The 2013 Tour of Flanders was the 97th edition of the

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, 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 organi ...

single-day cycling race, known as one of the Monument classics. It was held on 31 March 2013 over a distance of from

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, and was the eighth race of the

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season. The race was won for the second time by rider

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, after he made a solo attack with around remaining of the race, on the race's final cobbled climb of the

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. Second place went to

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of the team, while third place went to 's

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; both of those riders had been in a group with Cancellara before his move, and eventually finished nearly one-and-a-half minutes behind Cancellara.

Route

Ronde van Vlaanderen 2013 lap1.png, First lap of the circuit (red) and transition to the second lap (green). Ronde van Vlaanderen 2013 lap2.png, Second lap of the circuit (red) and transition to the third lap (green). Ronde van Vlaanderen 2013 lap3.png, Third lap of the circuit (red) and final (green).

Teams

As the Tour of Flanders was a UCI World Tour event, all

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s were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Originally, race organisers had been planning to have the eighteen ProTeams invited to the race, with seven other squads given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 25-team peloton. subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the

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. Rather than removing one team from the race to accommodate , race organisers sought approval from the

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to invite 26 teams of 8 riders, and a maximum peloton of 208 riders; this proposal was granted prior to the race. The 26 teams that competed in the race were:

Route

Teams

Results

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