Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

The Women's 4 x 6 kilometre biathlon relay competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 23 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Each national team consisted of four members, with each skiing 6 kilometres and shooting twice, once prone and once standing.

Women's biathlon relay at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Cesana San Sicario
Dates	23 February
Competitors	72 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:16:12.5
Medalists
Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Zaitseva Albina Akhatova  Russia Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm  Germany Delphyne Peretto Florence Baverel-Robert Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly  France

Summary

At each shooting station, a competitor has eight shots to hit five targets; however, only five bullets are loaded in a magazine at one - if additional shots are required, the spare bullets must be loaded one at a time. If after the eight shots are taken, there are still targets not yet hit, the competitor must ski a 150-metre penalty loop.

Germany won the relay event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, while Russia's women were the defending World Champions after beating Germany by 41.4 seconds at the 2005 World Championship; Russia also led the World Cup standings after four relay events.

Despite missing the veteran Olga Pyleva, suspended for two years after failing an anti-doping test the previous week, the Russian team led from start to finish. The Germans finished 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team took the bronze.

Results

The race was held at 12:00.

Rank	Bib	Team	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	1	Russia Anna Bogaliy Svetlana Ishmouratova Olga Zaytseva Albina Akhatova	1:16:12.5 19:06.3 18:56.2 19:06.8 19:03.2	0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0	–
	2	Germany Martina Glagow Andrea Henkel Katrin Apel Kati Wilhelm	1:17:03.2 19:18.8 19:15.9 19:45.5 18:43.0	0+3 1+5 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+0	+50.7
	4	France Delphyne Peretto Florence Baverel-Robert Sylvie Becaert Sandrine Bailly	1:18:38.7 20:46.5 19:02.6 19:50.2 18:59.4	0+6 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+0	+2:26.2
4	6	Belarus Ekaterina Ivanova Olga Nazarova Lyudmila Ananko Olena Zubrilova	1:19:19.6 19:33.0 19:45.8 19:53.9 20:06.9	0+5 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0	+3:07.1
5	3	Norway Tora Berger Liv Grete Poirée Gunn Margit Andreassen Linda Tjørhom	1:19:34.4 20:28.1 18:43.2 20:32.0 19:51.1	1+6 0+7 1+3 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+2 0+2	+3:21.9
6	5	Slovenia Teja Gregorin Andreja Mali Dijana Grudiček Tadeja Brankovič	1:19:55.7 19:45.2 20:09.8 19:44.5 20:16.2	0+5 1+6 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+3 1+3	+3:43.2
7	11	Poland Krystyna Pałka Magdalena Gwizdon Katarzyna Ponikwia Magdalena Grzywa	1:20:29.3 20:11.1 19:39.3 20:15.5 20:23.4	0+4 0+4 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0	+4:16.8
8	9	Bulgaria Pavlina Filipova Radka Popova Irina Nikoultchina Ekaterina Dafovska	1:20:38.7 19:17.7 20:43.1 20:27.2 20:10.7	0+5 3+9 0+0 0+0 0+0 1+3 0+3 1+3 0+2 1+3	+4:26.2
9	7	China Kong Yingchao Sun Ribo Yin Qiao Liu Xianying	1:21:43.7 19:51.1 20:41.5 20:55.3 20:15.8	0+5 2+8 0+0 0+0 0+2 1+3 0+1 1+3 0+2 0+2	+5:31.2
10	12	Slovakia Anna Murínová Marcela Pavkovčeková Martina Halinárová Soňa Mihoková	1:21:55.5 21:09.2 20:12.2 20:35.4 19:58.7	0+2 0+8 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2	+5:43.0
11	8	Ukraine Oksana Khvostenko Olena Petrova Nina Lemesh Lilia Efremova	1:21:55.5 20:14.2 19:36.7 21:37.5 20:27.1	3+7 0+7 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 2+3 0+3 1+3 0+3	+5:43.0
12	15	Italy Michela Ponza Saskia Santer Nathalie Santer Barbara Ertl	1:22:42.7 19:22.7 20:38.3 22:01.1 20:40.6	0+4 3+5 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+0 3+3 0+1 0+0	+6:30.2
13	10	Czech Republic Kateřina Holubcová Lenka Faltusová Magda Rezlerová Zdeňka Vejnarová	1:24:14.8 20:47.3 20:34.8 21:23.6 21:29.1	0+5 1+7 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+3 0+1 1+3	+8:02.3
14	16	Romania Dana Elena Plotogea Éva Tófalvi Mihaela Purdea Alexandra Rusu	1:25:13.3 21:26.7 19:38.1 22:09.8 21:58.7	1+8 2+10 0+3 0+3 0+0 0+3 0+2 2+3 1+3 0+1	+9:00.8
15	18	United States Rachel Steer Tracy Barnes Lanny Barnes Carolyn Treacy	1:25:20.3 20:31.1 22:07.0 21:21.7 21:20.5	0+5 0+6 0+1 0+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2	+9:07.8
16	14	Japan Tomomi Otaka Kanae Meguro Tamami Tanaka Ikuyo Tsukidate	1:26:09.0 23:21.2 19:58.5 21:21.3 21:28.0	0+5 4+9 0+2 2+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 1+3 0+0 1+3	+9:56.5
17	13	Canada Zina Kocher Sandra Keith Martine Albert Marie-Pierre Parent	1:26:09.7 20:24.3 21:32.8 21:25.2 22:47.4	0+1 1+9 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+1 1+3	+9:57.2
18	17	Latvia Madara Līduma Anžela Brice Linda Savļaka Gerda Krūmiņa	1:26:21.3 19:35.8 20:57.9 22:07.3 23:40.3	0+5 2+6 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3 2+3	+10:08.8