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TOURS, France, Oct 7, 2012 - Italy's Marco Marcato won the 106th edition of the Paris-Tours race on Sunday, setting a new speed record of 48.629km/h for the 235.5km race. Marcato, 28, was second in the event last year, but celebrated victory this time round edging out Laurens De Vreese of Belgium and Dutch rider Niki Terpstra on the line. Favorite John Degenkolb of Germany came … [Read more...]
TOURS, France, Oct 9, 2011 (AFP) - Belgian rider Greg Van Avermaet won a sprint finish to claim the Paris-Tours cycling classic here on Sunday. The BMC rider edged Italian Marco Marcato of Vacansoleil with Denmark's Kasper Klostergaard-Larsen of Saxo Bank finishing third after the 230.5km race. Pre-race favorites including Britain's recently-crowned world champion Mark Cavendish and … [Read more...]
The BMC Racing Team will field a versatile roster for Sunday's 105th edition of Paris-Tours. Features New Finish BMC Racing Team Directeur Sportif John Lelangue said there are three critical phases to the 230.5-kilometer fall classic that actually begins in Voves, France. "We'll be attentive to the first part with the side winds and echelons," Lelangue said. "In the second part, we know we … [Read more...]
PARIS, Sept 27, 2011 (AFP) - Paris-Tours organizers ASO (Amaury Sports Organization) have invited Mark Cavendish to become the first world road race champion to compete in the French sprinters' classic next month. Cavendish became only the second Briton, and the first since Tom Simpson in 1965, to win the road race world champion's rainbow stripes in Copenhagen on Sunday. The … [Read more...]
TOURS, France - Rabobank's Oscar Freire became the first Spaniard to win the Paris-Tours one-day classic Sunday when he out sprinted Italy's Angelo Furlan and Belgian Gert Steegmans at the finish line. Freire, a former three-time world champion who won Milan-San Remo this year, beat Lampre sprinter Furlan in a furious finish to the 233km classic, with Steegmans, of team RadioShack, two bike … [Read more...]
Former world road champion Alessandro Ballan will be the BMC Racing Team's appointed leader for Sunday's French fall classic, Paris-Tours. Make It Selective The recent world road championships in Australia played a big part in the roster BMC Racing Team Directeur Sportif John Lelangue selected for the 233-kilometer race. "Due to the time difference and the jet lag, we won't have some of the … [Read more...]
The Paris-Tours route: 233 km. Departure from La Loupe at 11:25, arrival in Tours to 16.50. Participation: 25 teams. Milram, Quick Step, Omega Pharma, Topsport, Saxo Bank, Caisse d'Epargne, HTC-Columbia, Garmin-Transitions, RadioShack, BMC, AG2R-La Mondiale, FDJ, Bbox, Cofidis, Saur-Sojasun, BigMat, Brittany Schuller Roubaix-Lille Metropole, Sky, Lampre, Liquigas, Rabobank, Skil, … [Read more...]
PARIS, Sept 22, 2010 (AFP) - Sprinters with an eye on victory at the Paris-Tours one-day classic will have extra motivation during the 104th edition in a fortnight when the Avenue de Grammont hosts the finish for the last time. The Grammont has traditionally hosted the finish of the race, which usually ends in a bunch sprint thanks to the 2.7km long home straight after 233km of racing. … [Read more...]
TOURS, France, Oct 11, 2009 (AFP) - Belgian Philippe Gilbert, riding for Silence, on Sunday won the Paris-Tours semi classic race over 230km for the second straight year. Gilbert saw off compatriot Tom Boonen and Slovenia's Borut Bozic in a three-man dash for the line with Italian Filippo Pozzato beating Spaniard Oscar Freire into fifth some 20sec off the leading trio. For Gilbert the … [Read more...]
PARIS, Sept 30, 2009 (AFP) - British sprint sensation Mark Cavendish has pulled out of Paris-Tours, the road sprint classic on October 11, his Columbia team announced on Wednesday. Cavendish, who won six stages at this year's Tour de France, had already withdrawn from the world championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland with a lung infection. The Isle of Mann rider recently pulled out of … [Read more...]