# 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed relay

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay will start at Sunday December 18, 2011 in Hochfilzen and will finish Thursday March 1, 2012 in Ruhfolding at Biathlon World Championships 2012 event.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Legs 1 and 2 are done by the women, legs 3 and 4 by the men. The women's legs are 6 km and men's legs are 7.5 km., Every athlete 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.).

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Russia Olga Vilukhina Olga Zaitseva Alexey Volkov Anton Shipulin | 1:13:33.4 (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Gabriela Soukalová Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr | 1:14:00.4 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | France Marie Dorin Habert Sophie Boilley Alexis Bœuf Simon Fourcade | 1:14:11.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) |
| Kontiolahti details | France Sophie Boilley Anais Bescond Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Vincent Jay | 1:26:22.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Olena Pidhrushna Andriy Deryzemlya Serguei Sednev | 1:26:23.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) | Slovakia Jana Gerekova Anastasiya Kuzmina Matej Kazar Miroslav Matiaško | 1:27:06.5 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
| World Championships 2012 details | Norway Tora Berger Synnøve Solemdal Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:12:29.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2) | Slovenia Andreja Mali Teja Gregorin Klemen Bauer Jakov Fak | 1:12:49.5 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer | 1:13:02.1 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | KON | WCH | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 60 | 43 | 40 | 143 |
| 2 | France | 48 | 60 | 30 | 138 |
| 3 | Germany | 40 | 40 | 48 | 128 |
| 4 | Ukraine | 34 | 54 | 27 | 115 |
| 5 | Sweden | 43 | 28 | 43 | 114 |
| 6 | Slovakia | 29 | 48 | 36 | 113 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 54 | 24 | 34 | 112 |
| 8 | Belarus | 31 | 34 | 38 | 103 |
| 9 | Italy | 36 | 31 | 32 | 99 |
| 10 | United States | 27 | 38 | 29 | 94 |
| 11 | Norway | — | 27 | 60 | 87 |
| 12 | Poland | 32 | 26 | 28 | 86 |
| 13 | Finland | 23 | 36 | 25 | 84 |
| 14 | Slovenia | 28 | — | 54 | 82 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 30 | 29 | 19 | 78 |
| 16 | Estonia | 19 | 32 | 26 | 77 |
| 17 | Japan | 21 | 30 | 24 | 75 |
| 18 | Canada | 38 | — | 23 | 61 |
| 19 | Lithuania | 20 | 23 | 16 | 59 |
| 20 | Switzerland | 25 | — | 31 | 56 |
| 21 | China | 16 | 25 | 15 | 56 |
| 22 | Austria | 26 | — | 20 | 46 |
| 23 | Kazakhstan | 24 | — | 21 | 45 |
| 24 | Romania | 22 | — | 22 | 44 |
| 25 | United Kingdom | 18 | — | 17 | 35 |
| 25 | Latvia | 17 | — | 18 | 17 |
| 27 | South Korea | 15 | — | 0 | 15 |