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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

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Date
  
21 February

Winning time
  
1:10:02.5

Competitors
  
68 from 17 nations

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

Venue
  
Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex

The Women's 4 x 6 kilometre relay biathlon competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 21 February 2014. Ukraine won their first ever gold Olympic medal in biathlon (and the second gold winter Olympic medal, the first one since 1994), ahead of Russia, the defending champion, and Norway. It also became the fourth nation — after France, Russia, and Germany — to ever win the Olympic gold medal in women's biathlon relay.

For the first time Germany failed to reach the podium in Olympic women's relay. Franziska Preuß, who was running the first leg, fell and broke a pole. After that, Germany was never in the medal contention. Marie-Laure Brunet, running the first leg for France, collapsed, so France did not finish.

Results

The race was started at 18:30.

References

Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's relay Wikipedia