ASO announce route for 2022 Paris-Roubaix Femmes

ROUBAIX FRANCE OCTOBER 02 Romy Kasper of Germany and Jumbo Visma Team competes during the 1st ParisRoubaix 2021 Womens Elite a 1164km race from Denain to Roubaix ParisRoubaixFemmes ParisRoubaix on October 02 2021 in Roubaix France Photo by Bas CzerwinskiGetty Images
Women's peloton on wet and muddy cobbles in 2021 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have confirmed the route for the second edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift, taking place April 16, which will be contested by 24 women's teams.

Starting in the town of Denain, the race will head north to Roubaix, taking in nearly 30km of cobbled sectors before finishing in the famous Roubaix Velodrome. 

Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.