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2021 Le Samyn des Dames

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ104639819 ↗
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The 2021 Le Samyn des Dames was the 10th running of the women's Le Samyn, a women's bicycle race in Hainaut, Belgium. It was held on 2 March 2021 over a distance of 92.5 kilometres (57.5 miles) starting in Quaregnon and finishing in Dour. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Samyn, Dames and cycling providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2021 Le Samyn des Dames” 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.