Roubaix (France), 10 (EUROPA PRESS)
Belgian cyclist Johan Van Summeren (Garmin-Cervelo) earned the victory in the 96th edition of Paris-Roubaix with a time of 6 hours, 27 minutes and 24 seconds, beating Fabian Cancellara (Leopard -Trek), former champion, by 19 seconds ahead. With this victory, Van Summeren prevented Cancellara defended their title in the French trial of 258 miles after his victory last year.
The race start was moved and when they took only five kilometers, Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) and Andreas Schillinger (Skil-Shimano) sought adventure, but the squad foiled drain immediately. Shortly after
were Mikhail Ignatiev (Katusha), Roy Curvers (Skil-Shimano) and Ben King (RadioShack) that managed to pull away with the pack for three miles, when the group returned to join.
The first serious break came at 21 kilometers, in which Bradley Wiggins (Sky), Marco Bandiera (Quick Step) and Mirko Selvaggi (Vacansoleil-DCM) got a lead of up to 30 seconds, which attempted to unite Anthony Ravard ( AG2R-La Mondiale) and Bert De Backer (Skil-Shimano), but the strong pace of the peloton managed to reunite the group.
After these initial attacks, the race was stopped, and the peloton remained together until kilometer 90, when eight riders led by Martin Elmiger (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun) launched an offensive and reached a lead of almost 3 minutes at 100 kilometers from the finish.
Behind, Andre Greipel attacked the head of the pack and pulled Dekort (Skil-Shimano) and Gorazd STANGELJ (Astana) to be in an intermediate group between the escapees and the peloton.
On arrival to the forest of Arenberg, Boonen had a mechanical mishap that left him 45 seconds of the squad that began to dominate the Leopard-Trek team of Fabian Cancellara, trying to cut the lead to ten escaped, in the absence of 75 km the end kept a lead of 1:45. Cancellara
accelerated in the eighth step and only Hudsov sector could follow, but then joined them Ballan and managed to close the gap to the escapees, keeping it in 50 seconds.
Under this pressure from the chase, Van Summeren attacked in the head and left behind Rast, Bak and Tjallingi with Cancellara's group nearly a minute away.
This attack Van Summeren to 14 kilometers from the finish ruled the race and allowed the Belgian to get his second career title after the Tour of Poland in 2007 and better achieved his best result in this test in France, where he was fifth in 2009. For his part, English hope, Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky Team) finished in ninth place at 47 seconds behind. - CLASSIFICATION.
- Johan Van Summeren (BEL / Garmin-Cervelo) 6:27:24.
- Fabian Cancellara (SUI / Leopard-Trek) at 19. Maarten
- Tjallingil (HOL / Rabobank) mt
- Gregory Rast (SUI / Radioshack) mt
- Lars Bak (DIN / HTC-Highroad) 21.
- Alessandro Ballan (ITA / BMC Racing) 36.
- Bernhard Eisel (AUS / HTC-Highroad) 47.
- Thor Hushovd (NOR / Garmin) mt
- Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP / Team Sky) MT
10.Mathew Hayman (AUS / Team Sky) MT
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