Vice-champion of the world last week, the French team becomes European champion on the time trial in mixed relay

Bruno Armirail, Rémi Cavagna, Thibault Guernalec, Cédrine Kerbaol, Juliette Labous and Marion Borras became European champions of the mixed relay, in front of Italy of Filippo Ganna and Switzerland on Thursday in Drôme-Ardèche.

Already a silver medalist at the world championships last week in Rwanda, the French team has already put the cover. Les Tricolores, Bruno Armirail, Rémi Cavagna, Thibault Guernalec, Cédrine Kerbaol, Juliette Labous and Marion Borras, won the gold medal At the European Championships (47'42 “), Thursday October 2 in Drôme-Ardèche, on the time trial in a mixed relay, taking up a title already acquired in 2023.

France is ahead of Italy for only six seconds, and Switzerland ending in 40 “, while it was the great rival of the French on the specialty, with in particular in its ranks the European and world champion in individual Marlen Reusser. “They have become a reference nation, Faired at the microphone of the Channel L'Equipe Thomas Voeckler, the coach of the French male team. ÇDid you have good, you have to savor. (…) It is an event that federates, everyone is taken in it “, He was delighted. His counterpart with women, Paul Brousse, praised him the performance of the collective, “Without error”, Or “It was rolling up on both sides (men and women). They looked rabid (to get the title)”.

The Swiss team has been slowed down, as in the Worlds with Marlen Reusser, by a mechanical problem. This time, it was Stefan Küng who paid the price with a puncture. After a very good men's relay, finished in 22'38 “with 18” in advance on the Swiss team, where only the Italians were in front, the three French women perfectly mastered their subject to fill their delay at each intermediary, before Juliette Labous and Cédrine Kerbaol crossed the finish line. Marion Borras dropped shortly before the final climb.

A few days after the end of the world championships in Rwanda, the French team, like other nations, had to face some adjustments. Sick, Maëva Squiban was replaced by Marion Borras, alongside Cédrine Kerbaol and Juliette Labous, already present in Kigali. Among men, Pavel Sivakov and Paul Seixas also gave way to Rémi Cavagna and Thibault Guernalec to accompany the Taulier Bruno Armirail.