| 2013 UCI World Tour, race 8 of 28 | |||||||||||||
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.jpg) Peter Sagan followingFabian Cancellara | |||||||||||||
| Race details | |||||||||||||
| Dates | 31 March 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 256 km (159.1 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 6h 06' 01"[1] | ||||||||||||
| Results | |||||||||||||
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The2013 Tour of Flanders was the 97th edition of theTour of Flanders single-day cycling race, known as one of theMonument classics. It was held on 31 March 2013 over a distance of 256 kilometres (159.1 miles) fromBruges toOudenaarde,[2] and was the eighth race of the2013 UCI World Tour season.
The race was won for the second time byRadioShack–Leopard riderFabian 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 thePaterberg.[4] Second place went toPeter Sagan of theCannondale team, while third place went toLotto–Belisol'sJürgen 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]
As the Tour of Flanders was a UCI World Tour event, allUCI 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 theCourt of Arbitration for Sport.[6][7] Rather than removing one team from the race to accommodate Team Katusha, race organisers sought approval from theUnion 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]
| Cyclist | Team | Time | UCI World Tour Points | |
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| 1 |  Fabian Cancellara (SUI) | RadioShack–Leopard | 6h 06' 01" | 100 |
| 2 |  Peter Sagan (SVK) | Cannondale | + 1' 27" | 80 |
| 3 |  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) | Lotto–Belisol | + 1' 29" | 70 |
| 4 |  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) | Team Katusha | + 1' 39" | 60 |
| 5 |  Mathieu Ladagnous (FRA) | FDJ | + 1' 39" | 50 |
| 6 |  Heinrich Haussler (AUS) | IAM Cycling | + 1' 39" | – |
| 7 | Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) | BMC Racing Team | + 1' 39" | 30 |
| 8 | Sébastien Turgot (FRA) | Team Europcar | + 1' 39" | – |
| 9 |  John Degenkolb (GER) | Argos–Shimano | + 1' 39" | 10 |
| 10 |  Sebastian Langeveld (NED) | Orica–GreenEDGE | + 1' 39" | 4 |
