It's the day of the Mixed Relay at the European Championships in the Drome and Ardèche region, France. Junior riders will compete over a distance of 40 kilometers.

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Lithuania will open the challenge at 11:00. Ten teams will compete for the title. Italy will start third from last at 12:08 and lines up with Mantua's Maria Acuti (Biesse Carrera Premac), Padua's Linda Sanarini and Verona's road race champion Matilde Rossignoli, both from BFT Burzoni VO2 Team Pink, Varese's Riccardo Colombo (Bustese Olonia), Vicenza's Davide Frigo (Team Tiepolo Udine) who was seventh in yesterday's individual time trial, and Bergamo's Ruben Ferrari (Pool Cantù GB Junior). Sanarini is the only Italian survivor from the last edition.

The Azzurri will face the German squad (silver in 2024 behind Holland, who won't be competing), who will start last (12:16), along with the home team France and Norway (bronze last year). Switzerland and Poland are set to play the role of spoilers.

STARTING LINEUP

Lithuania 11:00:00
Arnas BILERTAS
Ignas KERTENIS
Kasparas VALINSKAS
Augustė AUDINYTĖ
Monika LIUTINSKAITĖ
Augustė MIKUTYTĖ

Ukraine 11:04:00
Pavlo ANTONENKO
Vladyslav HOLIAK
Oleh SMOLYNETS
Kira DUBININA
Milana USHAKOVA
Maryna TSYBULSKA

Poland 11:08:00
Marcin WLODARSKI
Ksawery GANCARZ
Mikolaj LEGIEC
Anna GABORSKA
Nadia HARTMAN
Kinga SLOMKA

Estonia 11:12:00
Riko TAMMEPUU
Sebastian SUPPI
Ron ROONI
Maria JÜRISAAR
Lauren POHL
Mariann KOIK

Croatia 11:16:00
Dorian DOLIĆ
Maris SCARIOT
Aleks VARVARUK
Marta SERAPIGLIA
Iva ILIČIĆ
Lucija ZADRO

Switzerland 12:00:00
Noah SCHNYDER
Max PRIEMER
Tom STIRNIMANN
Elia MARTHE
Aline REZZONICO
Chloe TSCHUMI

France 12:04:00
Lancelot GAYANT
Gabin GICQUEL
Luc ROYER
Zoe BIHAN
Charlotte BOUHIER
Ninon HUMBERT

Italy 12:08:00
Riccardo COLOMBO
Davide FRIGO
Ruben FERRARI
Maria ACUTI
Matilde ROSSIGNOLI
Linda SANARINI

Norway 12:12:00
Kristian HAUGETUN
Håkon Eiksund ØKSNES
Sindre ORHOLM-LØNSETH
Oda Aune GISSINGER
Marte DOLVEN
Ida Østbye STØVERN

Germany 12:16:00
Benedikt BENZ
Owen KINGS
Zeno Levi WINTER
Klara DWORATZEK
Jette Marie JÄGER
Laura NOLLAU