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.

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

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Medal Nation Points
Gold:   Russia 259
Silver:   France 242
Bronze:   Germany 237

Medal winners

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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

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# Nation HOC OBE RUH OSL Total [1]
1   Norway 60 48 60 60 228
2   Sweden 43 60 38 43 184
3   France 48 40 54 38 180
4   Germany 54 38 43 40 175
5   Russia 34 43 48 48 173
6   Italy 40 54 36 30 160
7   Austria 22 32 40 54 148
8   Switzerland 36 36 28 28 128
9   Ukraine 38 30 26 29 123
10   Slovenia 27 29 31 32 119
11   Bulgaria 30 34 32 22 118
12   Czech Republic 23 27 34 31 115
13   Canada 26 31 27 25 109
14   Estonia 28 25 24 26 103
15   Finland 29 19 22 27 97
16   Belgium 25 28 18 23 94
17   Slovakia 17 22 29 24 92
18   Belarus 15 17 25 34 91
19   Latvia 31 23 19 18 91
20   Kazakhstan 16 26 30 19 91
21   Japan 20 24 23 20 87
22   United States 32 17 36 85
23   South Korea 21 21 16 16 74
24   Poland 18 18 21 17 74
25   Romania 24 0 15 21 60
26   Lithuania 19 20 20 59

References

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