The 2013 Tour of Flanders was the 97th edition of the Tour of Flanders single-day cycling race, known as one of the Monument classics. It was held on 31 March 2013 over a distance of 256 kilometres (159.1 miles) from Bruges to Oudenaarde,[2] and was the eighth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.
| 2013 UCI World Tour, race 8 of 28 | |||||||||||||
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.jpg) Peter Sagan following Fabian Cancellara | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | 31 March 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 256 km (159.1 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 6h 06' 01"[1] | ||||||||||||
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The race was won for the second time by RadioShack–Leopard rider Fabian Cancellara,[3] after he made a solo attack with around 15 km (9.3 mi) remaining of the race, on the race's final cobbled climb of the Paterberg.[4] Second place went to Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team, while third place went to Lotto–Belisol's Jürgen Roelandts; 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.[5]
Route
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First lap of the circuit (red) and transition to the second lap (green). -
Second lap of the circuit (red) and transition to the third lap (green). -
Third lap of the circuit (red) and final (green).
Teams
editAs the Tour of Flanders was a UCI World Tour event, all UCI ProTeams 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. Team Katusha subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[6][7] Rather than removing one team from the race to accommodate Team Katusha, race organisers sought approval from the Union Cycliste Internationale to invite 26 teams of 8 riders, and a maximum peloton of 208 riders; this proposal was granted prior to the race.[8]
The 26 teams that competed in the race were:[9]
Results
edit| Cyclist | Team | Time | UCI World Tour Points | |
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| 1 |  Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
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RadioShack–Leopard | 6h 06' 01" | 100 |
| 2 |  Peter Sagan (SVK)
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Cannondale | 1' 27" | 80 |
| 3 |  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL)
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Lotto–Belisol | 1' 29" | 70 |
| 4 |  Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
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Team Katusha | 1' 39" | 60 |
| 5 |  Mathieu Ladagnous (FRA)
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FDJ | 1' 39" | 50 |
| 6 |  Heinrich Haussler (AUS)
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IAM Cycling | 1' 39" | – |
| 7 | Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)
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BMC Racing Team | 1' 39" | 30 |
| 8 | Sébastien Turgot (FRA)
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Team Europcar | 1' 39" | – |
| 9 |  John Degenkolb (GER)
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Argos–Shimano | 1' 39" | 10 |
| 10 |  Sebastian Langeveld (NED)
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Orica–GreenEDGE | 1' 39" | 4 |
References
edit- ^ "Uitslag / Résultat / Result" (PDF). Tour of Flanders. Flanders Classics. 31 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Beaudin, Matthew (28 March 2013). "Course Preview: Return to the new Ronde van Vlaanderen route". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ Decaluwé, Brecht (31 March 2013). "Cancellara wins Tour of Flanders". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ Moore, Kyle (31 March 2013). "Cancellara powers away on the Paterberg to another Ronde van Vlaanderen victory". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ "Fabian Cancellara wins 2013 Tour of Flanders". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 31 March 2013. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ "CAS orders WorldTour licence for Katusha". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ "UCI confirms 19 WorldTour teams for 2013". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ "Tour of Flanders invites 208-rider peloton". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ "Tour of Flanders 2013 start list". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
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