After the men's nightmare relay, it was later in the day the women's turn to try to do better.
So it didn't happen.
Already on the first leg, Johanna Skottheim ruined Sweden's chances with six extra shots and a penalty round. When Sweden then changed, they did it in 17th place out of 21, 1.45 behind.
I actually don't know what happened. Just that I'm so wrong in terms of height, I can't explain it really. So I really need to check if everything is as it should be. So it's obviously very frustrating, says Skottheim to SVT.
And indeed, Anna Magnusson, Sara Andersson, and Hanna Öberg made a decent comeback on the leaderboard, but no top placement was achieved anyway.
Sweden's women finished sixth, 2.34 behind the winners France. Norway came second and Germany third.
On the men's side, Sweden finished seventh after incurring six penalty rounds. As many penalty rounds as a Swedish men's team has not had as far back as there is statistics, since 2000, according to SVT.
Jesper Nelin accounted for four on the second leg.
It was a catastrophe. I damn well, it's the worst I've done, I think, says Jesper Nelin in SVT.
France also won there ahead of Norway and Ukraine.
