Three races were held in three consecutive days - beginning on Monday (September 24) with a 20 kilometre route and continuing with 12km races yesterday and today.

Wang recovered from a 30 second time penalty to win on day one in a time of 1 hour 29min 55sec.

She then came third in stages two and three to win overall with a time of 3:13:17.

The Chinese swept the podium as Qieyang Shijie, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist and pre-competition favourite, finished second.

She won both the second and third races but a fifth-place on day one meant she ended on 3:14:31.

Li Maocuo clocked a combined 3:14:48 for bronze as China's A-squad easily won team gold with a total time of 9:46:15.

"Victory" - a combined team of Lithuanian and Ukrainian athletes - was second overall on 9:59.40.

China's B-team came third on 10:07:04.

The three stages of the competition were conducted under a special "pit lane" system. 

Athletes were required to enter the pit lane for 30 seconds when receiving a second red card, one minute for a third and one-and-a-half minutes for a fourth. 

If an athlete received a fifth red card, they were disqualified.

In the men's event, individual victory went to Colombian 20km world champion Eider Arevalo with a combined time of 2:58.09.

He won both the second and third stages to push South African runner-up Lebogang Shange, the winner of race one, into second on 2:58:12.

Isaac Palma of Mexico finished third on 2:59:08.

Shange's "Latin Power" outfit won the team title on 9:04:16 as Arevalo's "Perritos" settled for silver on 9:07:40.

China's B-team came third on 9:10:23.