2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women started on 5 December 2020 in Kontiolahti and will finish on 4 March 2021 in Nové Město

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).

2019–20 Top 3 standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Norway	360
Silver:	Switzerland	260
Bronze:	Germany	260

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Kontiolahti (2) details	Sweden Johanna Skottheim Mona Brorsson Elvira Öberg Hanna Öberg	1:12:44.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet Chloé Chevalier Justine Braisaz-Bouchet	1:12:54.1 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß Maren Hammerschmidt Denise Herrmann	1:13:28.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2)
Hochfilzen details	Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:08:04.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Bescond Julia Simon Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet	1:08:28.8 (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2)	Sweden Johanna Skottheim Linn Persson Hanna Öberg Elvira Öberg	1:08:36.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1)
Oberhof (2) details	Germany Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuß	1:14:31.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Belarus Iryna Kryuko Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Elena Kruchinkina	1:14:48.9 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Sweden Mona Brorsson Linn Persson Elvira Öberg Hanna Öberg	1:15:07.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)
Antholz-Anterselva details	Russia Evgeniya Pavlova Tatiana Akimova Svetlana Mironova Uliana Kaisheva	1:07:32.4 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuß	1:07:43.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1)	France Anaïs Bescond Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Julia Simon	1:07:53.6 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)
World Championships details	Norway Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Ida Lien Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:10:39.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+1)	Germany Vanessa Hinz Janina Hettich Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuß	1:10:47.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Yuliia Dzhima Darya Blashko Olena Pidhrushna	1:10:48.2 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)
Nové Město details	Sweden Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg Linn Persson Elvira Öberg	1:03:26.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Belarus Iryna Kryuko Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Elena Kruchinkina	1:03:27.8 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1)	France Anaïs Bescond Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Chloé Chevalier Julia Simon	1:03:54.4 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0)

Standings

4 of 6 competitions scored

#	Name	KON 2	HOC	OBH 2	ANT	WCH	NME	Total
1	Sweden	60	48	48	36	40	60	216
2	Germany	48	43	60	54	54	29	216
3	France	54	54	40	48	34	48	204
4	Norway	34	60	36	38	60	40	198
5	Belarus	29	31	54	40	43	54	191
6	Russia	43	34	43	60	30	34	180
7	Ukraine	40	36	34	34	48	43	167
8	Italy	38	40	26	43	32	36	157
9	Austria	36	38	32	29	36	32	142
10	Czech Republic	30	30	38	31	31	23	130
11	United States	32	29	29	28	28	38	128
12	Switzerland	31	32	31	34	29	31	128
13	Poland	28	28	27	26	38	30	124
14	Canada	25	26	30	30	25	28	114
15	Finland	27	27	28	24	27	22	109
16	Kazakhstan	22	19	23	27	21	27	99
17	Estonia	24	25	25	25	24	24	99
18	Japan	21	21	24	23	26	25	98
19	Slovakia	20	24	21	22	20	26	93
20	South Korea	23	20	22	21	8	DSQ	86
21	Bulgaria	26	23	–	–	23	–	72
22	Slovenia	–	22	–	–	22	21	65
23	Latvia	–	–	–	–	19	–	19
24	Romania	–	18	–	–	–	–	18