Austrian mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer claimed a shock gold in a women’s Olympic road race on Sunday that saw veteran Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten mistakenly think she had won.
The 30-year-old national time trial champion Kiesenhofer, who holds a doctorate in applied maths from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia having also studied at Vienna and Cambridge Universities, held her nerve after a long breakaway that the main peloton never managed to reel in.
Van Vleuten made up for a horrific crash at the Rio Games in 2016 with silver, although she admitted to a massive gaffe after thinking she had won when she crossed the line.
Italian Elisa Longo Borghini bagged bronze for the second consecutive Games.