2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 26 November, 2017 in Östersund and finished on Saturday 10 March, 2018 in Kontiolahti. The defending team was Germany.

The winning team was Italy.

Competition format

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.

2016–17 Top 3 standings

Medal Nation Points
Gold: Germany264
Silver: France257
Bronze: Austria201

Medal winners

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Östersund (SR)
details
 Austria
Lisa Theresa Hauser
Simon Eder
36:17.0
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
 Germany
Vanessa Hinz
Erik Lesser
36:33.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
 Kazakhstan
Galina Vishnevskaya
Maxim Braun
36:49.7
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
Östersund (MR)
details
 Norway
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold
Tiril Eckhoff
Johannes Thingnes Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:11:31.7
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+3)
 Italy
Lisa Vittozzi
Dorothea Wierer
Dominik Windisch
Lukas Hofer
1:11:37.0
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
(1+3) (0+1)
 Germany
Franziska Preuß
Maren Hammerschmidt
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
1:11:38.1
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+3) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
Kontiolahti (SR)
details
 France
Anaïs Chevalier
Antonin Guigonnat
33:29.1
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+0)
 Austria
Lisa Theresa Hauser
Julian Eberhard
33:31.5
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
 Norway
Marte Olsbu Røiseland
Johannes Thingnes Bø
33:33.5
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(1+3) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
Kontiolahti (MR)
details
 Italy
Dorothea Wierer
Lisa Vittozzi
Dominik Windisch
Lukas Hofer
1:15:08.3
(0+3) (0+3)
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Ukraine
Anastasiya Merkushyna
Vita Semerenko
Artem Pryma
Dmytro Pidruchnyi
1:15:09.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Norway
Synnøve Solemdal
Tiril Eckhoff
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Tarjei Bø
1:15:17.4
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)

Standings

# Nation ÖST
SR
ÖST
MR
KON
SR
KON
MR
Total [1]
1 Italy36543860188
2 Norway32604848188
3 France43366040179
4 Austria60235434171
5 Germany54483036168
6 Ukraine38314354166
7 Russia34384043155
8 Sweden40403138149
9 Slovakia28432931131
10 Belarus30302130111
11 Kazakhstan48DSQ3229109
12 Japan29213425109
13 Czech Republic31282327109
14 Canada19263624105
15 Finland20342228104
16  Switzerland24322622104
17 United States22202732101
18 Estonia2618252695
19 South Korea2522281893
20 Poland2727191992
21 Bulgaria2325172388
22 Lithuania2124162182
23 Slovenia29242073
24 Romania18191855
25 Latvia2020
26 Great Britain1515

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