2014 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Relay (Men)

Biathlon 4 × 7.5 km men's relay of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games
winner	Russia
Competitions
sprint	Women	Men
persecution	Women	Men
Mass start	Women	Men
singles	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men	Mixed

The men's 4 × 7.5 km relay race in biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place on February 22, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the Laura Biathlon and Cross-Country Ski Center. Gold went to the Russian relay, the German relay won silver and the Austrian team took bronze.

Competition description

In the relay race, four athletes from one nation entered the race as a team. Each athlete had to run a distance of 7.5 km with three laps of equal length each. After the first two rounds, the shooting range had to be started once; the first shot had to be shot lying down, the second shot standing. In contrast to the individual competitions, the athletes had up to three reload cartridges per shooting bout. For each target that was not hit after all eight shots had been fired, a penalty loop with a length of 150 m had to be completed. The relay handover to the next athlete took place by clearly touching the body within a given transition zone. At the end of his third lap, the last athlete no longer ran into the transition area, but directly to the finish. The winner was the nation whose relay reached the finish line first.

Total ascent: 4 × 258 m, maximum ascent: 31 m, difference in altitude: 31 m
19 relays at the start, all in the ranking (3 of them lapped).

Results

space	Country sportsman	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds	Difference (min)
1	Russia Alexei Volkov Yevgeny Ustjugow Dmitri Malyshko Anton Schipulin	1:12: 15.9 h 17: 19.5 min 18: 15.9 min 18: 04.8 min 18: 35.7 min	0 + 8 (0 + 4, 0 + 4) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0 + 3 (0 + 1, 0 + 2) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0+ 2 (0 + 2, 0 + 0)	-
2	Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Boehm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:12: 19.4 h 17: 13.7 min 18: 17.4 min 17: 54.5 min 18: 53.8 min	0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0+ 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0)	+0: ​​03.5
3	Austria Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	1:12: 45.7 h 17: 26.7 min 18: 11.4 min 18:04.1 min 19:03.5 min	0 + 7 (0 + 4, 0 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 2, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 0+ 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1)	+0: ​​29.8
4th	Norway Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:13:10.3 h 17:03.4 min 18:07.6 min 18:12.6 min 19:46.7 min	1 + 5 (0 + 2, 1 + 3) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 1+ 4 (0 + 1, 1 + 3)	+0: ​​54.4
5	Italy Christian De Lorenzi Dominik Windisch Markus Windisch Lukas Hofer	1: 13: 15.5 h 17: 36.0 min 18: 01.4 min 18: 54.2 min 18: 43.9 min	0 + 11 (0 + 4, 0 + 7) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 0 + 3 (0 + 2, 0 + 1) 0 + 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2) 0+ 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2)	+0: ​​59.6
6th	Slovenia Peter Dokl Jakov Fak Klemen farmer Janez Marič	1:13:43.1 h 18:04.4 min 17:33.3 min 18:03.9 min 20:01.5 min	0 + 5 (0 + 1, 0 + 4) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0+ 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3)	+1: 27.2
7th	Canada Jean-Philippe Leguellec Scott Perras Brendan Green Nathan Smith	1:13:46.2 h 17:47.2 min 18:04.3 min 18:24.4 min 19:30.3 min	1 + 10 (0 + 4, 1 + 6) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0+ 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2)	+1: 30.3
8th	France Alexis Bœuf Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	1:13: 46.4 h 17: 35.4 min 18: 13.0 min 18: 42.9 min 19:15.1 min	0 + 7 (0 + 3, 0 + 4) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 3 (0 + 1, 0 + 2) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 0+ 2 (0 + 2, 0 + 0)	+1: 30.5
9	Ukraine Dmytro Pidrutschnyj Andrij Derysemlja Artem Pryma Serhiy Semenov	1:14:21.1 h 17:35.4 min 18: 17.4 min 18: 59.9 min 19: 28.4 min	0 + 7 (0 + 6, 0 + 1) 0 + 2 (0 + 2, 0 + 0) 0 + 3 (0 + 2, 0 + 1) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0+ 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0)	+2: 05.2
10	Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman	1:14:32.0 h 18:02.6 min 18:18.2 min 18: 52.9 min 19:18.3 min	0 + 5 (0 + 4, 0 + 1) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 3 (0 + 3, 0 + 0) 0+ 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1)	+2: 16.1
11	Czech Republic Michal Krčmář Jaroslav Soukup Tomáš Krupčík Ondřej Moravec	1:15: 11.9 h 17:37.1 min 18: 14.8 min 19: 54.3 min 19: 25.7 min	0 + 5 (0 + 3, 0 + 2) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0 + 3 (0 + 2, 0 + 1) 0+ 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0)	+2: 56.0
12	Slovakia Pavol Hurajt Tomáš Hasilla Miroslav Matiaško Matej Kazár	1:15: 23.8 h 17: 33.4 min 18: 37.8 min 19: 21.0 min 19: 51.6 min	1 + 9 (0 + 3, 1 + 6) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 1+ 5 (0 + 2, 1 + 3)	+3: 07.9
13	Belarus Sjarhej Novikau Uladsimir Tschapelin Jury Ljadau Jauhen Abramenka	1:16:02.3 h 18:21.3 min 18: 52.2 min 19:01.8 min 19:47.0 min	0 + 5 (0 + 1, 0 + 4) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0+ 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2)	+3: 46.4
14th	Switzerland Claudio Böckli Ivan Joller Serafin Wiestner Benjamin Weger	1:16: 15.8 h 18: 28.3 min 19: 11.6 min 18: 50.0 min 19: 45.9 min	0 + 10 (0 + 3, 0 + 7) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 0 + 3 (0 + 3, 0 + 0) 0+ 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1)	+3: 59.9
15th	Bulgaria Mikhail Kletcherow Ivan Slatew Vladimir Iliew Krassimir Anew	1:17: 38.4 h 18: 25.9 min 20:40.4 min 19: 14.9 min 19: 17.2 min	2 + 8 (0 + 3, 2 + 5) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 2 + 4 (0 + 1, 2 + 3) 0 + 3 (0 + 2, 0 + 1) 0+ 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0)	+5: 22.5
16	United States Lowell Bailey Russell Currier Sean Doherty Leif Nordgren	1:17:39.1 h 17:20.7 min 20:11.3 min 19:37.3 min 20:29.8 min	3 + 12 (3 + 8, 0 + 4) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 3 + 5 (3 + 3, 0 + 2) 0 + 3 (0 + 3, 0 + 0) 0+ 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2)	+5: 23.2
17th	Estonia Daniil Steptšenko Kalev Ermits Kauri Kõiv Roland Lessing	- 18:05.5 min 20:08.4 min 19:31.2 min LAP	3 + 12 (2 + 7, 1 + 5) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 1 + 3 (1 + 3, 0 + 0) 1+ 5 (1 + 3, 0 + 2)	LAP
18th	Kazakhstan Anton Pantow Sergei Naumik Alexander Trifonow Dias Keneschow	- 18: 13.3 min 19: 18.0 min 20: 02.4 min LAP	0 + 10 (0 + 4, 0 + 6) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 0 + 4 (0 + 3, 0 + 1) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0+ 3 (0 + 1, 0 + 2)	LAP
19th	Poland Krzysztof Pływaczyk Łukasz Szczurek Łukasz Słonina Rafał Lepel	- 17: 53.7 min 21: 29.1 min 20: 57.5 min LAP	2 + 12 (1 + 7 1 + 5) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 2 + 6 (1 + 3, 1 + 3) 0 + 2 (0 + 2, 0 + 0) 0 + 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2)	LAP

Web links

• Official result (PDF, 86 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBU Event and Competition Rules, 1.3.10 (.pdf) on biathlonworld.com, accessed on February 9, 2014