Road bronze for Matthews

AUSTRALIA’S Michael Matthews was left ruing a tactical blunder as he had to settle for bronze at the world road race championships won for the third year in a row by Peter Sagan.

Matthews was unable to challenge Sagan and silver-medallist Alexander Kristoff in the sprint finish to the 267.5km race in Bergen, Norway, yesterday and afterwards conceded he had made a mistake on the final of 12 laps. There was a climb about 15km from the finish, which Matthews tried to attack, but later paid for.