title: 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay
text: # 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay
  
  The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Mixed Relay started on Sunday 26 November 2017 in Östersund and finished on Saturday 10 March 2018 in Kontiolahti. The defending team was Germany.
  
  The winning team was Italy.
  
  ## Competition format
  
  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.
  
  ## 2016–17 Top 3 standings
  
  | Medal | Nation | Points |
  | - | - | - |
  | Gold: | Germany | 264 |
  | Silver: | France | 257 |
  | Bronze: | Austria | 201 |
  
  ## Medal winners
  
  | Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Östersund (SR) details | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Simon Eder | 36:17.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Vanessa Hinz Erik Lesser | 36:33.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) | Kazakhstan Galina Vishnevskaya Maxim Braun | 36:49.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) |
  | Östersund (MR) details | Norway Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Tiril Eckhoff Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:11:31.7 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) | Italy Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer | 1:11:37.0 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) | Germany Franziska Preuß Maren Hammerschmidt Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer | 1:11:38.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) |
  | Kontiolahti (SR) details | France Anaïs Chevalier Antonin Guigonnat | 33:29.1 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) | Austria Lisa Theresa Hauser Julian Eberhard | 33:31.5 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) | Norway Marte Olsbu Røiseland Johannes Thingnes Bø | 33:33.5 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) |
  | Kontiolahti (MR) details | Italy Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer | 1:15:08.3 (0+3) (0+3) (0+1) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Ukraine Anastasiya Merkushyna Vita Semerenko Artem Pryma Dmytro Pidruchnyi | 1:15:09.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | Norway Synnøve Solemdal Tiril Eckhoff Henrik L'Abée-Lund Tarjei Bø | 1:15:17.4 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
  
  ## Standings
  
  | # | Nation | ÖST SR | ÖST MR | KON SR | KON MR | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Italy | 36 | 54 | 38 | 60 | 188 |
  | 2 | Norway | 32 | 60 | 48 | 48 | 188 |
  | 3 | France | 43 | 36 | 60 | 40 | 179 |
  | 4 | Austria | 60 | 23 | 54 | 34 | 171 |
  | 5 | Germany | 54 | 48 | 30 | 36 | 168 |
  | 6 | Ukraine | 38 | 31 | 43 | 54 | 166 |
  | 7 | Russia | 34 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 155 |
  | 8 | Sweden | 40 | 40 | 31 | 38 | 149 |
  | 9 | Slovakia | 28 | 43 | 29 | 31 | 131 |
  | 10 | Belarus | 30 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 111 |
  | 11 | Kazakhstan | 48 | DSQ | 32 | 29 | 109 |
  | 12 | Japan | 29 | 21 | 34 | 25 | 109 |
  | 13 | Czech Republic | 31 | 28 | 23 | 27 | 109 |
  | 14 | Canada | 19 | 26 | 36 | 24 | 105 |
  | 15 | Finland | 20 | 34 | 22 | 28 | 104 |
  | 16 | Switzerland | 24 | 32 | 26 | 22 | 104 |
  | 17 | United States | 22 | 20 | 27 | 32 | 101 |
  | 18 | Estonia | 26 | 18 | 25 | 26 | 95 |
  | 19 | South Korea | 25 | 22 | 28 | 18 | 93 |
  | 20 | Poland | 27 | 27 | 19 | 19 | 92 |
  | 21 | Bulgaria | 23 | 25 | 17 | 23 | 88 |
  | 22 | Lithuania | 21 | 24 | 16 | 21 | 82 |
  | 23 | Slovenia | — | 29 | 24 | 20 | 73 |
  | 24 | Romania | 18 | 19 | 18 | — | 55 |
  | 25 | Latvia | — | — | 20 | — | 20 |
  | 26 | Great Britain | — | — | 15 | — | 15 |
  