# 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Saturday 7 December 2019 in Östersund and finished on Saturday 7 March 2020 in Nové Město. The defending 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).

## 2018–19 Top 3 standings

| Medal | Nation | Points |
| Gold: | Norway | 270 |
| Silver: | Russia | 236 |
| Bronze: | Germany | 233 |

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Östersund details | Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:10:30.4 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) | France Émilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade | 1:11:02.7 (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) | Italy Lukas Hofer Thomas Bormolini Daniele Cappellari Dominik Windisch | 1:11:57.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:14:44.2 (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll | 1:14:46.2 (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) | France Antonin Guigonnat Émilien Jacquelin Fabien Claude Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:15:36.1 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (1+3) (0+1) (0+0) |
| Oberhof details | Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Erlend Bjøntegaard Johannes Dale Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | 1:19:32.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3) | France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:19:36.7 (0+1) (2+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Germany Philipp Horn Johannes Kühn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll | 1:20:20.5 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3) |
| Ruhpolding details | France Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:18:11.2 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) | Norway Johannes Dale Erlend Bjøntegaard Tarjei Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen | 1:19:23.4 (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Austria Dominik Landertinger Simon Eder Felix Leitner Julian Eberhard | 1:19:35.5 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) |
| World Championships details | FranceÉmilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet | 1:12:35.9 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) | NorwayVetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:12:57.4 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+2) (0+2) (0+1) | GermanyErik Lesser Philipp Horn Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll | 1:13:12.1 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (1+3) |
| Nové Město details | NorwayVetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø | 1:10:25.3 (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | UkraineArtem Pryma Serhiy Semenov Ruslan Tkalenko Dmytro Pidruchnyi | 1:11:03.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) | SwedenSebastian Samuelsson Jesper Nelin Peppe Femling Martin Ponsiluoma | 1:11:08.6 (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) |

## Standings

| # | Nation | ÖST | HOC | OBE | RUH | ANT | NOV | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 60 | 60 | 60 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 348 |
| 2 | France | 54 | 48 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 26 | 302 |
| 3 | Germany | 34 | 54 | 48 | 40 | 48 | 40 | 264 |
| 4 | Russia | 43 | 38 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 253 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 38 | 30 | 31 | 34 | 29 | 54 | 216 |
| 6 | Slovenia | 36 | 32 | 38 | 36 | 40 | 34 | 216 |
| 7 | Sweden | 40 | 31 | 30 | 32 | 31 | 48 | 212 |
| 8 | Belarus | 27 | 36 | 40 | 38 | 32 | 36 | 209 |
| 9 | Austria | 29 | 29 | 32 | 48 | 38 | 31 | 207 |
| 10 | Italy | 48 | 34 | 18 | 29 | 36 | 38 | 203 |
| 11 | Czech Republic | 28 | 40 | 34 | 30 | 28 | 29 | 189 |
| 12 | Switzerland | 31 | 27 | 36 | 25 | 26 | 32 | 177 |
| 13 | Canada | 30 | 43 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 27 | 176 |
| 14 | United States | 26 | 23 | 29 | 31 | 34 | 30 | 173 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 32 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 153 |
| 16 | Poland | 25 | 26 | 19 | 28 | 25 | 18 | 141 |
| 17 | Estonia | 24 | 25 | 28 | 19 | 20 | 25 | 141 |
| 18 | Finland | 23 | 28 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 19 | 133 |
| 19 | China | 19 | 16 | 25 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 130 |
| 20 | Slovakia | 22 | 22 | 23 | 16 | 24 | 34 | 130 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 21 | 19 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 20 | 125 |
| 22 | Romania | 20 | 15 | 26 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 121 |
| 23 | Latvia | 15 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 16 | 107 |
| 24 | Kazakhstan | 18 | 17 | 24 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 105 |
| 25 | Belgium | — | 21 | 17 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 102 |
| 26 | South Korea | 16 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 95 |
| 27 | Japan | 17 | 18 | — | — | 21 | — | 56 |