Austrian domination of World Championships team event continues

Since the team event was introduced on to the World Championships programme back in 2005, Austria have always claimed the gold.

And this year's squad of Eva-Maria Brem, Nicole Hosp, Michaela Kirchgasser, Marcel Hirscher, Christoph Noesig and Philipp Schoerghofer were not about to let that impressive run end.

The Austrians took on Canada in the final and despite a tremendous fight from Candace Crawford, Erin Mielzynski, Marie-Pier Prefontaine, Phil Brown, Tervor Philp and Erik Read it was the Europeans who triumphed.

There was still plenty to celebrate for Canada though as the silver medal was their first ever piece of team event silverware.

The fight for bronze saw Sweden triumph over Switzerland thanks to the efforts of Sara Hector, Maria Pietilae-Holmner, Anna Swenn-Larsson, Mattias Hargin, Markus Larsson and Andre Myhrer.

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