Biathlon World Championships 2016 – Women's relay

The Women's relay event of the Biathlon World Championships 2016 was held on 11 March 2016.

Women's relay at the Biathlon World Championships 2016
Venue	Oslo, Norway
Date	11 March
Competitors	92 from 23 nations
Teams	23
Winning time	1:07:10.0
Medalists
Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu   Norway   Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert   France   Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier   Germany

Results

The race was started at 15:30 CET.

Rank	Bib	Team	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	12	Norway Synnøve Solemdal Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu	1:07:10.0 16:39.0 17:02.9 16:19.4 17:08.7	0+3 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+2
	5	France Justine Braisaz Anais Bescond Anais Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert	1:07:15.3 17:26.9 16:10.9 16:52.1 16:45.4	0+5 0+3 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0	+5.3
	4	Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Maren Hammerschmidt Laura Dahlmeier	1:07:38.6 16:49.2 16:42.8 16:52.6 17:14.0	0+0 0+4 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0	+28.6
4	7	Poland Magdalena Gwizdoń Monika Hojnisz Weronika Nowakowska Krystyna Guzik	1:08:18.4	0+2 0+5	+1:08.4
5	1	Ukraine Valentyna Semerenko Iryna Varvynets Olena Pidhrushna Yuliia Dzhima	1:08:37.7	1+4 0+1	+1:27.7
6	3	Czech Republic Jessica Jislová Gabriela Soukalová Lucie Charvátová Veronika Vítková	1:08:59.3	0+0 3+6	+1:49.3
7	2	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Karin Oberhofer Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer	1:08:59.3	0+1 1+7	+1:49.3
8	10	Kazakhstan Galina Vishnevskaya Darya Usanova Anna Kistanova Alina Raikova	1:09:18.4	0+3 0+4	+2:08.4
9	19	Slovenia Andreja Mali Teja Gregorin Anja Eržen Urška Poje	1:10:04.9	0+3 0+2	+2:54.9
10	8	Sweden Anna Magnusson Mona Brorsson Ingela Andersson Linn Persson	1:10:14.6	1+5 0+1	+3:04.6
11	6	Russia Tatiana Akimova Anastasia Zagoruiko Daria Virolaynen Ekaterina Yurlova	1:10:17.9 17:03.9 17:03.6 18:51.5 17:18.9	0+0 2+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 2+3 0+0 0+0	+3:07.9
12	15	Austria Lisa Hauser Dunja Zdouc Julia Schwaiger Susanne Hoffmann	1:10:41.4	0+2 0+4	+3:31.4
13	14	United States Susan Dunklee Hannah Dreissigacker Clare Egan Annelies Cook	1:10:57.1	0+2 0+6	+3:47.1
14	18	Slovakia Paulína Fialková Jana Gereková Terézia Poliaková Ivona Fialková	1:11:18.0	0+5 0+7	+4:08.0
15	11	Canada Julia Ransom Rosanna Crawford Sarah Beaudry Zina Kocher	1:11:58.6	1+6 2+5	+4:48.6
16	13	Switzerland Selina Gasparin Lena Häcki Aita Gasparin Irene Cadurisch	1:12:21.8	1+9 0+5	+5:11.8
17	21	Finland Kaisa Mäkäräinen Auli Kiskola Laura Toivanen Sanna Markkanen	1:12:31.5	0+0 0+7	+5:21.5
18	9	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Yurkevich Nastassia Dubarezava Iryna Kryuko	1:12:46.9	0+2 3+8	+5:36.9
19	22	Japan Fuyuko Tachizaki Yurie Tanaka Rina Suzuki Sari Furuya	1:13:13.5	0+6 1+7	+6:03.5
20	17	Bulgaria Emilia Yordanova Desislava Stoyanova Stefani Popova Dafinka Koeva	1:13:17.3	1+5 0+5	+6:07.3
21	16	Romania Éva Tófalvi Luminița Pișcoran Réka Forika Florina Ioana Cîrstea	LAP
22	20	China Zhang Yan Tang Jialin Wang Xuelan Chu Yuanmeng	LAP
23	23	South Korea Mun Ji-hee Ko Eun-jung Hwang Hye-suk Kim Seon-su	LAP