It will be above all a duel between Italy and France to award the Elite Mixed Relay title at the European Cycling Championships in Ljubljana. The two nations present themselves as the most favored to win the continental jersey in a specialty that, year after year, seems to be losing appeal among the major powers of European cycling.

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This is confirmed by the number of teams at the start: just six participating nations. A significant figure that highlights the progressive lack of interest in this event from leading federations such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, Norway and Belgium, just to name a few excellent ones.

Following the recent world triumph, Italy aims to repeat the feat at European level fielding a formation of absolute value composed of Mattia Cattaneo, Marco Frigo, Matteo Sobrero, Elisa Longo Borghini, Monica Trinca Colonel and Alessia Vigilia. An experienced and competitive sextet that will certainly medal.

On the other side of the barricade will be France, indicated as the main rival of the Italians in the race for the continental jersey. The French respond with Bruno Armirail, Rémi Cavagna, Thibault Guernalec, Juliette Labous, Cédrine Kerbaol and Maeva Squiban, a solid and well-balanced team that can count on some of Europe's best time trial specialists. The distance to cover is 44 kilometers.

STARTING ORDER

1 Slovenia 15:30:00
51 - ŠTAJNAR Mihael
52 - ŽUMER Matic
53 - MAROLT Jaka
54 - BOBNAR Nika
55 - FERLEŽ Zoja
56 - GALOF Pija

2 Ukraine 15:34:00
41 - ANTONENKO Heorhii
42 - ANTONENKO Pavlo
43 - CHYZHYKOV Heorhii
44 - BIRIUKOVA Yuliia
45 - KONONENKO Valeriia
46 - KULYNYCH Olha

3 Luxembourg 15:38:00
31 - KIRSCH Alex
32 - KOCKELMANN Mathieu
33 - WENZEL Mats
34 - BERTON Nina
35 - SCHREIBER Marie
36 - WENZEL Liv

4 Poland 15:42:00
21 - KWIATKOWSKI Michal
22 - LEWANDOWSKI Dawid
23 - MACIEJUK Filip
24 - WLODARCZYK Dominika
25 - HARTMAN Nadia
26 - SZCZESNA Martyna

5 France 15:46:00
11 - ARMIRAIL Bruno
12 - CAVAGNA Rémi
13 - GUERNALEC Thibault
14 - BERTHET Juliette
15 - KERBAOL Cedrine
16 - SQUIBAN Maeva

6 Italy 15:50:00
1 - CATTANEO Mattia
2 - FRIGO Marco
3 - SOBRERO Matteo
4 - LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
5 - TRINCA COLONEL Monica
6 - VIGILIA Alessia