September 4, 2007 (Fort William, Scotland) — Switzerland has won the opening event, the XC Team Relay, at the 2007 MTB Worlds today, defending their title. Poland finished second, 49 seconds back, followed by the U.S. Team in third. Fifteen teams participated, but Canada was not among them.

Results

1. Switzerland 1:33:36
(Florian Vogel, Thomas Litscher, Petra Henzi, Nino Schurter)

2. Poland 0:49
(Marcin Karczynski, Piotr Brzozka, Maja Wloszczowska, Dariusz Batek)

3. USA 1:09
(Georgia Gould, Ethan Gilmour, Samuel Schultz, Adam Craig)

4. France 1:45
(Fabien Canal, Stéphane Tempier, Cécile Rode Ravanel, Cédric Ravanel)

5. Germany 1:53
(Wolfram Kurschat, Andy Eyring, Rene Tann, Sabine Spitz)

6. Czech Republic 2:02
(Jaroslav Kulhavy, Filip Adel, Katerina Nash, Milan Spesny)

7. Italy 2:06
(Yader Zoli, Andrea Tiberi, Francesco Aulino, Eva Lechner)

8. Russian Federation 2:10
(Yury Trofimov, Denis Vorontsov, Irina Kalentyeva, Roman Orlov)

9. Great Britain 2:54
(Ian Bibby, Alex Paton, Ian Wilkinson, Jenny Copnall)

10. Ukraine 5:12
(Sergiy Rysenko, Oleksandr Yakymenko, Mykhaylo Batsutsa, Nataliya Krompets)

11. Netherlands 5:36
(Jelmer Pietersma, Henk Moorlag, Arielle Van Meurs, Hans Becking)

12. Spain 6:07
(David Lozano Riba, Umbert Almenara Verges, Rocio Gamonal Ferrera, Carlos Coloma Nicolas)

13. Japan 8:07
(Kohei Yamamoto, Kenji Takeya, Kazuya Nakayama, Rie Katayama)

14. New Zealand 9:57
(Kashi Leuchs, James Williamson, Kaytee Boyd, Ashley Hough)

15. Israel 12:26
(Dror Pekatch, Inbar Ronen, Nizan Margalit, Idan Shapira)