The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Women started on Sunday 11 December 2016 in Pokljuka and finished on Sunday 5 March 2017 in Pyeongchang. The defending team was Germany.

The winning team was Germany.

Competition format The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three laps for a total of , with two shooting rounds: one prone and one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually from the spare round holders or from bullets deposited by the athlete into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still standing targets, one penalty loop must be taken for each remaining target. The first-leg participants start all at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team must touch the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid changeover. On the first shooting stage of the first leg, the participant must shoot in the lane corresponding to their bib number (bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of their position in the race), then for the remainder of the relay, the athletes shoot at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived (arrive at the range in 5th place, shoot at lane five).

2015–16 Top 3 standings Medal Nation PointsGold: 235Silver: 234Bronze: 228

Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Pokljukadetails 1:11:31.1 1:11:41.2 1:12:08.8 Ruhpoldingdetails 1:09:53.0 1:09:56.5 1:09:57.5 Antholz-Anterselvadetails 1:09:12.4 1:09:36.6 1:09:45.8 World Championshipsdetails 1:11:16.6 1:11:23.0 1:11:24.7 Pyeongchangdetails 1:07:35.6 1:07:58.4 1:07:58.5

Standings # Nation POK RUH ANT HOC PYE Total Women's relay 1 60 60 60 60 60 300 2 54 54 54 48 38 248 3 48 43 43 54 36 224 4 40 48 30 30 54 202 5 43 38 25 43 48 197 6 29 40 48 40 40 197 7 34 36 36 38 43 187 8 32 34 38 32 31 167 9 38 28 40 31 29 166 10 36 25 29 36 28 154 11 31 27 31 28 30 147 12 27 30 26 29 32 144 13 30 31 23 25 34 143 14 25 29 27 34 26 141 15 26 32 32 0 25 115 16 22 26 21 21 24 114 17 28 21 34 26 — 109 18 24 22 22 19 22 109 19 — 24 28 27 27 106 20 20 20 20 23 23 106 21 21 19 19 20 20 99 22 19 18 18 22 21 98 23 — 23 24 — — 47 23 23 — — 24 — 47 25 18 — — — — 18

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