The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Women started at Thursday November 29, 2012 in Östersund and will finish in Sochi. Defending titlist is Helena Ekholm of Sweden.

Competition format The 20 kilometres (12 mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.

2011-12 Top 3 Standings MedalAthletePointsGold: Helena Ekholm138Silver: Kaisa Mäkäräinen 116Bronze: Darya Domracheva 116

Medal winners Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: TimeÖstersunddetailsTora Berger 44:33.5(0+0+0+0)Darya Domracheva 45:36.7(1+0+0+1)Ekaterina Glazyrina 46:43.7(0+0+0+0)Biathlon World Championships 2013detailsTora Berger 44:52.5(0+0+0+0)Andrea Henkel 45:45.2(0+0+0+0)Valj Semerenko 46:35.0(1+0+0+0)SochidetailsDarya Domracheva 45:45.2(0+0+0+2)Olga Zaitseva 46:19.8 (0+0+0+0)Tora Berger 46:32.0 (0+1+0+0)

Standings # Name ÖST WCH SOC TotalStandings Individual Men 1 60 60 48 168 2 34 54 43 131 3 54 8 60 122 4 15 38 54 107 5 29 43 32 104 6 32 34 38 104 7 31 29 34 94 8 43 21 26 90 9 9 48 29 86 10 48 36 — 84 11 22 32 30 84 12 16 23 40 79 13 26 16 31 73 14 40 31 0 71 15 38 9 24 71 16 20 40 10 70 17 0 26 36 62 18 36 19 — 55 19 8 30 15 53 20 28 22 — 50 21 3 28 14 45 22 21 15 8 44 23 25 18 — 43 24 30 6 6 42 25 — 17 22 39 26 27 0 11 38 27 10 27 0 37 28 24 10 3 37 29 0 13 19 32 30 0 3 27 30 31 — — 28 28 32 0 25 — 25 33 0 0 25 25 34 0 5 20 25 35 11 12 2 25 36 0 24 0 24 37 0 0 23 23 38 23 — — 23 39 0 0 21 21 40 12 0 9 21 41 0 20 0 20 42 19 0 — 19 43 18 0 0 18 44 — — 18 18 45 — 0 17 17 46 17 0 0 17 47 — 0 16 16 48 0 14 0 14 49 14 — 0 14 50 0 0 13 13 51 13 — — 13 52 — — 12 12 53 0 11 — 11 54 0 7 0 7 55 0 0 7 7 56 7 — — 7 57 6 0 0 6 58 5 0 0 5 59 — — 5 5 60 0 0 4 4 61 — 4 0 4 62 4 — — 4 63 0 2 0 2 64 2 0 0 2 65 1 0 0 1 66 0 1 — 1 67 0 0 1 1

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