# 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men will start at Sunday December 9, 2012 in Hochfilzen and will finish Friday March 10, 2013 in Sochi. Defending titlist is French team.

## 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.).

## 2011–12 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | France | 198 |
| Silver: | Norway | 190 |
| Bronze: | Russia | 189 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Ole Einar Bjørndalen Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Henrik L'Abée-Lund | 1:17:55.2 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | France Vincent Jay Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:18:29.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (3+0) (1+0) (1+0) (1+0) (0+0) | Russia Anton Shipulin Andrei Makoveev Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko | 1:18:41.8 (0+0) (0+0) (2+0) (3+0) (0+0) (0+0) (2+0) (2+0) |
| Oberhof details | Russia Alexey Volkov Evgeniy Garanichev Anton Shipulin Dmitry Malyshko | 1:20:35.7 (2+0) (1+0) (0+0) (3+0) (1+0) (2+0) (2+0) (1+0) | Norway Henrik L'Abée-Lund Ole Einar Bjørndalen Erlend Bjøntegaard Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:20:44.1 (0+0) (3+1) (0+0) (0+0) (1+0) (1+0) (0+0) (3+0) | Germany Simon Schempp Erik Lesser Arnd Peiffer Florian Graf | 1:21:15.0 (3+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (3+0) (1+0) (2+0) (0+0) |
| Ruhpolding details | France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:13:11.2 (0+0) (0+0) (1+0) (1+0) (0+0) (1+0) (1+0) (0+0) | Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Tarjei Bø Henrik L'Abée-Lund Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:13:20.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (3+0) (1+0) (0+0) (1+0) (3+0) | Austria Simon Eder Friedrich Pinter Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann | 1:13:20.9 (0+0) (2+0) (2+0) (1+0) (0+0) (1+0) (3+0) (0+0) |
| Antholtz details | France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:13:26.0 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) | Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeny Ustyugov Evgeniy Garanichev Dmitry Malyshko | 1:13:36.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | Austria Simon Eder Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger | 1:14:44.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) |
| World Championships 2013 details | Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Henrik L'Abée-Lund Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:15:39.0 (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:16:51.8 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | Germany Simon Schempp Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Erik Lesser | 1:16:57.5 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (2+3) |
| Sochi details | Russia Anton Shipulin Alexandr Loginov Dmitry Malyshko Evgeny Ustyugov | 1:09:50.8 (1+0) (1+0) (3+1) (1+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Erik Lesser Andreas Birnbacher Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll | 1:10:29.1 (3+0) (0+0) (1+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+0) (2+0) (3+0) | Czech Republic Michal Šlesingr Jaroslav Soukup Vit Janov Ondřej Moravec | 1:10:33.7 (2+0) (2+0) (3+0) (1+0) (3+0) (1+0) (0+0) (1+0) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | OBE | RUP | ANT | WCH | SOC | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 48 | 60 | 40 | 54 | 43 | 60 | 305 |
| 2 | Norway | 60 | 54 | 54 | 31 | 60 | 43 | 302 |
| 3 | France | 54 | 28 | 60 | 60 | 54 | 40 | 296 |
| 4 | Germany | 38 | 48 | 43 | 36 | 48 | 54 | 267 |
| 5 | Austria | 43 | 30 | 48 | 48 | 40 | 34 | 243 |
| 6 | Czech Republic | 40 | 34 | 28 | 38 | 38 | 48 | 226 |
| 7 | Sweden | 32 | 36 | 38 | 43 | 30 | 36 | 215 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 31 | 43 | 36 | 34 | 27 | 29 | 200 |
| 9 | Italy | 34 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 36 | 38 | 195 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 36 | 32 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 32 | 194 |
| 11 | United States | 24 | 40 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 180 |
| 12 | Slovenia | 23 | 38 | 34 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 180 |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 29 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 32 | 28 | 173 |
| 14 | Belarus | 27 | 31 | 32 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 171 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 30 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 23 | — | 143 |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 26 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 140 |
| 17 | Canada | 28 | — | 26 | 25 | 34 | 26 | 139 |
| 18 | Estonia | 25 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 137 |
| 19 | Japan | 17 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 23 | 122 |
| 20 | Romania | 16 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 115 |
| 21 | Latvia | 21 | 23 | 20 | — | 19 | 21 | 104 |
| 22 | Finland | 22 | 25 | 25 | — | 20 | — | 92 |
| 23 | Poland | 18 | 22 | 19 | 20 | 13 | — | 92 |
| 24 | Great Britain | 19 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 18 | — | 90 |
| 25 | China | — | — | 17 | 21 | 24 | — | 62 |
| 26 | Lithuania | 20 | — | 15 | — | 16 | — | 51 |
| 27 | Serbia | — | — | — | 19 | 14 | — | 33 |
| 28 | South Korea | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | 17 |
| 29 | Spain | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | 12 |