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.

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

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

Medal winners

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Östersund (SR)
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  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)
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  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)
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  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)
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  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)
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  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

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# Nation ÖST
SR
ÖST
MR
CAN
SR
CAN
MR
OSL
MR
Total[1]
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

References

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  1. ^ "World Cup Mixed Relay Score Holmenkollen: Final Result - 5 of 5 Results Scored" (PDF). biathlonworld.com. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2018.