Mat Hayman won the biggest race of his long career by outsprinting Tom Boonen on the Roubaix velodrome having made the early breakaway. The 37-year-old Orica-GreenEdge rider became the second Australian to win the 'Hell of the North' after Stuart O'Grady in 2007 as he proved to have the strongest legs after 257km of racing.
Broadcast from the first kilometre for the first time, Paris-Roubaix started with a flurry of attacks as riders tried to establish the breakaway that eventually went clear with the likes of Imanol Erviti (Movistar), Yaroslav Popovych (Trek-Segafredo) in his last race and Hayman. A crash just before sector three saw several groups emerge, with Fabian Cancellara and Peter Sagan caught out and forced to chase. On the Mons-en-Pévèle sector, Cancellara hit the deck and saw his dreams of a fourth Roubaix disappear as it became clear the winner would come from the front group.
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In the closing kilometres, the front group of Hayman, Boonen, Sep Vanmarcke, Ian Stannard, Edvald Boasson Hagen all tried to attack and arrive solo but it would come back together as the Australian won the biggest race of his career.
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