The 2016 Tour of Flanders was a one-day classic cycling race that took place in Belgium on Sunday 3 April 2016. It was the 100th edition of the Tour of Flanders; it was the eighth event of the UCI World Tour and the third of the cobbled one-day classics. It was the second Monument race of the 2016 cycling season.
Market Square in Bruges, scene of the start of the 100th Tour of Flanders.
The Haaghoek in Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke is the penultimate flat cobbled sector of the race, at 101 km from the finish.
Imanol Erviti, who rode for 180 kilometres (110 mi) in the breakaway and finished seventh (pictured at the 2015 Tour de France)
Peter Sagan, wearing the rainbow-striped jersey of the reigning world champion (pictured at the 2016 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad)
The Tour of Flanders, also known as De Ronde, 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. First held in 1913, the Tour of Flanders had its 100th edition in 2016.
Korenmarkt, Ghent (pictured ca. 1890-1900), was the scene of the start of the first Tour of Flanders in 1913
Marcel Buysse, winner of the second Tour of Flanders, pictured in 1913
The 1929 Tour of Flanders on the dyke of the Bruges–Ostend Canal
Statue in honour of Briek Schotte in Kanegem. Schotte won the race twice and holds a record 20 participations between 1940 and 1959.
