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 edit

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 edit

Medal Country Points[1]
Gold:   Norway 216
Silver:   Germany 199
Bronze:   Ukraine 163

Medal winners edit

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Hochfilzen
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 edit

# Name HOC OBE ANT WCH Total[2]
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

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