The fifth E.ON IBU World Cup started in Germany’s Ruhpolding. Team Belarus finished in sixth in the women’s 4x6km relay, with Russia winning the event.
The Russian team (Yekaterina Glazyrina, Olga Zaitseva, Irina Starykh and Olga Vilukhina) clocked 1:09:42.2 (without penalties). Germany came in second (6.2 seconds behind, one penalty) while third went to Norway (16.7 seconds behind, two penalties).
         Team Belarus (Lyudmila Kalinchik, Nadezhda Pisareva, Anastasia Duborezova and Nadezhda Skardino) were sixth, 1:42.8 behind. They did not pick up penalties during the event.