The Australian Michael Matthews sprinted three seconds to the silver, while ramūnas navardauskas from Lithuania had to settle for bronze. Alexander Kristoff, Alejandro Valverde, Simon Gerrans, Tony Gallopin Michal Kwiatkowski, Rui Costa and Philippe Gilbert completed the top ten.
The 25-year-old Sagan rode with about 2.5 kilometers to go away from an elite group and is the first Slovak who can call themselves world champions. He follows the Pool Kwiatkowski, who last year in the Spanish Ponferrada could wear the rainbow jersey.
The Dutch team was the whole course very active and much in the picture, but did for the eighteenth World Cup in a row, no medal address. Leon van Bon (bronze in 1997) is the last Dutch rider who was good for a podium place in the road race at the World Championships cycling.
Tom Dumoulin was the eleventh best Dutchman, while captain Niki Terpstra as in thirteenth place. They finished both in the first chasing group of 24 riders
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Van Emden
Eight riders were the traditional early breakaway. The New Zealander Jesse Sergent was the best-known name and he was joined by Andrei Kripta (Ukraine), Ivan Stevic (Serbia), Sung Baek Park (South Korea), Conor Dunne (Ireland), Sergei Ţvetcov (Romania), in Richmond-born Ben King and Carlos Alzate (Colombia).
The early escapees never got a huge advantage, as at previous World Cups sometimes happened. With 95 kilometers to go, the five members of the leading group were all eclipsed.
This was partly by the Dutch squad. National coach Johan Lammerts had the game already announced that he wanted to solidify the course of his nine-man squad, which led to a lot of orange in the front of the pack.
Especially Jos van Emden showed himself, as he drove it Most of the first 150 kilometers in front of the large group. The rider of Lotto Jumbo walked with about one hundred kilometers to go off completely run dry. Bauke Mollema and Robert Gesink were in this phase of the course is also very active, but did not come away with a group
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Mollema
That did the American Taylor Phinney, the Canadian Guillaume Boivin and Konstantin Sivtsov of Belarus does. That trio had a lead of almost two minutes, but was dealing with less than forty kilometers seized again.
Mollema took the last climb of the third to last round then to jump off. He was awarded with title defender Kwiatkowski, Tom Boonen, Daniel Moreno, Elia Viviani, Ian Stannard and Andrey Amador a strong group with him.
The Germans had for leaders John Degenkolb and André Greipel close the gap with help Australia (Matthews). In the hilly zone of the penultimate round took the head of the pack again join the breakaway, which led to a greater breakaway, having represented the Netherlands Mollema, Niki Terpstra and Tom Dumoulin
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Dumoulin just tried after the bell for the last lap to drive away, but the Limburger was no space. American Tyler Farrar and Sivtsov tried it a while, but a group of male or sixty began the final three climbs.
Terpstra announced a pinprick, but Degenkolb sat right on his wheel. Sagan his attack was successful and the rider from Tinkoff-Saxo, which include four Tour stages in his honor roll stand, holding steady in the last two kilometers
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