# 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women will start at Sunday December 11, 2011 in Hochfilzen and will finish Friday March 10, 2012 in Ruhpolding at Biathlon World Championships 2012 event. Defending titlist is German team.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 6 kilometres (3.7 mi), each leg skied over three laps, with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually one at a time from spare round holders or bullets deposited by the competitor into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each missed target remaining. 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 position in race.), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shoots at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the range in 5th place, you shoot at lane five.).

## 2010–11 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | Germany | 206 |
| Silver: | Sweden | 190 |
| Bronze: | Russia | 177 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Elise Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:07:13.3 (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | France Marie Laure Brunet Anais Bescond Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin Habert | 1:07:26.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Natalia Sorokina Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Zaitseva | 1:07:42.7 (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Olga Vilukhina | 1:19:32.0 (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Elise Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:19:37.9 (0+0) (2+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) | France Marie Dorin Habert Anais Bescond Marine Bolliet Sophie Boilley | 1:20:38.4 (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) |
| Antholtz details | France Marie Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Marie Dorin Habert | 1:17:06.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Liudmila Kalinchik Nastassia Dubarezava Darya Domracheva | 1:17:09.0 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) | Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Olga Vilukhina | 1:17:27.9 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) |
| World Championships 2012 details | Germany Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner Miriam Gössner Andrea Henkel | 1:09:33.0 (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (1+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin | 1:10:01.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) | Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Elise Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:10:12.5 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | OBE | ANT | WCH | Total |
| 1 | France | 54 | 48 | 60 | 54 | 216 |
| 2 | Norway | 60 | 54 | 43 | 48 | 205 |
| 3 | Russia | 48 | 60 | 48 | 36 | 192 |
| 4 | Germany | 38 | 43 | 38 | 60 | 179 |
| 5 | Belarus | 40 | 40 | 54 | 43 | 177 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 34 | 34 | 40 | 38 | 146 |
| 7 | Poland | 43 | 32 | 34 | 32 | 141 |
| 8 | Sweden | 30 | 36 | 31 | 40 | 137 |
| 9 | Italy | 36 | 31 | 36 | 29 | 132 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 29 | 38 | 27 | 34 | 128 |
| 11 | Czech Republic | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 122 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 28 | 28 | 29 | 24 | 109 |
| 13 | Canada | 32 | — | 32 | 28 | 92 |
| 14 | United States | 27 | — | 28 | 30 | 85 |
| 15 | Estonia | — | 27 | 24 | 27 | 78 |
| 16 | Japan | 24 | — | 25 | 26 | 75 |
| 17 | Romania | — | 29 | 23 | 21 | 73 |
| 18 | Austria | — | — | 26 | 25 | 51 |
| 19 | Finland | 26 | — | — | 23 | 49 |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | 23 | — | — | 22 | 47 |
| 21 | China | 25 | — | — | 16 | 41 |
| 22 | Switzerland | — | — | — | 20 | 20 |
| 23 | Great Britain | — | — | — | 19 | 19 |
| 24 | Lithuania | — | — | — | 18 | 18 |
| 25 | South Korea | — | — | — | 17 | 17 |
| 26 | Latvia | — | — | — | 15 | 15 |