2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Saturday 7 December, 2019 in Östersund and finished on Saturday 7 March, 2020 in Nové Město. The defending team was Norway.

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).

2018–19 Top 3 standings

Medal	Nation	Points
Gold:	Norway	270
Silver:	Russia	236
Bronze:	Germany	233

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Östersund details	Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:10:30.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	France Émilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	1:11:02.7 (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0)	Italy Lukas Hofer Thomas Bormolini Daniele Cappellari Dominik Windisch	1:11:57.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1)
Hochfilzen details	Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:14:44.2 (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:14:46.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	France Antonin Guigonnat Émilien Jacquelin Fabien Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:15:36.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0)
Oberhof details	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Dale Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:19:32.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3)	France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:19:36.7 (0+1) (2+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:20:20.5 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3)
Ruhpolding details	France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:18:11.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2)	Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:19:23.4 (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Austria Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder Felix Leitner Julian Eberhard	1:19:35.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)
World Championships [details]
Nové Město [details]

Standings

#	Nation	ÖST	HOC	OBE	RUH	Total ^[1]
1	Norway	60	60	60	54	234
2	France	54	48	54	60	216
3	Germany	34	54	48	40	176
4	Russia	43	38	43	43	167
5	Slovenia	36	32	38	36	142
6	Belarus	27	36	40	38	141
7	Austria	29	29	32	48	138
8	Sweden	40	31	30	32	133
9	Ukraine	38	30	31	34	133
10	Czech Republic	28	40	34	30	132
11	Italy	48	34	18	29	129
12	Canada	30	43	27	22	122
13	Switzerland	31	27	36	25	119
14	United States	26	23	29	31	109
15	Finland	23	28	22	26	99
16	Poland	25	26	19	28	98
17	Estonia	24	25	28	19	96
18	Bulgaria	32	24	15	24	95
19	Lithuania	21	19	21	27	88
20	China	19	16	25	23	83
21	Slovakia	22	22	23	16	83
22	Romania	20	15	26	20	81
23	Kazakhstan	18	17	24	15	74
24	Latvia	15	20	20	17	72
25	South Korea	16	14	16	18	64
26	Belgium	—	21	17	21	59
27	Japan	17	18	—	—	35

References

^ Men's relay

[1] Men's relay

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