Megan Guarnier’s strong start to the 2016 UCI Women’s World Tour continued on Sunday with a fourth place in the Tour of Flanders finish two seconds behind winner, teammate, and tour leader Lizzie Armitstead. Guarnier’s team, Boels-Dolmans, went 1, 3, 4, 6 and has nearly doubled up their competition so far this year.

Fellow American Cory Rivera finished in 16th 2:03 back while Brianna Walle was 23rd at the same time. Other Americans in the top 100 included Katie Hall (62nd), Evelyn Stevens (63rd), Kaitlin Antonneau (65th), Alison Tetrick (66th), all 3:26 back, Jessica Cerra (4:41 back in 77th), and Leah Thomas (84th) and Alexis Ryan (87th) both 7:03 back.

The women’s tour’s next event is La Flèche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium on April 20th. Guarnier has quite a bit of space around her in the tour standing at fourth as she is 45 points behind third place and 40 points ahead of fifth. Ryan, who placed 87th, is fourth amongst riders who were born in 1994 or later.

On the men’s side of things there were only two Americans in the field. Taylor Phinney was in a pack 7:19 back of winner Peter Sagan and finished 61st while Tyler Farrar was 12:48 back in 117th.

On the team side American team Trek-Segafredo had the second place finisher in Fabian Cancellara while Dylan Van Baarle was in sixth for the Cannondale team. The highest finisher for the BMC team was Daniel Oss in 16th. BMC remains the highest ranked American team this year in third.

The men’s tour begins the six day Tour of the Basque Country tomorrow.  It’s a mountainous event with 89 miles on deck for tomorrow. Americans in the field are Joey Rosskopf of BMC, Lawson Craddock and Alex Howes of Cannondale, Kiel Reijnen and Peter Stetina of Trek-Segafredo, Caleb Fairly and Carter Jones of Giant-Alpecin, and Larry Warbasse of IAM Cycling.