# 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women

The 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women started on 8 December 2019 in Östersund and will finished on 7 March 2020 in Nové Město. Norway was the title holder.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) laps for a total of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi), 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 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 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).

## 2018–19 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Norway | 249 |
| Silver: | Germany | 241 |
| Bronze: | France | 230 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Östersund details | Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:11:08.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) | Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki | 1:11:17.2 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Sweden Linn Persson Elvira Öberg Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg | 1:11:18.9 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:10:04.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Russia Kristina Reztsova Larisa Kuklina Svetlana Mironova Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht | 1:10:12.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki | 1:11:08.8 (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) |
| Oberhof details | Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff | 1:14:11.6 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) | Sweden Elvira Öberg Linn Persson Mona Brorsson Hanna Öberg | 1:14:32.7 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) | France Julia Simon Anaïs Bescond Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz | 1:14:44.7 (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) |
| Ruhpolding details | Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tiril Eckhoff | 1:08:46.4 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) | France Julia Simon Anaïs Bescond Célia Aymonier Justine Braisaz | 1:08:57.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) | Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Aita Gasparin Lena Häcki | 1:09:07.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) |
| World Championships details | Norway Synnøve Solemdal Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland | 1:07:05.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Karolin Horchler Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß Denise Herrmann | 1:07:16.4 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) | Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Yuliia Dzhima Vita Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna | 1:07:24.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Nové Město na Moravě details | Norway Karoline Offigstad Knotten Ida Lien Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff | 1:09:14.8 (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | France Julia Simon Justine Braisaz Chloé Chevalier Anaïs Bescond | 1:09:43.5 (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) | Germany Karolin Horchler Vanessa Hinz Franziska Preuß Denise Herrmann | 1:10:11.8 (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+3) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | ÖST | HOC | OBE | RUH | ANT | NOV | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 360 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 54 | 48 | 40 | 48 | 38 | 32 | 260 |
| 3 | Germany | 43 | 29 | 43 | 43 | 54 | 48 | 260 |
| 4 | France | 38 | 36 | 48 | 54 | 27 | 54 | 257 |
| 5 | Sweden | 48 | 31 | 54 | 40 | 40 | 36 | 249 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 32 | 43 | 38 | 38 | 48 | 43 | 242 |
| 7 | Russia | 40 | 54 | 36 | 30 | 34 | 40 | 234 |
| 8 | Czech Republic | 34 | 38 | 31 | 25 | 43 | 31 | 202 |
| 9 | Italy | 29 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 31 | 38 | 196 |
| 10 | Poland | 28 | 32 | 28 | 28 | 36 | 34 | 186 |
| 11 | Austria | 36 | 27 | 30 | 34 | 29 | 30 | 186 |
| 12 | United States | 31 | 34 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 27 | 178 |
| 13 | Belarus | 30 | 28 | 34 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 175 |
| 14 | Canada | 25 | 40 | 21 | 21 | 32 | 28 | 167 |
| 15 | China | 26 | 26 | 25 | 32 | 25 | 29 | 163 |
| 16 | Finland | 24 | 22 | 26 | 22 | 30 | 25 | 149 |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 22 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 140 |
| 18 | Slovenia | 23 | 24 | 23 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 133 |
| 19 | Estonia | 27 | 23 | 27 | 26 | DSQ | 23 | 126 |
| 20 | Bulgaria | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 121 |
| 21 | South Korea | 21 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 116 |
| 22 | Japan | — | — | 24 | 23 | 20 | 19 | 86 |
| 23 | Slovakia | — | — | DSQ | 27 | 24 | 21 | 72 |
| 24 | Latvia | — | — | — | — | 18 | — | 18 |