| 2021 European Road Championships | ||||||||||
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| Dates | 8 September 2021 | |||||||||
| Stages | 1 | |||||||||
| Distance | 44.8 km (27.84 mi) | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The mixed team relay event at the 2021 European Road Championships took place on 8 September 2021, in Trentino, Italy.
| 2021 European Road Championships | ||||||||||
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| Race details | ||||||||||
| Dates | 8 September 2021 | |||||||||
| Stages | 1 | |||||||||
| Distance | 44.8 km (27.84 mi) | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The mixed team relay event at the 2021 European Road Championships took place on 8 September 2021, in Trentino, Italy.
Nations were allowed to enter a maximum of one team, composed of six riders (three women and three men), each. Riders could be drawn from the elite or under-23 categories, but not the junior category. [1]
The event started on 8 September 2021, at 14:30. [2]
| Rank | # | Team | Time | Diff. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7 |  Italy Matteo Sobrero Filippo Ganna Alessandro De Marchi Elena Cecchini Marta Cavalli Elisa Longo Borghini | 51:59.01 | |
 | 8 |  Germany Miguel Heidemann Justin Wolf Max Walscheid Corinna Lechner Mieke Kröger Tanja Erath | 52:20.08 | +00:21 |
 | 4 |  Netherlands Koen Bouwman Jos van Emden Bauke Mollema Floortje Mackaij Amy Pieters Demi Vollering | 52:25.28 | +00:27 |
| 4 | 6 |  France Bruno Armirail Benjamin Thomas Alexis Gougeard Eugénie Duval Coralie Demay Gladys Verhulst | 53:27.52 | +01:29 |
| 5 | 1 |  Austria Maximilian Schmidbauer Felix Ritzinger Felix Gall Sarah Rijkes Kathrin Schweinberger Christina Schweinberger | 55:23.13 | +03:25 |
| 6 | 2 |  Russia Petr Rikunov Artem Ovechkin Pavel Kochetkov Tamara Dronova Tatiana Antoshina Margarita Syradoeva | 55:33.88 | +03:35 |
| 7 | 5 |  Ukraine Daniil Nikulin Mykhaylo Kononenko Oleksandr Golovash Valeriya Kononenko Hanna Solovey Olga Shekel | 55:34.01 | +03:35 |
| 8 | 3 |  Poland Damian Bieniek Damian Sławek Damian Papierski Dorota Przęzak Paulina Pastuszek Patrycja Lorkowska | 55:51.69 | +03:53 |
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