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Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1955 edition | 1953 edition

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The race:

The 1954 Paris-Roubaix was 246 km kilometers long and raced at an average speed of 35.59 km/hr

We don't know how many riders started the race, but there were 112 classified finishers. The names of several of the last finishers remain unknown.

A small group of favorites were together when, at the instigation of his director Antonin Magne, Ramond Impanis attacked 1,500 meters from the finish.

He crossed the line with a 100-meter lead. Impanis had accomplished the Paris-Nice/Tour of Flanders/Paris-Roubaix triple 20 years after Gaston Rebry had done the same.

Time splits after second place are nowhere to be found.

Raymond Impanis

Complete Known Results:

1. Raymond Impanis (Mercier-BP-Hutchinson) 6hr 54min 43sec
2. Constant "Stan" Ockers (Peugeot-Dunlop) @ 6sec

3. Marcel Rijckaert
4. Ferdy Kübler
5. Serge Blusson
6. Raoul Rémy (Mercier-BP-Hutchinson)
7. Marcel De Mulder (Terrot-Hutchinson)
8. Germain Derycke (Alcyon-Dunlop)
9. Henri Surbatis (Rochet-Dunlop)
10. Roger Decock (Bertin-D'Alessandro)
11. Rik van Looy
12. Gilbert Scodeller
13. Attilio Redolfi (Mercier-BP-Hutchinson)
14. Jacques Renaud
15. René Mertens (Groene Leeuw)
16. Donato Piazza (Bianchi-Pirelli)
17. Dominique Forlini
18. Giorgio Albani (Legnano)
19. Hugo Koblet
20. Roger Hassenforder (Mercier-BP-Hutchinson)
21. Gerrit Voorting (Locomotief-Vredestein)
22. Michele Gismondi (Bianchi-Pirelli)
23. Eugène Telotte (Mercier-Hutchinson-Le Grevès)
24. Riccardo Filippi (Bianchi-Pirelli)
25. Jean Baldassari (Dilecta-Wolber-JB Louvet)
26. Armand Audaire (Stella-Wolber-Dunlop)
27. Léon Van Daele (Bertin-d'Alessandro)
28. Francis Siguenza (La Perle-Hutchinson)
29. Alfred De Bruyne
30. Louis Caput (Rochet-Dunlop)
31. Albéric "Briek" Schotte (Alcyon-Dunlop)
32. Adriaan Voorting
33. Hein Van Breenen
34. Charles Coste
35. Raymond Hoorelbeke (Alcyon-Dunlop)
36. Fritz Schär [Schaer] (Mondia)
37. Robert Varnajo (Gitane-Hutchinson)
38. Louison Bobet (Stella-Wolber-Dunlop)
39. Robert Chapatte (Rochet-Dunlop)
40. Miguel Poblet (La Perle-Hutchinson)
41. Giuseppe Favero (Bianchi-Pirelli)
42. Jean-Marie Cieleska (Gitane-Hutchinson)
43. Pietro Nascimbene (Legnano)
44. Pierre Barbotin
45. Maurice Blomme (Bertin-d'Alessandro)
46. Jean Bellay (Mercier-Hutchinson-A. Magne))
47. Lucien Matthijs
48. Remo Bartalini (Frejus)
49. Tranquillo Scudellaro (Legnano)
50. Bernard Gauthier (Mercier-BP-Hutchinson)
51. Marcel Hendrickx
52. Andrea Carrea
53. Jacques Anquetil (La Perle-Hutchinson)
54. Marcello Ciolli
55. André Vlaeyen
56. Emile Baffert
57. Jacques Vivier
58. Vincent Vitetta
59. Reanto Ponzini
60. Luciano Pezzi
61. Ugo Anzile
62. Maurice Quentin
63. Guy Carle
64. Antonin Rolland
65. Wout Wagtmans
66. Gilbert Desmet
67. Robert Vanderstockt
68. Alfons Vandenbrande
69. Raphaël Géminiani
70. Robert Desbats
71. Bernard Quennehen
72. Loretto Petrucci
74. Pierre Gaudot
75. Henri Sitek
76. Pasquel Fornara
77. Désiré Marien
79. Noël Lajoie
80. Martin Van Geneugden
81. André Mahé
87. Claude Colette
89. Roger Chupin
90. Mauro Gianneschi
91. Jean Thaurin
92. Louis Barés
94. Gilbert Loof
96. Raymond Guégan
97. Georges Decaux
98. Jean Robic
99. Stanilaus Bober
100. Roland Callebout
105. Ludo Van der Elst
109. Paul De Paepe
112. Jesus Loroño