Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Relay

Norway had won the first two official relay competitions at the Biathlon World Championships, but in Grenoble they were forced to ski five penalty loops while the Soviet Union skied only two, allowing the Soviets to pull away to win by almost two minutes. Sweden didn't go on the penalty loop at all, the only team to do so, and while their skiing couldn't match the top two, they did manage to finish in the bronze medal spot, just as they had in the two previous world championship relays.[1]

Rank	Bib	Team	Penalties	Result	Deficit
	4	Soviet Union Alexander Tikhonov Nikolay Puzanov Viktor Mamatov Vladimir Gundartsev	2 1 1 0 0	2:13:02.4	–
	7	Norway Ola Wærhaug Olav Jordet Magnar Solberg Jon Istad	5 1 2 0 2	2:14:50.2	+1:47.8
	12	Sweden Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson	0 0 0 0 0	2:17:26.3	+4:23.9
4	2	Poland Józef Różak Andrzej Fiedor Stanisław Łukaszczyk Stanisław Szczepaniak	4 2 1 1 0	2:20:19.6	+7:17.2
5	1	Finland Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Flöjt Kalevi Vähäkylä Arve Kinnari	5 3 1 0 1	2:20:41.8	+7:39.4
6	3	East Germany Heinz Kluge Hans-Gert Jahn Horst Koschka Dieter Speer	4 1 1 0 2	2:21:54.5	+8:52.1
7	8	Romania Gheorghe Cimpoia Constantin Carabela Nicolae Bărbăşescu Vilmoş Gheorghe	4 0 0 4 0	2:25:39.8	+12:37.4
8	13	United States Ralph Wakley Edward Williams Bill Spencer John Ehrensbeck	8 2 4 1 1	2:28:35.5	+15:33.1
9	6	West Germany Herbert Hindelang Theo Merkel Xaver Kraus Gerhard Gehring	6 2 0 2 2	2:29:56.6	+16:54.2
10	9	France Daniel Claudon Serge Legrand Aimé Gruet-Masson Jean-Claude Viry	10 2 3 3 2	2:31:12.9	+18:10.5
11	11	Austria Paul Ernst Adolf Scherwitzl Horst Schneider Franz Vetter	10 1 0 1 8	2:33:47.1	+20:44.7
12	10	Great Britain Marcus Halliday Alan Notley Peter Tancock Frederick Andrew	9 1 2 5 1	2:34:40.9	+21:38.5
13	14	Japan Isao Ono Miki Shibuya Shozo Okuyama Hajime Yoshimura	9 2 0 5 2	2:35:21.0	+22:18.6
–	5	Canada George Ede Knowles McGill George Rattai Esko Karu	DNF