The 2014 Tour of Flanders was the 98th 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 Monument classics. It was held on 6 April 2014 over a distance of from

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. In a four-rider sprint finish, Swiss rider

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won the race for a record-equalling third time – and for the second year in succession – ahead of Belgian trio

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and

Stijn Vandenbergh Stijn Vandenbergh (born 25 April 1984) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2020 for the , , and teams. Born in Oudenaarde, Vandenbergh, as a first year professional, won the first stag ...

Route

Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014 lap1.png, First lap of the circuit (red) and transition to the second lap (green). Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014 lap2.png, Second lap of the circuit (red) and final (green)

Teams

As the Tour of Flanders was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Seven other squads were given wildcard places, thus completing the 25-team peloton. The 25 teams that competed in the race were:

Results

References

External links

* {{Tour of Flanders 2014 in Belgian sport

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