# 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 27 November 2016 in Östersund and finished on Sunday 12 March 2017 in Kontiolahti. The defending team was Norway.
The winning team was Germany.

## 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.

## 2015–16 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Norway | 264 |
| Silver: | Germany | 252 |
| Bronze: | France | 223 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Östersund (MR) details | Norway Marte Olsbu Fanny Horn Birkeland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:10:57.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | Germany Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer | 1:11:30.8 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) | Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch | 1:11:41.3 (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+1) |
| Östersund (SR) details | France Marie Dorin Habert Martin Fourcade | 35:43.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder | 35:59.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) | Germany Franziska Preuß Erik Lesser | 36:08.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) |
| World Championships (MR) details | Germany Vanessa Hinz Laura Dahlmeier Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:09:06.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | France Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade | 1:09:08.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) | Russia Olga Podchufarova Tatiana Akimova Alexandr Loginov Anton Shipulin | 1:09:09.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Kontiolahti (SR) details | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder | 31:35.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) | United States Susan Dunklee Lowell Bailey | 32:07.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany Laura Dahlmeier Roman Rees | 32:08.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Kontiolahti (MR) details | France Marie Dorin Habert Anaïs Bescond Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:11:34.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) | Germany Nadine Horchler Maren Hammerschmidt Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer | 1:11:45.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) | Ukraine Iryna Varvynets Olga Abramova Serhiy Semenov Dmytro Pidruchnyi | 1:12:01.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | ÖST MR | ÖST SR | HOC MR | KON SR | KON MR | Total |
| 1 | Germany | 54 | 48 | 60 | 48 | 54 | 264 |
| 2 | France | 40 | 60 | 54 | 43 | 60 | 257 |
| 3 | Austria | 30 | 54 | 32 | 60 | 25 | 201 |
| 4 | Norway | 60 | 30 | 34 | 31 | 40 | 195 |
| 4 | Russia | 43 | 34 | 48 | 27 | 43 | 195 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 31 | 32 | 40 | 36 | 48 | 187 |
| 7 | Italy | 48 | 28 | 43 | 30 | 36 | 185 |
| 8 | Sweden | 38 | 43 | 38 | 34 | 31 | 184 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 36 | 27 | 36 | 38 | 38 | 175 |
| 10 | United States | 34 | 22 | 25 | 54 | 34 | 169 |
| 11 | Kazakhstan | 26 | 40 | 30 | 40 | 27 | 163 |
| 12 | Switzerland | 32 | 38 | 27 | 32 | 28 | 157 |
| 13 | Finland | 28 | 21 | 31 | 28 | 26 | 134 |
| 14 | Belarus | 27 | 31 | 19 | 26 | 30 | 133 |
| 15 | Slovakia | 21 | 15 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 126 |
| 16 | Canada | 19 | 36 | 28 | 22 | 19 | 124 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 29 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 119 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 24 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 22 | 116 |
| 19 | Estonia | 22 | 26 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 113 |
| 20 | Japan | 17 | 24 | 26 | 16 | 29 | 112 |
| 21 | South Korea | 23 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 105 |
| 22 | Poland | 25 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 98 |
| 23 | Lithuania | 20 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 23 | 96 |
| 24 | Romania | 18 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 93 |
| 25 | Latvia | — | 29 | 16 | 19 | — | 64 |
| 26 | United Kingdom | — | 23 | — | — | — | 23 |