1905 Paris - Roubaix
10th edition: Sunday, April 23, 1905
Complete results
Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1904 edition | 1906 edition
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The race and its winner:
The 1905 Paris-Roubaix was 268 km long and raced at an average speed of 33.206 km/h.
63 starters and 26 classified finishers
1905 was Louis Trousselier's year. He was the first rider to perform a Paris-Roubaix/Tour de France double. That year he also won Paris-Valenciennes and Brussels-Roubaix.
He went on to get third in the 1906 Tour de France and win the 1908 edition of Bordeaux-Paris.
By the end of his racing career he had won 13 Tour de France stages.
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Louis Trousselier
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Complete Results:
- Louis Trousselier (France) @ 8hr 4min 15sec
- René Pottier (France) @ 7min
- Henri Cornet (France) @ 16min
- Hippolyte Aucouturier (France) @ 23min
- Edouard Wattelier (France) @ 48min
- Claude Chapperon (France) @ 57min
- Alois Catteau (Belgium) @ 1hr 6min
- Paul Chauvet (France) @ 1hr 12min
- Lazare Brault (France) @ 1hr 20min
- Louis Colsaet (France) @ 1hr 20min 1sec
- Albert Dartois (France) @ 1hr 28min
- Jules Sales (Belgium) @ 1hr 31min
- Antony Wattelier (France) @ 1hr 35min
- Eugène Christophe (France) @ 1hr 38min
- A. Van Meerhaeghe (Belgium) @ 1hr 59min
- E. Verinamen (France) @ 2hr 49min
- Léonard Vendendaelen (France) @ 2hr 59min
- Jules Baudry (France0 @ 3hr 2min
- Revirebil (Netherlands) @ 3hr 14min
- Lambert Lumet (Netherlands) @ 3hr 24min
- François Poiry (France) @ 3hr 29min
- J. Olivier (France) @ 3hr 56min
- F. Crombez (France) @ 4hr 44min
- L. Treuvelot (France) @ 4hr 48min
- E. Carbonnois (France) @ 5hr 8min
- Maurand Delcambre (France) @ 5hr 9min
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