1900 Paris - Roubaix
5th edition: Sunday, April 15, 1900
Complete results
Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1899 edition | 1901 edition
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The race:
The race was Motor-Paced.
The winner, Emile Bouhours was a track specialist with 24 world records.
He was four-times French motor-pace champion with a second and a third in the worlds in motor-pacing.
He started the Tour de France twice, in 1905 and 1913.
The 1900 edition of Paris-Roubaix was marred by many crashes.
Undated photo of winner Emile Bouhours
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Emile Bouhours in 1904
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Complete results:
23 starters, 10 finishers
269 km. (Some sources say 268 km.) raced at an average speed of 37.352 km/hr.
- Emile Bouhours (France) 7hr 10min 30sec
- Josef Fischer (Germany) @ 18min
- Maurice Garin (France) @ 38min 30sec. Garin did not complete the track laps on the Roubaix velodrome, but was awarded third anyway.
- Lucien Itsweire (France) @ 56min 30sec
- Oscar Lepoutre (France) @ 1hr 55min 30sec
- Edouard Simon (France) @ 3hr 29min 30sec
- Edouard Dubreucq (Belgium) @ 3hr 37min 30sec
- Hippolyte Aucouturier (France) @ 4hr 1min 30sec
- Emilie Pagie (France) @ 5hr 4min 30sec
- Lucien Pothier (France) @ 5hr 39min 30sec
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