2013 Gent–Wevelgem
The 2013 Gent–Wevelgem was the 75th running of the Gent–Wevelgem single-day cycling race. 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. The race was originally scheduled to be over a distance of 238 kilometres (147.9 miles), but due to snow, the race start was moved from Deinze to Gistel.
| 2013 UCI World Tour, race 7 of 28 | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | March 24, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 183.4 km (114.0 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 4h 29' 10" | ||||||||||||
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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. Second place went to Slovenian Borut Božič, riding for the Astana team, while Greg Van Avermaet was the highest-finishing Belgian rider, completing the podium for the BMC Racing Team.