# 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women started on 16 December 2018 in Hochfilzen and finish on 16 March 2019 at the Biathlon World Championships in Östersund. Norway won; Germany unsuccessfully defended its title.

## 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).

## 2017–18 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Germany | 228 |
| Silver: | France | 200 |
| Bronze: | Italy | 169 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Italy Lisa Vittozzi Alexia Runggaldier Dorothea Wierer Federica Sanfilippo | 1:10:58.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Emma Nilsson Hanna Öberg | 1:11:07.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | France Anaïs Chevalier Julia Simon Célia Aymonier Anaïs Bescond | 1:11:10.5 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Russia Evgeniya Pavlova Margarita Vasileva Larisa Kuklina Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht | 1:18:46.3 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | Germany Karolin Horchler Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Denise Herrmann | 1:19:19.8 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (2+3) | Czech Republic Lucie Charvátová Veronika Vítková Markéta Davidová Eva Puskarčíková | 1:19:23.0 (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Ruhpolding details | France Julia Simon Anaïs Bescond Justine Braisaz Anaïs Chevalier | 1:09:27.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:09:39.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | Germany Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier Franziska Preuß Denise Herrmann | 1:09:51.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) |
| Canmore details | Germany Vanessa Hinz Franziska Hildebrand Denise Herrmann Laura Dahlmeier | 1:10:16.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (1+3) | Norway Emilie Ågheim Kalkenberg Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:10:46.5 (0+0) (2+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | France Anaïs Chevalier Justine Braisaz Anaïs Bescond Julia Simon | 1:10:57.9 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) |
| World Championships details | Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:12:00.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) | Sweden Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Anna Magnusson Hanna Öberg | 1:12:24.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) | Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Vita Semerenko Yuliia Dzhima Valj Semerenko | 1:12:35.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | HOC | OBE | RUH | CAN | ÖST | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 38 | 43 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 249 |
| 2 | Germany | 36 | 54 | 48 | 60 | 43 | 241 |
| 3 | France | 48 | 40 | 60 | 48 | 34 | 230 |
| 4 | Sweden | 54 | 36 | 43 | 29 | 54 | 216 |
| 5 | Italy | 60 | 26 | 30 | 43 | 31 | 190 |
| 6 | Russia | 43 | 60 | 40 | DSQ | 40 | 183 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 32 | 48 | 32 | 36 | 26 | 174 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 34 | 34 | 26 | 28 | 48 | 170 |
| 9 | Belarus | 40 | 32 | 34 | 26 | 30 | 162 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 29 | 31 | 31 | 40 | 28 | 159 |
| 11 | United States | 28 | 29 | 25 | 34 | 32 | 148 |
| 12 | Slovakia | 27 | 38 | 38 | — | 38 | 141 |
| 13 | Estonia | 26 | 24 | 27 | 32 | 29 | 138 |
| 14 | Canada | 25 | 28 | 29 | 24 | 27 | 133 |
| 15 | Austria | 31 | DNF | 36 | 38 | 25 | 130 |
| 16 | Poland | 30 | 30 | 28 | DNS | 36 | 124 |
| 17 | China | 22 | 25 | 23 | 30 | 24 | 124 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 21 | 27 | 20 | 31 | 21 | 120 |
| 19 | Japan | 23 | 20 | 22 | 27 | 22 | 114 |
| 20 | South Korea | 20 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 107 |
| 21 | Finland | 24 | 21 | 24 | — | 19 | 88 |
| 22 | Slovenia | — | 22 | 21 | — | 18 | 61 |
| 23 | Kazakhstan | — | — | — | — | 23 | 23 |
| 24 | Lithuania | 19 | — | — | — | — | 19 |