# 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 2 December 2018 in Pokljuka and finished on Thursday 14 March 2019 in Östersund. The defending team was Germany.
The winning team was Norway.

## 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.

## 2017–18 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Italy | 188 |
| Gold: | Norway | 188 |
| Bronze: | France | 179 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Pokljuka (SR) details | Norway Thekla Brun-Lie Lars Helge Birkeland | 38:26.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder | 38:35.2 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Artem Tyshchenko | 38:47.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Pokljuka (MR) details | France Anaïs Bescond Justine Braisaz Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux | 1:10:02.8 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Lena Häcki Benjamin Weger Jeremy Finello | 1:10:41.5 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer | 1:10:54.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Soldier Hollow, Utah (SR) details | Italy Lukas Hofer Dorothea Wierer | 35:27.9 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) | Austria Simon Eder Lisa Theresa Hauser | 35:50.8 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | France Antonin Guigonnat Julia Simon | 36:18.1 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Soldier Hollow, Utah (MR) details | France Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Célia Aymonier Anaïs Chevalier | 1:03:51.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz | 1:04:04.9 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) | Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Thingnes Bø Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:04:53.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3) |
| World Championships (MR) details | Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | 1:17:41.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Vanessa Hinz Denise Herrmann Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll | 1:17:54.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch | 1:18:51.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3) |
| World Championships (SR) details | Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø | 35:43.2 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Italy Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer | 35:56.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson | 36:03.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | POK SR | POK MR | SOL SR | SOL MR | ÖST MR | ÖST SR | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 38 | 40 | 48 | 60 | 60 | 306 |
| 2 | France | 43 | 60 | 48 | 60 | 34 | 36 | 281 |
| 3 | Italy | 26 | 48 | 60 | 31 | 48 | 54 | 267 |
| 4 | Germany | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 54 | 43 | 264 |
| 5 | Sweden | 40 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 40 | 48 | 238 |
| 6 | Austria | 54 | 25 | 54 | 36 | 24 | 34 | 227 |
| 7 | Ukraine | 48 | 32 | 38 | 28 | 36 | 40 | 222 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 22 | 54 | 26 | 43 | 30 | 27 | 202 |
| 9 | Russia | 36 | 43 | 30 | DSQ | 43 | 38 | 190 |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 31 | 27 | 24 | 38 | 38 | 32 | 190 |
| 11 | Canada | 38 | 31 | 29 | 30 | 25 | 26 | 179 |
| 12 | Estonia | 24 | 24 | 34 | 34 | 27 | 30 | 173 |
| 13 | Japan | 32 | 18 | 31 | 29 | 26 | 24 | 160 |
| 14 | Belarus | 25 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 28 | 25 | 158 |
| 15 | United States | 16 | 26 | 27 | 32 | 22 | 28 | 151 |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 23 | 30 | 23 | 26 | 20 | 22 | 144 |
| 17 | Poland | 27 | 22 | 32 | DSQ | 32 | 18 | 131 |
| 18 | Kazakhstan | 19 | 23 | 22 | 24 | 19 | 23 | 130 |
| 19 | Finland | 28 | 40 | — | — | 31 | 29 | 128 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 17 | 21 | 20 | 25 | 17 | 16 | 116 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 30 | 0 | 25 | 27 | 16 | 15 | 113 |
| 22 | China | 18 | 20 | 19 | — | 23 | 19 | 99 |
| 23 | South Korea | 20 | 19 | — | — | 21 | 21 | 81 |
| 24 | Latvia | 29 | — | — | — | 18 | 31 | 78 |
| 25 | Slovakia | — | 28 | — | — | 29 | 17 | 74 |
| 26 | Romania | — | — | 21 | — | 15 | 14 | 50 |
| 27 | Moldova | 21 | — | — | — | — | 20 | 41 |
| 28 | Belgium | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | 13 |