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2012 Tour of Flanders for Women

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4626990 ↗
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The 2012 Tour of Flanders for Women was the ninth edition of the Tour of Flanders for Women single-day cycling race. The race took place on April 1, 2012, covering a distance of over 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi). It was the third race of the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. Both the start and finish were in Oudenaarde, Belgium and 70 cyclists took part in the race.

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Results from uci.ch.

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“2012 Tour of Flanders for Women” enters the record as cycling race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tour, Flanders and Women can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4626990. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 Tour of Flanders for Women” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.