Paris–Roubaix [pa.ʁi.ʁu.bɛ] is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border...
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Roubaix (US: /ruːˈbeɪ/ roo-BAY, French: [ʁubɛ] or [ʁube] ; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located...
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the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing...
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Championships 2nd De Drie Zustersteden 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 6th Liège-Bastogne-Liège 6th Paris–Brussels 7th Paris–Roubaix 8th Tour of Flanders...
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before RC Roubaix took control of the league becoming the first French club to win three straight titles beginning in 1902. Following Roubaix's success...
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The 1926 Paris–Roubaix was the 27th edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 4 April 1926...
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André Leducq (category French Tour de France stage winners)
1950s. 1927 Tour de France 4th overall Stage 6, 23 and 24 wins 1928 Tour de France 2nd overall Stage 2, 10, 11 and 16 wins Paris–Roubaix 1929 Tour de France...
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French national championships in Bry-sur-Marne in 1926, in Roubaix in 1927, and in Paris in 1928. She won several more medals in shotput at French national...
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in 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1975. On 17 April 1949, at the day of 47th Paris–Roubaix race edition, the term monument appeared for the first time in road...
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Julien Vervaecke (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
road bicycle racer. He won Paris–Roubaix, Paris–Brussels, 2 stages in the Tour de France and finished 3rd in the 1927 Tour de France. At the start of the...
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Georges Ronsse (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the 1927 Paris–Roubaix, and the 1927, 1929 and 1930 editions of the now-defunct Bordeaux–Paris. He won his first world championship...
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Albert Champion (cyclist) (category 1927 deaths)
(5 April 1878 – 26 October 1927) was a French track bicycle racer and later an industrialist who won the 1899 Paris–Roubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the...
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Jean-Joseph Weerts (category 1927 deaths)
Jean-Joseph Weerts (1 May 1846, Roubaix - 28 September 1927, Paris) was a French painter of Belgian origin who worked in the Academic style. His father...
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theorist Jean Metzinger. The work illustrates the final meters of the Paris–Roubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt. Metzinger's painting...
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Circuit de Paris [fr] 1st Marseille-Lyon [fr] 1st Paris-Fourmies [fr] 3rd Circuit du Morbihan [fr] 3rd Tour of Flanders 4rd Paris–Roubaix 1931 1st Paris-Rennes [fr]...
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finished in 2nd place in the 1923 Paris–Roubaix and 4th place in the 1921 Paris–Roubaix. He also rode in the 1921 Tour de France. 1913 5th Liège–Bastogn–Liège...
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Marie Léonie Vanhoutte (category People from Roubaix)
Marie Léonie Vanhoutte was born on 13 January 1888 in Roubaix, France, in a house on Rue de la Vigne. At the start of World War I, she was a nurse trainee...
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Armand Lemay (category Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
Beaux-Arts in Paris. Lemay launched his career in Lille in 1898, during an era of the city's rapid expansion, along with its neighbors Roubaix and Tourcoing...
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The first Coupe de France victors were Olympique de Pantin who defeated FC Lyon 3–0 at the Stade de la Légion Saint-Michel in Paris in front of 2,000...
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In 1929, the stadium was the scene of the tumultuous arrival of the Paris-Roubaix cycling race: with a cendree track it turns out that the stadium is...
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1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929) Paris–Roubaix: (1923) Tour of Flanders: (1923) Bordeaux–Paris (1925) Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927) 1919 1st - Züri-Metzgete 1st —...
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Tom Simpson (section 1963: Bordeaux–Paris)
Critérium des As 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 2nd Paris–Brussels 2nd De Kustpijl 2nd Paris–Tours 3rd Tour of Flanders 8th Paris–Roubaix 10th La Flèche Wallonne 10th Giro...
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Lucien Buysse (category Tour de France winners)
Tour again in 1919 but placing third in the Paris–Roubaix classic in 1920. In 1923 he completed the Tour de France and finished in eighth place. In the...
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May with the final, which is held at the Stade de France, the country's national stadium. Since 1927, the President of France has always attended the...
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Philippe Thys (cyclist) (category Tour de France winners)
Lombardia 1st Paris–Tours 1918 1st Tours-Paris 1919 1st Six Days of Brussels (with Marcel Dupuy) 2nd Paris–Roubaix 1920 1st Overall Tour de France 1st Stages...
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Hippolyte Aucouturier (category French Tour de France stage winners)
at the first Tour de France in 1903 and won three stages and finished second in the 1905 Tour de France. He also won Paris–Roubaix twice, in 1903 and...
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Paris–Roubaix in 1896 and Bordeaux–Paris in 1900. 1893 1st, Vienna–Berlin 1896 1st, Paris–Roubaix 1899 2nd, Bordeaux–Paris 1900 1st, Bordeaux–Paris 2nd...
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figures on the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 1937 The monument aux morts at Roubaix The monument aux morts at Créteil in the Val-de-Marne. This was inaugurated...
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Maurice Ville (category Cyclists from Île-de-France)
Tour du Vaucluse 2nd Paris–Roubaix 2nd Overall Criterium des Aiglons 5th Paris–Tours 1927 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya 1928 1st Paris–Contres "Maurice Ville"...
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Beaux-Arts, Lille: "Tom", Belgian Shepherd, 1905, bronze Roubaix, La Piscine Museum: Bulldog's head, 1927, bronze Works by Jean Joire Tom, Belgian Shepherd,...
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