Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

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

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.

Results

Rank	Bib	Team	Penalties (P S)	Result	Deficit
	6	Germany Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	0 5 0 6 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1	1:40:13.6 25:20.3 24:46.1 24:39.2 25:28.0	–
	7	Russia Olga Melnik Galina Kukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko	0 7 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0	1:40:25.2 25:32.1 24:27.4 24:59.8 25:25.9	11.6
	4	Norway Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Annette Sikveland Gunn Margit Andreassen Liv Grete Skjelbreid	1 4 1 6 0 1 1 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2	1:40:37.3 25:47.2 24:55.0 25:20.8 24:34.3	23.7
4	8	Slovakia Martina Schwarzbacherová Anna Murínová Tatiana Kutlíková Soňa Mihoková	0 5 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 0 0	1:41:20.6 24:44.5 24:57.1 26:31.5 25:07.5	1:07.0
5	3	Ukraine Valentina Tserbe-Nessina Olena Petrova Tetyana Vodopyanova Olena Zubrilova	0 3 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1	1:42:32.6 26:36.5 25:20.9 25:43.9 24:51.3	2:19.0
6	9	Czech Republic Kateřina Losmanová Irena Česneková Jiřína Pelcová Eva Háková	0 4 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2	1:43:20.5 25:32.4 26:16.6 26:49.7 24:41.8	3:06.9
7	17	China Yu Shumei Sun Ribo Liu Jinfeng Liu Xianying	0 4 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 3	1:43:32.6 25:15.7 25:17.2 25:59.0 27:00.7	3:19.0
8	5	France Christelle Gros Emmanuelle Claret Florence Baverel Corinne Niogret	0 3 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1	1:43:54.6 26:20.6 25:17.7 26:20.7 25:55.6	3:41.0
9	12	Slovenia Lucija Larisi Andreja Grašič Matejka Mohorič Tadeja Brankovič	2 8 1 6 1 3 1 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0	1:44:18.8 27:12.3 24:44.3 26:21.5 26:00.7	4:05.2
10	2	Sweden Maria Schylander Magdalena Forsberg Kristina Brounéus Eva-Karin Westin	0 3 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0	1:44:50.8 27:28.0 24:06.2 26:42.9 26:33.7	4:37.2
11	10	Kazakhstan Inna Sheshkil Margarita Dulova Yelena Dubok Lyudmila Guryeva	0 5 2 6 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 3 0 0	1:45:22.9 25:24.6 25:27.0 28:35.5 25:55.8	5:09.3
12	1	Belarus Irina Tananayko Nataliya Ryzhenkova Nataliya Moroz Svetlana Paramygina	0 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1	1:45:24.0 25:42.4 25:47.5 28:30.5 25:23.6	5:10.4
13	11	Poland Agata Suszka Halina Pitoń Iwona Daniluk Anna Stera	0 5 2 10 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 3	1:45:45.5 25:58.1 26:33.6 27:01.0 26:12.8	5:31.9
14	14	Japan Mami Honma Hiromi Seino Mie Takeda Ryoko Takahashi	1 7 0 8 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 1	1:46:23.0 25:31.2 26:08.8 27:51.3 26:51.7	6:09.4
15	15	United States Ntala Skinner Stacey Wooley Kara Salmela Kristina Sabasteanski	0 6 1 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 3	1:48:30.2 26:35.0 27:12.1 26:21.2 28:21.9	8:16.6
16	16	Bulgaria Radka Popova Ekaterina Dafovska Pavlina Filipova Valentina Peychinova	3 3 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 3	1:48:55.2 28:06.0 24:56.4 27:52.7 28:00.1	8:41.6
17	13	Canada Kristin Berg Myriam Bédard Nicole Keddie Michelle Collard	2 8 1 7 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 3 0 1 0 2	1:53:15.0 28:44.6 25:20.0 29:56.1 29:14.3	13:01.4