Powering his Colnago C40 on his own for the final 70km, on a day marked by foul weather and a crash by his team leader Johan Museeuw, Franco Ballerini takes his sec­ond Paris-Roubaix win. His Mapei team-mates Andrea Tafi and Wilfried Peeters take sec­ond and third after pow­er­ing the break­away from which Ballerini spring­boards to victory.