OlympicTalk · Sep 27, 2015
Peter Sagan wins World Championships road race for first time
Peter SaganPeter Sagan added a World Championship in the road race to his résumé of four Tour de France points classification titles, becoming the first Slovakian to claim elite individual gold at a Road Cycling Worlds on Sunday.
“It’s the biggest victory,” Sagan said.
Sagan, 25, made a move in the final two miles after more than 150 miles of racing on the Richmond, Va., course, and won by three seconds over a large group.
“Race was very strange,” Sagan told the crowd in an interview. “Today I was just waiting, waiting. I did just one attack, and it was, I think, the right attack.”
Australian Michael Matthews was second, followed by Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas in third.