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The 2016 Paris–Roubaix was a one-day classic cycling race that took place on 10 April 2016 in northern France. It was the 114th 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 'Cycling monument, Monuments' ...
and was the tenth race of the
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and the third
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of the season. The race took place over . The principal difficulty was provided by the 27 sectors of cobbled roads, which cover a total distance of . The difficult conditions caused by the cobbles have earned the race the name "the Hell of the North". It came at the end of the
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season, a week after the
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; the favourites included the winner of that race,
Peter Sagan Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-c ...
(), as well as
Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981), nicknamed "Spartacus", is a Swiss people, Swiss cycling executive, businessman and former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam . He is known for being a qual ...
() and
Tom Boonen Tom Boonen (; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the and teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in ...
(). The race was hard from the very beginning, with major attacks being made over from the finish. Cancellara and Sagan were held up by crashes and a five-rider group formed in the final and, despite many more attacks in the closing part of the race, came to the velodrome in Roubaix together. The sprint was won by
Mathew Hayman Mathew Hayman (born 20 April 1978) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2019 for the , and teams. During his career, Hayman was an experienced and respected domestique, as he typical ...
() ahead of Boonen, with
Ian Stannard Ian Dexter Stannard (born 25 May 1987) is a Great Britain, British former professional Track cycling, track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally in 2006 and from 2008 to 2020 for the , , and teams, before retiring after being diagno ...
() in third.


Route

The route of the 2016 Paris–Roubaix was not significantly changed from the 2015 edition. It was slightly longer at . There were 27 sectors of cobbled roads: these included one addition to the route, the uphill sector. Several sections of cobbles, including the difficult one at , had been renovated since 2015. Despite its name, the race did not start in Paris: it started in ( to the north) and travelled generally north towards . The main difficulty came from the 27 cobbled sectors, with a total distance of ; the race organisers gave these sectors a difficulty rating with the three five-star sectors the most difficult and the one one-star sector the easiest. The first were generally flat on normal roads, with the first sector coming between and . Over the following , there were another eight cobbled sectors, before the first five-star sector. This was the () and was in length. The riders turned back on themselves several times around to take in several more sectors. With the route again heading north, the riders crossed several more cobbled sectors – all rated as either three-star or four-star in difficulty – on the way to the next five-star sector, a road through . At the end of this sector, there were to the finish line. After , there were seven more cobbled sectors before the final five-star sector. This was the ; by the end there were to the finish line. This included three more cobbled sectors – two two-star sectors and the final one-star sector as the route entered Roubaix itself. The route ended on the
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in Roubaix: the riders enter the velodrome half-way round; they ride one-and-a-half laps of the circuit to complete the race.


Maps

Maps of the 2016 Paris–Roubaix route. Cobbled sectors are shown in green Paris-Roubaix 2016 part1.png, alt=Map, Route between Compiège and Saint-Quentin Paris-Roubaix 2016 part2.png, alt=Map, Route between Saint-Quentin and Solesmes Paris-Roubaix 2016 part3.png, alt=Map, Route between Solesmes and Orchies Paris-Roubaix 2016 part4.png, alt=Map, Route between Orchies and Roubaix


Cobbled sectors


Teams

As Paris–Roubaix is a
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event, all 18 UCI World Teams were invited automatically and were obliged to send a squad. In February 2016, the race organisers announced the seven
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teams that had received wildcard invitations, completing the 25-team ''
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''. With each team allowed to enter up to eight riders, the maximum size of the ''peloton'' was 200. was the only team to submit just seven riders. 's Jacopo Guarnieri failed to start the race, so the race began with 198 riders.


Pre-race favourites

The recent editions of Paris–Roubaix had been won in various ways. Seven of the previous ten editions had been won by riders who had made solo breakaways; the most recent of these was
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in
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. Other editions had been won in small group sprints: there were three riders together at the finish in 2008 Paris–Roubaix, two riders in
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and six in
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.
John Degenkolb John Degenkolb (born 7 January 1989) is a German professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His biggest wins to date are the 2015 Milan–San Remo and the 2015 Paris–Roubaix, two of cycling's five Cycling monument, monuments ...
() won the sprint in 2015, but was unable to defend his title in the 2016 edition due to injuries sustained in a collision with a car during winter training.
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(), who finished third in 2015, was also unable to start the race after breaking his collarbone in a crash at the
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the previous week. The two principal favourites to win the race were
Peter Sagan Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-c ...
() and
Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981), nicknamed "Spartacus", is a Swiss people, Swiss cycling executive, businessman and former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam . He is known for being a qual ...
(). Sagan, the reigning world champion, had won the Tour of Flanders (the other
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raced on cobbled roads) in a solo breakaway. He was able to win both from a breakaway and in a group sprint. Sagan's best previous result in Paris–Roubaix was his sixth-place finish in 2014. Cancellara had won the race on three previous occasions (in
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and 2013) and had finished in the top ten on five other occasions. Cancellara was racing in his final Paris–Roubaix, after announcing that he would retire at the end of the 2016 season. One of Cancellara's main rivals in classics races over his career was
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(), who had won Paris–Roubaix on four occasions in the past. He had not been in strong form, however, in the 2016 season and had struggled with a wrist injury in the Tour of Flanders. His team, however, was very strong, with Terpstra,
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and
Zdeněk Štybar Zdeněk Štybar (; born 11 December 1985) is a Czech former professional cyclist, who rode professionally in cyclo-cross and road bicycle racing between 2005 and 2024 for , the and . In the early part of his career, Štybar prioritised competin ...
all possible winners of the race. Other possible winners included
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(), who was third in the Tour of Flanders,
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(),
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(),
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() and
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().


Race summary

There was a high-speed start to the race, with several groups attempting to form breakaways; each was chased by the main ''
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''. An initial group of six riders was caught within of the start; a group of 25 then briefly held a 30-second lead before they were recaptured by the ''peloton''. After several more attacks and a total of , the riders were still all together in one group. A group of sixteen riders then attacked and built a lead, despite the efforts of the and teams to chase it. As the riders arrived on the first cobbled sectors, Sky took over at the front of the ''peloton'' to protect their riders and the breakaway's advantage increased to two minutes, although it was reduced to fourteen riders. The riders in the breakaway were
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(),
Mathew Hayman Mathew Hayman (born 20 April 1978) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2019 for the , and teams. During his career, Hayman was an experienced and respected domestique, as he typical ...
and
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(),
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(),
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(),
Salvatore Puccio Salvatore Puccio (born 31 August 1989) is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Puccio was born at Menfi, in Sicily. He joined ahead of the 2012 season, after a 2011 season which included a solo victory in t ...
(Sky), Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (Dimension Data),
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(), Maxime Daniel (),
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() and
Imanol Erviti Imanol Erviti Ollo (born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2023, entirely for and its successors. Primarily working as a domestique, Erviti took three victories as a ...
(). The breakaway was notable for the presence of Popovych, who had announced that the race would be the last of his career, and Erviti, who had finished in the top ten at the Tour of Flanders a week earlier having again been in the early breakaway. With completed and more than remaining, there was a crash in the ''peloton'' before the eighth cobbled sector. Etixx–Quick-Step immediately sent Tony Martin and
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to the front of the group and accelerated hard; this caused the group to split up. The front group included Boonen, Boasson Hagen, Stannard, Rowe and Vanmarcke along with several others, with Sagan, Cancellara, Štybar and Terpstra all in a chasing group. LottoNL–Jumbo had six riders in the front group. The gap between the first and second chasing groups quickly grew to a minute, thanks in particular to Martin's work; he spent around at the front of Boonen's group. Martin's effort reduced the group to five riders, with Vanmarcke and Rowe among the riders dropped. As they reached the , the break had just over a minute's lead over the first chasing group; the Vanmarcke group was around 20 seconds behind them, with Cancellara and Sagan in another group that was around a minute further back. Sagan himself was making efforts at the front of the group to try to bring the first chase group back. With remaining, Vanmarcke's group merged with Boonen's, forming a 16-man group that was 55 seconds behind the breakaway group. Alexander Kristoff had punctured and been dropped from the group containing Cancellara and Sagan. Over the following kilometres, Hayman attacked solo from the breakaway; meanwhile,
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(Trek–Segafredo) rode hard to bring his teammate Cancellara back to within 40 seconds of the first chasing group. Hayman was brought back by the rest of the group, while Popovych dropped back from the breakaway to help Cancellara's group with remaining. After the next cobbled sector, Boonen's group caught the remainder of the breakaway and formed a group of around 20 riders, led by Team Sky, that was around 50 seconds ahead of the Cancellara group. Cancellara and Sagan worked hard together at the front of what was now the second group on the road. Shortly afterwards, the front group was disrupted when three of the four Team Sky riders in the front group – Rowe, Puccio and
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– crashed in just a few corners, leaving Stannard as the team's only rider in the leading group. With remaining and the chasers 37 seconds behind the lead group, the riders crossed the five-star Mons-en-Pévèle cobbles. Cancellara crashed on a muddy section, slipping off the crown of the road. Sagan, riding immediately behind him, managed to
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'' described Sagan's manoeuvre as "unbelievable bike handling". Rowe rejoined the leading group with
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and
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(both ) to form a ten-man leading group which led Sagan's group by over a minute with remaining. Rowe was tired after coming back from his crash; he agreed to work fully for Stannard. He put in a strong effort with remaining that dropped Erviti, Haussler, Saramotins and
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(), who formed a chase group behind. A five-man group then formed on the Camphin-en-Pévèle sector, with Stannard, Boonen, Boasson Hagen, Hayman and Vanmarcke the only riders remaining. Vanmarcke put in a big attack on the
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; although he briefly had a significant gap, the other four riders brought him back before the next section of cobbles. Stannard attacked with remaining. He had a advantage, but the group was able to come back to him. In the final , Boonen attacked several times. On the last of these attacks, Hayman accelerated past him and the two riders came together into the velodrome, with Vanmarcke joining soon afterwards. With one lap remaining, Stannard and Boasson Hagen rejoined the group. Hayman led out the sprint: Boonen was on his wheel and Stannard came around the outside. Neither was able to come around him and Hayman crossed the line first to take the victory. Boonen was second with Stannard third. Vanmarcke finished with them in fourth place; Boasson Hagen was three seconds behind in fifth place. The chase group of Haussler, Sieberg and Saramotins finished a minute back, with Erviti a further seven seconds back to finish in ninth. Sagan's group arrived more than two minutes after Hayman, with
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(Direct Energie) outsprinting Sagan for tenth place.


Result


Post-race analysis


Reactions

The race was given widespread praise.
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, who won the race in
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, described it as "magnificent". He particularly praised Etixx–Quick-Step's aggression a long way from the finish, describing it as the kind of move that used to exist but had not been seen in a long time. Similarly,
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(the manager of the FDJ team and the winner of the race in
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) described it as "a beautiful race, of great quality" and praised Hayman as "a fine winner". ''
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'' described it as an "epic battle" and as "one-day racing at its absolute best". The cycling journalist and former cyclist Daniel Lloyd tweeted that it had been "one of the best races I've ever seen";
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, another former cyclist, wrote "That was exhausting" after watching the race. Mathew Hayman described his reaction as "disbelief". He had broken his arm in a crash at the
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at the beginning of the classics season and had barely raced before the race began. He said that he had realised that the other riders were not superior to him after they failed to get away from him in the closing kilometres. He stated that he could "gamble" and that it had paid off. Hayman's team manager, Shayne Bannan, described him as "so professional" and suggested that he had been helped by good preparation and motivation combined with a lack of expectation; he called it "an incredible ride". Boonen praised Hayman's victory. He said that Hayman was "the rider nobody was really looking at" and that he had ridden a "good sprint", although no one had much energy left by the velodrome; Vanmarcke had faded in the final metres and boxed Boonen in at the bottom of the track. He stated that he had received a text message on the morning of the race from a doctor who had treated him after he fractured his skull in the 2015 Abu Dhabi Tour; the doctor had said that the day of the race would be the first day that Boonen would be able to get back on his bike. He noted that he "couldn't be unsatisfied" even though he had not won the race. Stannard described the race as "so close yet so far" and thought that he could have managed a better result than his third place had he not attacked in the final kilometres. He said that he was "super happy" to see Hayman win; he also said that there were "two more steps to work my way up now". Fabian Cancellara finished his final Paris–Roubaix in 40th place, seven minutes behind Hayman. He said "I’m not sad, I’m happy not to be in hospital. I’m happy to have finished", and that he was hurting all over – as well as crashing during the race, he had crashed in the velodrome – but said that he was "happy it is done". Sagan described the race as "a crazy day"; he said that he was lucky not to have crashed with Cancellara, but that his race was over at that point. He described Paris–Roubaix as "very hard to win".


UCI World Tour standings

In the
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season-long competition, the top 10 of the standings remained relatively unchanged after the race. Sagan was still on top, 49 points ahead of
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. Vanmarcke moved up from eighth to fifth, while Stannard moved into tenth place. Tinkoff remained ahead of Team Sky in the team rankings; in the nations' rankings, Australia moved back into the lead, with Belgium moving into second and pushing Spain into third.


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