Results World Championships women's road race | SHOCK in Kigali! Magdeleine Vallieres is the new world champion after incredible attack and favourites' stalemate

The women's road race at the Rwanda World Championships had it all! Drama, action, tactics and lots of surprise all the way to the finish. The race was extremely tactical and the main favourites saw the victory escape from their hands. And from a talented group that battled for victory, we've got a shock winner and new rainbow jersey in Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres, who took only the second win of her career.

The breakaway of the day was only formed by one rider as Carina Schrempf of Austria wasn't followed early on, and had the spotlight on her for a few hours before the action really began. With 100 kilometers to go however this would already begin with Spain and the Netherlands pushing the pace with a few attacks, trying to use their depth.

The Dutch were specially active, although one of their leaders Anna van der Breggen did not have the legs and would not be in contention for a top result. With 76 kilometers to go the Belgian Julie van de Velde linked up with Schrempf up front and Shirin van Anrooij also joined in; Whilst Mireia Benito and Noemi Ruëgg then took the head of the race as the race began to grow a very strong tactical aspect. The main favourites did not want to attack too early and this saw many go up the road whilst the main group became uncontrollable.

Entering the final lap we had the unlikely leading group of Riejanne Markus, Niamh Fisher-Black, Mavi García, Antonia Niedermaier and Magdaleine Vallieres. Crossing the finish line behind, in a group that at a certain point had 1:40 minutes of disadvantage, Marlen Reusser attacked, and from behind later on Kim Le Court bridged across with Elise Chabbey whilst several groups were caught and dropped in the process. The group of Ferrand-Prévot, Longo Borghini, Niewiadoma and Vollering behind lost time and then these four looked the strongest in the penultimate climb of the day.

On the same climb García, Fisher-Black and Vallieres dropped the other two in front whilst Chabbey dropped Le Court and even Reusser who looked to be the strongest. 20 seconds back to Chabbey and 40 back to the main group where Barbara Malcotti's work provided the big faourites with some hope... Until for no apparent reason the group let her go on a flat road and stopped again on its tracks fully.

The less known name of the front trio, Vallieres, entered the final cobbled climb in the front of the group immediately attacking from the bottom and going solo off the front. The 24-year old was truly unmatched and rode to a world title after starting the race as a rider that was not even in most fans' outsider list.

Niamh Fisher-Black secured the silver medal whilst Mavi García held on to finish third on the day at 41 years of age. Elise Chabbey was the best of the rest, finishing fourth as the leading figure from the chasing group.