Biathlon World Championships 2012 – Mixed relay

Mixed relay
at the Biathlon World Championships 2012
Mixed relay ; at the Biathlon World Championships 2012
Date	1 March 2012
Competitors	108 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:12:29.3
Medalists
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Last updated May 30, 2024

The mixed relay competition of the Biathlon World Championships 2012 was held on March 1, 2012, starting at 15:30 local time.^[1] Defending champions Norway won the event ahead of silver medalist Slovenia and third placed Germany.

Although Slovenia crossed the finish line 8.2 seconds in front of Norway, the jury awarded bonus seconds for the Norwegians because one target did not go down despite Bjoerndalen hitting it, therefore taking an additional penalty loop, which put them ahead of Slovenia into the first place.^[2]

Results

The race started at 15:30.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Team	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	20	Norway Tora Berger Synnøve Solemdal Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:12:29.3 16:29.1 17:42.8 19:38.5 18:38.9	0+3 0+7 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+2
	19	Slovenia Andreja Mali Teja Gregorin Klemen Bauer Jakov Fak	1:12:49.5 18:04.2 16:58.1 19:04.4 18:42.8	0+5 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0	+20.2
	4	Germany Andrea Henkel Magdalena Neuner Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer	1:13:02.1 17:43.8 16:46.6 18:37.6 19:54.1	0+4 1+6 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 1+3	+32.8
4	7	Sweden Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Ekholm Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström	1:13:29.3 18:26.3 16:36.7 19:20.1 19:06.2	0+4 0+5 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+2	+1:00.0
5	2	Russia Olga Vilukhina Olga Zaitseva Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	1:13:57.0 17:51.2 17:11.2 19:16.5 19:38.1	0+2 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0	+1:27.7
6	10	Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Darya Domracheva Sergey Novikov Evgeny Abramenko	1:14:22.2 18:04.6 17:03.5 19:15.3 19:58.8	0+3 0+4 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1	+1:52.9
7	6	Slovakia Jana Gereková Anastasiya Kuzmina Matej Kazár Dušan Šimočko	1:14:25.6 17:32.7 17:24.0 19:47.5 19:41.4	0+6 0+4 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+1 0+0	+1:56.3
8	5	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Barbora Tomešová Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr	1:14:25.7 17:38.7 17:47.4 19:44.9 19:14.7	0+8 0+6 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+3 0+3 0+1 0+2	+1:56.4
9	8	Italy Michela Ponza Katja Haller Markus Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:14:26.4 17:58.0 17:54.5 19:45.4 18:48.5	0+6 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+2 0+1 0+0	+1:57.1
10	22	Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Benjamin Weger Simon Hallenbarter	1:14:54.9 18:15.9 17:39.3 19:42.6 19:17.1	0+6 0+5 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+2 0+2 0+0	+2:25.6
11	1	France Marie-Laure Brunet Marie Dorin Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade	1:15:06.9 17:22.2 17:01.0 21:15.9 19:27.8	0+5 1+7 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+3 1+3 0+2 0+3	+2:37.6
12	9	United States Sara Studebaker Susan Dunklee Tim Burke Lowell Bailey	1:15:08.7 19:00.2 17:30.4 19:25.6 19:12.5	0+2 1+7 0+0 1+3 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0	+2:39.4
13	13	Poland Krystyna Pałka Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak Tomasz Sikora Krzysztof Plywaczyk	1:15:19.6 18:04.2 17:46.2 19:35.4 19:53.8	0+0 0+6 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1	+2:50.3
14	3	Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Vita Semerenko Andriy Deryzemlya Serhiy Semenov	1:15:45.8 18:04.1 18:22.1 19:34.5 19:45.1	1+8 0+4 0+1 0+1 1+3 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+2	+3:16.5
15	14	Estonia Kadri Lehtla Eveli Saue Indrek Tobreluts Roland Lessing	1:16:10.6 18:04.5 18:26.8 20:16.7 19:22.6	0+2 2+7 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+0 2+3 0+0 0+0	+3:41.3
16	11	Finland Kaisa Mäkäräinen Mari Laukkanen Ahti Toivanen Jarkko Kauppinen	1:16:31.8 17:38.5 18:50.1 19:25.8 20:37.4	1+5 1+8 0+2 0+2 1+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 1+3	+4:02.5
17	15	Japan Fuyuko Suzuki Itsuka Owada Kazuya Inomata Junji Nagai	1:16:52.4 18:22.5 18:21.8 20:11.7 19:56.4	0+7 0+3 0+1 0+3 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0	+4:23.1
18	18	Canada Megan Imrie Zina Kocher Jean-Philippe Leguellec Nathan Smith	1:17:35.8 18:57.4 19:35.3 19:20.0 19:43.1	0+4 3+8 0+2 0+2 0+0 3+3 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2	+5:06.5
19	24	Romania Éva Tófalvi Luminita Piscoran Stefan Gavrila Laurentiu Vamanu	1:18:32.4 17:45.0 18:00.7 21:09.7 21:37.0	0+3 1+8 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+2 1+3 0+1 0+2	+6:03.1
20	23	Kazakhstan Darya Usanova Elena Khrustaleva Yan Savitskiy Alexsandr Chervyhkov	1:18:36.1 19:15.0 18:25.6 19:51.1 21:04.4	0+8 0+6 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+3 0+3	+6:06.8
21	21	Austria Iris Waldhuber Ramona Düringer Friedrich Pinter Christoph Sumann	1:23:38.1 24:47.6 19:14.9 20:15.9 19:19.7	1+5 0+4 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+2 1+0 0+0	+11:08.8
22	12	Bulgaria Emilia Yordanova Nina Klenovska Krasimir Anev Michail Kletcherov	LAP 20:09.1 18:47.8 20:33.6	1+5 1+8 1+3 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+2
23	26	Latvia Žanna Juškāne Baiba Bendika Artūrs Koļesņikovs Rolands Pužulis	LAP 19:37.7 19:48.8 20:45.5	0+3 0+5 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0
24	25	Great Britain Amanda Lightfoot Adele Walker Lee-Steve Jackson Pete Beyer	LAP 18:43.8 20:30.2 20:47.8	0+8 2+11 0+1 0+2 0+3 2+3 0+2 0+3 0+2 0+3
25	16	Lithuania Natalija Kocergina Aliona Sabaliauskiene Tomas Kaukėnas Karolis Zlatkauskas	LAP 20:22.8 21:06.5 19:57.7	1+7 0+6 1+3 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2
26	17	China Tang Jialin Song Chaoqing Ren Long Chen Haibin	LAP 19:58.9 20:30.2 22:18.9	4+8 1+4 0+1 1+3 2+3 0+0 2+3 0+0 0+1 0+1
	27	South Korea Kim Seon-su Mun Ji-hee Jun Je-uk Lee In-bok	DNF 19:51.5	0+3 0+1 0+3 0+1

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References

↑ Start list ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ "Norway wins mixed relay gold at biathlon worlds". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
↑ Final Results Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Start list ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[2] "Norway wins mixed relay gold at biathlon worlds". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

[3] Final Results Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine

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Biathlon at the 2012 World Championships

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