Paris-Roubaix 2025: Tougher Than Ever with Extra Cobbles and a Redesigned Arenberg Chicane

The 2025 version of the lads’s Paris-Roubaix could have two new sectors of cobbles and a distinct speed-slowing solution to the Wooded area of Arenberg, changing the chicane from final yr, that can stay the race hellish however must make it more secure. Mathieu van der Poel gained the 2024 Paris-Roubaix with an impressive 60km solo assault. Lotte Kopecky gained the ladies’s race in a six-rider dash at the Roubaix Velodrome. 

The 122nd version of Paris-Roubaix might be hung on Sunday, April 13 over a distance of 259.2km. 

The 5th version of Paris-Roubaix Femmes might be raced the day prior to, on Saturday, April 12, at the similar 163km path from 2024, which contains 29.2 km of cobbles and the similar ultimate 17 sectors of the lads’s race however no longer the Trouée d’Arenberg. 

Race organisers ASO agreed with a request from the riders so as to add a chicane on the front of the Wooded area of Arenberg for the 2024 race. The last-minute alternate and a loop of a site visitors island sparked massive debate however labored, slowing the tempo of the peloton at the somewhat descending instantly highway to the Wooded area of Arenberg. As an alternative of hitting the cobbles at 60km/h, riders grew to become onto the field a lot slower, leading to some distance fewer crashes.  

For 2025, the speed-slowing way will head down a “small detour” as a substitute of the chicane, which contains 4 right-angle corners within the ultimate kilometre prior to the doorway to the cobbled miners’ observe that cuts instantly throughout the thick woodland.  

“This year, we were able to find an alternative that allows the peloton to slow down more smoothly, a small detour that runs alongside the Arenberg mining site. With this trick, there will be four right-angle turns in the kilometre before the Trouée,” race director Thierry Gouvenou defined.  

ASO does not give any main points of the precise roads of the detour. They might come with a piece of highway throughout the properties of Arenberg however are much more likely to go into the Arenberg mine, which is now a museum. The path would swing left off the principle highway after which take the rue de Croy highway throughout the space, prior to a correct after which left flip that ends up in the beginning of the Wooded area of Arenberg. 

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The 2025 males’s Paris-Roubaix will come with a complete of 30 cobbled sectors. The race will get started in Compiègne and finish within the iconic Roubaix velodrome. 

The primary sector comes after the village of Troisvilles after 95km of racing. The final is a symbolic sector close to the doorway to the velodrome. Gouvenou has added two new sectors, 30km prior to the Wooded area of Arenberg that would shake up the ways and spot assaults pass even previous.   

The brand new sectors are in Artres, after 130.9km of racing, lasting 1300 metres, and in Famars quickly after, lasting 1200m. 

“These are not particularly difficult passages but by introducing them it allows us to have a sequence of five sectors almost without riding on asphalt,” Gouvenou defined.  

The map of the 2025 Paris-Roubaix path (Symbol credit score: ASO)