The weakened German road bike team missed a medal in the mixed relay of the European Championships in France.
The selection of German Cycling took the disappointing fourth place among only seven nations started. Only the outsiders of Luxembourg, Estonia and Ukraine landed after 40 km around the community Étoile-sur-Rhône In the south of the country behind the German team. Last year the Germans won the silver medal in Belgium.
Miguel Heidemann, Paul Fietzke and Louis, as well as the women’s Olympic Olympic champions from Tokyo Franziska Brauße, Mieke Kröger and Lisa Klein were finally 1: 25.1 minutes behind hosts France, who surprisingly secured the title in front of Italy (+6.3 seconds) with the two-time world champion Filippo Gann. Third place went to Switzerland (+40.1) around world champion Marlen Reusser, who had triumphed on Wednesday.
Women make another place well
In the European Championship decision, the three men of each nation initially went on a 20 km route and then handed over to the three women. However, the German men only drove in pairs at an early stage, as unfortunately unfortunately had to have tears off. The strong German women were still able to make up for a place.
Fifth in the mixed race in Rwanda
During the team time trial of the World Cup in Rwanda last week, the Germans had started in a different line -up, but also without time trial champion Maximilian Schachmann and the short -term Liane Lippert and ranked fifth.
The 27-year-old Lippert is still suffering from the consequences of a gastrointestinal virus and therefore also misses the European Championship race of the women’s competition on Saturday, as the association announced.
The European Championship will be held in Drôme and Ardèche until October 5. The duel between the top stars Tadej Pogacar, who most recently celebrated his second World Cup title in Rwanda, and Rival Jonas Vingegaard at the street festival on Sunday is eagerly awaited by many fans.