Johan Museeuw
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Johan Museeuw is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed The Lion of Flanders, he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics
Museeuw in 2006
Johan Museeuw won his first Tour of Flanders in 1993.
Museeuw missed his second Tour of Flanders win by 7 mm in 1994.
Museeuw in the rainbow jersey in 1997
Paris–Roubaix
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Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in France, held on the first Sunday in April and starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cy
Johan Museeuw
…classics of Flanders and Northern France and was considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion in 1996. Other notable career achievements include two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, two final…
Winners since 1977 have received a mounted cobble (sett); the organisers keep a gold-plated cobble for themselves
Théodore Vienne Roubaix entrepreneur
Share of the Société Anonyme du Vélodrome de Roubaix, issued 3 March 1899
Cobblestone Emblem of Paris–Roubaix, Donated on the 100th anniversary by 'Les Amis de Paris–Roubaix' and 'La Ville de Roubaix' 50°40′43″N 3°12′17″E / 50.678548°N 3.204612°E / 50.678548; 3.204612