2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed relay

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started at Sunday November 25, 2012 in Östersund and finished in 2013 in Nové Město at Biathlon World Championships 2013 event.

The relay teams consisted of four biathletes - legs 1 and 2 were done by the women, legs 3 and 4 by the men. The women's legs were 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 were eight bullets available, though the last three could 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 were still misses, one 150 m penalty loop was taken for each missed target remaining.

The first-leg participants started at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team touched the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid changeover. On the first shooting stage of the first leg, the participant shot in the lane corresponding to their bib number (Bib 10 shot at lane 10 regardless of position in the race), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shot at the lane in the position they arrived. If arriving at the range in fifth place, the contestant shot at lane five.

Medal winners

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Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund
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  Russia
Olga Zaitseva
Olga Vilukhina
Alexey Volkov
Evgeny Ustyugov
1:12:41.3
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
  Norway
Tora Berger
Synnøve Solemdal
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:13:02.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+2)
  Czech Republic
Veronika Vítková
Gabriela Soukalová
Michal Šlesingr
Ondřej Moravec
1:13:17.7
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
World Championships 2013
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  Norway
Tora Berger
Synnøve Solemdal
Tarjei Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:12:04.9
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  France
Marie Laure Brunet
Marie Dorin Habert
Alexis Bœuf
Martin Fourcade
1:12:24.9
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Czech Republic
Veronika Vítková
Gabriela Soukalová
Jaroslav Soukup
Ondřej Moravec
1:12:37.2
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)

Standings

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# Name ÖST WCH Total
1   Norway 54 60 114
2   Russia 60 38 98
3   Czech Republic 48 48 96
4   France 40 54 94
5   Italy 36 43 79
6   Slovenia 38 40 78
7   Germany 43 28 71
8   Slovakia 30 36 66
9   Ukraine 31 32 63
10   Sweden 34 27 61
11   Switzerland 32 29 61
12   Belarus 29 30 59
13   United States 24 34 58
14   Poland 27 31 58
15   Canada 25 26 51
16   Finland 28 22 50
17   Austria 26 24 50
18   Kazakhstan 21 23 44
19   Bulgaria 17 25 42
20   Japan 23 19 42
21   Romania 22 20 42
22   Estonia 20 21 41
23   China 19 18 37
24   Lithuania 18 16 34
25   Latvia 17 17
26   United Kingdom 15 15
27   South Korea 14 14

References

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