Tour of Flanders
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| Date | Early April |
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| Region | Flanders, Belgium |
| Local name(s) | Ronde van Vlaanderen (Dutch) |
| Nickname(s) |
De Ronde (Dutch) Vlaanderens Mooiste (Dutch) Flanders' Finest (English) |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI World Tour |
| Type | One-day Classic |
| Organiser | Flanders Classics |
| Race director | Wim Van Herreweghe |
| First edition | 1913 |
| Editions | 100 (as of 2016) |
| First winner |
 Paul Deman (BEL)
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| Most wins |
Achiel Buysse (BEL) Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) Eric Leman (BEL) Johan Museeuw (BEL) Tom Boonen (BEL) Fabian Cancellara (SUI)(3 wins) |
| Most recent |
 Peter Sagan (SVK)
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The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as De Ronde ("The Tour"), 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 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, anticipating Paris–Roubaix, which is on the calendar one week after the Tour of Flanders. The event had its only interruptions during World War I and has been organized without hiatus since 1919, the longest uninterrupted streak of any cycling classic.
Six 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 and Swiss Fabian Cancellara each have three victories.
Since 2004, a women's race, the Tour of Flanders for Women, is organized annually on the same day as the men's but at a shorter distance.
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