Tokyo: Austrian Mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer claims the shock gold in the Women’s Olympic Road race on Sundays that see Dutch women’s veterans Annemiek Vle Vleuten mistakenly think.
The 30-year-old national time trial champion Kiesenhofer, who holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Catalonia Polytechnic who also studied at the University of Vienna and Cambridge, held its nerves after a long break that the main peloton had never managed to roll out.
Van Vleuten redeemed a terrible accident at Rio Games in 2016 with silver, even though he admitted a big mistake after thinking he had crossed the line.
Italy Elisa Longo Borghini bagged bronze for the second consecutive match.
“This is amazing, I can’t believe it, even when I cross the line,” Kiesenhofer said.
“I plan to attack on a zero kilometer and I’m glad I can get in front.
That is something I can’t accept because I’m not at risk of driving peloton.” I am happy that I’m not too scared and I’m not too scared and me.
Just go for it.
I attacked and with our group work more or less together – very helpful to have a group.
I saw me the strongest and I knew I had climbing before a long descent.
“I’m pretty good at that time, so I have time again and it’s like a trial time to the end.” Van Vleuten admitted that the layers of his hand raised had been in vain.
“Yes, I think I have won,” he said.
“I brought about this, of course.” At first I felt very stupid, but then the other (his teammate) also did not know who won.
“In the dramatic final for a long day trip, Peloton retreated Juliette Labous France and with four kilometers away, the gap to Kiesenhofer was cut up to three minutes.
First, the world champion twice Anna Van der Breggen, who targets gold back to Rio , And then Van Vleuten was cut on a 2km sign, but it was too late.
Kiesenhofer shot for 1 km who smiled and constantly saw from behind his shoulder in full knowledge that the gold was annoyed from the form.
He fainted to the ground after coming Through the finish line, shouting happily, hands on a helmet in close distrust.
Like a male street race, tens of thousands of Japanese fans lined up a tiring 137km route between Taman Musashinonomori and Fuji International.
Speedway featuring 2,692 meters of elevation advantage Vleuten, who suffered a brain concussion and a broken spine in the accident An awful in Rio, after the 38-year-old falling when Denmark’s Emma Joergensen turned into his way after falling.
The 2019 World Race Road Champion quickly troubles its senses and moves the road back to Peloton to take the fight, with a female race featuring the 67-driver field compared to 130 on the Road Race won by Richard Carapaz on Saturday.
But Kiesenhofer made a five-minute advantage over Van Van Vleuten for most of the race, pushing solo steps from Kagosaka Pass 40km from finishing to bring down partner breakaway, Omer Poland Anna Plichta.
And with 24 km to go, Van Vleuten returned to the 14-strong pursuit group, lying down when the driver tried to surge.
Hit the speed of 60km / hour (40 miles per hour) on the Fuji racing track, Labous was the first pushed out before the Dutch quartet maneuvered to attack position, but they could not do anything about the surprising victory of Kiesenhofer in the shadow of Mount Fuji.