The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Individual Women started on Wednesday 29 November 2017 in Östersund and finished on Thursday 11 January 2018 in Ruhpolding. The defending titlist was Laura Dahlmeier of Germany.
The small crystal globe winner for the category was Nadezhda Skardino of Belarus.
Competition format The 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.
2016–17 Top 3 standings Medal Athlete PointsGold: Laura Dahlmeier 180Silver: Vanessa Hinz 103Bronze: Alexia Runggaldier 96
Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Östersunddetails Nadezhda Skardino 42:57.4 Synnøve Solemdal 43:00.3 Yuliia Dzhima 43:09.4 Ruhpoldingdetails Dorothea Wierer 41:29.0 Kaisa Mäkäräinen 41:41.7 Rosanna Crawford 41:50.2
Standings # Name ÖST RUH Total Women's Individual 1 60 36 96 2 48 43 91 3 30 54 84 4 43 40 83 5 27 38 65 6 0 60 60 7 29 29 58 8 54 0 54 9 36 18 54 10 28 24 52 11 17 34 51 12 2 48 50 13 38 12 50 14 31 15 46 15 40 4 44 16 12 31 43 17 26 17 43 18 20 23 43 19 32 7 39 20 34 DNS 34 21 3 30 33 22 — 32 32 23 6 26 32 24 13 19 32 25 0 28 28 26 0 27 27 27 4 22 26 28 25 0 25 29 0 25 25 30 24 0 24 # Name ÖST RUH Total 31 23 — 23 32 22 — 22 33 21 0 21 34 — 21 21 35 10 11 21 36 0 20 20 37 7 13 20 38 11 9 20 39 19 0 19 40 18 1 19 41 0 16 16 42 16 — 16 43 14 2 16 44 15 DNF 15 45 0 14 14 46 0 10 10 47 10 0 10 48 — 9 9 49 8 — 8 50 — 6 6 51 0 5 5 52 5 0 5 53 — 3 3 54 1 — 1
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