Paris-Roubaix podium history | 2010 edition | 2012 edition
Results | Photos | cobblestone sectors | Map of race route
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The race:
The 2011 Paris-Roubaix was 258 kilometers long and raced at an average speed of 42.126 km/hr.
There were 27 sectors of cobbles totaling 51.5 km of pavé.
109 riders started the race with 108 classified finishers
As for the weather, this was a nice, dry day, causing the riders to suffer from lots of dust.
Winner Johan Van Summeren left the front group of four riders with fifteen kilometers to go. That was the race. Despite riding the final five kilometers on a flat rear tire (it has been leaking for a while), he held on to finish 19 seconds ahead of 2010 winner Fabian Cancellara.
In the late kilometers Cancellara bridged up to the front break and then went on to win the field sprint for second.
Johan Van Summeren takes the biggest win of his career. Sirotti photo
Photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Fabian Cancellara takes second place in front of Tjallingii and Rast
On to the first cobbles, Troisville á Inchy
Saxo at the front on the Vertain sector
Another shot of riders in the Vertain sector.
Here's a third photo of the riders on the Vertain cobbles.
The riders pass through the Quérénaing sector
Johan Van Summeren is on his way!
Thor Hushovd leads Bernhard Eisel and Fabian Cancellara
Cancellara has Juan Antonio Flecha and Lars Boom on his wheel.
British champion Geraint Thomas
A dry, dusty day on the cobbles
More choking dust
Through the Arenberg Forest
Belgian champ Stijn Devolder
The fans line the road
Another shot of the Orchies sector
The Zysoing sector. Should be Thor Hushovd in the rainbow jersey.
Lars Ytting Bak
Van Summeren hoists the cobbled trophy
The cobblestone sectors. In the chart below each sector has a number which corresponds with the map below, then the distance into the race the sector occurs, its name and length in kilometers.
27 | 98 | Troisvilles à Inchy | 2.2 |
26 | 104,5 | Viesly à Quiévy | 1.8 |
25 | 107 | Quiévy à Saint-Python | 3.7 |
24 | 115,5 | Saint-Python | 1.5 |
23 | 119,5 | Vertain à Saint-Martin-sur-Écaillon | 2.3 |
22 | 126,5 | Capelle-sur-Écaillon à Ruesnes | 1.7 |
21 | 142,5 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes - Famars | 2.6 |
20 | 146 | Famars à Quérénaing | 1.2 |
19 | 149 | Quérénaing à Maing | 2.5 |
18 | 152 | Maing à Monchaux-sur-Écaillon | 1.6 |
17 | 164 | Haveluy à Wallers | 2.5 |
16 | 172 | Trouée d’Arenberg | 2.4 |
15 | 178,5 | Millonfosse à Bousignies | 1.4 |
14 | 183,5 | Brillon à Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes | 1.1 |
14 | 186 | Tilloy à Sars-et-Rosières | 2.4 |
13 | 192,5 | Beuvry-la-Forêt à Orchies | 1.4 |
12 | 197,5 | Orchies | 1.7 |
11 | 203,5 | Auchy-lez-Orchies à Bersée | 2.6 |
10 | 209 | Mons-en-Pévèle | 3.0 |
9 | 215 | Mérignies à Avelin | 0.7 |
8 | 218,5 | Pont-Thibaut à Ennevelin | 1.4 |
7 | 224 | Templeuve - L’Épinette | 0.2 |
7 | 224,5 | Templeuve – Moulin de Vertain | 0.5 |
6 | 231 | Cysoing à Bourghelles | 1.3 |
6 | 233,5 | Bourghelles à Wannehain | 1.1 |
5 | 238 | Camphin-en-Pévèle | 1.8 |
4 | 241 | Carrefour de l’Arbre | 2.1 |
3 | 243 | Gruson | 1.1 |
2 | 250 | Willems à Hem | 1.4 |
1 | 256,5 | Roubaix | 0.3 |
Totale distance of Pavé sectors | 51.5 |