{"id":167424,"date":"2025-09-25T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167424\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:22:09","slug":"mixed-relay-ttt-world-champs-results-australia-wins-nailbiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167424\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Relay TTT World Champs Results: Australia wins Nailbiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian six beat France by just 5 seconds to defend mixed relay TTT title, USA opts not to start.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Australia wins Mixed relay TTT Rwanda\" src=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237127005.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237127005.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Updated September 24, 2025 09:11AM<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Six came good on their status as favorites to edge a nailbiter finale in the mixed relay time trial at the Rwanda <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-primary underline hover:text-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/uci-road-world-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">road world championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Vine, Michael Matthews, Luke Plapp, Brodie Chapman, Amanda Spratt, and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden went out fast and never slowed down to successfully defend the team title Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t easy for Team Aus.<\/p>\n<p>France was only 5 seconds back in second, with Switzerland third at 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>15 nations chose to start Wednesday\u2019s race as the mixed TTT format continues to prove divisive.<\/p>\n<p>Many teams see it as a fatiguing distraction ahead of the weekend road races, while some are making it a speciality. USA, Great Britain, Slovenia, and Denmark are among the many that opted to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2019, the format calls for the three men to relay around a lap of the course before the women set off for their circuit. The female three can start on the arrival of the second male.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s clock stops at the arrival of the second woman.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie men set the fastest time by more than 30 seconds in their 21km round Wednesday before Spratt and Chapman squeezed it home around 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>It made for a tense final as Chapman was briefly gapped in the grinding climb to the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss Six saw their effort derailed and then salvaged when Marlen Reuser <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-primary underline hover:text-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UCI_cycling\/status\/1970858798379372760\" rel=\"nofollow\">fell off the back of her teammates<\/a> with a mechanical.<\/p>\n<p>The newly crowned ITT world champion had to gut out a painstaking chase back to partners Noemi R\u00fcegg and Jasmin Liechti before she promptly reinforced her wild power by dropping the latter in the final kilometer.<\/p>\n<p>Full results: Mixed relay team time trial<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian six beat France by just 5 seconds to defend mixed relay TTT title, USA opts not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,86222,86223,83235,86224,86225,54267],"class_list":{"0":"post-167424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-parent_category-road","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tag-amanda-spratt","14":"tag-tag-brodie-chapman","15":"tag-tag-jay-vine","16":"tag-tag-luke-plapp","17":"tag-tag-michael-matthews","18":"tag-type-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}