# 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 10 December 2017 in Hochfilzen and will finish on Sunday 18 March 2018 in Oslo Holmenkollen. The defending team is Russia.

## 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).

## 2016–17 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Russia | 259 |
| Silver: | France | 242 |
| Bronze: | Germany | 237 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Henrik L'Abée-Lund Erlend Bjøntegaard Lars Helge Birkeland | 1:21:21.8 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:23:16.7 (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+2) (0+3) (0+3) (0+3) | France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Desthieux Emilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:23:55.8 (0+0) (2+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3) |
| Oberhof details | Sweden Martin Ponsiluoma Jesper Nelin Sebastian Samuelsson Fredrik Lindström | 1:19:44.1 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Italy Thomas Bormolini Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Thierry Chenal | 1:20:54.9 (0+1) (1+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) | Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Henrik L'Abée-Lund Lars Helge Birkeland Tarjei Bø | 1:21:48.7 (0+0) (0+1) (2+3) (0+2) (1+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) |
| Ruhpolding details | Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:13:11.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | France Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade Antonin Guigonnat | 1:13:36.0 (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) | Russia Alexey Volkov Maxim Tsvetkov Anton Babikov Anton Shipulin | 1:14:04.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Oslo Holmenkollen details | NorwayLars Helge Birkeland Henrik L'Abée-Lund Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:13:13.7 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | AustriaDominik Landertinger Felix Leitner Simon Eder Julian Eberhard | 1:14:04.0 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | RussiaMaxim Tsvetkov Anton Babikov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin | 1:14:10.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | HOC | OBE | RUH | OSL | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 48 | 60 | 60 | 228 |
| 2 | Sweden | 43 | 60 | 38 | 43 | 184 |
| 3 | France | 48 | 40 | 54 | 38 | 180 |
| 4 | Germany | 54 | 38 | 43 | 40 | 175 |
| 5 | Russia | 34 | 43 | 48 | 48 | 173 |
| 6 | Italy | 40 | 54 | 36 | 30 | 160 |
| 7 | Austria | 22 | 32 | 40 | 54 | 148 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 36 | 36 | 28 | 28 | 128 |
| 9 | Ukraine | 38 | 30 | 26 | 29 | 123 |
| 10 | Slovenia | 27 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 119 |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 30 | 34 | 32 | 22 | 118 |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 23 | 27 | 34 | 31 | 115 |
| 13 | Canada | 26 | 31 | 27 | 25 | 109 |
| 14 | Estonia | 28 | 25 | 24 | 26 | 103 |
| 15 | Finland | 29 | 19 | 22 | 27 | 97 |
| 16 | Belgium | 25 | 28 | 18 | 23 | 94 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 17 | 22 | 29 | 24 | 92 |
| 18 | Belarus | 15 | 17 | 25 | 34 | 91 |
| 19 | Latvia | 31 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 91 |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | 16 | 26 | 30 | 19 | 91 |
| 21 | Japan | 20 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 87 |
| 22 | United States | 32 | — | 17 | 36 | 85 |
| 23 | South Korea | 21 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 74 |
| 24 | Poland | 18 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 74 |
| 25 | Romania | 24 | 0 | 15 | 21 | 60 |
| 26 | Lithuania | 19 | 20 | 20 | — | 59 |