The Women's relay competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 16 February, at the National Biathlon Centre, in the Zhangjiakou cluster of competition venues, north of Beijing, at an elevation of . Linn Persson, Mona Brorsson, Hanna Öberg, and Elvira Öberg of Sweden won the event, with the Russian Olympic Committee winning the silver medal, and Germany bronze. This was the first Olympic gold in women's relay for Sweden.
Summary The defending champions are Belarus, and the 2018 silver and bronze medalists were Sweden and France, respectively. There were four women's relays in the 2021–22 Biathlon World Cup before the Olympics; two were won by France, and one by Sweden and Norway each. Norway are also the 2021 World Champion with Germany and Ukraine as silver and bronze medalists.
Germany, Sweden, and Italy finished the first leg together, with an advantage of about 15-20 seconds over a large group of competitors, which included all the top teams. There were no penalty loops in the first leg. In the second leg, France and Belarus run one penalty loop each, and Norway run two, and these teams dropped behind. At the second exchange the Russian Olympic Committee were leading, 11 seconds ahead of Italy, 27 seconds ahead of Sweden, and 46 seconds ahead of Germany. Norway were almost two minutes behind, as well as the number of other teams. On the second shooting of the third leg, Svetlana Mironova had to run a penalty loop. She remained in the leading group, but lost the advantage she developed on the leg. At the third interchange, Sweden were leading, with Italy 7 seconds behind, the Russian Olympic committee 13 seconds, Germany 37 seconds, and Norway and France one minute 15 seconds behind. In leg 4, France got a penalty loop at the second shooting and dropped out of medal contention. After the last shooting, Sweden were leading with the Russian Olympic Committee 25 seconds, Germany 35 seconds, and Norway 54 seconds behind. They finished in the same order.
Qualification
Results The race was started at 15:45.
Rank Bib Country Time Penalties (P+S) Deficit 3 Linn PerssonMona BrorssonHanna ÖbergElvira Öberg 1:11:03.917:24.917:45.917:58.417:54.7 0+60+0 0+10+0 0+00+1 0+30+0 0+1 — 2 Irina KazakevichKristina ReztsovaSvetlana MironovaUliana Nigmatullina 1:11:15.917:41.317:02.518:38.917:53.2 1+70+1 0+10+1 0+00+0 1+30+0 0+1 5 Vanessa VoigtVanessa HinzFranziska PreußDenise Herrmann 1:11:41.317:24.418:05.318:16.517:55.1 0+60+0 0+00+0 0+20+0 0+20+1 0+1 4 4 Karoline Offigstad KnottenTiril EckhoffIda LienMarte Olsbu Røiseland 1:11:54.617:38.018:59.217:47.517:29.9 2+80+0 0+00+2 2+30+0 0+10+1 0+1 5 7 Lisa VittozziDorothea WiererSamuela ComolaFederica Sanfilippo 1:12:37.017:25.917:28.618:22.119:20.4 0+50+1 0+10+0 0+00+0 0+10+0 0+2 +1:33.1 6 1 Anaïs BescondAnaïs Chevalier-BouchetJustine Braisaz-BouchetJulia Simon 1:13:16.917:36.918:53.417:55.118:51.5 2+100+0 0+11+3 0+10+2 0+00+0 1+3 +2:13.0 7 9 Iryna PetrenkoYuliia DzhimaAnastasiya MerkushynaOlena Bilosiuk 1:14:04.117:46.119:06.118:09.519:02.4 1+60+0 0+01+3 0+30+0 0+00+0 0+0 +3:00.2 8 8 Eva PuskarčíkováMarkéta DavidováJessica JislováLucie Charvátová 1:14:06.018:20.217:40.718:49.819:15.3 1+80+0 0+20+0 0+10+1 0+10+0 1+3 +3:02.1 9 14 Dunja ZdoucLisa Theresa HauserAnna JuppeKatharina Innerhofer 1:15:07.618:13.018:12.319:51.318:51.0 3+70+0 0+00+1 0+02+3 0+00+0 1+3 +4:03.7 10 16 Emma LunderMegan BankesEmily DicksonSarah Beaudry 1:15:34.317:45.818:29.719:39.319:39.5 0+80+1 0+10+0 0+30+1 0+20+0 0+0 +4:30.4 11 10 Susan DunkleeClare EganDeedra IrwinJoanne Reid 1:15:51.318:44.819:04.119:17.118:45.3 2+90+0 0+00+2 1+30+0 1+30+0 0+1 +4:47.4 12 18 Tang JialinChu YuanmengDing YuhuanMeng Fanqi 1:16:11.518:05.218:37.919:44.219:44.2 1+50+0 0+10+0 0+10+0 1+30+0 0+0 +5:07.6 13 6 Iryna LeshchankaDzinara AlimbekavaElena KruchinkinaHanna Sola 1:16:34.417:51.918:59.920:47.718:54.9 5+160+0 0+20+0 1+30+3 3+30+2 1+3 +5:30.5 14 15 Monika Hojnisz-StaręgaKamila ŻukKinga ZbylutAnna Mąka 1:17:12.118:06.020:04.319:33.119:28.7 1+100+2 0+11+3 0+10+0 0+30+0 0+0 +6:08.2 15 12 Regina OjaTuuli TomingasSusan KülmJohanna Talihärm 18:18.919:36.818:42.6LAP 0+1 0+30+2 2+30+1 0+03+3 16 13 Suvi MinkkinenMari EderErika JänkäNastassia Kinnunen 19:15.217:39.321:11.6LAP 0+0 0+00+0 0+00+1 2+30+2 17 17 Fuyuko TachizakiSari MaedaAsuka HachisukaYurie Tanaka 17:55.919:01.821:16.4LAP 0+1 0+20+0 0+30+0 2+30+3 18 20 Milena TodorovaMaria ZdravkovaLora HristovaDaniela Kadeva 17:36.721:04.7LAP 0+1 0+10+0 1+30+1 0+1 19 19 Ivona FialkováHenrieta HorvátováVeronika MachyniakováPaulína Fialková 17:43.020:10.2LAP 0+1 0+20+3 0+22+3 0+1 11 Irene CadurischLena HäckiSelina GasparinAmy Baserga DNF 0+2 0+1
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