Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

Women's biathlon relay at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Nozawa Onsen
Dates	February 19
Competitors	68 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:40:13.6
Medalists
Germany Uschi Disl, Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel, Petra Behle-Schaaf   Russia Olga Melnik, Galina Kukleva, Albina Akhatova, Olga Romasko   Norway Ann Elen Skjelbreid, Annette Sikveland, Gunn Margit Andreassen, Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée

Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Individual		men		women
Sprint		men		women
Relay		men		women

The Women's 4 x 7.5 kilometre biathlon relay competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics 19 February, at Nozawa Onsen. Each national team consisted of four members, with each skiing 7.5 kilometres and shooting twice, once prone and once standing.

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.^[1]

Results

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Rank	Team	Penalties	Result
01 !	Germany Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle-Schaaf	0+11 0+5 0+1 0+2 0+3	1:40:13.6 25:20.3 24:46.1 24:39.2 25:28.0
02 !	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko	0+9 0+3 0+3 0+2 0+1	1:40:25.2 25:32.1 24:27.4 24:59.8 25:25.9
03 !	Norway Ann Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée	2+10 1+4 1+4 0+0 0+2	1:40:37.3 25:47.2 24:55.0 25:20.8 24:34.3
4	Slovakia Martina Jašicová Anna Murínová Tatiana Kutlíková Soňa Mihoková	2+9 0+1 0+3 2+4 0+1	1:41:20.6 24:44.5 24:57.1 26:31.5 25:07.5
5	Ukraine Valentina Tserbe-Nessina Olena Petrova Tetiana Vodop'ianova Olena Zubrilova-Ohurtsova	0+6 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+2	1:42:32.6 26:36.5 25:20.9 25:43.9 24:51.3
6	Czech Republic Kateřina Losmanová-Holubcová Irena Novotná-Česneková Jiřína Adamičková-Pelcová Eva Háková	0+10 0+1 0+4 0+2 0+3	1:43:20.5 25:32.4 26:16.6 26:49.7 24:41.8
7	China Yu Shumei Sun Ribo Liu Jinfeng Liu Xianying	1+10 0+1 0+2 0+2 1+5	1:43:32.6 25:15.7 25:17.2 25:59.0 27:00.7
8	France Christelle Gros Emmanuelle Claret Florence Baverel-Robert Corinne Niogret	0+8 0+3 0+2 0+1 0+2	1:43:54.6 26:20.6 25:17.7 26:20.7 25:55.6
9	Slovenia Lucija Larisi Andreja Grašič Matejka Mohorič Tadeja Brankovič	3+14 2+6 0+4 0+1 1+3	1:44:18.8 27:12.3 24:44.3 26:21.5 26:00.7
10	Sweden Maria Schylander Magdalena Forsberg Kristina Brounéus Eva-Karin Westin	0+7 0+3 0+2 0+2 0+0	1:44:50.8 27:28.0 24:06.2 26:42.9 26:33.7
11	Kazakhstan Inna Sheshkil Margarita Dulova Yelena Dubok Lyudmila Guryeva	2+11 0+4 0+1 2+3 0+3	1:45:22.9 25:24.6 25:27.0 28:35.5 25:55.8
12	Belarus Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina	0+7 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+2	1:45:24.0 25:42.4 25:47.5 28:30.5 25:23.6
13	Poland Agata Suszka Halina Pitoń Iwona Daniluk Anna Stera-Kustucz	2+15 0+3 1+5 0+3 1+4	1:45:45.5 25:58.1 26:33.6 27:01.0 26:12.8
14	Japan Mami Shindo-Honma Hiromi Seino-Suga Mie Takeda Ryoko Takahashi	1+15 0+2 1+6 0+3 0+4	1:46:23.0 25:31.2 26:08.8 27:51.3 26:51.7
15	United States Ntala Skinner Stacey Wooley Kara Salmela Kristina Sabasteanski	1+12 0+3 0+1 0+3 1+5	1:48:30.2 26:35.0 27:12.1 26:21.2 28:21.9
16	Bulgaria Radka Popova Ekaterina Dafovska Pavlina Filipova Valentina Peychinova	3+9 0+1 0+0 3+5 0+3	1:48:55.2 28:06.0 24:56.4 27:52.7 28:00.1
17	Canada Kristin Berg Myriam Bédard Nikki Keddie Michelle Collard	3+15 1+5 0+1 2+6 0+3	1:53:15.0 28:44.6 25:20.0 29:56.1 29:14.3

The penalties column is in the format: "total penalties + used spare rounds".

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