# 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men will start at Sunday December 11, 2011 in Hochfilzen and will finish Friday March 9, 2012 in Ruhpolding at Biathlon World Championships 2012 event. Defending titlist is Norwegian 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.).

## 2010–11 Top 3 Standings

| Medal | Country | Points |
| Gold: | Norway | 216 |
| Silver: | Germany | 199 |
| Bronze: | Ukraine | 163 |

## Medal winners

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| Hochfilzen details | Norway Rune Brattsveen Lars Berger Emil Hegle Svendsen Tarjei Bø | 1:14:52.9 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) | Russia Anton Shipulin Andrei Makoveev Evgeny Ustyugov Dimitry Malyshko | 1:15:06.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) | France Vincent Jay Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:15:23.9 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) |
| Oberhof details | Italy Christian de Lorenzi Markus Windisch Dominik Windisch Lukas Hofer | 1:30:49.1 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) | Russia Anton Shipulin Evgeniy Garanichev Evgeny Ustyugov Alexey Volkov | 1:30:55.2 (0+0) (0+2) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (2+3) (0+2) (0+1) | Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman | 1:31:21.8 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) |
| Antholtz details | France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:12:14.7 (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) | Germany Michael Rösch Andreas Birnbacher Florian Graf Arnd Peiffer | 1:12:26.7 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) | Austria Simon Eder Tobias Eberhard Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger | 1:12:56.4 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) |
| World Championships 2012 details | Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Rune Brattsveen Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:17:26.8 (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) | France Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Fourcade Alexis Bœuf Martin Fourcade | 1:17:56.5 (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) | Germany Simon Schempp Andreas Birnbacher Michael Greis Arnd Peiffer | 1:18:19.8 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+2) |

## Standings

| # | Name | HOC | OBE | ANT | WCH | Total |
| 1 | France | 48 | 36 | 60 | 54 | 198 |
| 2 | Norway | 60 | 40 | 30 | 60 | 190 |
| 3 | Russia | 54 | 54 | 43 | 38 | 189 |
| 4 | Germany | 38 | 43 | 54 | 48 | 183 |
| 5 | Austria | 40 | 38 | 48 | 40 | 166 |
| 6 | Italy | 29 | 60 | 29 | 43 | 161 |
| 7 | Sweden | 43 | 48 | 40 | 25 | 156 |
| 8 | Belarus | 34 | 28 | 38 | 30 | 130 |
| 9 | Ukraine | 31 | 31 | 34 | 34 | 130 |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 36 | 32 | 27 | 32 | 127 |
| 11 | United States | 32 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 124 |
| 12 | Slovenia | 30 | 34 | 32 | 27 | 123 |
| 13 | Switzerland | 28 | 23 | 29 | 36 | 116 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 25 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 105 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 27 | 29 | 22 | 24 | 102 |
| 16 | Estonia | 23 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 93 |
| 17 | Japan | 22 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 91 |
| 18 | Canada | 26 | — | 36 | 28 | 90 |
| 19 | Latvia | 18 | 26 | 21 | 22 | 87 |
| 20 | Poland | 21 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 87 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 19 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 80 |
| 22 | Great Britain | 16 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 68 |
| 23 | Finland | 20 | 19 | — | 21 | 60 |
| 24 | Kazakhstan | 24 | — | — | 26 | 50 |
| 25 | Serbia | — | — | 18 | 16 | 34 |
| 26 | China | 17 | — | — | 17 | 34 |
| 27 | Romania | — | — | 17 | — | 17 |
| 28 | Belgium | — | — | — | 15 | 15 |
| 29 | South Korea | — | — | — | 14 | 14 |
| 30 | Croatia | — | — | — | 12 | 12 |