Paris-Roubaix podium history | 1948 edition | 1946 edition

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The race:

The 1947 Paris-Roubaix was 246 km long and raced at an average speed of 39.83 km/hr.

255 riders signed up and 211 started from Barrage de Pierrefitte. There were 36 classified finishers who finished on the Roubaix veleodrome.

The riders were hammered by torrential rain.

Olimpio Bizzi joined a break that formed just 20 kilometers into the race. Eventually Bizzi dropped all his companions. Late in the race he broke his rear wheel in a gutter and by the time he restarted, his gap was down to 40 seconds.

He was caught after riding off the front for nearly 240 kilometers. Adolf Verschueren led out the sprint on the Roubaix velodrome but was passed with ease by Georges Claes, who won his second consecutive Paris-Roubaix.

 

George Claes after winning his second consecutive Paris-Roubaix in 1947.

Complete Results:

1. Georges Claes: 6hr 10min 34sec.

2. Adolf Verschueren s.t.
3. Louis Thiétard (Métropole-Dunlop) s.t.
4. Raymond Impanis (Alcyon-Dunlop) @ 16sec
5. Albéric "Briek" Schotte (Alcyon-Dunlop) @ 51sec
6. Olimpio Bizzi (Viscontea) @ 56sec
7. Edouard Fachleitner (France Sport-Dunlop) s.t.
8. Maurice De Muer (Peugeot-Dunlop) s.t.
9. Lucien Teisseire @ 2min 42sec
10. Lucien Vlaemynck @ 3min 43sec
11. Maurice Diot @ 6min 45sec
12. Frans Knaepkens (Starnord-Wolber) @ 7min 18sec
13. Kléber Piot (Métropole-Dunlop) @ 10min 7sec
14. Fermo Camellini @ 10min 25sec
15. Florent Mathieu (Rochet-Dunlop) @ 11min 12sec
16. Alfio Fazio @ 13min 5sec
17. Gino Sciardis (Mercier-Hutchinson) @ 14min 8sec
18. Pierre Brambilla @ 14min 28sec
19. César Marcelak (Bertin-Wolber) s.t.
20. Henri Delmuylle @ 15min 34sec
21. Mario Mariotti @ 18min 0sec
22. Robert Charpentier (La Perle-Hutchinson) s.t.
23. Jean Deubelbeis @ 23min 47sec
24. Georges Desplenter s.t.
25. Jean-Baptiste Delille (Rochet-Dunlop) s.t.
26. Jan Landuyt @ 25min 11sec
27. Henri Massal (France Sport-Dunlop) @ 25min 50sec
28. Henri Renders @ 26min 40sec
29. Robert Bonnaventure (La Perle-Hutchinson) @ 30min 0sec
30. Jean Breuer (Rochet-Dunlop) @ 33min 0sec
31. Louis Brusselmans s.t.
32. Guy Butteux @ 34min 0sec
33. Alfred Ermacora @ 35min 0sec
34. Roger Lambrecht @ 36min 0sec
35. Francis Fricker (Thomas-Rosset) s.t.
36. Maurice Meersman (Starnord-Wolber) s.t.