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Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1932 edition | 1934 edition

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The race:

The 1933 Paris-Roubaix was 255 km long and raced at an average speed of 36.52 km/hr.

There were 129 starters and 44 classified finishers.

At Beauvais Sylvère Maes attacked, taking Julien Vervaecke, Antonin Magne and Karl Thallinger with him.

Vervaecke accelerated on the hill at Doullens, leaving Magne and Thallinger behind but taking along young Maes.

In Roubaix, Maes left Vervaecke many bike lengths behind to notch his first major win. Maes would go on to win the Tour de France twice.

From left: 1933 Paris-Roubaix winner Sylvère Maes, 1935 Tour winner Romain Maes (unrelated) and American expatriate (the next year she would become a French citizen) singer Joséphine Baker at the start of the 1936 Tour de France

Complete Results:

1. Sylvère Maes (Alcyon-Dunlop) 5hr 59min 0sec.

2. Julien Vervaecke (Alcyon-Dunlop) s.t.
3. Léon Le Calvez @ 1min 48sec
4. Ludwig Geyer (Oscar Egg) s.t.
5. Maurice Archambaud (Alcyon Dunlop) s.t.
6. Alfons Deloor (Dilecta-Wolber) @ 1min 58sec
7. Gaston Rebry (Alcyon-Dunlop) s.t.
8. Charles Pélissier (Génial Lucifer-Hutchinson) s.t.
9. Emile Decroix @ 3min 43sec
10. René Bernard (Lutetia-Wolber) @ 4min 16sec
11. Max Bulla (Oscar Egg) @ 4min 51sec
12. Willy Kutschbach @ 6min 32sec
13. Antonin Magne (France Sport-Wolber) s.t.
14. Fernand Mithouard (Lutetia-Wolber) s.t.
15. Gustaaf Deloor (Dilecta-Wolber) s.t.
16. Romain Gijssels (Dilecta-Wolber)s.t.
17. Georges Speicher (Alcyon-Dunlop) @ 9min 0sec
18. Marcel Bidot s.t.
19. Jef Demuysere (Génial Lucifer-Hutchinson) s.t.
20. Domenico Piemontesi (Génial Lucifer-Hutchinson) @ 11min 32sec
21. Léopold Roosemont (Alcyon-Dunlop) @ 11min 40sec
22. Jean Driancourt (Lutetia-Wolber) @ 11min 45sec
23. Louis Duerloo (Génial Lucifer-Hutchinson) s.t.
24. Roger Lapèbie (La Française-Dunlop) @ 12min 20sec
25. Paul Chocque @ 13min 35sec
26. Jean Noret (Lutetia-Wolber) @ 14min 30sec
27. Herbert Sieronski s.t.
28. Julien Moineau (France Sport-Wolber) s.t.
29. Frans Bonduel (Dilecta-Wolber) @ 16min 30sec
30. Louis Roels @ 16min 35sec
31. Alfons Ghesquière (Alcyon-Dunlop) s.t.
32. Raymond Louviot (Génial Lucifer) @ 19min 1sec
33. Karl Thallinger (Oscar Egg) @ 19min 29sec
34. Pierre Magne (France Sport-Wolber) @ 21min 29sec
35. Georges Antenen
36. André Aumerle
37. August Van Tricht
38. Léon Louyet (Génial Lucifer)
39. Léopold Gérard (Depas Cycles)
40. Jean Wauters (Thomann-Dunlop)
41. François Gardier (Depas Cycles)
42. August Monciero
43. Constant Dyzers (Dilecta-Wolber)
44. Alfons Verniers (Dilecta-Wolber)