!PARIS ROUBAIX 2016!
The intro:
One of the most historical races of all time return for its 114th edition. The Hell of the North is one of the most prestigious races on the calendar, and all of the classics specialist will be present at the starting line on Sunday. The riders will aim to win one of the five monuments of the year.
The sections:
The riders will have to tackle 27 cobblestone sectors, divided into difficulty level with stars. The most challenging parts of the route will be marked with 5 stars (Trouée d’Arenberg, Mons-en-Pévèle, Le Carrefour de l’Arbre) and this is where we will get our biggest questions answered.
(Possibly, the first section Troisvilles and other may be cancelled due to mud problems. More to follow)
27 Troisvilles (km 98.5 - 2200 m) 3 stars
26 Viesly (km 105 - 1800 m) 3
25 Quievy (km 108 - 3700 m) 4
24 Saint-Python (km 112.5 - 1500 m) 2
23 Vertain (km 120.5 - 2300 m) 3
22 Capelle-Ruesnes (km 127 – 1700 m) 3
21 Quérénaing - Maing (km 133.5 - 2500 m) 3
20 Monchaux-sur-Ecaillon (km 136.5 - 1600 m) 3
19 Haveluy (km 149.5 - 2500 m) 4
18 Trouée d’Arenberg (km 158 - 2400 m) 5
17 Wallers - Hélesmes. dit « Pont Gibus » (km 164 - 1600 m) 3
16 Hornaing (km 170.5 - 3700 m) 4
15 Warlaing - Brillon (km 178 - 2400 m) 3
14 Tilloy - Sars-et-Rosières (km 181.5 - 2400 m) 4
13 Beuvry-la-Forêt - Orchies (km 188 - 1400m) 3
12 Orchies (km 193 - 1700 m) 3
11 Auchy-lez-Orchies - Bersée (km 199 - 2700 m) 4
10 Mons-en-Pévèle (km 204.5 - 3000 m) 5
9 Mérignies - Avelin (km 210.5 - 700 m) 2
8 Pont-Thibaut (km 214 - 1400 m) 3
7 Templeuve - Moulin de Vertain (km 220 - 500 m) 2
6a Cysoing - Bourghelles (km 226.5 - 1300 m) 3
6b Bourghelles - Wannehain (km 229 - 1100 m) 3
5 Camphin-en-Pévèle (km 233.5 - 1800 m) 4
4 Le Carrefour de l’Arbre (km 236.5 - 2100 m) 5
3 Gruson (km 238.5 - 1100 m) 2
2 Hem (km 245.5 - 1400 m) 2
1 Roubaix (km 252 - 300 m) 1
The weather:
Right now, the weather forecast is predicting partly cloudy weather, with rain in the evening.
The favorites:
Apart from the Tour of Flanders, the Paris-Roubaix presents a route where power will be more important, than kick up the hills.
Fabian Cancellara, Peter Sagan *****
In my opinion, Peter Sagan presented himself in a class of his own last week, soloing his way to the finish line. The question is though, if he will have enough power to follow Fabian Cancellara, who many people thinks has the bigger engine of the two. IMO it will be very close between the two, and right now I do not see who will challenge the two to the title. For me it is between them.
Sep Vanmarcke, Alexander Kristoff, Zdenek Stybar, ****
Vanmarcke did a great ride in the Tour of Flanders, where he absolutely killed himself. Only Sagan and Cancellara proved to be stronger than him. I have therefore decided to put him in the level just below the best. But he is the strongest contender bellow the two big guys. Etixx-Quickstep have not dominated the classics, as we are used to see it, this year. But the Paris-Roubaix looks to be better suited for the team, with almost too many talented cobblestone riders. Zdenek Stybar will look to improve his 2nd place from last year. Last years winner of Tour of Flanders, Alexander Kristoff is also a big contender for the title. With a good sprint and a big engine, the norwegian is likely the one to win, if a group gets to the velodrome.
Niki Terpstra, Tom Boonen, Luke Rowe ***
The two other main Etixx guys do have some firepower. 4x winner Tom Boonen and 2014 winner Niki Terstra will try possibly be played out earlier than the captains, and that will be the case with a lot of the second-tier guys bellow. Although it is not likely, they do have a shot at fooling the favourites and grabbing the title.
Lars Boom, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Ian Stannard **
Jürgen Roelandts, Tiesj Benoot, Tony Martin *
The lineup:
This is a provisional lineup taken from Steephill. I will update it as soon as the confirmed lineups are released.
IAM CYCLING (IAM)
SUI
BRANDLE Matthias AUT
HAUSSLER Heinrich AUS
HOLLENSTEIN Reto SUI
KLUGE Roger GER
NAESEN Oliver BEL
REYNES MIMO Vicente ESP
SARAMOTINS Aleksejs LAT
VANGENECHTEN Jonas BEL
AG2R LA MONDIALE (ALM)
FRA
BAGDONAS Gediminas LTU
DANIEL Maxime FRA
DENZ Nico GER
GAUDIN Damien FRA
HOULE Hugo CAN
MINARD Sébastien FRA
SERGENT Jesse NZL
TURGOT Sébastien FRA
BMC RACING (BMC)
USA
BURGHARDT Marcus GER
DRUCKER Jean-Pierre LUX
KUENG Stefan SUI
OSS Daniel ITA
PHINNEY Taylor USA
QUINZIATO Manuel ITA
SCHÄR Michael SUI
BORA-ARGON 18 (BOA)
GER
ARCHBOLD Shane NZL
BARTA Jan CZE
BENNETT Sam IRL
MATZKA Ralf GER
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas AUT
SCHILLINGER Andreas GER
SELIG Rudiger GER
THWAITES Scott GBR
COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS (COF)
FRA
BOZIC Borut SLO
HOFSTETTER Hugo FRA
JOEAAR Gert EST
LAPORTE Christophe FRA
LEMOINE Cyril FRA
SENECHAL Florian FRA
VAN BILSEN Kenneth BEL
VAN STAEYEN Michael BEL
CANNONDALE (CPT)
USA
BEVIN Patrick NZL
BRESCHEL Matti DEN
LANGEVELD Sebastian NED
MARANGONI Alan ITA
MULLEN Ryan IRL
SKJERPING Kristoffer NOR
VAN BAARLE Dylan NED
WIPPERT Wouter NED
DIMENSION DATA (DDD)
RSA
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald NOR
BRAMMEIER Matt IRL
CAVENDISH Mark GBR
DOUGALL Nick RSA
EISEL Bernhard AUT
FARRAR Tyler USA
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt RSA
THOMSON Jay Robert RSA
DIRECT ENERGIE (DEN)
FRA
ANDERSON Ryan CAN
CARDIS Romain FRA
CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA
DUCHESNE Antoine CAN
GENE Yohann FRA
MORICE Julien FRA
PETIT Adrien FRA
PICHOT Alexandre FRA
DELKO MARSEILLE PROVENCE KTM (DMP)
FRA
ARISTI GARDOKI Mikel ESP
COMBAUD Romain FRA
GALTA Fredrik Strand NOR
GIRAUD Benjamin FRA
LAAS Martin EST
LABORIE Christophe FRA
MARTINEZ Yannick FRA
SISKEVICIUS Evaldas LTU
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (EQS)
BEL
BOONEN Tom BEL
MAES Nikolas BEL
MARTIN Tony GER
STYBAR Zdenek CZE
TERPSTRA Niki NED
TRENTIN Matteo ITA
VANDENBERGH Stijn BEL
FDJ (FDJ)
FRA
DELAGE Mickael FRA
DEMARE Arnaud FRA
FISCHER Murilo Antonio BRA
HOELGAARD Daniel NOR
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas LTU
LADAGNOUS Matthieu FRA
LE GAC Olivier FRA
SARREAU Marc FRA
FORTUNEO - VITAL CONCEPT (FVC)
FRA
BONNAMOUR Franck FRA
BREEN Vegard NOR
HUTAROVICH Yauheni BLR
JARRIER Benoit FRA
MCLAY Daniel GBR
MOUREY Francis FRA
TRONET Steven FRA
VALLEE Boris BEL
ASTANA (AST)
KAZ
AYAZBAYEV Maxat KAZ
BOOM Lars NED
DE VREESE Laurens BEL
GRUZDEV Dmitriy KAZ
KAMYSHEV Arman KAZ
SMUKULIS Gatis LAT
TLEUBAYEV Ruslan KAZ
WESTRA Lieuwe NED
KATUSHA (KAT)
RUS
GUARNIERI Jacopo ITA
HALLER Marco AUT
ISAYCHEV Vladimir RUS
KOZONCHUK Dmitrii RUS
KRISTOFF Alexander NOR
KUZNETSOV Viacheslav RUS
MORKOV Michael DEN
PORSEV Alexander RUS
LAMPRE - MERIDA (LAM)
ITA
CIMOLAI Davide ITA
FARIA DA COSTA Mario Jorge POR
FENG Chun Kai TPE
FERRARI Roberto ITA
KUMP Marko SLO
PIBERNIK Luka SLO
XU Gang CHN
ZURLO Federico ITA
LOTTO SOUDAL (LTS)
BEL
BAK Lars Ytting DEN
BENOOT Tiesj BEL
FRISON Frederik BEL
GREIPEL André GER
ROELANDTS Jurgen BEL
SIEBERG Marcel GER
WALLAYS Jelle BEL
MOVISTAR (MOV)
ESP
ARCAS PENA Jorge ESP
ERVITI OLLO Imanol ESP
LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose ESP
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney COL
SANTOS SIMOES OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe POR
SOLER Marc ESP
SÜTTERLIN Jasha GER
VENTOSO ALBERDI Francisco José ESP
ORICA GreenEDGE (OGE)
AUS
BEWLEY Sam NZL
DOCKER Mitchell AUS
DURBRIDGE Luke AUS
HAYMAN Mathew AUS
JUUL JENSEN Christopher DEN
KEUKELEIRE Jens BEL
NIELSEN Magnus Cort DEN
TUFT Svein CAN
SKY (SKY)
GBR
FENN Andrew GBR
KNEES Christian GER
MOSCON Gianni ITA
PUCCIO Salvatore ITA
ROWE Luke GBR
STANNARD Ian GBR
VAN POPPEL Danny NED
VIVIANI Elia ITA
TREK - SEGAFREDO (TFS)
USA
CANCELLARA Fabian SUI
DEVOLDER Stijn BEL
IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel ESP
POPOVYCH Yaroslav UKR
RAST Grégory SUI
STUYVEN Jasper BEL
THEUNS Edward BEL
VAN POPPEL Boy NED
GIANT - ALPECIN (TGA)
GER
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh DEN
ARNDT Nikias GER
CURVERS Roy NED
DE BACKER Bert BEL
DE KORT Koen NED
SINKELDAM Ramon NED
STAMSNIJDER Tom NED
WAEYTENS Zico BEL
LOTTO NL - JUMBO (TLJ)
NED
CASTELIJNS Twan NED
ROOSEN Timo NED
TANKINK Bram NED
TEUNISSEN Mike NED
TJALLINGII Maarten NED
VAN ASBROECK Tom BEL
VANMARCKE Sep BEL
WYNANTS Maarten BEL
TINKOFF (TNK)
RUS
BASKA Erik SVK
BLYTHE Adam GBR
GATTO Oscar ITA
GOGL Michael AUT
KOLÁR Michal SVK
SAGAN Peter SVK
TOSATTO Matteo ITA
TRUSOV Nikolay RUS
TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE (TSV)
BEL
CAPIOT Amaury BEL
DECLERCQ Tim BEL
HELVEN Sander BEL
RICKAERT Jonas BEL
STEELS Stijn BEL
VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL
VAN LERBERGHE Bert BEL
VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter BEL
WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT (WGG)
BEL
BACKAERT Frederik BEL
CLAEYS Dimitri BEL
DE HAES Kenny BEL
DEVRIENDT Tom BEL
MARCATO Marco ITA
THURAU Bjorn GER
VAN MELSEN Kevin BEL
Discuss and enjoy the race guys. It looks to be a great one!
The intro:
One of the most historical races of all time return for its 114th edition. The Hell of the North is one of the most prestigious races on the calendar, and all of the classics specialist will be present at the starting line on Sunday. The riders will aim to win one of the five monuments of the year.
The sections:
The riders will have to tackle 27 cobblestone sectors, divided into difficulty level with stars. The most challenging parts of the route will be marked with 5 stars (Trouée d’Arenberg, Mons-en-Pévèle, Le Carrefour de l’Arbre) and this is where we will get our biggest questions answered.
(Possibly, the first section Troisvilles and other may be cancelled due to mud problems. More to follow)
27 Troisvilles (km 98.5 - 2200 m) 3 stars
26 Viesly (km 105 - 1800 m) 3
25 Quievy (km 108 - 3700 m) 4
24 Saint-Python (km 112.5 - 1500 m) 2
23 Vertain (km 120.5 - 2300 m) 3
22 Capelle-Ruesnes (km 127 – 1700 m) 3
21 Quérénaing - Maing (km 133.5 - 2500 m) 3
20 Monchaux-sur-Ecaillon (km 136.5 - 1600 m) 3
19 Haveluy (km 149.5 - 2500 m) 4
18 Trouée d’Arenberg (km 158 - 2400 m) 5
17 Wallers - Hélesmes. dit « Pont Gibus » (km 164 - 1600 m) 3
16 Hornaing (km 170.5 - 3700 m) 4
15 Warlaing - Brillon (km 178 - 2400 m) 3
14 Tilloy - Sars-et-Rosières (km 181.5 - 2400 m) 4
13 Beuvry-la-Forêt - Orchies (km 188 - 1400m) 3
12 Orchies (km 193 - 1700 m) 3
11 Auchy-lez-Orchies - Bersée (km 199 - 2700 m) 4
10 Mons-en-Pévèle (km 204.5 - 3000 m) 5
9 Mérignies - Avelin (km 210.5 - 700 m) 2
8 Pont-Thibaut (km 214 - 1400 m) 3
7 Templeuve - Moulin de Vertain (km 220 - 500 m) 2
6a Cysoing - Bourghelles (km 226.5 - 1300 m) 3
6b Bourghelles - Wannehain (km 229 - 1100 m) 3
5 Camphin-en-Pévèle (km 233.5 - 1800 m) 4
4 Le Carrefour de l’Arbre (km 236.5 - 2100 m) 5
3 Gruson (km 238.5 - 1100 m) 2
2 Hem (km 245.5 - 1400 m) 2
1 Roubaix (km 252 - 300 m) 1
The weather:
Right now, the weather forecast is predicting partly cloudy weather, with rain in the evening.
The favorites:
Apart from the Tour of Flanders, the Paris-Roubaix presents a route where power will be more important, than kick up the hills.
Fabian Cancellara, Peter Sagan *****
In my opinion, Peter Sagan presented himself in a class of his own last week, soloing his way to the finish line. The question is though, if he will have enough power to follow Fabian Cancellara, who many people thinks has the bigger engine of the two. IMO it will be very close between the two, and right now I do not see who will challenge the two to the title. For me it is between them.
Sep Vanmarcke, Alexander Kristoff, Zdenek Stybar, ****
Vanmarcke did a great ride in the Tour of Flanders, where he absolutely killed himself. Only Sagan and Cancellara proved to be stronger than him. I have therefore decided to put him in the level just below the best. But he is the strongest contender bellow the two big guys. Etixx-Quickstep have not dominated the classics, as we are used to see it, this year. But the Paris-Roubaix looks to be better suited for the team, with almost too many talented cobblestone riders. Zdenek Stybar will look to improve his 2nd place from last year. Last years winner of Tour of Flanders, Alexander Kristoff is also a big contender for the title. With a good sprint and a big engine, the norwegian is likely the one to win, if a group gets to the velodrome.
Niki Terpstra, Tom Boonen, Luke Rowe ***
The two other main Etixx guys do have some firepower. 4x winner Tom Boonen and 2014 winner Niki Terstra will try possibly be played out earlier than the captains, and that will be the case with a lot of the second-tier guys bellow. Although it is not likely, they do have a shot at fooling the favourites and grabbing the title.
Lars Boom, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Ian Stannard **
Jürgen Roelandts, Tiesj Benoot, Tony Martin *
The lineup:
This is a provisional lineup taken from Steephill. I will update it as soon as the confirmed lineups are released.
IAM CYCLING (IAM)
SUI
BRANDLE Matthias AUT
HAUSSLER Heinrich AUS
HOLLENSTEIN Reto SUI
KLUGE Roger GER
NAESEN Oliver BEL
REYNES MIMO Vicente ESP
SARAMOTINS Aleksejs LAT
VANGENECHTEN Jonas BEL
AG2R LA MONDIALE (ALM)
FRA
BAGDONAS Gediminas LTU
DANIEL Maxime FRA
DENZ Nico GER
GAUDIN Damien FRA
HOULE Hugo CAN
MINARD Sébastien FRA
SERGENT Jesse NZL
TURGOT Sébastien FRA
BMC RACING (BMC)
USA
BURGHARDT Marcus GER
DRUCKER Jean-Pierre LUX
KUENG Stefan SUI
OSS Daniel ITA
PHINNEY Taylor USA
QUINZIATO Manuel ITA
SCHÄR Michael SUI
BORA-ARGON 18 (BOA)
GER
ARCHBOLD Shane NZL
BARTA Jan CZE
BENNETT Sam IRL
MATZKA Ralf GER
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas AUT
SCHILLINGER Andreas GER
SELIG Rudiger GER
THWAITES Scott GBR
COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS (COF)
FRA
BOZIC Borut SLO
HOFSTETTER Hugo FRA
JOEAAR Gert EST
LAPORTE Christophe FRA
LEMOINE Cyril FRA
SENECHAL Florian FRA
VAN BILSEN Kenneth BEL
VAN STAEYEN Michael BEL
CANNONDALE (CPT)
USA
BEVIN Patrick NZL
BRESCHEL Matti DEN
LANGEVELD Sebastian NED
MARANGONI Alan ITA
MULLEN Ryan IRL
SKJERPING Kristoffer NOR
VAN BAARLE Dylan NED
WIPPERT Wouter NED
DIMENSION DATA (DDD)
RSA
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald NOR
BRAMMEIER Matt IRL
CAVENDISH Mark GBR
DOUGALL Nick RSA
EISEL Bernhard AUT
FARRAR Tyler USA
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt RSA
THOMSON Jay Robert RSA
DIRECT ENERGIE (DEN)
FRA
ANDERSON Ryan CAN
CARDIS Romain FRA
CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA
DUCHESNE Antoine CAN
GENE Yohann FRA
MORICE Julien FRA
PETIT Adrien FRA
PICHOT Alexandre FRA
DELKO MARSEILLE PROVENCE KTM (DMP)
FRA
ARISTI GARDOKI Mikel ESP
COMBAUD Romain FRA
GALTA Fredrik Strand NOR
GIRAUD Benjamin FRA
LAAS Martin EST
LABORIE Christophe FRA
MARTINEZ Yannick FRA
SISKEVICIUS Evaldas LTU
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (EQS)
BEL
BOONEN Tom BEL
MAES Nikolas BEL
MARTIN Tony GER
STYBAR Zdenek CZE
TERPSTRA Niki NED
TRENTIN Matteo ITA
VANDENBERGH Stijn BEL
FDJ (FDJ)
FRA
DELAGE Mickael FRA
DEMARE Arnaud FRA
FISCHER Murilo Antonio BRA
HOELGAARD Daniel NOR
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas LTU
LADAGNOUS Matthieu FRA
LE GAC Olivier FRA
SARREAU Marc FRA
FORTUNEO - VITAL CONCEPT (FVC)
FRA
BONNAMOUR Franck FRA
BREEN Vegard NOR
HUTAROVICH Yauheni BLR
JARRIER Benoit FRA
MCLAY Daniel GBR
MOUREY Francis FRA
TRONET Steven FRA
VALLEE Boris BEL
ASTANA (AST)
KAZ
AYAZBAYEV Maxat KAZ
BOOM Lars NED
DE VREESE Laurens BEL
GRUZDEV Dmitriy KAZ
KAMYSHEV Arman KAZ
SMUKULIS Gatis LAT
TLEUBAYEV Ruslan KAZ
WESTRA Lieuwe NED
KATUSHA (KAT)
RUS
GUARNIERI Jacopo ITA
HALLER Marco AUT
ISAYCHEV Vladimir RUS
KOZONCHUK Dmitrii RUS
KRISTOFF Alexander NOR
KUZNETSOV Viacheslav RUS
MORKOV Michael DEN
PORSEV Alexander RUS
LAMPRE - MERIDA (LAM)
ITA
CIMOLAI Davide ITA
FARIA DA COSTA Mario Jorge POR
FENG Chun Kai TPE
FERRARI Roberto ITA
KUMP Marko SLO
PIBERNIK Luka SLO
XU Gang CHN
ZURLO Federico ITA
LOTTO SOUDAL (LTS)
BEL
BAK Lars Ytting DEN
BENOOT Tiesj BEL
FRISON Frederik BEL
GREIPEL André GER
ROELANDTS Jurgen BEL
SIEBERG Marcel GER
WALLAYS Jelle BEL
MOVISTAR (MOV)
ESP
ARCAS PENA Jorge ESP
ERVITI OLLO Imanol ESP
LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose ESP
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney COL
SANTOS SIMOES OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe POR
SOLER Marc ESP
SÜTTERLIN Jasha GER
VENTOSO ALBERDI Francisco José ESP
ORICA GreenEDGE (OGE)
AUS
BEWLEY Sam NZL
DOCKER Mitchell AUS
DURBRIDGE Luke AUS
HAYMAN Mathew AUS
JUUL JENSEN Christopher DEN
KEUKELEIRE Jens BEL
NIELSEN Magnus Cort DEN
TUFT Svein CAN
SKY (SKY)
GBR
FENN Andrew GBR
KNEES Christian GER
MOSCON Gianni ITA
PUCCIO Salvatore ITA
ROWE Luke GBR
STANNARD Ian GBR
VAN POPPEL Danny NED
VIVIANI Elia ITA
TREK - SEGAFREDO (TFS)
USA
CANCELLARA Fabian SUI
DEVOLDER Stijn BEL
IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel ESP
POPOVYCH Yaroslav UKR
RAST Grégory SUI
STUYVEN Jasper BEL
THEUNS Edward BEL
VAN POPPEL Boy NED
GIANT - ALPECIN (TGA)
GER
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh DEN
ARNDT Nikias GER
CURVERS Roy NED
DE BACKER Bert BEL
DE KORT Koen NED
SINKELDAM Ramon NED
STAMSNIJDER Tom NED
WAEYTENS Zico BEL
LOTTO NL - JUMBO (TLJ)
NED
CASTELIJNS Twan NED
ROOSEN Timo NED
TANKINK Bram NED
TEUNISSEN Mike NED
TJALLINGII Maarten NED
VAN ASBROECK Tom BEL
VANMARCKE Sep BEL
WYNANTS Maarten BEL
TINKOFF (TNK)
RUS
BASKA Erik SVK
BLYTHE Adam GBR
GATTO Oscar ITA
GOGL Michael AUT
KOLÁR Michal SVK
SAGAN Peter SVK
TOSATTO Matteo ITA
TRUSOV Nikolay RUS
TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE (TSV)
BEL
CAPIOT Amaury BEL
DECLERCQ Tim BEL
HELVEN Sander BEL
RICKAERT Jonas BEL
STEELS Stijn BEL
VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL
VAN LERBERGHE Bert BEL
VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter BEL
WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT (WGG)
BEL
BACKAERT Frederik BEL
CLAEYS Dimitri BEL
DE HAES Kenny BEL
DEVRIENDT Tom BEL
MARCATO Marco ITA
THURAU Bjorn GER
VAN MELSEN Kevin BEL
Discuss and enjoy the race guys. It looks to be a great one!