• ParisRoubaix [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 (French: [ʁubɛ] or [ʁube]; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan...
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    Championships 2nd De Drie Zustersteden 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 6th Liège-Bastogne-Liège 6th Paris–Brussels 7th ParisRoubaix 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 ParisRoubaix was the 27th edition of the ParisRoubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 4 April 1926...
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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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    finished in 2nd place in the 1923 ParisRoubaix and 4th place in the 1921 ParisRoubaix. He also rode in the 1921 Tour de France. 1913 5th Liège–Bastogn–Liège...
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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 ParisRoubaix 1929 Tour de France...
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    Georges Ronsse (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
    1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the 1927 ParisRoubaix, and the 1927, 1929 and 1930 editions of the now-defunct Bordeaux–Paris. He won his first world championship...
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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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    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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    in 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1975. On 17 April 1949, at the day of 47th ParisRoubaix race edition, the term monument appeared for the first time in road...
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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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    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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    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 ParisRoubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the...
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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 ParisRoubaix 1931 1st Paris-Rennes [fr]...
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    theorist Jean Metzinger. The work illustrates the final meters of the ParisRoubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt. Metzinger's painting...
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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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    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 ParisRoubaix twice, in 1903 and...
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    classic ParisRoubaix, riding for the Mapei cycling team. In 1993 he was beaten on the line by Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle in an exciting ParisRoubaix finale...
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    Critérium des As 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 2nd Paris–Brussels 2nd De Kustpijl 2nd Paris–Tours 3rd Tour of Flanders 8th ParisRoubaix 10th La Flèche Wallonne 10th Giro...
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    ParisRoubaix in 1896 and Bordeaux–Paris in 1900. 1893 1st, Vienna–Berlin 1896 1st, ParisRoubaix 1899 2nd, Bordeaux–Paris 1900 1st, Bordeaux–Paris 2nd...
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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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    Albert Roussel (category Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni)
    harmony in Roubaix, first with Julien Koszul (grandfather of composer Henri Dutilleux), who encouraged him to pursue his formation in Paris with Eugène...
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    Magnus Bäckstedt (category Swedish Tour de France stage winners)
    Bäckstedt came seventh in 1998 ParisRoubaix and won the 19th stage of the 1998 Tour de France between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Autun. In 2002 and 2003...
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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 ParisRoubaix 1920 1st Overall Tour de France 1st Stages...
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    1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929) ParisRoubaix: (1923) Tour of Flanders: (1923) Bordeaux–Paris (1925) Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927) 1919 1st - Züri-Metzgete 1st —...
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    Provincia di Milano 5th GP Wolber 6th ParisRoubaix 1926 1st Brussels–Paris 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1927 1st Tour of Flanders 2nd Hannover–Bremen–Hannover...
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    Maurice Ville (category Cyclists from Île-de-France)
    Tour du Vaucluse 2nd ParisRoubaix 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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    Fausto Coppi (category Tour de France winners)
    Lombardia five times, the Milan–San Remo three times, as well as wins at ParisRoubaix and La Flèche Wallonne and setting the hour record (45.798 km) in 1942...
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