France, Oct. 6 -- Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar will head into his final two races of the season on Tuesday and Saturday boasting the coup of becoming the first man in a decade to claim the world and European road race crown in the same season.

Peter Sagan managed the feat in 2016 and on Sundayin Guilherand-Granges in south-eastern France, Pogacar completed the 202km course in four hours, 59 minutes and 29 seconds.

As in the road race in Kigali at the world championships, Remco Evenepoel from Belgium finished second.

But unlike that race in Rwanda, the 19-year-old Frenchman Paul Seixas finished third.

"I saw I was losing teammates," said Pogacar who broke for glory 75km from the finish line.

"It wasn't the plan to go from there...