Peter Sagan (Slovakia) burst to triple elite men's road race worlds championship victory in Bergen,Norway.

Peter Sagan (Slovakia) outpowers Norwagian (Alexander Kristoff) to his third triple hat-trick elite men's world road race championship in Bergen, Norway.

Michael Mathews (Australia) wins bunch sprint for third place to take bronze medal. The Slovakian burst out of the final turn, powered to the front and, in a perfectly executed bike throw, snatched the victory in a photo finish over Alexander Kristoff (Norway), with Australia’s Michael Matthews third.

 Large crowds and overcast skies greeted the peloton at the start in Rang. Shortly after kilometre zero, Conor Dunne (Ireland) went on the attack and nine riders came with him: Sean McKenna (Ireland), Alexey Vermeulen (USA), Andrey Amador (Costa Rica), Kim Magnusson (Sweden), Matti Manninen (Finland), Willie Smit (South Africa), Elchin Asadov (Azerbaijan), Eugert Zhupa (Albania) and Salah Eddine Mraouni (Morocco). The ten leaders quickly built up a sizeable lead, which yawned out to 9 minutes after 24 kilometres.

 Top Ten Elite Men world road race championship result

1,Peter Sagan (Slovakia),
2, Alexander Kristoff (Norway),
3, Michael Matthews (Australia),
4, Matteo Trentin (Italy), 5, Ben Swift (Great Britain),
 6, Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium),
 7, Michael Albasini (Switzerland),
8, Fernando Gaviria (Colombia),
9, Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan),
10, Julian Alaphilippe (France).