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Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar produced a stunning solo thrust successful Switzerland to assertion his archetypal satellite roadworthy contention rubric - and go lone the 3rd antheral to triumph the 'Triple Crown' of the men's Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and satellite rubric successful the aforesaid year.
The 26-year-old caught his rivals napping with 100km of the 273.9km way successful Zurich remaining, leaving Belgium's Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel and reigning satellite champion Mathieu van der Poel, of the Netherlands, down successful the peloton.
Pogacar rapidly bridged a spread to a breakaway radical earlier hitting the beforehand connected his ain with 50km to go.
He maintained his vantage successful the closing kilometres, leaving the tract to combat for the insignificant medals.
Pogacar finished successful six hours, 27 minutes and 30 seconds - 34 seconds wide of Australia's Ben O'Connor, who broke disconnected the beforehand of the chasing battalion to assertion silver.
Van der Poel finished 58 seconds backmost successful 3rd aft winning a sprint decorativeness for bronze, pipping fourth-placed Latvian Toms Skujins, portion satellite time-trial champion Evenepoel was 5th and Swiss rider Marc Hirschi sixth.
Scotland's Oscar Onley, 21, was the archetypal Briton location successful a creditable 16th place.
More to follow.
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