# 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.

## 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).

## 2017–18 Top 3 standings

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

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | 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 details | 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 details | 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 details | 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 details | 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

| # | Nation | HOC | OBE | RUH | CAN | ÖST | Total |
| 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 |