# 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women will start at Sunday December 9, 2012 in Hochfilzen and will finish Friday March 10, 2012 in Sochi. Defending titlist is French team.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 kilometres (4.7 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.).

## 2011–12 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | France | 216 |
| Silver: | Norway | 205 |
| Bronze: | Russia | 192 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Synnøve Solemdal Hilde Fenne Tora Berger | 1:11:45.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Ukraine Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Olena Pidhrushna | 1:12:15.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Olga Zaitseva Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Vilukhina | 1:12:30.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma Valj Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna Vita Semerenko | 1:20:16.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Anais Bescond Sophie Boilley Marie Dorin-Habert | 1:21:02.0 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Tina Bachmann Miriam Gössner Franziska Hildebrand Nadine Horchler | 1:22:03.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (2+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) |
| Ruhpolding details | Norway Hilde Fenne Ann Kristin Flatland Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:08:13.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Olga Vilukhina Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Zaitseva | 1:09:07.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Kristýna Černá Veronika Zvařičová | 1:10:05.0 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) |
| Antholtz details | Germany Franziska Hildebrand Miriam Gössner Nadine Horchler Andrea Henkel | 1:13:02.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) | Russia Ekaterina Glazyrina Olga Zaitseva Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Vilukhina | 1:13:19.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) | France Anais Bescond Sophie Boilley Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin-Habert | 1:13:43.0 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) |
| World Championships 2013 details | Norway Hilde Fenne Ann Kristin Flatland Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:08:11.0 (0+2) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma Vita Semerenko Valj Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna | 1:08:18.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Italy Dorothea Wierer Nicole Gontier Michela Ponza Karin Oberhofer | 1:08:22.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Sochi details | Germany Andrea Henkel Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Laura Dahlmeier | 1:09:27.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) | Ukraine Juliya Dzhyma Olena Pidhrushna Valj Semerenko Mariya Panfilova | 1:09:39.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) | Norway Hilde Fenne Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Flatland Tora Berger | 1:09:48.3 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | OBE | RUP | ANT | WCH | SOC | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 43 | 60 | 43 | 60 | 48 | 314 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 54 | 60 | 36 | 40 | 54 | 54 | 298 |
| 3 | Germany | 43 | 48 | 43 | 60 | 40 | 60 | 294 |
| 4 | Russia | 48 | 40 | 54 | 54 | 43 | 38 | 277 |
| 5 | France | 40 | 54 | 38 | 48 | 38 | 40 | 258 |
| 6 | Italy | 30 | 38 | 40 | 34 | 48 | 36 | 226 |
| 7 | Poland | 38 | 36 | 31 | 38 | 32 | 43 | 218 |
| 8 | Belarus | 36 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 210 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 31 | 30 | 48 | 26 | 31 | 32 | 198 |
| 10 | Sweden | 32 | 31 | 25 | 29 | 26 | 30 | 173 |
| 11 | Kazakhstan | 27 | 28 | 29 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 162 |
| 12 | Slovakia | 34 | 32 | 32 | 25 | 34 | — | 157 |
| 13 | Canada | 28 | — | 27 | 30 | 29 | 31 | 145 |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 20 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 25 | 139 |
| 15 | Estonia | 22 | 24 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 27 | 135 |
| 16 | Romania | 24 | 29 | 21 | 28 | 0 | 26 | 128 |
| 17 | United States | 29 | — | 28 | 31 | 30 | — | 118 |
| 18 | Austria | 26 | — | 30 | 32 | 22 | — | 110 |
| 19 | China | — | 27 | 26 | 27 | 25 | — | 105 |
| 20 | Switzerland | 25 | 26 | 24 | — | 28 | — | 103 |
| 21 | Finland | 23 | — | 23 | — | 20 | 28 | 94 |
| 22 | Japan | 21 | — | — | 23 | 19 | 24 | 87 |
| 23 | South Korea | — | 23 | 19 | 20 | 17 | — | 79 |
| 24 | Slovenia | — | — | — | — | 24 | — | 24 |
| 25 | Lithuania | — | — | — | — | 18 | — | 18 |