Kristen Faulkner surprised the top favourites to claim a stunning women’s road race Olympic gold on Sunday. Faulkner, 31, attacked immediately after she and Belgian world champion Lotte Kopecky caught Dutch 2012 winner Marianne Vos and Hungary’s Blanka Vas with some three kilometres left. And she rode to a comfortable gold by eventually 58 seconds after 158 km because Kopecky and Vos chose tactical games over trying to fight back for gold. Vos got silver and Kopecky bronze in a photo finish in which the under-23 world champion Vas just missed a first ever road cycling medal for Hungary. Earlie…