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| Dates | 23–27 July 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 927 km (576.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 22h 02' 48" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Tour de Wallonie is a five-stage men's professional road cycling race. It is the forty-third running of the Tour de Wallonie. The race started on 23 July in Charleroi and finished on 27 July in Dison.
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |
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| 1 | 23 July | Charleroi - Mettet | 178.3 km (111 mi) |  | Flat stage |  Tom Boonen (BEL) |
| 2 | 24 July | Saint-Ghislain - Le Rœulx | 182.7 km (114 mi) | | Flat stage | Boris Vallée (BEL) |
| 3 | 25 July | Braine-l'Alleud - Vielsalm | 200.6 km (125 mi) |  | Hilly stage | Dimitri Claeys (BEL) |
| 4 | 26 July | Aubel - Herstal | 177.1 km (110 mi) | | Hilly stage |  Matteo Trentin (ITA) |
| 5 | 27 July | Engis - Dison | 189.3 km (118 mi) | | Hilly stage | Dries Devenyns (BEL) |
The eighteen teams invited to participate in the Tour de Wallonie were: [1]
World Tour teams
Professional Continental teams
Continental teams
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| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points Classification | Mountains Classification | Youth Classification | Sprints Classification | Team Classification | Combativity award |
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| 1 | Tom Boonen | Tom Boonen | Tom Boonen | Thomas Deruette | Loïc Chetout | Viacheslav Kuznetsov | Etixx–Quick-Step | Guillaume Bonnafond |
| 2 | Boris Vallée | Antoine Warnier | Boris Vallée | Ludovic Robeet | ||||
| 3 | Dimitri Claeys | Gianni Meersman | Thomas Deruette | Antoine Warnier | IAM Cycling | Vladimir Isaichev | ||
| 4 | Matteo Trentin | Matteo Trentin | Baptiste Planckaert | Wanty–Groupe Gobert | Loïc Chetout | |||
| 5 | Dries Devenyns | Dries Devenyns | Florian Sénéchal | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise | Baptiste Planckaert | |||
| Final | Dries Devenyns | Matteo Trentin | Baptiste Planckaert | Florian Sénéchal | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise | no award | |
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