‘The title was lost there’ – Marlen Reusser’s mechanical costs Switzerland a third TTT mixed relay world title at Kigali

It is difficult to add up the exact seconds that were lost when Marlen Reusser suffered a mechanical that required a bike change in the closing kilometres of the team time trial mixed relay, but her teammate Stefan Küng was sure that it was the moment the race was lost at the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda.

Switzerland finished in third, 10 seconds behind the gold medalists from Australia.