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2025 Paris–Roubaix
The 2025 Paris–Roubaix was a road bicycle racing, road cycling one-day race that took place on 13 April 2025 in France. It was the 122nd edition of Paris–Roubaix and the 16th event of the 2025 UCI World Tour. The race was won by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel of for the third year in succession, after a battle with world champion Tadej Pogačar of . Van der Poel became the eighth rider to win the race three times, and the third rider to win three times in succession after Octave Lapize in the early 1900s and Francesco Moser in the late 1970s. The race was marked by decisive attacks by van der Poel, Pogačar and Pedersen. Pogačar crashed with around remaining, falling back after having to change his bicycle. Leading the race solo, van der Poel was hit in the face by a water bottle thrown by a member of the crowd, before puncturing on the Carrefour de l'Arbre sector of cobblestones. Ultimately neither slowed van der Poel enough to enable a tiring Pogačar to catch him bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 UCI World Tour
The 2025 UCI World Tour is a series of races that includes thirty-six events throughout the 2025 in men's road cycling, 2025 cycling season. The tour started with the 2025 Tour Down Under, Tour Down Under on 21 January, and will conclude with the 2025 Tour of Guangxi, Tour of Guangxi on 19 October. Events The race calendar for the 2025 season was announced in June 2024, with thirty-six races scheduled. The calendar was similar to 2024 UCI World Tour, 2024, with a new one-day race in Denmark, the Copenhagen Sprint. In October 2024, the final calendar was confirmed. Teams The eighteen UCI WorldTeam, WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with the top two UCI ProTeams listed on the 2024 UCI World Ranking ( and ) also invited automatically. Other teams were invited by the organisers of each race. References External links * {{2025 in road cycling 2025 UCI World Tour, UCI World Tour 2025 in men's road cycling, World Tour Current cycling season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg LeMond
Gregory James LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France thrice and the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road Race World Championship twice, becoming the only American male to win the former. LeMond began his professional cycling career in 1981. Two years later, LeMond became the first American male cyclist to win the Road World Championship. He won the Tour de France in 1986, becoming the first non-European professional cyclist to win the men's Tour. LeMond was accidentally shot with pellets and seriously injured while hunting in 1987. Following the shooting, he underwent two surgeries and missed the next two Tours. At the 1989 Tour de France, 1989 Tour, LeMond completed an improbable comeback to win in dramatic fashion on the race's final stage. He successfully defended his Tour title the following year, becoming one of only nine riders to win three or more Tours. LeMond retired from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Wright (cyclist)
Alfred Brockwell Wright (born 13 June 1999) is a British racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Originally from south east London, Wright moved to Manchester at the age of 18 to join the British Cycling Senior Academy, with a focus on the track. In August 2019, Wright joined UCI WorldTeam as a stagiaire for the second half of the season. In November 2019 it was announced that Wright was joining the team, later renamed as for the 2020 season. He was recruited to the team by Rod Ellingworth, the outfit's general manager, who had previously worked for the British Cycling Senior Academy. In April 2020 Wright won stage four of the Giro d'Italia Virtual, held during the Covid-19 crisis that stopped outdoor cycling races. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España. At the Vuelta he placed fourth on the fifteenth stage of the race. 2022 2022 was a breakthrough season for Wright as he took a top-10 at the Tour of Flanders fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Hoelgaard
Markus Hoelgaard (born 4 October 1994) is a Norwegian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships The 2013 UCI Road World Championships took place in Tuscany, Italy, between 22 and 29 September 2013. The Championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 86th Road World Championships, the 13th in Italy .... He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Daniel Hoelgaard. Major results ;2012 : National Junior Road Championships ::3rd Norwegian National Road Race Championships, Road race ::3rd Norwegian National Time Trial Championships, Time trial : 5th Paris–Roubaix Juniors ;2014 : 2nd Grand Prix Královéhradeckého kraje : 8th Visegrad 4 Bicycle Race, GP Czech Republic ;2016 : 2nd Overall ZLM Tour (UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup), ZLM Roompot Tour ::1st Stage 1 (Team time trial, TTT) : 3rd Norwegian National Road Race Championships, Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Bissegger
Stefan Bissegger (born 13 September 1998) is a Swiss professional road and track bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He rode in the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit, men's individual pursuit event at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Major results Road ;2016 : 1st Overall Driedaagse van Axel ::1st Stages 2 & 4 ;2018 : 1st Swiss National Time Trial Championships, Time trial, National Under-23 Championships ;2019 : 1st Swiss National Time Trial Championships, Time trial, National Under-23 Championships : New Zealand Cycle Classic ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 2019 Tour de l'Avenir, Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stages 2 (Team time trial, TTT) & 6 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Ain : 1st Stage 2 Tour du Jura (France), Tour du Jura : 2nd UCI Road World Championships – Men's under-23 road race, Road race, 2019 UCI Road World Championships, UCI World Under-23 Championships : 2nd Overall Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Rutsch
Jonas Rutsch (born 24 January 1998) is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He rode for in the men's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. Two years later, he stepped up to join . Considered a strong classics rider, he won the Kattekoers, the under-23 version of Gent–Wevelgem in 2019 and finished 11th at the 2021 Paris–Roubaix. Major results ;2018 : 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt Under–23 : 10th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne ;2019 : 1st Kattekoers : 6th Overall International Tour of Rhodes ::1st Young rider classification : 6th Overall Tour Alsace : 8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 8th Rund um Köln ;2022 : National Road Championships ::4th Time trial ::5th Road race ;2023 : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2024 : 9th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race ;2025 : 6th Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Vermeersch
Florian Vermeersch (born 12 March 1999) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career (2020–2024) On 1 June 2020, Vermeersch was promoted from the team's under-23 development squad. Formerly, Vermeersch competed in cyclo-cross, in which he was highly successful. While being a professional cyclist, he is studying history at Ghent University. In 2021, he placed third in the UCI Road World Under–23 men's time trial. At the 2021 Paris–Roubaix race, which had been postponed from April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he got into the early breakaway of around 30 riders and ultimately finished second to Sonny Colbrelli and ahead of Mathieu van der Poel in a three-man sprint in the velodrome. Vermeersch sustained a broken femur in a crash during his first race of 2024 at the Vuelta a Murcia on February 10. The accident occurred on the descent of Alto Collado Bermejo, and forced him to miss the Spring Classics. (2025–) On April 24, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Flanders
West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemish province of East Flanders to the east, the Walloon province of Hainaut in the south and the French department of Nord to the west. Its capital is Bruges (''Brugge''). Other important cities are Kortrijk in the south and Ostend (''Oostende'') on the coast, Roeselare and Ypres (''Ieper''). The province has an area of which is divided into eight administrative districts (''arrondissementen'') containing 64 municipalities. As of January 2024, West Flanders has a population of over 1.22 million. The North Sea coast of Belgium, an important tourism destination, lies in West Flanders. A tram line runs the length of the coast, from De Panne on the French border to Knokke-Heist on the Dutch border. West Flanders has two seaports, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Cycliste Internationale
The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues racing licenses to riders and enforces disciplinary rules, such as in matters of doping. The UCI also manages the classification of races and the points ranking system in various cycling disciplines including road and track cycling, mountain biking, cyclo-cross, Gravel, and BMX, for both men and women, amateur and professional. It also oversees the World Championships. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UCI said that Russian and Belarusian teams were forbidden from competing in international events. It also stripped both Russia and Belarus of scheduled events. History The UCI was founded on 14 April 1900 in Paris by the national cycling sports organisations of Belgium, the United States, France, Italy, and Switzerland. It replaced the International Cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roubaix Velodrome
The Roubaix Velodrome (officially Vélodrome André-Pétrieux) is a velodrome in Roubaix, Nord, France. It was opened in 1936 and has hosted the finish of the one-day " monument classic" cycling race Paris–Roubaix since 1943, and the Paris–Roubaix Femmes since its inception in 2021. The race moved to the current stadium in 1943, and there it has stayed with the exceptions of 1986, 1987 and 1988 when the finish was in the avenue des Nations-Unies, outside the offices of La Redoute, the mail-order company which sponsored the race. The shower room inside the velodrome is distinctive for the open, three-sided, low-walled concrete stalls, each with a brass plaque to commemorate a winner. These include Peter Van Petegem, Eddy Merckx, Peter Sagan, Roger De Vlaeminck, Rik Van Looy and Fausto Coppi. The velodrome is located in the ''Parc des Sports'', on the eastern outskirts of Roubaix, less than two kilometres from the Belgian border. The grass field on the inside of the track is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper Philipsen
Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTour, UCI WorldTeam . Specialising as a Sprinter (cycling), sprinter, he has won nine stages in the Tour de France and three in the Vuelta a España, and the Points classification in the Tour de France, points classification in the 2023 Tour de France. Career Early years From 2010, Philipsen rode for the Royal Balen BC team. In 2015, he became Belgian National Road Race Championships, national junior time trial champion. Later that year, he finished eighth at the 2015 European Road Championships, European championships in the same discipline and sixth at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships, world championships. One year on, Philipsen won the Guido Reybrouck Classic and E3 Saxo Bank Classic, E3 Harelbeke for juniors, and successfully defended his national time trial title. In addition, in the same year he finished fifth in Paris–Roubaix Juniors, Paris-Roubaix for juniors an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Ganna
Filippo Ganna (born 25 July 1996) is an Italian track and road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a record-breaking six-time world champion in the individual pursuit, winning a total of nine medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and part of the Olympic gold medal-winning team in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also won the men's individual time trial at the 2020 and 2021 UCI Road World Championships, and four stages in the 2020 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2021 Giro d'Italia, setting the record for most consecutive time trials won at the Giro with five. He was the previous world record holder in individual pursuit and he is the current record holder of the hour record, which he unified with the ''best human effort'' since the distinction was first made in 1997. Career The son of former Italian Olympic sprint canoer Marco Ganna, Ganna emerged into the scene at the 2016 World Indoor Championships with an uncommon negativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
