennie Kuiper took the lead to favour the sprint of De Vlaeminck.

1983 Paris–Roubaix

His team managed to deliver a new bike in time, and Hennie Kuiper entered the velodrome in Roubaix on his own.

Despite crashing twice, Hennie Kuiper maintained a position in the lead group, and knowing that Moser possessed the superior finish, Kuiper attacked from distance.

The 1983 version of the Paris–Roubaix is generally regarded as a classic primarily due to Hennie Kuiper overcoming two crashes and a puncture, yet still strong enough to prevail in the face of some very elite competition.

1996 Paris–Roubaix

These are the results for the 1996 edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycling classic, in which Johan Museeuw won his first Paris-Roubaix.

2001 Paris–Roubaix

These are the results for the 2001 edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycling classic, in which Servais Knaven won and Domo-Farm Frites team took all positions in the podium.

2002 Paris–Roubaix

These are the results for the 2002 edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycling classic, in which Johan Museeuw entered history by winning his third Paris–Roubaix after an impressive attack 40 kilometres from the Velodrome of Roubaix.

2006 Paris–Roubaix

In the leading group Joost Posthuma, Enrico Franzoi, Nicolas Portal and Stephan Schreck lost contact with the leading group although Portal would eventually rejoin the lead.

2011 Paris–Roubaix

The 2011 Paris–Roubaix was the 109th running of the Paris–Roubaix single-day cycling race, often known as the Hell of the North.

A Sunday in Hell

The film is a chronology of the 1976 Paris–Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

Alfred Desenclos

To support his family Desenclos had to renounce continuing his general studies and work as an industrial designer until the age of 20, but in 1929 he entered the Conservatory in Roubaix, France, to study piano.

Anthony McCrossan

He has commentated live, and voiced over thousands of hours of television, covering all the major races in the world including The Tour De France, Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a España, Tour of California and every major classic including Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Liege Bastogne Liege, Amstel Gold, Milan San Remo, as well as the World Road and Track Championships.

Au Vélodrome

At the Cycle‐Race Track illustrates the final meters of the Paris–Roubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt.

At the Cycle‐Race Track illustrates the final yards of the Paris–Roubaix race, and portrays Charles Crupelandt, the 1912 winner, according to the art historian Erasmus Weddigen.

Barry-Roubaix

The course is located in Barry County, Michigan at the Gun Lake Unit of Yankee Springs Recreation Area.

Bernard Amadei

Bernard Amadei (born July 23, 1954 in Roubaix, France) is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, founder of Engineers Without Borders (USA), and former director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities.

Bob Roll

Roll continues to enjoy riding road and mountain bicycles for recreation, and is a member of the veteran cable television broadcasting team (along with Phil Liggett, MBE and Paul Sherwen) who serve as road cycling expert-commentators for the NBC Sports Network cable network's coverage of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Paris–Roubaix, Tour of California, and other international cycling road races.

Christophe Caze

Returning to France, he led a group of mostly Algerian terrorists, based in Roubaix, France on a spree of robbing banks, armoured cars and shops - before they were raided at their apartment after police discovered a bomb inside a Peugeot three blocks from the 1996 G7 meeting.

Domo-Farm Frites

The team won several notable one-day races in their existence, notably including a podium sweep of 2001 Paris-Roubaix led by Servais Knaven, 2002 Paris-Roubaix by Johan Museeuw, and 2001 Paris-Tours by Richard Virenque.

Éditions Philippe Amaury

Amaury Sport Organisation is one of the largest promoters of sports events in France, including the Tour de France and Paris–Roubaix bicycle races, the Paris–Dakar Rally, the Paris Marathon and the Open de France golf tournament.

Émile Masson Jr.

Masson was Belgian road race champion twice, and won important races such as La Flèche Wallonne, Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris.

Esmod

ESMOD international has a wide network in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Rennes, Lyon and Roubaix), and throughout the world (Berlin, Munich, Beijing, Beirut, Damascus, Dubai, Jakarta, Osaka, Tokyo, Oslo, Seoul, São Paulo, Sousse, Tunisia and Malaysia ; a reputed school recognized by professionals.

Fatiha Ouali

Fatiha Ouali (born October 25, 1974 in Roubaix, Nord) is a female race walker from France.

Gérard Mulliez

Gérard Paul Louis Marie-Joseph Mulliez (born on 13 May 1931 at Roubaix) is a French businessman.

Grande Roue de Paris

Théodore Vienne, the industrialist and founder of the Paris–Roubaix cycle race, was both owner and director of the Grande Roue de Paris.

Henri Bouchard

Its collections, including a large figure of Apollo displayed at the Palais de Chaillot, plus over a thousand other works such as bronze casts, stone sculptures, and original plaster works, have been transferred to the Musée de La Piscine in Roubaix.

Lille tramway

The system consists of two interurban lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, and has 36 stations.

Michel Dens

Michel Dens (22 June 1911, Roubaix - 19 December 2000, Paris) was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory, both opera and operetta.

Pascal Delannoy

Delannoy then served in a parish in Roubaix for two years, after which he was made responsible for diocesan activities in independent sites (1991–1999), and in 1997 was also named the Dean of the urban district of Roubaix and of Bailleul.

Prudent Joye

Born in Roubaix on 15 December 1913, he began competing at the elite level of athletics in his early twenties and broke Jean Bouin's French record on 23 July 1936, running a time of 53.4 seconds.

Qui a le droit...

The singer notably performed "Qui a le droit..." live at the 2008 Telethon in Roubaix.

Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion

In 1996, in Roubaix, the unit neutralized a 14-terrorists group tied to the GIA, suspected of several bloody bank robberies, murders and a missed attack against a G7 meeting in Lille.

Roubaix, South Dakota

Roubaix was chosen in honor of the hometown of local Frenchman Pierre Wibaux, who was one of the Uncle Sam Mine's main investors.

Taso Mathieson

In 1952 he bought a Ferrari in which he finished 6th place overall and first in the 3-litre class in the Targa Florio and in 1953 he won his class at Roubaix and Bressuire in a 2-litre Maserati.

Transpole

The tram system consists of two interurban tram lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, and has 45 stops.

It links Lomme, to the west of Lille, to the Belgian border, via central Lille, the Gare de Lille-Flandres, Roubaix and Tourcoing.

Villa Cavrois

Villa Cavrois in Croix is a large mansion built in 1932, for Paul Cavrois, an industrialist from Roubaix - he was working in the textile industry - by Parisian architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.


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