Austrian mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer upstaged a heralded Dutch quartet to win a shock gold in the women’s Olympic road race on Sunday.
The 30-year-old national time trial champion, a mathematics graduate of Cambridge and Catalonia universities, held her nerve after a long breakaway that the main peloton never managed to reel in.
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