2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay

The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on 10 January 2021 in Oberhof and will finished on 14 March 2021 in Nové Město

Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Legs 1 and 2 are skied by either the two men or the two women; legs 3 and 4 are skied by the remaining athletes. The race concists of either four 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) legs or four 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) legs. 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 starting biathletes all start the race at the same time and complete one 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) leg before exchanging with their partner who completes another 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) leg. The athlete then exchanges back with their partner who completes another 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) leg before exchanging back and completing a final 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) leg, which includes an extra lap after the final shoot. The rules regarding shooting are the same as in the regular mixed relay.

2019–20 Top 3 standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Norway	307
Silver:	France	272
Bronze:	Germany	265

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Oberhof (MR) details	Uliana Kaisheva Svetlana Mironova Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov	1:08:21.7 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2)	Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Lægreid	1:08:22.4 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Fabien Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:08:33.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)
Oberhof (SR) details	Emilien Jacquelin	39:04.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Sweden Hanna Öberg Sebastian Samuelsson	39:43.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø	39:48.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (3+3) (0+3) (0+0)
World Championships (MR) details	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Thingnes Bø Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland	1:20:19.3 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3)	Lisa Theresa Hauser	1:20:46.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1)	Sweden Sebastian Samuelsson Martin Ponsiluoma Linn Persson Hanna Öberg	1:20:49.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0)
World Championships (SR) details	France Antonin Guigonnat Julia Simon	36:42.4 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Johannes Thingnes Bø Tiril Eckhoff	36:45.2 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Sweden Sebastian Samuelsson Hanna Öberg	37:15.4 (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1)
Nové Město (2) (MR) details	Norway Tiril Eckhoff Marte Olsbu Røiseland Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:01:24.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0)	Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:02:32.8 (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Sweden Elvira Öberg Anna Magnusson Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma	1:02:46.8 (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3)
Nové Město (2) (SR) details	Sweden Linn Persson Sebastian Samuelsson	37:41.4 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Norway Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Sturla Holm Lægreid	37:42.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	United States Susan Dunklee Sean Doherty	38:07.5 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)

Standings

4 of 6 competitions scored ^[1]

#	Name	OBE MR	OBE SR	POK MR	POK SR	NME MR	NME SR	Total
1	Norway	54	48	60	54	60	54	228
2	France	48	60	40	60	43	38	211
3	Sweden	28	54	48	48	48	60	210
4	Austria	30	34	54	38	34	43	169
5	Russia	60	32	32	30	36	40	168
6	Italy	36	36	38	40	54	25	168
7	Ukraine	31	27	43	43	40	31	157
8	Germany	40	43	36	36	32	30	155
9	United States	32	30	29	19	38	48	148
10	Belarus	43	40	27	29	31	34	148
11	Switzerland	38	25	31	32	26	36	137
12	Canada	26	38	34	34	29	27	135
13	Finland	34	22	28	16	16	28	112
14	Czech Republic	27	DNS	30	25	30	24	112
15	Belgium	–	29	20	26	–	32	107
16	Estonia	25	24	22	31	20	26	106
17	Slovenia	24	28	25	28	18	DNS	105
18	Japan	23	18	21	23	28	29	103
19	Kazakhstan	20	31	14	24	24	16	99
20	Latvia	22	23	18	27	23	15	95
21	Bulgaria	DNS	DNS	26	22	27	18	93
22	Slovakia	21	16	23	20	25	23	92
23	Poland	29	21	17	15	22	19	91
24	Lithuania	19	26	24	17	21	20	91
25	Romania	18	20	16	21	17	21	80
26	Moldova	–	19	19	14	19	22	79
27	South Korea	–	–	15	18	–	17	50
28	Croatia	–	17	–	13	–	–	30

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