UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Italy comes from behind to claim team relay

Switzerland, winner Italy, and third-place finisher United of States celebrate on the podium following the Team Relay at the 2026 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy. — (Image credit: Getty Images)

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Italy opened up the 2026 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships on home soil with their first gold medal in the Mixed Team Relay in 13 years, beating Switzerland and the United States in a thrilling come-from-behind team effort.

The event uses six riders from each nation, with one representative from the men's and women's junior, under-23 and elite teams, with the order of each rider's start up to the individual nation.

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Rank	Team	Splits	Final time
1	Italy	Row 0 - Cell 2	1:08:06
Row 1 - Cell 0	Juri Zanotti	10:03	Row 1 - Cell 3
Row 2 - Cell 0	Paolo Costa	11:02	Row 2 - Cell 3
Row 3 - Cell 0	Martina Berta	11:29	Row 3 - Cell 3
Row 4 - Cell 0	Giorgia Pellizotti	13:00	Row 4 - Cell 3
Row 5 - Cell 0	Valentina Corvi	12:05	Row 5 - Cell 3
Row 6 - Cell 0	Fabio Bassignana	10:27	Row 6 - Cell 3
2	Switzerland	Row 7 - Cell 2	1:08:57
Row 8 - Cell 0	Nicolas Halter	10:08	Row 8 - Cell 3
Row 9 - Cell 0	Men Gygax	11:08	Row 9 - Cell 3
Row 10 - Cell 0	Jolanda Neff	12:04	Row 10 - Cell 3
Row 11 - Cell 0	Anina Hutter	12:14	Row 11 - Cell 3
Row 12 - Cell 0	Anja Grossmann	12:57	Row 12 - Cell 3
Row 13 - Cell 0	Luca Schatti	10:26	Row 13 - Cell 3
3	United States	Row 14 - Cell 2	1:09:37
Row 15 - Cell 0	Nicholas Konecny	10:43	Row 15 - Cell 3
Row 16 - Cell 0	Noah Scholnick	11:07	Row 16 - Cell 3
Row 17 - Cell 0	Haley Batten	11:45	Row 17 - Cell 3
Row 18 - Cell 0	Aida Linton	13:16	Row 18 - Cell 3
Row 19 - Cell 0	Bailey Cioppa	12:41	Row 19 - Cell 3
Row 20 - Cell 0	Riley Amos	10:05	Row 20 - Cell 3
4	Canada	Row 21 - Cell 2	1:10:27
Row 22 - Cell 0	Maxime St Onge	11:10	Row 22 - Cell 3
Row 23 - Cell 0	Ethan Wood	10:50	Row 23 - Cell 3
Row 24 - Cell 0	Isabella Holmgren	12:00	Row 24 - Cell 3
Row 25 - Cell 0	Eliane Blais	13:54	Row 25 - Cell 3
Row 26 - Cell 0	Marin Lowe	12:45	Row 26 - Cell 3
Row 27 - Cell 0	Cole Punchard	9:48	Row 27 - Cell 3
5	Denmark	Row 28 - Cell 2	1:10:46
Row 29 - Cell 0	Mikkel Lose	11:02	Row 29 - Cell 3
Row 30 - Cell 0	Johannes Braedstrup-Holm	10:58	Row 30 - Cell 3
Row 31 - Cell 0	Rose-Mai Damsgaard	13:32	Row 31 - Cell 3
Row 32 - Cell 0	Julie Lillelund	12:36	Row 32 - Cell 3
Row 33 - Cell 0	Caroline Bohe	12:22	Row 33 - Cell 3
Row 34 - Cell 0	Sebastian Fini Juul	10:16	Row 34 - Cell 3
6	Austria	Row 35 - Cell 2	1:10:59
Row 36 - Cell 0	Alexander Hammerle	10:35	Row 36 - Cell 3
Row 37 - Cell 0	Mario Bair	10:22	Row 37 - Cell 3
Row 38 - Cell 0	Michael Hettegger	10:45	Row 38 - Cell 3
Row 39 - Cell 0	Mona Mitterwallner	12:17	Row 39 - Cell 3
Row 40 - Cell 0	Johanna Piringer	14:21	Row 40 - Cell 3
Row 41 - Cell 0	Antonia Grangl	12:39	Row 41 - Cell 3
7	Czechia	Row 42 - Cell 2	1:12:07
Row 43 - Cell 0	Ondřej Cink	10:26	Row 43 - Cell 3
Row 44 - Cell 0	Kuchař Josef	11:19	Row 44 - Cell 3
Row 45 - Cell 0	Eliška Hanakova	12:55	Row 45 - Cell 3
Row 46 - Cell 0	Lucie Grohova	13:58	Row 46 - Cell 3
Row 47 - Cell 0	Adela Holubova	12:54	Row 47 - Cell 3
Row 48 - Cell 0	Ondřej Novotny	10:35	Row 48 - Cell 3
8	Germany	Row 49 - Cell 2	1:13:16
Row 50 - Cell 0	Niklas Michael Franz	10:43	Row 50 - Cell 3
Row 51 - Cell 0	Quirin Bach	11:18	Row 51 - Cell 3
Row 52 - Cell 0	Finja Lipp	13:15	Row 52 - Cell 3
Row 53 - Cell 0	Lina Huber	13:48	Row 53 - Cell 3
Row 54 - Cell 0	Adina Daubner	13:54	Row 54 - Cell 3
Row 55 - Cell 0	Lennart-Jan Krayer	10:18	Row 55 - Cell 3
9	Brazil	Row 56 - Cell 2	1:13:24
Row 57 - Cell 0	Alex Junior Malacarne	10:36	Row 57 - Cell 3
Row 58 - Cell 0	Leonardo Bernardes de Castro Filho	10:36	Row 58 - Cell 3
Row 59 - Cell 0	Angelina Santos da Silva	13:48	Row 59 - Cell 3
Row 60 - Cell 0	Raiza Goulao Henrique	13:15	Row 60 - Cell 3
Row 61 - Cell 0	Luiza Cocuzzi	14:05	Row 61 - Cell 3
Row 62 - Cell 0	Vinicius Howe	11:04	Row 62 - Cell 3
10	Spain	Row 63 - Cell 2	1:14:43
Row 64 - Cell 0	David Domingo Campos Motos	10:51	Row 64 - Cell 3
Row 65 - Cell 0	Marta Cano Espinosa	12:54	Row 65 - Cell 3
Row 66 - Cell 0	Pablo Rodriguez Romo	12:27	Row 66 - Cell 3
Row 67 - Cell 0	Estibaliz Sagardoy Zunzarren	13:49	Row 67 - Cell 3
Row 68 - Cell 0	Irene Garcia Crespo	14:08	Row 68 - Cell 3
Row 69 - Cell 0	Hugo Franco Gallego	10:34	Row 69 - Cell 3
11	Athlete Individual Neutral	Row 70 - Cell 2	1:16:30
Row 71 - Cell 0	Vadim Gvozdarev	11:29	Row 71 - Cell 3
Row 72 - Cell 0	Polina Timoshenko	14:51	Row 72 - Cell 3
Row 73 - Cell 0	Nikita Matveev	11:54	Row 73 - Cell 3
Row 74 - Cell 0	Elina Semenova	13:56	Row 74 - Cell 3
Row 75 - Cell 0	Tatiana Saitarova	13:09	Row 75 - Cell 3
Row 76 - Cell 0	Yaroslav Shvedov	11:11	Row 76 - Cell 3
12	Ukraine	Row 77 - Cell 2	1:20:50
Row 78 - Cell 0	Volodymyr Obukhivskyi	12:51	Row 78 - Cell 3
Row 79 - Cell 0	Mark Kovalchuk	12:43	Row 79 - Cell 3
Row 80 - Cell 0	Oleksandr Koniaiev	12:06	Row 80 - Cell 3
Row 81 - Cell 0	Ksenia Voronova	15:53	Row 81 - Cell 3
Row 82 - Cell 0	Yana Belomoina	13:11	Row 82 - Cell 3
Row 83 - Cell 0	Mariia Sukhopalova	14:06	Row 83 - Cell 3
13	Slovakia	Row 84 - Cell 2	Row 84 - Cell 3
Row 85 - Cell 0	Viliam Balog	11:25	Row 85 - Cell 3
Row 86 - Cell 0	David Moška	12:19	Row 86 - Cell 3
Row 87 - Cell 0	Tereza Kurnicka	15:15	Row 87 - Cell 3
Row 88 - Cell 0	Dorota Vojtiškova	15:45	Row 88 - Cell 3
Row 89 - Cell 0	Karolina Bortelova	2009	Row 89 - Cell 3
Row 90 - Cell 0	Michal Šichta	2008	Row 90 - Cell 3

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