One of the most famous classics races, Paris-Roubaix 2015, will take place this Sunday. For this 113th edition of the race, the organisor chose to repeat the 2013 race route when it was won by Fabian Cancellara who got the double win of the Tour of Flanders - Paris-Roubaix.

This year, Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) made the race his biggest goal, just before he says goodbye to his professional road cycling career. If there's a double win with the Tour of Flanders again this year, Alexander Kristoff (who also won the Grand Prix de l'Escaut/Scheldeprijs today) would win the race, but is the Norwegian rider of Team Katusha able to be the first out of the cobbles and on the velodrome of Roubaix?

In the Hell of the North, even a small thing can come disturb the race for one or several riders. Therefore, nothing's sure beforehand, we'll see this Sunday on the cobble stones what the race will bring ...

The 27 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2015

With a race route which is identical to the one in 2013, the cobble stones sections will also be the same. The difficulty notes which have been awarded to these cobble stones sections are also almost the same as in 2013, the Hornaing section (16) is the only one which has been judged more difficult with a note up from 3 to 4 while the one from Cysoing to Bourghelles (6) loses one point in terms of difficulty to get from 4 to 3.

3 of these 27 cobble stones sections will also be part of the final part of the 4th stage of the Tour de France 2015: 25/ Quievy (3700 m), 24/ Saint-Python (1500 m) and 22/ Verchain-Maugré (1600 m).

#	location	length	km	note
27	Troisvilles	2.200 m	98,5	+++
26	Viesly	1.800 m	105	+++
25	Quiévy	3.700 m	108	++++
24	Saint-Python	1.500 m	112,5	++
23	Vertain	2.300 m	120,5	+++
22	Verchain-Maugré	1.600 m	130	+++
21	Quérénaing à Maing	2.500 m	133,5	+++
20	Monchaux-sur-Écaillon	1.600 m	136,5	+++
19	Haveluy	2.500 m	149,5	++++
18	Trouée d'Arenberg	2.400 m	158	+++++
17	Wallers à Hélesmes, called "Pont Gibus"	1.600 m	164	+++
16	Hornaing	3.700 m	170,5	++++
15	Warlaing à Brillon	2.400 m	178	+++
14	Tilloy à Sars-et-Rosières	2.400 m	181,5	++++
13	Beuvry-la-Forêt à Orchies	1.400 m	188	+++
12	Orchies	1.700 m	193	+++
11	Auchy-lez-Orchies à Bersée	2.700 m	199	++++
10	Mons-en-Pévèle	3.000 m	204,5	+++++
9	Mérignies à Avelin	700 m	210,5	++
8	Pont-Thibaut	1.400 m	214	+++
7	Templeuve (Moulin-de-Vertain)	500 m	220	++
6	Cysoing à Bourghelles	1.300 m	226,5	+++
6	Bourghelles à Wannehain	1.100 m	229	+++
5	Camphin-en-Pévèle	1.800 m	233,5	++++
4	Carrefour de l'Arbre	2.100 m	236,5	+++++
3	Gruson	1.100 m	238,5	++
2	Hem	1.400 m	245,5	++
1	Charles Crupelandt, Roubaix	300 m	252	+
total		52,7

And to give you an idea of how it is to cross a cobble stones section, I share Florent Ligney's video on Kinomap below which, despite the fact that the camera is partially covered by mud, gives a good idea of the vibrations on the bike. The Trouée d'Arenberg simply seems to be a straight line on the map, but it's not as easy as it seems ...

The Paris-Roubaix 2015 race route on Google Maps

After the start from Compiègne on the Place du Général de Gaulle, the riders will follow the Rue du Dahomey, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, Rue Solférino, Rue de Clermont and the Rue de Noyon in Compiègne. The real start will be in Clairoix on the D932. The riders will than follow, via Ham and Saint-Quentin, the usual race route to get to the first cobble stones section from Troisville to Inchy. The cobble stones sections will follow up on each other until Monchaux-sur-Ecaillon where the riders will get on a short road section via Thiant and Denain before they get on a succession of cobble stones sections again starting in Haveluy.
In total, the riders will have 52.7 kilometers of cobbles (in 2013, A.S.O. talked about 52.5 kilometers because the distance measures seemed to be much more precise, the lengths have now been rounded at hundreds of meters) and the riders will find two feeding zones, in Solesmes and in Beuvry-la-Forêt. The finish will, as usual, be at the Velodrome in Roubaix after a complet lap on the track. The organisor of Paris-Roubaix planned a possible finish in the covered velodrome this year in case of bad weather, but looking at the weather forecast which says it should be fine this year, this option will not be used.

Hereunder you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Google Maps for Paris-Roubaix 2015:

You can use this map to plan your visit of Paris-Roubaix 2015 completely in detail. No excuses anymore for not having enough detailed information provided by the organisor!

The Paris-Roubaix 2015 race route in Google Earth

Do you prefer to watch the Paris-Roubaix 2015 race route in Google Earth? Or would you like to do a virtual fly-over of the Paris-Roubaix 2015 race route as if you were riding the cobbles yourself? Download the KML file below and open it in Google Earth to do so:
>> Download the Paris-Roubaix 2015 race route in Google Earth


Don't forget that you can use the Streetview function to see everything from even more up close. Many cobble stones sections have been visited by the Google car and can thus be seen directly in Google Earth! If the car didn't dare to get on a cobble stones section, you can at least see the entrance and the end of the section in most cases ...

The 25 teams starting in Paris-Roubaix 2015

25 teams will be at the start of Paris-Roubaix 2015: first of all of course, because of the UCI WorldTour status, the 17 UCI ProTeams which are AG2R La Mondiale, Astana Pro Team, BMC Racing Team, Etixx-QuickStep, FDJ, IAM Cycling, Lampre-Merida, Lotto-Soudal, Movistar Team, Orica-GreenEDGE, Team Cannondale-Garmin, Team Giant-Alpecin, Team Katusha, Team LottoNL-Jumbo, Team Sky, Tinkoff-Saxo and Trek Factory Racing.

The 8 other teams which will be present are Bora-Argon 18, Bretagne-Séché Environnement, Cofidis solutions crédits, MTN-Qhubeka, Team Europcar, Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise, UnitedHealthCare Pro Cycling Team and Wanty-Groupe Gobert.

door Thomas Vergouwen
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