The 2018 Paris–Roubaix was a

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one-day race that took place on 8 April 2018 in France. It was the 116th 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 the ...

and the fifteenth event of the

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. For the first time since

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, the race was won by the incumbent world champion,

Peter Sagan Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 ...

(). Sagan attacked the main group of riders, on sector 12 of pavé between

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Co ...

and

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, catching the head of the race not long after. Only Swiss champion

Silvan Dillier Silvan Dillier (born 3 August 1990) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career Amateur career Dillier was born in Baden, Switzerland. In 2008, he was the Swiss national junior time trial champion, Under-23 road champion in ...

, riding for the team, was able to stay with Sagan all the way to the finish at

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, where Sagan won the two-up sprint finish. Third place, 57 seconds later, went to

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winner

Niki Terpstra Niki Terpstra (; born 18 May 1984) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam . He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Mike Terpstra. He is the third Dutch cyclist to have won both of the cobbled Monument spring classics, Paris–Ro ...

, for . The race was marred by the death of rider

Michael Goolaerts Michael Goolaerts (; 24 July 1994 – 8 April 2018) was a Belgian cyclist who rode for . During the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Goolaerts suffered cardiac arrest. He was airlifted to a hospital in Lille, where he died hours later. Biography Goolaerts ...

. During the race, he suffered a cardiac arrest, and later died in hospital in

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Teams

As Paris–Roubaix was a

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event, all eighteen

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s were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.

Result

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris-Roubaix, 2018 2018 UCI World Tour 2018 in French sport

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April 2018 sports events in France