September 06, 2012 (Saalfelden, AUT) – Canada placed 5th as Italy took the win at the opening Team Relay event at the 2012 UCI XC Mountain Bike World Championships now underway in Saalfelden, Austria. France was second and Germany was third with Switzerland edging out the Canadian team of Geoff Kabush, Mitchell Bailey, Catharine Pendrel and Marc-Antoine Nadon for fourth. Each rider completed one lap of the 4.5km course.
Results
1. Italy 0:51:54
Marco Aurelio Fontana
Beltain Schmid
Eva Lechner
Luca Braidot
2. France 0:01
Jordan Sarrou
Victor Koretzky
Julie Bresset
Maxime Marotte
3. Germany 1:23
Markus Schulte-Luenzum
Martin Frey
Sabine Spitz
Manuel Fumic
4. Switzerland 1:59
Reto Indergand
Dominic Zumstein
Katrin Leumann
Ralph Naef
5. Canada 2:03
Geoff Kabush
Mitchell Bailey
Catharine Pendrel
Marc-Antoine Nadon
6. Sweden 2:47
Olof Jonsson
Emil Linde
Alexandra Engen
Emil Lindgren
7. United States 3:32
Russell Finsterwald
Keegan Swenson
Lea Davison
Todd Wells
8. Ukraine 3:35
Sergji Rysenko
Yana Belomoyna
Artem Shevtsov
Mykhaylo Batsutsa
9. Netherlands 3:43
Michiel Van Der Heijden
Jesper Slik
Anne Terpstra
Rudi van Houts
10. Austria 4:11
Karl Markt
Michael Mayer
Elisabeth Osl
Gregor Raggl
11. South Africa 4:46
Burry Stander
Paul Rodenbach
Rourke Croeser
Candice Neethling
12. Brazil 5:42
Frederico Mariano
Nicolas Sessler
Raiza Goulao-Henrique
Ricardo Pscheidt
13. Portugal 5:54
Mario Luis Miranda Costa
Amado Goncalco Duarte Basilio
Joana Barbosa
Ruben Almeida
14. Australia 6:01
Daniel McConnell
Ben Bradley
Rowena Fry
Jack Haig
15. Japan 7:14
Kohei Yamamoto
Yoshitaka Nakahara
Rie Katayama
Kohei Maeda
16. Serbia 9:31
Bojan Djurdjic
Marko Popovic
Slobodan Stankovic
Jovana Crnogorac
17. Slovakia 9:35
Michal Lami
Frantisek Lami
Janka Stevkova
Ondrej Glajza
18. Chile 9:47
Daniela Rojas
Cristobal Silva Ibaceta
Felipe Rodrigo Garry Rojas
Patricio Maximiliano Farias Diaz
DSQ Czech Republic
Ondrej Cink
Katerina Nash
Martin Stosek
Jaroslav Kulhavy
DSQ Spain
Cristofer Bosque Ruano
Javier Cerdeno
Anna Villar Argente
José Antonio Hermida Ramos
DNS Great Britain
David Fletcher
Steven James
Michael Thompson
Lee Craigie