# 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men will start at Sunday December 6, 2009 in Östersund and will finish Friday February 26, 2009 in Vancouver at the olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is Austrian 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.).

## 2008–09 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | Austria | 276 |
| Silver: | Norway | 254 |
| Bronze: | Germany | 247 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Östersund details | France Vincent Jay Vincent Defrasne Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade | 1:15:10.3 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) | Norway Emil Hegle Svendsen Alexander Os Lars Berger Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 1:15:24.0 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (2+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann | 1:15:28.5 (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Hochfilzen details | Austria Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann | 1:16:13.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Evgeny Ustyugov Nikolay Kruglov Maxim Tchoudov | 1:16:38.8 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany Christoph Stephan Arnd Peiffer Michael Greis Simon Schempp | 1:16:45.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) |
| Oberhof details | Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 1:17:03.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) | France Vincent Jay Vincent Defrasne Simon Fourcade Martin Fourcade | 1:17:30.8 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Germany Christoph Stephan Michael Greis Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:17:45.5 (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) |
| Ruhpolding details | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Tchoudov Evgeny Ustyugov | 1:22:29.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) | Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:22:58.4 (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) | Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Friedrich Pinter Tobias Eberhard Dominik Landertinger | 1:24:04.6 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) |
| 2010 Winter Olympics details | Norway Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 1:21:38.1 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) | Austria Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann | 1:22:16.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) | Russia Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Tchoudov Evgeny Ustyugov | 1:22:16.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+3) |

## Standings

| # | Name | ÖST | HOC | OBE | RUH | OLY | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 54 | 40 | 60 | 54 | 60 | 228 |
| 2 | Austria | 48 | 60 | 43 | 48 | 54 | 210 |
| 3 | Russia | 43 | 54 | 40 | 60 | 48 | 205 |
| 4 | France | 60 | 43 | 54 | 34 | 38 | 195 |
| 5 | Germany | 40 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 40 | 179 |
| 6 | Sweden | 38 | 38 | 31 | 36 | 43 | 155 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 32 | 34 | 38 | 40 | 32 | 144 |
| 8 | United States | 36 | 31 | – | 38 | 28 | 133 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 30 | 36 | – | 31 | 36 | 133 |
| 10 | Ukraine | 34 | 21 | 34 | 29 | 34 | 131 |
| 11 | Belarus | 31 | 30 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 123 |
| 12 | Italy | 29 | 32 | – | 30 | 29 | 120 |
| 13 | Canada | 27 | 24 | – | 28 | 31 | 110 |
| 14 | Latvia | 24 | 20 | 36 | 25 | 22 | 107 |
| 15 | Estonia | 20 | 29 | 27 | 24 | 27 | 107 |
| 16 | Slovenia | 19 | 26 | 28 | 27 | 24 | 105 |
| 17 | Japan | 26 | 22 | 32 | 21 | – | 101 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 22 | 23 | 30 | 20 | 25 | 100 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 23 | 27 | – | 22 | 26 | 98 |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | 21 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 97 |
| 21 | Finland | 25 | 28 | 0 | 26 | – | 79 |
| 22 | Lithuania | 16 | 18 | 23 | 18 | – | 75 |
| 23 | Poland | 28 | 19 | 25 | – | – | 72 |
| 24 | United Kingdom | 18 | – | 24 | 19 | – | 61 |
| 25 | Serbia | 17 | 17 | – | 17 | – | 51 |
| 26 | Hungary | 15 | – | – | – | – | 15 |