2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 10 December, 2017 in Hochfilzen and will finish on Sunday 18 March, 2018 in Oslo Holmenkollen. The defending team is Russia.

Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) laps for a total of 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi), 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 150 metres (490 ft) 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).

2016–17 Top 3 standings

Medal Nation Points
Gold: Russia259
Silver: France242
Bronze: Germany237

Medal winners

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Hochfilzen
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 Norway
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Lars Helge Birkeland
1:21:21.8
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Germany
Erik Lesser
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
Simon Schempp
1:23:16.7
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+2) (0+3)
(0+3) (0+3)
 France
Jean-Guillaume Béatrix
Simon Desthieux
Emilien Jacquelin
Quentin Fillon Maillet
1:23:55.8
(0+0) (2+3)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (1+3)
Oberhof
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 Sweden
Martin Ponsiluoma
Jesper Nelin
Sebastian Samuelsson
Fredrik Lindström
1:19:44.1
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Italy
Thomas Bormolini
Lukas Hofer
Dominik Windisch
Thierry Chenal
1:20:54.9
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+3) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
 Norway
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Lars Helge Birkeland
Tarjei Bø
1:21:48.7
(0+0) (0+1)
(2+3) (0+2)
(1+3) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
Ruhpolding
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 Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Tarjei Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:13:11.1
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
 France
Simon Desthieux
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Martin Fourcade
Antonin Guigonnat
1:13:36.0
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
 Russia
Alexey Volkov
Maxim Tsvetkov
Anton Babikov
Anton Shipulin
1:14:04.5
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
Oslo Holmenkollen
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 Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Tarjei Bø
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:13:13.7
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
 Austria
Dominik Landertinger
Felix Leitner
Simon Eder
Julian Eberhard
1:14:04.0
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
 Russia
Maxim Tsvetkov
Anton Babikov
Dmitry Malyshko
Anton Shipulin
1:14:10.6
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)

Standings

# Nation HOC OBE RUH OSL Total [1]
1 Norway60486060228
2 Sweden43603843184
3 France48405438180
4 Germany54384340175
5 Russia34434848173
6 Italy40543630160
7 Austria22324054148
8  Switzerland36362828128
9 Ukraine38302629123
10 Slovenia27293132119
11 Bulgaria30343222118
12 Czech Republic23273431115
13 Canada26312725109
14 Estonia28252426103
15 Finland2919222797
16 Belgium2528182394
17 Slovakia1722292492
18 Belarus1517253491
19 Latvia3123191891
20 Kazakhstan1626301991
21 Japan2024232087
22 United States32173685
23 South Korea2121161674
24 Poland1818211774
25 Romania240152160
26 Lithuania19202059

References

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