2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 16 December 2018 in Hochfilzen and finished on Saturday 16 March 2019 in Östersund. The defending team was Norway.

The winning team was Norway.

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).

2017–18 Top 3 standings

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Medal Nation Points
Gold:   Norway 228
Silver:   Sweden 184
Bronze:   France 180

Medal winners

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Hochfilzen
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  Sweden
Peppe Femling
Martin Ponsiluoma
Torstein Stenersen
Sebastian Samuelsson
1:16:10.6
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
  Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Tarjei Bø
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
1:16:14.2
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
  Germany
Simon Schempp
Johannes Kühn
Arnd Peiffer
Benedikt Doll
1:16:39.4
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
Oberhof
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  Russia
Maxim Tsvetkov
Evgeniy Garanichev
Dmitry Malyshko
Alexandr Loginov
1:20:54.3
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
  France
Antonin Guigonnat
Simon Desthieux
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Martin Fourcade
1:21:55.4
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
  Austria
Tobias Eberhard
Simon Eder
Dominik Landertinger
Julian Eberhard
1:23:12.9
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+2)
Ruhpolding
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  Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Tarjei Bø
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:09:54.3
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
  Germany
Roman Rees
Johannes Kühn
Arnd Peiffer
Benedikt Doll
1:10:07.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
  France
Emilien Jacquelin
Martin Fourcade
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Simon Desthieux
1:10:20.5
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
Canmore
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  Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Erlend Bjøntegaard
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:16:36.6
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
  France
Antonin Guigonnat
Emilien Jacquelin
Simon Fourcade
Quentin Fillon Maillet
1:17:47.0
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+3)
  Russia
Evgeniy Garanichev
Eduard Latypov
Alexandr Loginov
Alexander Povarnitsyn
1:18:25.0
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
World Championships
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  Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Tarjei Bø
Johannes Thingnes Bø
1:12:03.7
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
  Germany
Erik Lesser
Roman Rees
Arnd Peiffer
Benedikt Doll
1:12:41.8
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
  Russia
Matvey Eliseev
Nikita Porshnev
Dmitry Malyshko
Alexandr Loginov
1:13:07.8
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)

Standings

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# Nation HOC OBE RUH CAN ÖST Total [1]
1   Norway 54 36 60 60 60 270
2   Russia 40 60 40 48 48 236
3   Germany 48 34 54 43 54 233
4   France 32 54 48 54 38 226
5   Austria 43 48 43 40 34 208
6   Sweden 60 40 38 28 36 202
7   Czech Republic 36 43 34 38 43 194
8   Italy 38 38 32 34 26 168
9   Switzerland 34 31 30 26 30 151
10   Ukraine 25 19 36 36 29 145
11   Belarus 24 28 31 29 31 143
12   Slovakia 26 30 28 32 23 139
13   Estonia 22 27 23 30 27 129
14   Slovenia 30 32 26 40 128
14   Bulgaria 31 17 29 19 32 128
14   Canada 21 23 25 31 28 128
17   Poland 23 29 21 25 25 123
18   United States 29 22 24 24 22 121
19   Belgium 28 20 22 27 18 115
20   Finland 27 25 27 24 103
20   Japan 20 26 16 20 21 103
22   Romania 17 24 18 23 19 101
23   South Korea 18 15 15 21 15 84
24   Lithuania 16 21 17 20 74
25   Kazakhstan 19 16 20 16 71
26   Latvia 0 14 14 22 17 67
27   China 18 19 18 55

References

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