# 2013–14 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2013–14 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Saturday December 7, 2013 in Hochfilzen. Defending titlist is Russia.

## Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi), each leg skied over three laps, with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually one at a time from spare round holders or bullets deposited by the competitor into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each missed target remaining. 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 position in race.), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shoots at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the range in 5th place, you shoot at lane five.).

## 2012–13 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | Russia | 305 |
| Silver: | Norway | 302 |
| Bronze: | France | 296 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:19:50.8 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Sweden Christoffer Eriksson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman | 1:20:10.1 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Russia Alexey Volkov Evgeny Ustyugov Anton Shipulin Dmitry Malyshko | 1:20:11.9 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+3) (0+1) |
| Annecy details | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Alexandr Loginov Evgeniy Garanichev Anton Shipulin | 1:14:01.8 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:14:02.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Austria Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder | 1:14:28.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) |
| Ruhpolding details | Austria Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger | 1:15:40.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | Germany Christoph Stephan Andreas Birnbacher Erik Lesser Simon Schempp | 1:15:41.0 (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) | Russia Alexey Volkov Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin | 1:15:55.8 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) |
| Antholtz details | France Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Martin Fourcade | 1:14:34.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman | 1:14:36.7 (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:15:12.9 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | ANN | RUP | ANT | Total |
| 1 | Germany | 38 | 54 | 54 | 48 | 194 |
| 2 | Sweden | 54 | 43 | 43 | 54 | 194 |
| 3 | Austria | 43 | 48 | 60 | 40 | 191 |
| 4 | Russia | 48 | 60 | 48 | 34 | 190 |
| 5 | Norway | 60 | 40 | 32 | 43 | 175 |
| 6 | France | 40 | 38 | 31 | 60 | 169 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 36 | 32 | 40 | 29 | 137 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 34 | 36 | 28 | 32 | 130 |
| 9 | Slovenia | 27 | 30 | 36 | 27 | 120 |
| 10 | Ukraine | 29 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 118 |
| 11 | Slovakia | 28 | 29 | 27 | 31 | 115 |
| 12 | Canada | 32 | — | 34 | 38 | 104 |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 25 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 103 |
| 14 | Estonia | 23 | 27 | 29 | 22 | 101 |
| 15 | Kazakhstan | 22 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 99 |
| 16 | Italy | 31 | 28 | 38 | DNF | 97 |
| 17 | Finland | 24 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 95 |
| 18 | Belarus | 26 | 26 | DNF | 36 | 88 |
| 19 | Romania | 21 | 18 | 23 | 23 | 85 |
| 20 | Latvia | 20 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 83 |
| 21 | South Korea | 15 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 75 |
| 22 | United States | 30 | 34 | — | — | 64 |
| 23 | China | 17 | 19 | — | 21 | 57 |
| 24 | Serbia | 16 | — | 20 | 20 | 56 |
| 25 | United Kingdom | 14 | 20 | 18 | — | 52 |
| 26 | Japan | 19 | 22 | — | — | 41 |
| 27 | Poland | 18 | — | 22 | — | 40 |