Paris Brest Paris (or PBP) is a 1200km randonnee held every four years, and is considered the monument event of randonneuring.  The next event is due to be held in August 2015.

The PBP began in 1891, making it longest running cycling event. The last professional PBP was in 1951, but the PBP randonnee continues to grow with 6000 riders expected in Paris for the 2011 event. The PBP is the big event that many randonneurs aspire to with randonneurs around the world completing qualifying rides over 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km in the year of PBP.

PBP is often seen as the pinnacle of randonneuring achievement.

French record breaking sailor Olivier de Kersausan describes such a challenge well: "To feel euphoric when getting ready, excited at the start, to suffer, to hesitate, to be determined again, to sink back into discouragement, to recover strength to go further, to try to stay awake, again and again, and eventually to arrive safe and sound at the harbour. The deep sense of achievement makes us forget the suffering."

Posts included on this page:

• New Zealand Finishers of the Paris-Brest-Paris
• Congratulations to all PBP finishers!
• PBP 2011 Qualification

You can learn more about the PBP at the following sites:

• Paris Brest Paris Randonneur 2011 (Official site)
• Wikipedia entry: Paris Brest Paris
• British Columbia Randonneurs have an excellent online historical record, including past routes and results

New Zealand Finishers of the Paris-Brest-Paris

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List of known New Zealand finishers of the Paris-Brest-Paris Randonneur.

• Many New Zealanders live and work outside New Zealand and may have entered as a different nationality
• This list only includes riders entered PBP with "NZ" as their nationality, or have entered as a member of Kiwi Randonneurs (or its predecessors Audax Australia - New Zealand or RANDONNEURS NEW-ZEALAND)
• Results sourced from BC Randonneurs and www.paris-brest-paris.org

Congratulations to all PBP finishers!

Last modified on 2013-10-21 09:50:02 GMT. 1 comment. Top.

What an epic ride this was. We all thought the weather in 2007 was bad but it seems this year was a tough one too.

Great to see all Kiwi Randonneurs finished well within the time limit.

Good on you all:

I am looking forward to reading your stories and seeing photos if you managed to get any.

Best wishes,

Duncan

Kiwi Randonneurs at PBP 2011.

PBP 2011 Qualification

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Here are the results I have for PBP qualifying rides.

* Does not include brevets that were certified by Audax Australia (e.g. Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Enduro, which could optionally be ridden as a 300km brevet)