Italy reclaimed the European title within the staff time trial blended relay on the UEC European Road Championships in Limburg on Thursday.
The defending champions France, who beat Italy to the title in 2023 didn’t enter a staff within the race.
The victory marks Italy’s second victory within the blended relay because the occasion debuted within the European Championships in 2019.
Edoardo Affini, Mattia Cattaneo, and Mirco Maestri had been second to Germany on the changeover after 28.3km however the trio of ladies Elena Cecchini, Vittoria Guazzini, and Gaia Masetti, pulled out a 17-second victory over the German staff of Nils Politt, Jannik Steimle, Max Walscheid, Lisa Klein, Franziska Koch, and Mieke Kröger.
For the primary time in European TTT historical past, Belgium earned a medal with the bronze. The males’s trio with Edward Theuns, Noah Vandenbranden, and Victor Vercouillie pulled out a 27-second lead over the Polish squad of their laps, and the ladies Alana Castrique, Marion Norbert Riberolle, and Jesse Vandenbulcke held off the Poles by 16 seconds to win the bronze.
Only six nations entered groups within the occasion, with Poland’s Kacper Gieryk, Filip Maciejuk, Szymon Sajnok, Natalia Krzeslak, Karolina Kumiega, and Agnieszka Skalniak-Sojka taking fourth. Ukraine (Vitaliy Hryniv, Semen Simon, Daniil Yakovlev, Yuliia Biriukova, Olha Shekel, Tetiana Yashchenko) had been fifth and Bulgaria (Martin Papanov, Petrov Yordan Petrov, Emilov Emil Stoynev, Valentinova Petya Minkova, Miroslavova Gergana Stoyanova, Nikolaeva Ivana Tonkova) sixth.
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