2002 Paris–Roubaix
The 2002 Paris–Roubaix was the 100th running of the Paris–Roubaix single-day cycling race, often known as the ''Hell of the North''. It was held on 14 April 2002 over a distance of . These are the results for the 2002 edition of the Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the ' Monuments' or classics of th ... cycling classic, in which Johan Museeuw entered history by winning his third Paris–Roubaix after an impressive attack 40 kilometres from the Velodrome of Roubaix. This edition was run under wind and rain conditions. Results 14-04-2002: Compiègne–Roubaix, 261 km. References External linksRace website {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris-Roubaix 2002 Paris–Roubaix, 2002 2002 in road cycling 2002 in French sport 2002 UCI Road World Cup, Paris-Roubaix April 2002 sports events in E ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Johan Museeuw
Johan Museeuw (born 13 October 1965) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed ''The Lion of Flanders'', he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and Northern France and was considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion in 1996. Other notable career achievements include two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, two final classifications of the UCI Road World Cup, two national road race championships and several classic cycle races. In 1996 he received the Vélo d'Or, awarded annually to the rider considered to have performed the best over the year. Early life and amateur career Born in Varsenare, Museeuw grew up in Gistel, West Flanders. His father Eddy had been a professional cyclist for two seasons, albeit without much success. As a junior and amateur, Museeuw pra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Team Bianchi
Team Bianchi was a makeshift team that was put together from the remnants of the Coast team in time for the 2003 Tour de France. Team Coast had been unable to pay the salaries of their riders and Bianchi took over the team and the role of title sponsor. Coast had recently signed Jan Ullrich following his departure from after his drunk driving and amphetamine use. During the 2003 tour while riding for Bianchi, Ullrich placed second to Lance Armstrong by just 61 seconds, his closest ever margin in any of Armstrong's seven victorious years. In the process, Ullrich also managed to upstage Alexander Vinokourov, Telekom's highest-placed rider, who finished third. Team Bianchi had planned to continue on as a professional road racing team. However, Ullrich's return to his former team Telekom (later T-Mobile and ), as well as the departure of Ángel Casero led to the demise of Team Bianchi as they now lacked the star power necessary to justify a top-tier team. Major wins 2000 :Grand ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Enrico Cassani
Enrico Cassani (born 15 February 1972) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in four editions of the Giro d'Italia and three editions of the Tour de France. Major results ;1997 :10th Classic Haribo ;1998 :4th Grand Prix de Denain :5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges :6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1999 :2nd Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque :5th Overall Ronde van Nederland :8th Trofeo Matteotti ;2000 :1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia :5th Overall Regio-Tour ;2002 :3rd Classic Haribo :3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :7th Tour of Flanders :10th Paris–Roubaix ;2003 :2nd Trofeo Pantalica :6th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen :6th Brabantse Pijl The Brabantse Pijl ( en, Brabant Arrow, french: italic=yes, Flèche Brabançonne or ''Flèche Branconne'') is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race held annually in Flemish Brabant and in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Since 2005, the race has been or ... References External links * 1972 births Living people People from Melzo Italian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nico Mattan
Nico Mattan (born 17 July 1971) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist. His greatest achievement in cycling was winning the Gent–Wevelgem classic in 2005. In 2005 Mattan won the Gent–Wevelgem in a controversial way, as there were claims that he used Publicity cars to sprint past Juan Antonio Flecha. He also won 2 prologues of Paris–Nice, in 2001 and 2003. He is known to be very superstitious, for instance his lucky number is 17 (the date of his birthdate), if his race number is 17 or if the ciphers add up to 17, he will look very happy and believes he will win. Once he got number 13 and wore it upside down to avoid bad luck because he heard on a 13th that he wouldn't be able to race anymore because of heart problems and lost the leader's jersey in Paris–Nice on a 13th. Major results ;1996 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie ;2001 : 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Stage 3b ( ITT) : 1st Prologue Paris–Nice : 1st GP Ouest–France : 1st Giro del Piemonte ;2003 : 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Max Van Heeswijk
Max Lambert Peter van Heeswijk (born 2 March 1973 in Hoensbroek, Limburg) is a Dutch retired professional road racing cyclist. He finished 15th road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 17th in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Career achievements Major results ;1992 : 1st Omloop Alblasserwaard ;1993 : 2nd Overall Sachsen-Tour : 2nd Ronde van Limburg ;1994 : 1st Stages 2, 12, 13 & 15 Commonwealth Bank Classic : 1st Stage 1 Teleflex Tour : 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 ;1995 : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 1st Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Galicia : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg : 1st Stage 3 Niederösterreich Rundfahrt : 9th Paris–Brussels ;1996 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Netherlands : 1st Stage 4 Tour of Galicia : 3rd Overall Tour of Sweden ;1997 : 1st Stage 22 Vuelta a España : 2nd Clásica de Almería : 9th GP Rik Van Steenbergen ;1998 : 1st Profronde van Heerlen : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria : 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucia : 3rd Trofeo Luis Puig : 4th Omloop Het Vol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thierry Gouvenou
Thierry Gouvenou (born 14 May 1969) is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in seven editions of the Tour de France and one each of the Vuelta a España and the Giro d'Italia. Since 2014, Gouvenou has worked as a lead course designer of the Tour de France. Career achievements Major results ;1990 : 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs ;1991 : 9th Omloop Het Volk ;1992 : 10th Overall Étoile de Bessèges ;1993 : 10th Omloop Het Volk ;1994 : 10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;1995 : 3rd GP de Denain ;1997 : 7th Overall Tour de Normandie ;1998 : 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie ::1st Stage 4 ;1999 : 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie : 10th GP de la Ville de Rennes ;2001 : 10th Tro-Bro Léon ;2002 : 3rd Polynormande : 7th Paris–Roubaix : 10th Paris–Camembert Paris–Camembert (also Paris–Camembert Trophée Lepetit or Paris–Camembert Lepetit) is a semi classic held annually in April. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The route of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George Hincapie
George Anthony Hincapie (born June 29, 1973) is an American former racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1994 and 2012. Hincapie was a key domestique of Lance Armstrong. Hincapie was also a domestique for Alberto Contador in 2007 and for Cadel Evans in 2011, when both men won the Tour de France. He was the owner and general manager of UCI Professional Continental team until it folded at the end of the 2020 season. On October 10, 2012, Hincapie released a statement on his website acknowledging the use of performance-enhancing drugs and confirming that he had been approached by US federal investigators and USADA about his experiences with doping. Later that day a statement was released confirming his acceptance of a six-month ban from September 1, 2012, ending on March 1, 2013, along with a stripping of all race results between May 31, 2004, and July 31, 2006.http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/2012-10-09+WB+to+Anders+re.+Hincapie+Sanction.pdf, George Hincapie notice ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lars Michaelsen
Lars Michaelsen (born 13 March 1969) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for Team CSC. He got his break through in his second year as a professional, when he won the 1995 edition of Gent–Wevelgem. In the 1997 Vuelta a España he won stage 1 and wore the leader's jersey for three days (stage 2, 3 and 5). In 2002 he finished fifth in Paris–Roubaix, a result he would duplicate in 2005. In the 2006 Paris–Roubaix he was once again in the group of favourites, but he helped teammate Fabian Cancellara win the race and finished 19th himself. In his last race, the 2007 Paris–Roubaix, he finished 11th after a strong race, where only a mechanical failure prevented him from following the favorites. Again a teammate, Stuart O'Grady, won the race. Michaelsen rode at four Olympic Games. After retiring he became a directeur sportif, continuing with his final team until 2011 when he joined . He subsequently returned to Team Saxo Bank in 2013. Following the end o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steffen Wesemann
Steffen Wesemann (born 11 March 1971) is a Swiss-German former professional road racing cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Wesemann most recently rode for the professional continental team Cycle Collstrop after riding a year with the Team Wiesenhof-Felt squad. He had previously spent the other years of his career at Telekom who later became Team T-Mobile. He rode and completed the Vuelta a España on three occasions in 1995, 1996 and 2003 and finished the Tour de France twice in 1999 and 2002. In September 2005, Wesemann and his family, longtime residents of Küttigen, Switzerland, obtained Swiss citizenship. He was a specialist in the one-day Spring Classics—winner of the 2004 Tour of Flanders and 5-time champion of the Peace Race. Major results ;1989 : 3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1990 : 2nd Overall Paris–Bourges ;1991 : 1st Overall Tour de Berlin ;1992 : 1st Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st Pr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tristan Hoffman
Tristan Henri Christiaan Hoffman (born 1 January 1970 in Groenlo, Oost Gelre) is a Dutch former road racing cyclist. After his racing years he became a directeur sportif for Team CSC, and later for . He also competed in the Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Palmarès ;1991 :1st, Overall, Ster Elektrotoer ;1992 :1st, Dutch National Road Race Championships, National Road Race Championships ;1993 :1st, Stage 1, Tour de l'Avenir :1st, Stage 3, Tour de Suisse ;1994 :1st, Stage 1, Herald Sun Tour ;1995 :1st, Stages 2 & 4, Tour of Sweden :1st, Stage, Vuelta a Murcia ;1996 :1st, Dwars door Vlaanderen :1st, Paris–Bourges :4th, Paris–Tours ;1998 :2nd, Dutch National Road Race Championships, National Road Race Championships ;1999 :1st, Veenendaal–Veenendaal :1st, Clásica de Sabiñánigo :1st, Stage 1, Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen :3rd, Gent–Wevelgem ;2000 :1st, Dwars door Vlaanderen :1st, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |