Tour of Flanders

Belgian one-day cycling race for men, one of the five monuments

Key facts

Date: Early April
Region: Flanders , Belgium
Local name: Ronde van Vlaanderen ( Dutch )
Nickname s: De Hoogmis (in Dutch) / De Ronde (in Dutch) , Vlaanderens Mooiste (in Dutch) , Flanders' Most Beautiful (in English)
Discipline: Road
Competition: UCI World Tour
Type: One-day Classic
Organiser: Flanders Classics
Race director: Wim Van Herreweghe
Web site: www .rondevanvlaanderen .be
First edition: 1913 ( 1913 )
Editions: 110 (as of 2026)

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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.