It was held on 24 March 2013 over a distance of 183.4 kilometres (114.0 miles) and was the seventh race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.

[1] The race was won by Slovakia's Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team, after making a solo attack with 4 km (2.5 mi) remaining, and ultimately held on to win the race by 23 seconds ahead of a group of nine riders.

[2] Second place went to Slovenian Borut Božič, riding for the Astana team,[3] while Greg Van Avermaet was the highest-finishing Belgian rider, completing the podium for the BMC Racing Team.

Originally, eighteen ProTeams were invited to the race, with six other squads given wildcard places, and as such, would have formed the event's 24-team peloton.

Team Katusha subsequently regained their ProTour status after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.