Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

Women's relay
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Women's relay; at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
	Russian women's biathlon team with their gold medals
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Date	23 February
Competitors	19 teams from 19 nations
Winning time	1:09:36.3
Medalists
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Last updated March 03, 2023

The Women's 4 x 6 kilometre relay biathlon competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia on 23 February 2010.^[1] The race consisted of four laps of cross-country skiing, each lap a total of 6 km. Every 2 km there would be a shooting zone, the first one is prone and the second one is standing. Any misses in the shooting zones count as penalties which must be completed by going around a penalty loop right after the second shooting zone. There were four racers per team, each completing one lap. As all the teams started together, the team that crossed the finish line first would win.

Results

The following are the results of the event.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Country	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	1	Russia Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaytseva	1:09:36.3 17:24.4 17:17.3 17:27.7 17:26.9	0+2 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2	0.0
	4	France Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly	1:10:09.1 17:22.6 17:17.6 18:34.2 16:54.7	2+4 0+4 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+1 2+3 0+1 0+1 0+0	+32.8
	2	Germany Kati Wilhelm Simone Hauswald Martina Beck Andrea Henkel	1:10:13.4 17:26.0 17:16.2 18:12.0 17:19.2	0+2 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+2	+37.1
4	5	Norway Liv Kjersti Eikeland Ann Kristin Flatland Solveig Rogstad Tora Berger	1:10:34.1 18:20.4 16:52.6 18:21.2 16:59.9	0+1 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0	+57.8
5	3	Sweden Elisabeth Högberg Anna Carin Zidek Anna Maria Nilsson Helena Jonsson	1:10:47.2 17:46.7 17:25.9 18:16.8 17:17.8	0+2 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0	+1:10.9
6	7	Ukraine Olena Pidhrushna Valj Semerenko Oksana Khvostenko Vita Semerenko	1:11:08.2 17:36.9 17:56.3 17:44.7 17:50.3	0+2 0+6 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2	+1:31.9
7	8	Belarus Liudmila Kalinchik Darya Domracheva Olga Kudrashova Nadezhda Skardino	1:11:34.0 17:40.0 17:28.7 18:27.4 17:57.9	0+1 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0	+1:57.7
DSQ (8)	12	Slovenia Dijana Ravnikar Andreja Mali Tadeja Brankovič-Likozar Teja Gregorin	1:12:02.4 17:50.4 18:18.2 18:07.8 17:46.0	0+4 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0	+2:26.1
8	6	China Wang Chunli Liu Xianying Kong Yingchao Song Chaoqing	1:12:16.9 17:44.7 17:47.7 19:10.4 17:34.1	0+2 0+6 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+0	+2:40.6
9	10	Romania Dana Plotogea Éva Tófalvi Mihaela Purdea Réka Ferencz	1:12:32.9 18:10.6 17:47.8 18:23.2 18:11.3	0+1 0+6 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+0	+2:56.6
10	17	Italy Michela Ponza Katja Haller Karin Oberhofer Roberta Fiandino	1:12:54.2 18:20.5 17:58.2 18:19.3 18:16.2	0+4 0+4 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+3 0+1	+3:17.9
11	11	Poland Krystyna Pałka Magdalena Gwizdoń Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak Agnieszka Cyl	1:12:54.3 18:21.2 19:10.2 17:55.7 17:27.2	0+5 1+7 0+2 0+2 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1	+3:18.0
12	15	Slovakia Martina Halinárová Anastasiya Kuzmina Natália Prekopová Jana Gereková	1:13:15.8 18:27.1 17:09.3 19:41.7 17:57.7	0+2 1+9 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 1+3 0+1 0+3	+3:39.5
13	9	Kazakhstan Elena Khrustaleva Anna Lebedeva Lyubov Filimonova Marina Lebedeva	1:13:42.9 17:42.1 18:00.8 18:52.6 19:07.4	0+4 0+5 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+1	+4:06.6
14	18	Canada Megan Imrie Zina Kocher Rosanna Crawford Megan Tandy	1:14:25.5 18:18.9 18:04.9 19:50.9 18:10.8	1+7 0+5 0+1 0+3 0+2 0+1 1+3 0+0 0+1 0+1	+4:49.2
15	14	Czech Republic Veronika Vítková Magda Rezlerová Gabriela Soukalová Zdeňka Vejnarová	1:14:37.5 17:51.1 18:25.9 18:23.7 19:56.8	2+4 1+6 0+1 0+1 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+1 2+3 0+1	+5:01.2
16	19	United States Sara Studebaker Lanny Barnes Haley Johnson Laura Spector	1:15:47.5 17:53.2 18:52.5 19:01.5 20:00.3	1+8 0+4 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+3 0+0 1+3 0+3	+6:11.2
17	16	Estonia Kadri Lehtla Eveli Saue Sirli Hanni Kristel Viigipuu	1:17:55.5 18:49.8 18:15.4 20:06.6 20:43.7	2+9 0+7 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+1 1+3 0+1 1+3 0+3	+8:19.2
18	13	Latvia Zanna Juskane Madara Līduma Liga Glazere Gerda Krumina	1:18:56.2 21:06.7 18:09.7 20:51.6 18:48.2	2+5 2+7 2+3 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 2+3 0+1 0+1	+9:19.9

Teja Gregorin was the only competitor who failed the 2017 doping retests from the 2010 Winter Olympics. In October 2017, the International Biathlon Union said that her two samples tested positive for GHRP-2, a banned substance which stimulates the body to produce more growth hormone, in samples taken the week before competition started.^[3] She was disqualified in December 2017.^[4]

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References

↑ "Schedule by Sport - Biathlon". Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
↑ "2010 Winter Olympics results: Women's 4x6 km Relay". 23 February 2010. Archived from the original on 23 February 2010.
↑ "Biathlete is sole positive retest for 2010 Games". 26 October 2017.
↑ "Disciplinska komisija MOK potrdila: Gregorinova kršila protidopinška pravila". 19 December 2017.

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[1] "Schedule by Sport - Biathlon". Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.

[2] "2010 Winter Olympics results: Women's 4x6 km Relay". 23 February 2010. Archived from the original on 23 February 2010.

[3] "Biathlete is sole positive retest for 2010 Games". 26 October 2017.

[4] "Disciplinska komisija MOK potrdila: Gregorinova kršila protidopinška pravila". 19 December 2017.

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v t e Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 4 × 6 km relay
3 × 7.5 km	1992: Corinne Niogret, Véronique Claudel, Anne Briand (FRA)
4 × 7.5 km	1994: Nadezhda Talanova, Natalya Snytina, Luiza Noskova, Anfisa Reztsova (RUS) 1998: Uschi Disl, Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle (GER) 2002: Katrin Apel, Uschi Disl, Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm (GER)
4 × 6 km	2006: Anna Bogaliy, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Olga Zaitseva, Albina Akhatova (RUS) 2010: Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaliy, Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva (RUS) 2014: Vita Semerenko, Yuliia Dzhima, Valentyna Semerenko, Olena Pidhrushna (UKR) 2018: Nadezhda Skardino, Iryna Kryuko, Dzinara Alimbekava, Darya Domracheva (BLR) 2022: Linn Persson, Mona Brorsson, Hanna Öberg, Elvira Öberg (SWE)

Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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