Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

Women's relay at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Ukrainian team
Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Date	21 February
Competitors	68 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:10:02.5
Medalists
Vita Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna   Ukraine   Yana Romanova Olga Zaitseva Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Vilukhina   Russia   Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Aafeldt Flatland Tora Berger   Norway

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Pursuit		men		women
Mass start		men		women
Relay		men	mixed	women

The Women's 4 x 6 kilometre relay biathlon competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 21 February 2014.^[1] Ukraine won their first ever gold Olympic medal in biathlon (and the second gold winter Olympic medal, the first one since 1994^{[nb 1]}),^[3] ahead of Russia, the defending champion, and Norway. It also became the fourth nation — after France, Russia, and Germany — to ever win the Olympic gold medal in women's biathlon relay.

For the first time Germany failed to reach the podium in Olympic women's relay. Franziska Preuß, who was running the first leg, fell and broke a pole. After that, Germany was never in the medal contention.^[4] Marie-Laure Brunet, running the first leg for France, collapsed, so France did not finish.

Results

The race was started at 18:30.^[5]

Rank	Bib	Country	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	2	Ukraine Vita Semerenko Juliya Dzhyma Valentyna Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna	1:10:02.5 16:56.4 17:16.3 17:40.9 18:08.9	0+1 0+4 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+3 0+1 0+0	—
	3	Russia Yana Romanova Olga Zaitseva Ekaterina Shumilova Olga Vilukhina	1:10:28.9 16:56.3 17:43.2 17:43.3 18:06.1	0+1 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1	+26.4
	4	Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Tiril Eckhoff Ann Kristin Aafeldt Flatland Tora Berger	1:10:40.1 17:40.5 16:57.9 17:43.6 18:18.1	0+1 0+4 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1	+37.6
4	10	Czech Republic Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková	1:11:25.7 17:54.2 16:30.6 18:42.4 18:18.5	0+7 0+7 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+3 0+2 0+2 0+1	+1:23.2
5	6	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Nadezhda Skardino Nadzeya Pisarava Darya Domracheva	1:11:33.4 18:39.0 17:38.3 18:02.1 17:14.0	0+4 1+4 0+2 1+3 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0	+1:30.9
6	8	Italy Dorothea Wierer Nicole Gontier Michela Ponza Karin Oberhofer	1:11:43.3 16:49.7 18:46.0 18:06.5 18:01.1	1+5 0+4 0+2 0+1 1+3 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0	+1:40.8
7	14	United States Susan Dunklee Hannah Dreissigacker Sara Studebaker Annelies Cook	1:12:14.2 17:02.6 18:08.3 17:55.6 19:07.7	0+7 0+6 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+2	+2:11.7
8	7	Canada Rosanna Crawford Megan Imrie Megan Heinicke Zina Kocher	1:12:21.5 17:20.7 17:41.7 17:38.1 19:41.0	0+6 2+6 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 2+3	+2:19.0
9	12	Switzerland Selina Gasparin Elisa Gasparin Aita Gasparin Irene Cadurisch	1:12:34.3 17:17.6 17:55.8 17:56.1 19:24.8	0+6 0+3 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+0	+2:31.8
10	11	Poland Krystyna Pałka Magdalena Gwizdoń Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak Monika Hojnisz	1:12:34.4 19:39.0 17:06.8 17:21.7 18:26.9	4+5 0+3 4+3 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1	+2:31.9
11	1	Germany Franziska Preuß Andrea Henkel Franziska Hildebrand Laura Dahlmeier	1:13:44.2 19:46.7 17:25.1 17:59.4 18:33.0	0+5 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0	+3:41.7
12	13	Kazakhstan Galina Vishnevskaya Elena Khrustaleva Darya Usanova Marina Lebedeva	1:15:54.7 17:36.6 18:35.5 18:17.4 21:25.2	0+5 0+8 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+3 0+2	+5:52.2
13	17	Japan Fuyuko Suzuki Yuki Nakajima Miki Kobayashi Rina Suzuki	LAP 17:33.2 18:47.0 19:23.3 LAP	0+6 0+5 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+3 0+1
14	9	Slovakia Jana Gereková Paulína Fialková Terézia Poliaková Martina Chrapánová	LAP 17:51.3 18:57.7 19:48.0 LAP	4+11 1+8 0+2 1+3 1+3 0+2 3+3 0+0 0+3 0+3
15	16	China Song Chaoqing Zhang Yan Tang Jialin Song Na	LAP 18:40.2 18:41.1 18:40.0 LAP	0+6 0+5 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+2
16	15	Estonia Kadri Lehtla Grete Gaim Daria Yurlova Johanna Talihärm	LAP 18:03.8 19:14.8 19:58.1 LAP	0+5 1+8 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 1+3 0+0 0+3
17	5	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Habert Anaïs Chevalier Anaïs Bescond			DNF

Notes

1. Won by Oksana Baiul.^[2]

References

1. "Biathlon Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
2. "Oksana Baiul". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
3. "Minute's silence respected at Ukraine news conference". Reuters. 21 February 2014.
4. Willemsen, Eric (21 February 2014). "Ukraine wins women's biathlon relay for first gold medal at Sochi Olympics". Brandon Sun. Associated Press. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
5. Final Results