
Tour of Flanders (men's race)
Belgian one-day cycling race, one of the five monuments

Belgian one-day cycling race, one of the five monuments
The Tour of Flanders is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Its nickname is Vlaanderens Mooiste (Dutch for "Flanders' Finest"). First held in 1913, the Tour of Flanders had its 100th edition in 2016. Today it is one of the five monuments of cycling, together with Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Giro di Lombardia. It is one of the two major cobbled classics, shortly before Paris–Roubaix, which is one week after the Tour of Flanders. The event had its only interruptions during World War I and has been contested every year since 1919, the longest continuous sequence for any cycling classic. Eight men hold the record of most victories, making the Tour of Flanders unique among the major classics. Belgians Achiel Buysse, Eric Leman, Johan Museeuw, and Tom Boonen, Italian Fiorenzo Magni, Dutch Mathieu van der Poel, Swiss Fabian Cancellara...
Read on Wikipedia · Image Wanjouters, CC BY-SA 4.0
Open boosters, collect cards and trade them. Free to play.
Play for free