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
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.
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The Monuments are five classic cycle races generally considered to be the oldest, hardest, longest and most prestigious one-day events in men's road cycling, with distances between 240 and 300 kilomet
Tour of Flanders (men's race)
…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…
Eddy Merckx in 1974
Ce soir 17 avril 1949 Paris Roubaix Monument