2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 27 November 2016 in Östersund and finished on Sunday 12 March 2017 in Kontiolahti. The defending team was Norway.

The winning team was Germany.

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Legs 1 and 2 are skied by the women, and legs 3 and 4 by the men. The women's legs are 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) and men's legs are 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi). Every athlete's leg is skied over three laps, 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 all start 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).

The single mixed relay involves one male and one female biathlete each completing two legs consisting of one prone and one standing shoot. The female biathletes all start the race at the same time and complete one 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) leg before exchanging with their male counterparts who complete one 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) leg before exchanging again with the female skier who after completing another leg switches again with the male biathlete who completes the race. The rules regarding shooting are the same as in the regular mixed relay.

2015–16 Top 3 standings

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Medal Nation Points
Gold:   Norway 264
Silver:   Germany 252
Bronze:   France 223

Medal winners

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Östersund (MR)
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  Norway
Marte Olsbu
Fanny Horn Birkeland
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:10:57.1
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
  Germany
Franziska Hildebrand
Laura Dahlmeier
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
1:11:30.8
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
  Italy
Lisa Vittozzi
Dorothea Wierer
Lukas Hofer
Dominik Windisch
1:11:41.3
(0+3) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+1) (0+1)
Östersund (SR)
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  France
Marie Dorin Habert
Martin Fourcade
35:43.5
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Austria
Lisa Theresa Hauser
Simon Eder
35:59.5
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
  Germany
Franziska Preuß
Erik Lesser
36:08.7
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
World Championships (MR)
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  Germany
Vanessa Hinz
Laura Dahlmeier
Arnd Peiffer
Simon Schempp
1:09:06.4
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  France
Anaïs Chevalier
Marie Dorin Habert
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Martin Fourcade
1:09:08.6
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
  Russia
Olga Podchufarova
Tatiana Akimova
Alexandr Loginov
Anton Shipulin
1:09:09.6
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
Kontiolahti (SR)
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  Austria
Lisa Theresa Hauser
Simon Eder
31:35.1
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
  United States
Susan Dunklee
Lowell Bailey
32:07.9
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Germany
Laura Dahlmeier
Roman Rees
32:08.4
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
Kontiolahti (MR)
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  France
Marie Dorin Habert
Anaïs Bescond
Simon Desthieux
Quentin Fillon Maillet
1:11:34.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
  Germany
Nadine Horchler
Maren Hammerschmidt
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
1:11:45.5
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
  Ukraine
Iryna Varvynets
Olga Abramova
Serhiy Semenov
Dmytro Pidruchnyi
1:12:01.6
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)

Standings

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# Nation ÖST
MR
ÖST
SR
HOC
MR
KON
SR
KON
MR
Total [1]
1   Germany 54 48 60 48 54 264
2   France 40 60 54 43 60 257
3   Austria 30 54 32 60 25 201
4   Norway 60 30 34 31 40 195
4   Russia 43 34 48 27 43 195
6   Ukraine 31 32 40 36 48 187
7   Italy 48 28 43 30 36 185
8   Sweden 38 43 38 34 31 184
9   Czech Republic 36 27 36 38 38 175
10   United States 34 22 25 54 34 169
11   Kazakhstan 26 40 30 40 27 163
12   Switzerland 32 38 27 32 28 157
13   Finland 28 21 31 28 26 134
14   Belarus 27 31 19 26 30 133
15   Slovakia 21 15 29 29 32 126
16   Canada 19 36 28 22 19 124
17   Slovenia 29 20 23 23 24 119
18   Bulgaria 24 25 24 21 22 116
19   Estonia 22 26 20 25 20 113
20   Japan 17 24 26 16 29 112
21   South Korea 23 18 22 24 18 105
22   Poland 25 16 18 18 21 98
23   Lithuania 20 19 17 17 23 96
24   Romania 18 17 21 20 17 93
25   Latvia 29 16 19 64
26   United Kingdom 23 23

References

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