Paris–Roubaix Femmes runs the same cobbled sectors that decide the men's Hell of the North, the Trouée d'Arenberg and the Carrefour de l'Arbre among them, finishing on the famous Roubaix velodrome. First held in 2021, it delivered an instant classic. Lizzie Deignan attacked with eighty kilometres to go and soloed across the pavé in the cold and the mud, her hands bleeding, to win the inaugural edition. No rider has won it twice, and the list of champions runs through Deignan, Elisa Longo Borghini, Alison Jackson, Lotte Kopecky and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. The cobbles play no favourites, and a puncture in the wrong sector ends the day. In 2026 Franziska Koch outfoxed Marianne Vos and Ferrand-Prévot from a three-rider break, the latest name on one of the sport's fastest-growing legends.