1896 Paris–Roubaix

1st Paris–Roubaix 19 April 1896 1 280 km 9h 17' 00" Josef Fischer GER empire Charles Meyer DEN Maurice Garin ITA 1861 1897 The first edition of Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France, was held on 19 April 1896. The event covered 280 km 0 on from Paris to the velodrome in Roubaix.http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k613862k/f3.zoom Vélocipédie Le Petit journal 19 April 1896 16 March 2010 Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique French 3 The winner was German Josef Fischer who received 1.000 francs for the win, a considerable sum of money at the time.http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k613863z/f3.zoom Vélocipédie Le Petit journal 20 April 1896 16 March 2010 Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique French 3102nd Paris Roubaix Preview http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=5951 Le Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 11 April 2013 9 April 2004 Janna Trevisanut https://web.archive.org/web/20070920081628/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=5951 20 September 2007 dead dmy-allRace winners since 1896 http://www.letour.fr/2013/PRX/HISTO/us/palmaresdepuis.html Le Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 11 April 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130410044237/http://www.letour.fr/2013/PRX/HISTO/us/palmaresdepuis.html 10 April 2013 dead dmy-all The race, as were all editions until 1909, was motorpaced.Paris-Roubaix preview http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/347299/paris-roubaix-preview.html Cycling Weekly IPC Media 11 April 2008 9 April 2004 Lionel Birnie Lionel Birnie Origin thumb|The riders on the start line The race was created by two Roubaix textile manufacturers, Théodore Vienne and Maurice Perez, who had built a velodrome in Roubaix and wished to promote the track. Sergent Pascal Chronique d'une légende: Paris–Roubaix 1 Flandria Nostra 1989 13–18 Before its first running, it was first presented to the sponsor, Le Vélo, as a training race for the then well-established, now defunct, Bordeaux–Paris.http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=14535 Paris–Roubaix - A History Daily Peloton Info Média Conseil Inc. 11 August 2011 10 April 2009 Staff https://web.archive.org/web/20120223152144/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=14535 2012-02-23 dead As Roubaix was a small provincial town at the time, a professional bike race finishing there would be very good for business. Paul Rousseau, the director of Le Vélo, agreed to start the race outside the paper's offices in Paris. He designed a route and sent out Victor Breyer,N the man who stood at the top of the Tourmalet in 1910 and was called a "murderer" by a rider in order to test the route. Breyer drove to Amiens by car, before continuing by bike the following day. When he reached Roubaix, he was cold and covered in mud. He was miserable enough to suggest the race be called off, but a shower and a meal changed his mind.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/apr06/roubaix06/?id=/features/2006/woodland_hell_of_the_north The real Hell of the North Cyclingnews.com Future plc Bath, UK 2004-04-18 2012-09-26 Race overview As many as half the riders who were supposed to ride stayed in bed, including Henri Desgrange, who later organised the first Tour de France. Notably, the winner of that first Tour de France, Maurice Garin, did start the race, finished third and went on to win the following two editions in subsequent years."Podiums Paris roubaix Pro" (French) lesamisdeparisroubaix.com Retrieved 2010-02-21 The race was full of incidents, Welshman Arthur Linton, who finished fourth, crashed six times, once after hitting a dog. The winner, Josef Fischer, had a lead of 23 minutes until he was almost knocked off by a horse and was then halted by cows. When Fischer entered the velodrome in Roubaix he was covered in filth and blood. Only three other riders finished within an hour, all in similar conditions. Results thumb|upright|Josef Fischer won the first ever Paris–Roubaix.|alt=A man posing while sitting on a bike. +Final results (1-10)http://www.the-sports.org/cycling-paris-roubaix-1896-results-men-s2-c0-b0-g22-t43-u227-m44678-v1.html Cycling - Paris–Roubaix - 1896 The-Sports.org Info Média Conseil Inc. 11 August 2011RankCyclistTime 1 Josef Fischer GER empire 9h 17' 00″ 2 Charles Meyer DEN +25' 00″ 3 Maurice Garin ITA 1861 +28' 00″ 4 Arthur Linton GBR +45' 00″ 5 Lucien Stein FRA +1h 01' 00″ 6 Boinet FRA +1h 01' 50″ 7 Emile Van Berendonck BEL +1h 07' 50″ 8 Henri Aries FRA +1h 43' 00″ 9 Gaston Pachot FRA +2h 02' 00″ 10 Pierre Mercier FRA +2h 16' 00″ Final results (11–26)RankCyclistTime 11 Gouff FRA +2h 29' 00″ 12 Eugène Faiteau FRA +2h 44' 00″ 13 Liermi FRA +4h 03' 00″ 14 Gaston Vart FRA +4h 05' 00″ 15 Amédée Naert BEL +4h 16' 00″ 16 Fritz Vanderstuyft BEL +4h 17' 00″ 17 Vendredi FRA +4h 22' 00″ 18 Emile Taquet FRA +5h 22' 00″ 19 Arsène Millocheau FRA +6h 01' 00″ 20 Lecornu FRA +7h 23' 00″ 21 Revilio Norsath FRA +8h 01' 00″ 22 Vautrelle FRA +8h 02' 00″ 23 Georges Aymard FRA s.t. 24 Sagre FRA +8h 11' 00″ 25 Feys BEL +8h 39' 00″ 26 Guillochin FRA s.t. 27 Theron FRA s.t. 28 Albert Dumas FRA s.t. 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