# 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 29 November 2015 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 3 March 2016 in Oslo Holmenkollen. The defending team was Norway.
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.

## 2014–15 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Norway | 216 |
| Silver: | France | 194 |
| Bronze: | Czech Republic | 174 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Östersund (SR) details | Norway Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen Lars Helge Birkeland | 36:27.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) | Canada Rosanna Crawford Nathan Smith | 36:39.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Germany Maren Hammerschmidt Daniel Böhm | 36:40.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Östersund (MR) details | Norway Fanny Horn Birkeland Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø | 1:11:42.6 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Franziska Hildebrand Vanessa Hinz Benedikt Doll Simon Schempp | 1:12:16.2 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Koukalová Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec | 1:12:54.1 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) |
| Canmore (SR) details | France Marie Dorin Habert Martin Fourcade | 37:59.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder | 38:44.2 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Norway Hilde Fenne Lars Helge Birkeland | 38:54.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) |
| Canmore (MR) details | Germany Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuß Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:05:38.8 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) | Italy Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch | 1:06:51.7 (0+0) (0+2) (1+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Norway Marte Olsbu Synnøve Solemdal Alexander Os Håvard Bogetveit | 1:07:02.6 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) |
| World Championships (MR) details | France Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin Habert Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade | 1:14:01.0 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany Franziska Preuß Franziska Hildebrand Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:14:05.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) | Norway Marte Olsbu Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Tarjei Bø | 1:14:15.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | ÖST SR | ÖST MR | CAN SR | CAN MR | OSL MR | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 60 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 264 |
| 2 | Germany | 48 | 54 | 36 | 60 | 54 | 252 |
| 3 | France | 20 | 43 | 60 | 40 | 60 | 223 |
| 4 | Russia | 40 | 38 | 43 | 34 | 36 | 191 |
| 5 | Canada | 54 | 32 | 29 | 38 | 30 | 183 |
| 6 | Austria | 30 | 29 | 54 | 28 | 40 | 181 |
| 7 | Italy | 32 | 19 | 40 | 54 | 34 | 179 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 36 | 30 | 38 | 30 | 43 | 177 |
| 9 | Sweden | 43 | 40 | 32 | 32 | 29 | 176 |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 28 | 48 | 28 | 31 | 38 | 173 |
| 11 | United States | 26 | 31 | 25 | 43 | 31 | 156 |
| 12 | Belarus | 22 | 36 | 22 | 29 | 32 | 141 |
| 13 | Switzerland | 18 | 27 | 26 | 36 | 27 | 134 |
| 14 | Kazakhstan | 25 | 26 | 30 | 26 | 26 | 133 |
| 15 | Japan | 31 | 21 | 31 | 25 | 22 | 130 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 21 | 34 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 130 |
| 17 | Finland | 38 | 20 | 21 | 27 | 23 | 129 |
| 18 | Romania | 29 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 117 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 24 | 25 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 115 |
| 20 | Poland | 27 | 28 | 27 | — | 21 | 103 |
| 21 | South Korea | 15 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 89 |
| 22 | Latvia | 34 | — | 34 | — | 16 | 84 |
| 23 | Estonia | 16 | 23 | — | 23 | 20 | 82 |
| 24 | Lithuania | 19 | — | 18 | 19 | 18 | 74 |
| 25 | Bulgaria | 23 | 22 | — | — | 25 | 70 |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 17 | — | — | — | — | 17 |