| Women's relay at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 | |
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| Date | 10 March 2012 |
| Competitors | 104 from 26 nations |
| Winning time | 1:09:33.0 |
| Medalists | |
| Biathlon at the 2012 World Championships | |||
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| Individual | men | women | |
| Sprint | men | women | |
| Pursuit | men | women | |
| Mass start | men | women | |
| Relay | men | women | mixed |
The women's relay competition of the Biathlon World Championships 2012 was held on March 10, 2012 at 15:15 local time. [1]
The race was started at 15:15. [2]
| Rank | Bib | Team | Time | Penalties (P+S) | Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 5 |  Germany Tina Bachmann Magdalena Neuner Miriam Gössner Andrea Henkel | 1:09:33.0 17:09.6 17:28.4 17:37.8 17:17.2 | 0+6 1+4 0+1 0+0 0+3 1+3 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+0 | |
 | 1 |  France Marie-Laure Brunet Sophie Boilley Anaïs Bescond Marie Dorin | 1:10:01.5 17:09.0 17:19.7 18:04.6 17:28.2 | 0+4 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+1 | +28.5 |
 | 2 |  Norway Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Elise Ringen Synnøve Solemdal Tora Berger | 1:10:12.5 18:12.0 17:28.4 17:39.2 16:52.9 | 0+4 0+8 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+0 | +39.5 |
| 4 | 4 |  Belarus Nadezhda Skardino Liudmila Kalinchik Nastassia Dubarezava Darya Domracheva | 1:10:14.2 18:08.2 17:41.9 18:05.1 16:19.0 | 0+1 0+5 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+0 | +41.2 |
| 5 | 9 |  Sweden Jenny Jonsson Anna Maria Nilsson Anna Karin Strömstedt Helena Ekholm | 1:10:38.2 18:12.8 17:36.5 17:43.2 17:05.7 | 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 | +1:05.2 |
| 6 | 7 |  Ukraine Natalya Burdyga Valj Semerenko Vita Semerenko Olena Pidhrushna | 1:10:53.5 18:22.7 17:18.0 17:08.1 18:04.7 | 0+3 0+5 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 | +1:20.5 |
| 7 | 3 |  Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Olga Zaitseva Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Vilukhina | 1:11:07.0 17:33.8 17:47.2 18:17.1 17:28.9 | 0+5 0+6 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+2 0+1 | +1:34.0 |
| 8 | 10 |  Slovakia Jana Gereková Anastasiya Kuzmina Martina Chrapánová Paulina Fialkova | 1:12:44.1 17:15.4 17:12.2 18:43.9 19:32.6 | 0+0 1+6 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 1+3 | +3:11.1 |
| 9 | 6 |  Poland Krystyna Pałka Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak Magdalena Gwizdoń Agnieszka Cyl | 1:13:19.7 18:08.2 17:57.0 18:56.4 18:18.1 | 0+4 1+8 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+0 1+3 0+2 0+2 | +3:46.7 |
| 10 | 11 |  Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Barbora Tomešová Veronika Zvařičová Jitka Landová | 1:13:23.8 17:30.7 18:14.4 18:24.4 19:14.3 | 0+4 0+8 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+3 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 | +3:50.8 |
| 11 | 14 |  United States Sara Studebaker Susan Dunklee Annelies Cook Lanny Barnes | 1:13:33.1 18:12.6 18:19.7 18:29.1 18:31.7 | 0+4 0+5 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 | +4:00.1 |
| 12 | 8 |  Italy Dorothea Wierer Alexia Runggaldier Nicole Gontier Katja Haller | 1:13:52.3 17:49.6 18:12.3 18:39.7 19:10.7 | 0+7 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+2 0+0 | +4:19.3 |
| 13 | 13 |  Canada Megan Imrie Megan Heinicke Yolaine Oddou Zina Kocher | 1:14:33.9 17:48.9 18:23.3 20:10.5 18:11.2 | 1+6 0+4 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+1 | +5:00.9 |
| 14 | 16 |  Estonia Kadri Lehtla Kristel Viigipuu Grete Gaim Eveli Saue | 1:15:06.7 17:51.2 19:00.1 19:30.2 18:45.2 | 0+4 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 | +5:33.7 |
| 15 | 17 |  Japan Fuyuko Suzuki Itsuka Owada Yuki Nakajima Naoko Azegami | LAP 17:54.0 19:07.0 18:34.5 | 1+5 1+3 0+0 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 1+3 | |
| 16 | 19 |  Austria Romana Schrempf Iris Waldhuber Ramona Düringer Katharina Innerhofer | LAP 19:17.9 18:22.2 19:44.3 | 0+8 1+7 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+3 0+3 0+2 0+1 | |
| 17 | 12 |  Bulgaria Emilia Yordanova Nina Klenovska Desislava Stoyanova Niya Dimitrova | LAP 19:27.2 18:45.8 18:57.0 | 1+5 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 | |
| 18 | 18 |  Finland Mari Laukkanen Kaisa Mäkäräinen Eevamari Oksanen Sanna Markkanen | LAP 19:35.5 17:11.9 20:25.5 | 0+5 3+9 0+1 3+3 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+3 0+2 0+2 | |
| 19 | 21 |  Kazakhstan Marina Lebedeva Olga Poltoranina Darya Usanova Elena Khrustaleva | LAP 18:47.6 18:39.4 19:57.3 | 0+5 2+6 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+3 2+3 0+0 0+1 | |
| 20 | 15 |  Romania Éva Tófalvi Réka Ferencz Luminita Piscoran Florina Ioana Cirstea | LAP 19:27.6 18:43.7 18:52.6 | 1+5 0+7 1+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+2 | |
| 21 | 25 |  Switzerland Elisa Gasparin Selina Gasparin Irene Cadurisch Patricia Jost | LAP 18:52.4 18:10.8 21:37.7 | 2+4 0+8 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+3 2+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 | |
| 22 | 24 |  Great Britain Amanda Lightfoot Nerys Jones Adele Walker Fay Potton | LAP 18:13.2 19:59.9 19:18.0 | 0+5 1+8 0+1 0+1 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+1 1+3 | |
| 23 | 23 |  Lithuania Diana Rasimovičiūtė Natalija Kočergina Aliona Sabaliauskiene Marija Kaznacenko | LAP 18:44.5 19:51.6 21:11.1 | 1+7 1+8 1+3 0+1 0+3 1+3 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3 | |
| 24 | 22 |  South Korea Kim Seon-su Kim Seo-ra Kim Kyung-nam Mun Ji-hee | LAP 19:57.4 19:31.1 20:43.4 | 0+4 0+6 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+1 | |
| 25 | 20 |  China Song Chaoqing Wang Chunli Tang Jialin Zhang Yan | LAP 21:32.5 19:34.7 19:57.6 | 1+4 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 | |
| 26 | 26 |  Latvia Žanna Juškāne Inga Paskovska Baiba Bendika Anete Brice | LAP 19:37.1 21:28.1 20:42.7 | 0+4 1+8 0+2 0+2 0+0 1+3 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+2 |
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