The third European Games will be held in Krakow from June 21 to July 2. The European Championship medals will also be awarded in various sports during the competitions in Poland's second-largest city - including in the mountain bike supreme discipline of cross-country. The European Games are an elite event, while the European cross-country champions in the junior categories will be determined at the beginning of July in Anadia, Portugal.

Swiss Olympic and Swiss Cycling have selected seven female and eight male athletes for the European Championship races on June 25. Women's national coach Edi Telser's team will be led by Olympic medal winners Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei, Linda Indergand and overall World Cup winner Alessandra Keller. On the men's side, two-time European champion Lars Forster, last year's Short Track World Championship medal winner Thomas Litscher and Marcel Guerrini, who finished fifth at the World Championships, are likely to have the best prospects of a top place. National coach Beat Müller will have to do without a high-caliber quartet. Ten-time world champion Nino Schurter and Olympic silver medallist Mathias Flückiger are giving priority to the World Cup; they are skipping the European Championships. Last year's European Championship bronze medallist Filippo Colombo is missing due to injury, Vital Albin is out due to university exams.

Cross country women

• Ramona Forchini, 1994, Wattwil SG

• Sina Frei, 1997, Uetikon am See ZH

• Steffi Häberlin, 1997, Happerswil TG

• Linda Indergand, 1993, Buttikon SZ

• Alessandra Keller, 1996, Ennetbürgen NW

• Nicole Koller, 1997, St. Gallenkappel SG

• Jolanda Neff, 1993, Thal SG

Cross country men

• Alexandre Balmer, 2000, La Chaux-de-Fonds NE

• Lars Forster, 1993, Rieden SG

• Andri Frischknecht, 1994, Feldbach ZH

• Marcel Guerrini, 1994, Ufhusen LU

• Thomas Litscher, 1989, Rheineck SG

• Joel Roth, 1999, Kölliken AG

• Luca Schätti, 2000, Horgen ZH

• Simon Walter, 2000, Sulgen TG

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