Overview

• The mixed team relay is scheduled for Wednesday at 13:35 local coverage time, with three men and three women each completing a 21‑kilometer loop featuring 740 meters of climbing.
• Germany fields Liane Lippert, Antonia Niedermaier and Franziska Koch for the women, with Jonas Rutsch, Miguel Heidemann and Louis Leidert for the men.
• The course includes the Côte de Nyanza climb at 2.5 kilometers and 5.8% before a long descent, then the 1.3‑kilometer cobbled Kimihurura ascent at 6.3% and a rising finish.
• Germany’s relay pedigree includes gold in 2021, silver in 2020 and 2024, and bronze in 2023, with last year’s defeat to Australia by just 0.85 seconds.
• Kigali’s Worlds mark the first on African soil, with altitude over 1,500 meters and unusually hard routes, including a men’s road race tally of 5,475 meters of climbing over 267.5 kilometers.