2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 11 December 2016 in Pokljuka and finished on Sunday 5 March 2017 in Pyeongchang. The defending team was Norway.

The winning team was Russia.

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).

2015–16 Top 3 standings

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Medal Nation Points
Gold:   Norway 282
Silver:   Russia 255
Bronze:   Germany 236

Medal winners

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Pokljuka
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  France
Jean-Guillaume Béatrix
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Simon Desthieux
Martin Fourcade
1:11:56.5
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
  Russia
Maxim Tsvetkov
Anton Babikov
Matvey Eliseev
Anton Shipulin
1:12:12.2
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(1+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Germany
Erik Lesser
Matthias Dorfer
Benedikt Doll
Simon Schempp
1:12:18.0
(0+3) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
Ruhpolding
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  Norway
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:13:40.7
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+0)
  Russia
Alexey Volkov
Anton Shipulin
Matvey Eliseev
Anton Babikov
1:13:45.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Germany
Erik Lesser
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
Simon Schempp
1:14:04.2
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
Antholz-Anterselva
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  Germany
Erik Lesser
Benedikt Doll
Arnd Peiffer
Simon Schempp
1:13:57.2
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
  Norway
Lars Helge Birkeland
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
Johannes Thingnes Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:13:57.3
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+2)
  Russia
Maxim Tsvetkov
Evgeniy Garanichev
Dmitry Malyshko
Anton Babikov
1:14:30.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
World Championships
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  Russia
Alexey Volkov
Maxim Tsvetkov
Anton Babikov
Anton Shipulin
1:14:15.0
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
  France
Jean-Guillaume Béatrix
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Simon Desthieux
Martin Fourcade
1:14:20.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+3) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
  Austria
Daniel Mesotitsch
Julian Eberhard
Simon Eder
Dominik Landertinger
1:14:35.1
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+1)
Pyeongchang
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  France
Jean-Guillaume Béatrix
Simon Fourcade
Simon Desthieux
Martin Fourcade
1:12:09.5
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+2)
  Austria
Lorenz Wäger
Simon Eder
Julian Eberhard
Dominik Landertinger
1:12:43.3
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
  Norway
Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Vegard Gjermundshaug
Henrik L'Abée-Lund
1:12:54.9
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+2)

Standings

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# Nation POK RUH ANT HOC PYE Total [1]
1   Russia 54 54 48 60 43 259
2   France 60 32 36 54 60 242
3   Germany 48 48 60 43 38 237
4   Norway 32 60 54 34 48 228
5   Austria 38 36 40 48 54 216
6   Ukraine 43 43 43 38 40 207
7   Czech Republic 40 40 28 31 34 173
8   Italy 36 31 31 40 29 167
9   Canada 31 30 25 28 36 150
10   Switzerland 34 23 34 25 30 146
11   Bulgaria 30 34 30 32 19 145
12   Kazakhstan 28 28 29 27 32 144
13   Slovakia 27 27 26 29 28 137
14   United States 29 38 36 31 134
15   Slovenia 29 26 27 23 25 130
16   Belarus 19 25 24 22 26 116
17   Estonia 26 24 23 20 23 116
18   Japan 22 21 19 26 24 112
19   Finland 24 19 22 21 22 108
20   Romania 25 20 18 24 18 105
21   Sweden 0 38 32 30 0 100
22   Latvia 20 17 17 19 27 100
23   Poland 21 22 21 17 17 98
24   Lithuania 23 18 20 16 20 97
25   South Korea 0 16 16 18 21 71
26   United Kingdom 15 15

References

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