Late-race surge nets Switzerland Team Relay title at MTB Worlds
Italy settles for silver, United States bronze in Les Gets
Switzerland took the opening title of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Les Gets, France, with a dramatic late-race surge to the front. Italy took the silver medal and the United States the bronze.
The Team Relay consists of six riders each doing a lap of the XCO course. Each team contains male and female riders in the junior, under-23 and elite categories. Teams can choose whichever order they wish to send off riders.
Italy took a strong early lead on the first lap, but their second lap rider suffered mechanical issues, dropping to fifth by the end of the lap.
France - the defending champions - moved into the front position on the second lap, and extended their lead through the third and fourth riders, to lead by over a minute and a half when they sent off their fifth rider, with Switzerland sitting second.
However, disaster struck for the French junior woman, Tatiana Tournut, who crashed heavily and lost her saddle, having to ride standing up for much of the lap, dropping to seventh by the end of the lap.
Switzerland moved into the lead for the final lap and Nino Schurter was their rider, leaving little chance for chasing Italian Simone Avondetto to catch him.
Pos. | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Switzerland | 1:17:14 |
Row 1 - Cell 0 | Dario Lillo | |
Row 2 - Cell 0 | Khalid Sidahmed | |
Row 3 - Cell 0 | Ramona Forchini | |
Row 4 - Cell 0 | Ronja Blöchlinger | |
Row 5 - Cell 0 | Anina Hutter | |
Row 6 - Cell 0 | Nino Schurter | |
2 | Italy | 0:00:06 |
Row 8 - Cell 0 | Luca Braidot | |
Row 9 - Cell 0 | Marco Betteo | |
Row 10 - Cell 0 | Martina Berta | |
Row 11 - Cell 0 | Valentina Corvi | |
Row 12 - Cell 0 | Giada Specia | |
Row 13 - Cell 0 | Simone Avondetto | |
3 | United States | 0:00:14 |
Row 15 - Cell 0 | Christopher Blevins | |
Row 16 - Cell 0 | Cayden Parker | |
Row 17 - Cell 0 | Madigan Munro | |
Row 18 - Cell 0 | Bailey Cioppa | |
Row 19 - Cell 0 | Haley Batten | |
Row 20 - Cell 0 | Riley Amos | |
4 | Denmark | 0:01:19 |
Row 22 - Cell 0 | Gustav Pedersen | |
Row 23 - Cell 0 | Oliver Sølvhøj | |
Row 24 - Cell 0 | Julie Lillelund | |
Row 25 - Cell 0 | Sofie Pedersen | |
Row 26 - Cell 0 | Caroline Bohé | |
Row 27 - Cell 0 | Jonas Lindberg | |
5 | France | 0:01:35 |
Row 29 - Cell 0 | Adrien Boichis | |
Row 30 - Cell 0 | Alexandre Martins | |
Row 31 - Cell 0 | Loana Lecomte | |
Row 32 - Cell 0 | Line Burquier | |
Row 33 - Cell 0 | Tatiana Tournut | |
Row 34 - Cell 0 | Jordan Sarrou | |
6 | Netherlands | 0:02:13 |
Row 36 - Cell 0 | Tom Schellekens | |
Row 37 - Cell 0 | Rens Teunissen van Manen | |
Row 38 - Cell 0 | Puck Pieterse | |
Row 39 - Cell 0 | Lauren Molengraaf | |
Row 40 - Cell 0 | Anne Terpstra | |
Row 41 - Cell 0 | Chris Van Dijk | |
7 | Canada | 0:02:28 |
Row 43 - Cell 0 | Ian Ackert | |
Row 44 - Cell 0 | Peter Disera | |
Row 45 - Cell 0 | Laurie Arseneault | |
Row 46 - Cell 0 | Emilly Johnston | |
Row 47 - Cell 0 | Isabella Holmgren | |
Row 48 - Cell 0 | Carter Woods | |
8 | Great Britain | 0:02:45 |
Row 50 - Cell 0 | Max Greensill | |
Row 51 - Cell 0 | Cameron Orr | |
Row 52 - Cell 0 | Elena Mcgorum | |
Row 53 - Cell 0 | Ella Maclean-howell | |
Row 54 - Cell 0 | Isla Short | |
Row 55 - Cell 0 | Charlie Aldridge | |
9 | Czech Republic | 0:03:17 |
Row 57 - Cell 0 | Jan Zatloukal | |
Row 58 - Cell 0 | Ondřej Novotný | |
Row 59 - Cell 0 | Adéla Holubová | |
Row 60 - Cell 0 | Simona Spěšná | |
Row 61 - Cell 0 | Tereza Tvarůžková | |
Row 62 - Cell 0 | Ondřej Cink | |
10 | Germany | 0:03:45 |
Row 64 - Cell 0 | Leon Reinhard Kaiser | |
Row 65 - Cell 0 | Benjamin Krüger | |
Row 66 - Cell 0 | Nadine Rieder | |
Row 67 - Cell 0 | Finja Lipp | |
Row 68 - Cell 0 | Antonia Weeger | |
Row 69 - Cell 0 | Niklas Schehl | |
11 | Austria | 0:03:48 |
Row 71 - Cell 0 | Gregor Raggl | |
Row 72 - Cell 0 | Mario Bair | |
Row 73 - Cell 0 | Laura Stigger | |
Row 74 - Cell 0 | Tamara Wiedmann | |
Row 75 - Cell 0 | Katrin Embacher | |
Row 76 - Cell 0 | Alexander Hammerle | |
12 | Belgium | 0:04:15 |
Row 78 - Cell 0 | Jente Michels | |
Row 79 - Cell 0 | Kay De Bruyckere | |
Row 80 - Cell 0 | Julia Grégoire | |
Row 81 - Cell 0 | Fleur Moors | |
Row 82 - Cell 0 | Pierre De Froidmont | |
Row 83 - Cell 0 | Emeline Detilleux | |
13 | Spain | 0:04:19 |
Row 85 - Cell 0 | David Domingo Campos Motos | |
Row 86 - Cell 0 | Rocio Del Alba Garcia Martinez | |
Row 87 - Cell 0 | Marta Cano Espinosa | |
Row 88 - Cell 0 | Joan Mir Mascaro | |
Row 89 - Cell 0 | Lucia Gomez Andreu | |
Row 90 - Cell 0 | David Valero Serrano | |
14 | Australia | 0:04:33 |
Row 92 - Cell 0 | Sam Fox | |
Row 93 - Cell 0 | Jack Ward | |
Row 94 - Cell 0 | Zoe Cuthbert | |
Row 95 - Cell 0 | Ruby Dobson | |
Row 96 - Cell 0 | Katherine Hosking | |
Row 97 - Cell 0 | Daniel Mcconnell | |
15 | Poland | 0:05:04 |
Row 99 - Cell 0 | Krzysztof Lukasik | |
Row 100 - Cell 0 | Piotr Krynski | |
Row 101 - Cell 0 | Paula Gorycka | |
Row 102 - Cell 0 | Matylda Szczecinska | |
Row 103 - Cell 0 | Natalia Grzegorzewska | |
Row 104 - Cell 0 | Mateusz Szyszko | |
16 | Ukraine | 0:12:03 |
Row 106 - Cell 0 | Oleksandr Hudyma | |
Row 107 - Cell 0 | Dmytro Titarenko | |
Row 108 - Cell 0 | Yana Belomoina | |
Row 109 - Cell 0 | Mariia Sukhopalova | |
Row 110 - Cell 0 | Bohdan Chynchyk | |
Row 111 - Cell 0 | Iryna Shymanska | |
17 | Sloakia | 0:13:09 |
Row 113 - Cell 0 | Martin Hrtánek | |
Row 114 - Cell 0 | Michal Minár | |
Row 115 - Cell 0 | Ján Vierik | |
Row 116 - Cell 0 | Janka Keseg Števková | |
Row 117 - Cell 0 | Tereza Kurnická | |
Row 118 - Cell 0 | Terézia Ciriaková |
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