All the best shots from the men's race as Mathieu Van der Poel crushes the cobbles and his rivals in the fastest ever edition of the race
There was no match for Van der Poel over the cobbles(Image credit: Chris Auld)
Paris-Roubaix is unique. No other race over the season is harder to finish – for most of the peloton anyway.
That fact might be hard to believe when watching Mathieu Van der Poel cruise into the Vélodrome André-Pétrieux to win the 2024 edition of the race exactly three minutes ahead of his closest competitor.
The Dutchman rightly took all the headlines in this year's Hell of the North, but behind him were riders who had fought with all they had through the farm roads of northern France just to cross the finish line.
Photographer Chris Auld was on the ground at the race, capturing the images that tell the story of the day. Here are our favourites.
Dan is a freelance cycling journalist and has written for Cyclingnews since 2023 alongside other work with Cycling Weekly, Rouleur and The Herald Scotland. Dan focuses much of his work on professional cycling beyond its traditional European heartlands and writes a regular Substack called Global Peloton.
