2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women started on Sunday 11 December, 2016 in Pokljuka and finished on Sunday 5 March, 2017 in Pyeongchang. The defending team was Germany.

The winning team was Germany.

Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) laps for a total of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi), with two shooting rounds: one prone and one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually from the spare round holders or from bullets deposited by the athlete into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still standing targets, one 150 metres (490 ft) penalty loop must be taken for each remaining target. The first-leg participants start all at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team must touch the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid changeover. On the first shooting stage of the first leg, the participant must shoot in the lane corresponding to their bib number (bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of their position in the race), then for the remainder of the relay, the athletes shoot at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived (arrive at the range in 5th place, shoot at lane five).

2015–16 Top 3 standings

Medal	Nation	Points
Gold:	Germany	235
Silver:	Ukraine	234
Bronze:	Czech Republic	228

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Pokljuka details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	1:11:31.1 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	France Anaïs Chevalier Justine Braisaz Celia Aymonier Marie Dorin Habert	1:11:41.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Olena Pidhrushna Anastasiya Merkushyna	1:12:08.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)
Ruhpolding details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt Franziska Preuß Laura Dahlmeier	1:09:53.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Chevalier Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Celia Aymonier	1:09:56.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Hilde Fenne Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	1:09:57.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)
Antholz-Anterselva details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier	1:09:12.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3)	France Anaïs Chevalier Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert	1:09:36.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Federica Sanfilippo Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer	1:09:45.8 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1)
World Championships details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Maren Hammerschmidt Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier	1:11:16.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2)	Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Yuliia Dzhima Anastasiya Merkushyna Olena Pidhrushna	1:11:23.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	France Anaïs Chevalier Celia Aymonier Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin Habert	1:11:24.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)
Pyeongchang details	Germany Nadine Horchler Maren Hammerschmidt Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand	1:07:35.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Hilde Fenne Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	1:07:58.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1)	Czech Republic Jessica Jislová Eva Puskarčíková Lucie Charvátová Gabriela Koukalová	1:07:58.5 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1)

Standings

#	Nation	POK	RUH	ANT	HOC	PYE	Total [1]
1	Germany	60	60	60	60	60	300
2	France	54	54	54	48	38	248
3	Ukraine	48	43	43	54	36	224
4	Norway	40	48	30	30	54	202
5	Czech Republic	43	38	25	43	48	197
5	Italy	29	40	48	40	40	197
7	Sweden	34	36	36	38	43	187
8	Belarus	32	34	38	32	31	167
9	Russia	38	28	40	31	29	166
10	Poland	36	25	29	36	28	154
11	Switzerland	31	27	31	28	30	147
12	Kazakhstan	27	30	26	29	32	144
13	Canada	30	31	23	25	34	143
14	Slovakia	25	29	27	34	26	141
15	Austria	26	32	32	0	25	115
16	Japan	22	26	21	21	24	114
17	Bulgaria	24	22	22	19	22	109
17	Finland	28	21	34	26	—	109
19	South Korea	20	20	20	23	23	106
19	United States	—	24	28	27	27	106
21	Lithuania	21	19	19	20	20	99
22	Estonia	19	18	18	22	21	98
23	China	—	23	24	—	—	47
23	Slovenia	23	—	—	24	—	47
25	Romania	18	—	—	—	—	18

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