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Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1924 edition | 1926 edition

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The race:

The 1925 Paris-Roubaix was 260 km long and raced an an average speed of 28.03 km/hr.

There were 126 starters and 78 classified finishers. I'm sorry, I have no time splits. 29 riders were awarded 7th place.

There was a powerful Italian delegation entered, including immortals Costante Girardengo and Alfredo Binda.

Binda tried to escape but the Pélissier brothers were having none of that.

The pack remained together so that 37 riders contested the finish on the Avenue des Villas in Roubaix. Three-time winner of Paris-Brussels, Félix Sellier, went by Jules van Hevel at almost the last moment to beat perhaps the best Paris-Roubaix field to date

1925 Paris-Roubaix winner Felix Sellier in a 1923 photo taken at the late season race the Criterium des As

Complete Results:

1. Félix Sellier (Alcyon-Dunlop) 9hr 16min 32sec

2. Pietro Bestetti (Wolsit-Pirelli) @ 1 bike length
3. Jules Van Hevel (Wonder)
4. Pietro Linari (Wolsit-Pirelli)
5. Heiri Suter (Griffon)
6. Adelin Benoit (Thomann-Dunlop)
   Romain Bellenger
   Alfredo Binda (Legnano-Pirelli)
   Adolf Van Bruaene (La Française)
   Giovanni Brunero (Legnano-Pirelli)
   Eugène Christophe (JB Louvet-Pouchois)
   Gérard Debaets
   Albert Dejonghe (JB Louvet-Pouchois)
   Julien Delbecque (Armor-Dunlop)
   Maurice Dewaele (Wonder)
   Albert Flahaut (JB Louvet-Pouchois)
   Costante Girardengo (Wolsit-Pirelli)
   Marcel Gobillot (Alcyon-Dunlop)
   Félix Goethals (Thomann-Dunlop)
   Emile Masson, Sr. (Alcyon-Dunlop)
   Francis Pélissier (Automoto-Hutchinson)
   Henri Pélissier (Automoto-Hutchinson)
   René Vermandel
   Omer Vermeulen
   Denis Verschueren (Wonder)
   Maurice Ville
   André Vugé
   Robert Gerbaud (Dilecta-Wolber)
   Florent Van den Berghe
   Maurits Van Hyfte (Wonder)
   Max Suter (Griffon-Dunlop)
   Pierre Beffarat (Aiglon-Dunlop)
   Camille Omeye
   Jean Debusschere
35. Vincent Bianco
36. René Deguai
37. Marcel Huot (Alcyon-Dunlop)
38. Hector Martin (JB Louvet-Puchois)
39. Victor Standaert
40. Auguste Mortelmans (JB Louvet-Puchois)
41. Charles Cento
42. Raymond De Corte (JB Louvet-Puchois)
43. Georges Cuvelier (Méteore-Wolber)
44. Ottavio Bottecchia (Automoto-Hutchinson)
45. Georges Detreille (JB Louvet-Puchois)
46. Honoré Barthélémy (Méteore-Wolber)
47. Federico Gay
48. Marcel Jouanneau
49. Albert Bolly
50. Bartolomeo Aimo
51. Léon Despontin
52. Alfred Steux
53. Léon Luites
54. Léon Van Aken
55. Lucien Buysse
56. Georges Leblanc
57. Alexis Blanc-Garin
58. Omer Huyse
59. Giovanni Canova
60. Francis Copin
61. Antoine Candini
62. Joseph Arduino
63. Léon Braeckeveldt
64. Joseph Jumet
65. Norbert Larose
66. Armand Lemée
67. François Chevalier
68. Corret
69. Louis Millo
70. Victor Lafosse
71. Albert Rousselle
72. Jean Pennanneach
73. Constant Lhote
74. Simon
75. Léopold Boisselle
76. Marcel Burtz
77. Gaston Rebry
78. Ernest Schiavo