- It was good teamwork. We often make good results when the sun is shining, says Svahn in SVT's broadcast.
On the ninth stretch, Dahlqvist drove rock hard and cracked the field and Svahn took the distance of around 1.5-2.0 seconds and continued the hard drive. Dahlqvist continued to drill hard for his final stretch, sending out Svahn with a lead 0.8 seconds ahead of Switzerland. But it would be a battle for victory.
- I wanted to drive hard on my runs and give Linn a good starting position, says Dahlqvist about the Swedish victory tactics.
Fähndrich then passed Svahn, who had to rest himself in the back before the Swede clutched grip again. It looked like Fähndrich could win but Svahn squeezed out the last and won by a few centimeters.
A new variant of sprint relay was tested in the narrow city lane in Dresden. There were eleven changes, where the teams alternated every lap on the 650 meter long track, shorter distances but also shorter rest between races. And that was something that the teams needed to put extra focus on how they would think in all the shifts.