Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1919 edition | 1921 edition

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The race:

The 1920 Paris-Roubaix was 280 km long and was raced at 25.95 km/hr

There were 93 starters and 22 classified finishers

It was a tough day with icy rain.

Attrition brought the lead group down to four: Lucien Buysse, Paul Deman, Honoré Barthélémy and Henri Pélissier, two Belgians and two Frenchmen.

By the time Deman was within two kilometers of Roubaix, he had lost the others; Pélissier suffered a puncture and Buysse and Barthélémy had mechanical trouble.

Deman, the winner of the first Tour of Flanders in 1913, had started the 1920 Paris-Roubaix just to see if he could finish it.

Indeed he could.

 

Winner Paul Deman

Complete Results:

1. Paul Deman: 10hr 47min 20sec.

2. Eugène Christophe @ 43sec
3. Lucien Buysse s.t.
4. Honoré Barthélémy (La Sportive) @ 1min 0sec
5. Jules Van Hevel @ 6min 23sec
6. Henri Pélissier (JB Louvet) @ 7min 26sec
7. Robert Gerbaud s.t.
8. Giuseppe Azzini (Bianchi-Pirelli) @ 15min 40sec
9. Félix Goethals (La Sportive) @ 16min 40sec
10. Marcel Buysse (Bianchi-Pirelli) @ 27min 42sec
11. Henri Hanlet @ 39min 40sec
12. Jules Masselis (La Sportive) s.t.
13. Heiri Suter (Stucchi-Dunlop) @ 41min 40sec
14. Henri Van Lerberghe @ 59min 40sec
15. Hector Heusghem (La Sportive) @ 1hr 20min
16. Ernest Géry s.t.
17. Ernest Lemaire s.t.
18. Jules Matton @ 1hr 33sec
19. Guillaume Theys @ 1hr @ 1hr 35min
20. Eugène Dhers (La Sportive) @ 1hr 36min
21. Joseph Schoettel s.t.
22. Camille Botte (JB Louvet) s.t.