The first edition of the Tour of Flanders, a cycling race in Belgium, was held on 25 May 1913.

[1] Paul Deman won the event in a five-man sprint before Joseph Van Daele and Victor Doms.

[2] The race started in Ghent, East Flanders, before heading eastward to Sint-Niklaas and making a clockwise circle along Aalst, Oudenaarde, Kortrijk and Veurne.

Subsequently, the course followed the North Seashore until Ostend and headed east via Roeselare back to Ghent.

With this route, the race addressed all the major cities of the two western provinces of Flanders.