2022 Paris-Roubaix Results

Dylan Van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers) not only won the 2022 edition of Paris-Roubaix, but he completed the 257.2 km cobbled classic at a best-ever average speed of 45.8km/h. The win marks the first Paris-Roubaix title for Van Baarle and his team.

Ineos Grenadiers has, since its formation, collected renown as a Grand Tour squad, with six Tours de France, three Giro d’Italia, and two Vuelta a España titles under their belt. One day classics like Flanders and Paris-Roubaix have escaped their grasp.

This spring has shown some new strengths for the team. With wins at the Amstel Gold Race with Michal Kwiatkowski and De Brabantse Pijl with Magnus Sheffield, as well as Van Baarle second place spot at the Tour of Flanders, they had every reason to feel confident about a strong result in Roubaix.

Ineos blew the race open fairly early. With over 200km from the finish to go, they made a decisive attack that put their entire squad out front and left pre-race favorites Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert to chase.

Never a surprise at Paris-Roubaix, fate intervened in a huge pile-up 145km from the finish. Briefly hung up, Van Baarle and team-mates Filippo Ganna and Briton Ben Turner got their act together and later send Van Baarle up to the leading trio of Matej Mohoric, Yves Lampaert, and Tom Devriendt with 25km to go.

Van Baarle made his move 19km from the line, just ahead of the entrance to the Carrefour de l’Arbre. From there he put his head down and check each remaining sector off of the list before making a solo ride into the Velodrome Andre-Petrieux.

“It’s unbelievable. I couldn’t believe it when I went on to the velodrome,” said Van Baarle. “I looked at the other side to see if there were some other guys but I was completely alone. When the DS car came next to me with Servais (Knaven) then I really started believing in it. It’s been crazy.

“It’s a Monument so of course, I want to win a Monument. To be second in Flanders and winning Roubaix – I’m lost for words.

 

“[Splitting the race early] was not planned at all but it turned out like this. We were super focused from the gun. And that’s what we wanted – we didn’t want to chase. We wanted to be on the front foot and that’s what we did. From that moment I knew that we would have a good chance because we spent less energy than everyone else. We were a bit unlucky – I had a puncture, Pippo had a puncture, I think everyone had something. We just kept calm and this result is amazing.

“We wanted to make the race hard before the second feed zone. That’s what we did. After that Kwiato said I was super strong and he wanted to ride for me. It gave me so much confidence and I can’t thank the team enough for today. It’s been a great spring classic season so far. We’re going to enjoy this.

“We have worked so hard for it. In the last couple of years, we had some bad luck but now everything is just going in the right direction. The whole team is lifting off that and it’s been amazing.”

2022 Paris-Roubaix Brief Results

1. Dylan Van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers) in 5h37’00”
2. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) at 1’47”
3. Stefan Kung (Groupama-FDJ) s.t.
4. Tom Devriendt (Intermarche – Wanty – Gobert Materiaux) s.t
5. Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) s.t.
6. Adrien Petit (Intermarche – Wanty – Gobert Materiaux) s.t.
7. Jasper Stuyven (Trek Segefredo) s.t.
8. Laurent Pichon (Arkea – Samsic) @ 2’27”
9. Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin – Fenix) @ 2’34”
10. Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) @ 2’59”