The race was part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour, ranked as a 1.HC event.

[1] Fernando Gaviria became the first Colombian winner of Paris–Tours with a late attack in the final kilometer.

Frenchman Arnaud Démare was second, Belgian Jonas Van Genechten third.

[2] The race started in Dreux, 70 km (43 mi) west of Paris, and finished in Tours, in the center-west of France, after 252.5 km (156.9 mi) of racing.

Organizers adjusted the race finale, as they wanted to emulate the flat world championship course, spurring prominent sprinters to contest this year's Paris–Tours.