2018 Winter Olympics / Biathlon - Relay (Men)

sport	biathlon
discipline	4 × 7.5 km relay
gender	Men
Attendees	152 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Alpensia Biathlon Center
Competition phase	20th February 2018
Winning time	1: 15: 16.5 h
Medalist  Sweden Peppe Femling , Jesper Nelin , Sebastian Samuelsson , Fredrik Lindström  Norway Lars Helge Birkeland , Tarjei Bø , Johannes Thingnes Bø , Emil Hegle Svendsen  Germany Erik Lesser , Benedikt Doll , Arnd Peiffer , Simon Schempp

Biathlon competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics
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 the biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on February 23, 2018 at 8:15 p.m. The venue was the Alpensia Biathlon Center . Gold went to the Swedish relay team, Norway won silver, and the German 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 must be prone, 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 × 255 m, maximum ascent: 40 m, difference in altitude: 36 m
18 relays at the start, 3 of them lapped.

Results

space	Country sportsman	time	Penalty loops + spare rounds
1	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Sebastian Samuelsson Fredrik Lindström	1:15: 16.5 h 18: 50.9 min 18: 59.9 min 18: 31.5 min 18: 54.2 min	0 + 7 (0 + 2, 0 + 5) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0 + 4 (0 + 1, 0 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0+ 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1)
2	Norway Lars Helge Birkeland Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:16:12, 18:48.1 min, 19:17.5 min, 18:16.3 min, 19:50.1 min	1 + 12 (0 + 4, 1 + 8) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 0 + 6 (0 + 3, 0 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 1+ 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3)
3	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1: 17: 23.6 h 18: 23.6 min 19: 48.2 min 18: 23.8 min 20: 48.0 min	3 + 10 (0 + 3, 3 + 7) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 2 + 3 (0 + 0, 2 + 3) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 1+ 6 (0 + 3, 1 + 3)
4th	Austria Tobias Eberhard Simon Eder Julian Eberhard Dominik Landertinger	1: 18: 09.0 h 19: 03.6 min 18: 47.4 min 19: 53.9 min 20: 24.1 min	2 + 11 (0 + 2, 2 + 9) 0 + 3 (0 + 1, 0 + 2) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 2 + 4 (0 + 1, 2 + 3) 0+ 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3)
5	France Simon Desthieux Émilien Jacquelin Martin Fourcade Antonin Guigonnat	1:18:43.1 h 20:12.1 min 19:06.0 min 20:01.2 min 19:23.8 min	3 + 12 (0 + 4, 3 + 8) 2 + 5 (0 + 2, 2 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 1 + 4 (0 + 1, 1 + 3) 0+ 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1)
6th	United States Lowell Bailey Sean Doherty Tim Burke Leif Nordgren	1: 19:06.7 h 19:14.2 min 19: 14.0 min 19: 32.5 min 21:06.0 min	2 + 14 (2 + 6, 0 + 8) 0 + 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 2+ 6 (2 + 3, 0 + 3)
7th	Czech Republic Ondřej Moravec Michal Šlesingr Jaroslav Soukup Michal Krčmář	1:19: 23.6 h 18: 58.1 min 18: 36.5 min 20:40.3 min 21:08.7 min	2 + 13 (0 + 4, 2 + 9) 0 + 3 (0 + 0.0 + 3) 0 + 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0) 1 + 4 (0 + 1, 1 + 3) 1+ 5 (0 + 2, 1 + 3)
8th	Belarus Anton Smolski Raman Jaljotnau Sergei Botscharnikow Uladsimir Tschapelin	1: 20: 06.0 h 18: 51.4 min 19: 55.8 min 21: 02.4 min 20: 16.4 min	3 + 12 (2 + 6, 1 + 6) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 1 + 4 (0 + 1, 1 + 3) 2 + 4 (2 + 3, 0 + 1) 0+ 3 (0 + 2, 0 + 1)
9	Ukraine Artem Pryma Serhiy Semenov Vladimir Semakov Dmytro Pidruchnyj	1:20: 17.3 h 18: 47.5 min 20: 19.4 min 20: 55.7 min 20: 14.7 min	2 + 9 (0 + 0, 2 + 9) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 1+ 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3)
10	Slovenia Miha Dovžan Klemen Farmer Mitja Drinovec Lenart Oblak	1:20: 17.3 h 19: 33.5 min 19: 44.1 min 20: 23.1 min 20: 36.6 min	1 + 10 (0 + 5, 1 + 5) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 1 + 4 (0 + 1, 1 + 3) 0 + 3 (0 + 3, 0 + 0) 0+ 1 (0 + 1, 0 + 0)
11	Canada Christian Gow Scott Gow Macx Davies Brendan Green	1:20: 56.8 h 19: 11.8 min 19: 23.3 min 22: 16.0 min 20:05.7 min	1 + 11 (0 + 4, 1 + 7) 0 + 3 (0 + 0, 0 + 3) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 1 + 6 (0 + 3, 1 + 3) 0+ 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1)
12	Italy Thomas Bormolini Lukas Hofer Giuseppe Montello Dominik Windisch	1: 21: 35.6 h 20: 03.8 min 19: 00.7 min 20: 37.5 min 21: 53.6 min	4 + 16 (1 + 5, 3 + 11) 0 + 4 (0 + 1, 0 + 3) 0 + 3 (0 + 1, 0 + 2) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 3+ 6 (1 + 3, 2 + 3)
13	Estonia Rene Zahkna Kalev Ermits Roland Lessing Kauri Kõiv	1:22:26.4 h 19:32.7 min 20:05.6 min 21:12.2 min 21:35.9 min	3 + 15 (1 + 5, 2 + 10) 0 + 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 1 + 5 (1 + 3, 0 + 2) 1+ 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3)
14th	Romania George Buta Remus Faur Gheorghe Pop Cornel Puchianu	1:22:51.1 hr 20:32.7 min 20:16.9 min 20:25.6 min 21:35.9 min	2 + 8 (0 + 1, 2 + 7) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0 + 2 (0 + 0, 0 + 2) 0 + 2 (0 + 1, 0 + 1) 2+ 3 (0 + 0, 2 + 3)
15th	Switzerland Serafin Wiestner Benjamin Weger Jeremy Finello Mario Dolder	1: 23: 06.1 h 21: 30.0 min 19: 17.2 min 20: 22.6 min 21: 56.3 min	5 + 19 (2 + 8, 3 + 11) 2 + 6 (2 + 3, 0 + 3) 0 + 5 (0 + 3, 0 + 2) 0 + 5 (0 + 2, 0 + 3) 3+ 3 (0 + 0, 3 + 3)
16	Bulgaria Krassimir Anew Anton Sinapov Dimitar Gerdschikow Vladimir Iliev	- 19: 59.9 min 19: 52.2 min LAP -	3 + 13 (1 + 5, 2 + 8) 1 + 3 (0 + 0, 1 + 3) 0 + 4 (0 + 2, 0 + 2) 2 + 6 (1 + 3, 1 + 3) -
17th	Kazakhstan Maxim Braun Wassili Podkorytow Wladislaw Witenko Roman Jeremin	- 20: 13.2 min 20: 55.7 min LAP -	2 + 10 (0 + 5, 2 + 5) 0 + 1 (0 + 0, 0 + 1) 0 + 4 (0 + 3, 0 + 1) 2 + 5 (0 + 2, 2 + 3) -
18th	Slovakia Matej Kazár Tomáš Hasilla Šimon Bartko Martin Otčenáš	- 18: 42.0 min 22: 04.0 min LAP -	5 + 11 (4 + 6, 1 + 5) 0 + 0 (0 + 0, 0 + 0) 1 + 6 (0 + 3, 1 + 3) 4 + 5 (4 + 3, 0 + 2) -

Web links

• Results of the IBU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBU Event and Competition Rules, 1.3.10 (.pdf) on biathlonworld.com, accessed on February 9, 2018
2. ↑ Final result - Men relay. (PDF, 91 kB) biathlonresults.com, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2018 (English).