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2004 MTB World championships - CMLes Gets, France, September 8-12, 2004Race 1 - September 8: Team Relay, 25.2kmCanada takes world's openerThe Canadian team has won the opening event of the 2004 world mountain bike championships, the team relay. Canada's extremely strong team of Geoff Kabush, Kiara Bisaro, Max Plaxton and Ralpael Gagne surprised nobody when they took a 24 second win over Switzerland, with defending champions Poland third, 57 seconds behind Canada. Each team consisted of an elite male and female ride, plus a junior and an under-23 competitor, and each rider tackled one lap of the 6.3km course. Results1 Canada 1.09.00 Geoff Kabush Maximiliam Plaxton Kiara Bisaro Raphaël Gagne 2 Switzerland 0.24 Ralph Näf Florian Vogel Nino Schurter Barbara Blatter 3 Poland 0.57 Marcin Karczynski Kryspin Pyrgies Pawel Szpila Maja Wtoszczowska 4 France 1.31 Alexis Swetloff Stéphane Tempier Laurence Leboucher Céderic Ravanel 5 Italy 2.22 Tony Longo Martino Fruet Giuseppe Clara Eva Lechner 6 Sweden 2.29 Philip Tavell Emil Lindgren Alexander Wetterhall Anna Enocsson 7 Czech Republic 2.35 Jaroslav Kulhavy Lukas Sablik Radim Korinek Pavla Havlikova 8 USA 3.14 Adam Craig Kelli Emmett Sam Jurkovic Alan Obye 9 Netherlands 3.33 Jelmer Pietersma Hans Becking Elsbeth Van Rooy-Vink Bart Brentjens 10 Spain 4.34 Ivan Alvarez Inaki Lejarreta Jordi Vila Sandra Santanyes 11 Germany 5.06 Jochen Kaess Rene Tann Andi Weinhold Ivonne Kraft 12 New Zealand 5.26 Kashi Leuchs Nick Hotchin Robyn Wong Clinton Avery 13 Belgium 6.05 Nicolas Vermeulen Quincy Vens Catherine Delfosse Gody Jacobs 14 Australia 7.12 Chris Jongewaard Lisa Mathison Shaun Lewis Trent Lowe 15 Slovenia 9.30 Miha Solar Robert Vrecer Ana Zupan Luka Kodra 16 Colombia 17.09 John Botero Leonardo Paez Andres Jaramillo Janys Estrada |
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