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The third version of Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift takes place April 8, at some point forward of the lads’s race. Whereas the lads’s Paris-Roubaix begins in Compiègne, the ladies will line up 60 kilometres south of Roubaix for his or her begin in Denain.
This yr’s route has been prolonged from 124.7km to 145.4 km, with the additional distance coming earlier than the primary cobblestones. Two distinct loops on windswept roads close to the start of the course will add an additional 20 kilometres or so to the overall distance. Following the prolonged roll-out from Denain, the ladies will merge onto the lads’s course upon reaching the cobbled sector in Hornaing.
There are 17 sectors of pavé that whole 29.2 kilometres. The longest sector is the four-star Hornaing à Wandignies, 3.7km lengthy, and comes simply 42km into the race. Two sectors are rated 5 star problem: Mons-en-Pévèle with 49km to go, and the Carrefour de l’Arbre with 17km to go.
The Trouée d’Arenberg, an iconic sector within the males’s Paris-Roubaix, is once more absent from the ladies’s race. It’s near Denain and organisers didn’t need the peloton to hit a five-star sector so early within the race.
The end returns to the Roubaix Velodrome, the place final yr Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) rode solo throughout the road after launching a solo assault on the Templeuve cobblestone sector quantity eight with 34 kilometres to go.
Paris-Roubaix Femmes cobbled sectors
| Sector | Identify |
|---|---|
| 17 | Hornaing to Wandignies (3.7 km) **** |
| 16 | Warlaing to Brillon (2.4 km) *** |
| 15 | Tilloy to Sars-et-Rosières (2.4 km) **** |
| 14 | Beuvry-la-Forêt to Orchies (1.4 km) *** |
| 13 | Orchies (1.7 km) *** |
| 12 | Auchy-lez-Orchies to Bersée (2.7 km) **** |
| 11 | Mons-en-Pévèle (3 km) ***** |
| 10 | Merignies to Avelin (0.7 km) ** |
| 9 | Pont-Thibault to Ennevelin (1.4 km) *** |
| 8 | Templeuve – L’Epinette (0.2 km) * |
| 8 | Templeuve – Moulin-de-Vertain (0.5 km) ** |
| 7 | Cysoing to Bourghelles (1.3 km) *** |
| 6 | Bourghelles to Wannehain (1.1 km) *** |
| 5 | Camphin-en-Pévèle (1.8 km) **** |
| 4 | Carrefour de l’Arbre (2.1 km) ***** |
| 3 | Gruson (1.1 km) ** |
| 2 | Willems to Hem (1.4 km) *** |
| 1 | Roubaix-Espace Charles Crupelandt (0.3 km) * |
