# 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women will start at Sunday December 6, 2009 in Östersund and will finish Tuesday February 23, 2009 in Vancouver at the olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is German team.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 6 kilometres (3.7 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.).

## 2008–09 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | Germany | 288 |
| Silver: | France | 242 |
| Bronze: | Ukraine | 232 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Östersund details | Germany Martina Beck Andrea Henkel Simone Hauswald Kati Wilhelm | 1:10:52.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Boulygina Olga Zaitseva Olga Medvedtseva | 1:11:10.9 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly | 1:12:17.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) |
| Hochfilzen details | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Boulygina Iana Romanova Olga Zaitseva | 1:13:37.0 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly | 1:13:40.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson | 1:13:41.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Russia Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Anna Boulygina Olga Medvedtseva Svetlana Sleptsova | 1:14:23.6 (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) | Germany Martina Beck Simone Hauswald Tina Bachmann Andrea Henkel | 1:14:23.9 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly | 1:15:24.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) |
| Ruhpolding details | Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson | 1:17:31.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Russia Iana Romanova Anna Boulygina Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaitseva | 1:17:48.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) | Norway Liv Kjersti Eikeland Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Tora Berger | 1:18:00.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) |
| 2010 Winter Olympics details | Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaitseva | 1:09:36.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) | France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly | 1:10:09.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (2+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) | Germany Kati Wilhelm Simone Hauswald Martina Beck Andrea Henkel | 1:10:13.4 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) |

## Standings

| # | Name | ÖST | HOC | OBE | RUH | OLY | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 54 | 60 | 60 | 54 | 60 | 234 |
| 2 | Germany | 60 | 43 | 54 | 43 | 48 | 205 |
| 3 | France | 48 | 54 | 48 | 34 | 54 | 204 |
| 4 | Sweden | 43 | 48 | 40 | 60 | 40 | 191 |
| 5 | Norway | 34 | 40 | 31 | 48 | 43 | 165 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 38 | 32 | 43 | 29 | 38 | 151 |
| 7 | China | 40 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 32 | 150 |
| 8 | Belarus | 32 | 31 | 38 | 32 | 36 | 138 |
| 9 | Poland | 36 | 38 | 32 | – | 29 | 135 |
| 10 | Slovenia | 31 | 36 | 34 | – | 34 | 135 |
| 11 | Czech Republic | 28 | 29 | – | 38 | 25 | 120 |
| 12 | Kazakhstan | 30 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 27 | 118 |
| 13 | Romania | 27 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 116 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 29 | 26 | – | 23 | 28 | 106 |
| 15 | Latvia | 23 | 23 | 29 | 26 | 22 | 101 |
| 16 | Italy | – | 30 | – | 36 | 30 | 96 |
| 17 | Estonia | 22 | 22 | – | 27 | 23 | 94 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 25 | 20 | 26 | 21 | – | 92 |
| 19 | Finland | 26 | 25 | – | 28 | – | 79 |
| 19 | Canada | – | 28 | – | 25 | 26 | 79 |
| 21 | Japan | – | 21 | 27 | 24 | – | 72 |
| 22 | United States | – | – | – | 22 | 24 | 46 |
| 23 | Austria | 24 | 18 | – | – | – | 42 |
| 24 | South Korea | 21 | 19 | – | – | – | 40 |
| 25 | Croatia | – | 17 | – | – | – | 17 |