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The Tour of Flanders ((オランダ語:Ronde van Vlaanderen)), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every Spring. It is 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"). Today it is one of the five ''Monuments'' of cycling, together with Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy. It is one of the two major Cobbled classics together with Paris–Roubaix, which is on the calendar one week after the Tour of Flanders. Six men hold the record of most victories, making the Tour of Flanders unique among the major classics. Belgians Achiel Buysse, Eric Leman, Johan Museeuw and Tom Boonen, Italian Fiorenzo Magni and Swiss Fabian Cancellara each have three victories. Since 2004, a women's race, the Tour of Flanders for Women, is organized annually on the same day as the men's but at a shorter distance. ==Creation== The Tour of Flanders was conceived in 1913 by Léon van den Haute, co-founder of the sportspaper ''Sportwereld''. In the era it was customary for publishers of newspapers and magazines to organize cycling races as a means of promoting circulation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tour of Flanders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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