The cross-country team relay is an event at the annual UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. It has been held since the 1999 championships.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Switzerland | 8 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
2 | France | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
3 | Italy | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
4 | Canada | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
5 | Spain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
6 | United States | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
7 | Poland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
8 | Germany | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
9 | Denmark | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
10 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
11 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (11 entries) | 26 | 26 | 26 | 78 |
The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are the world championship events for mountain bike racing in the disciplines of cross country, downhill, and four-cross. They are organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body of world cycling.
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Roland Green is a retired Canadian mountain bike and road bicycle racer. Green was a member of the Canadian Olympic Mountain Bike Racing Team for the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia. He was a Commonwealth gold medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, winning the MTB event on the same day as his birthday. Green dominated the world cup circuit of cross-country mountain biking from 2000 until 2003, becoming world champion in both 2001 and 2002. Roland also is the record holder of the Mount Doug Hill climb in his hometown of Victoria BC, Canada with a fast 4Min. 39sec which nobody has broken in 10 years. He was named VeloNews' Mountain Bike Man of the Year in 1999 and Canada's Male Cyclist of the Year in 2000. Green retired at the end of the 2005 racing season.
Georgia Gould is an American professional mountain bike and cyclocross competitor, and Olympian. She has earned five career national championships – four in cross-country mountain bike in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and one in short track mountain bike in 2009. In 2012, Gould won the bronze medal at the London Olympic Games in cross country mountain bike. From 2006-2016 Gould was employed by the LUNA Pro Team. In 2012, Gould was named North American MTB Woman of the Year by VeloNews magazine. She currently resides in East Burke, Vermont with her husband, Dusty LaBarr.
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