The Men's 4 × 7.5 kilometre biathlon relay competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at Autrans. Each national team consisted of four members, with each skiing 7.5 kilometres and shooting twice, once prone and once standing. This was the first time the biathlon relay was contested in the Olympic program.
Results Norway had won the first two official relay competitions at the Biathlon World Championships, but in Grenoble they were forced to ski five penalty loops while the Soviet Union skied only two, allowing the Soviets to pull away to win by almost two minutes. Sweden didn't go on the penalty loop at all, the only team to do so, and while their skiing could not match the top two, they did manage to finish in the bronze medal spot, just as they had in the two previous world championship relays. RankBib Team Penalties ResultDeficit 4 Alexander TikhonovNikolay PuzanovViktor MamatovVladimir Gundartsev 2:13:02.4 7 Ola WærhaugOlav JordetMagnar SolbergJon Istad 2:14:50.2 12 Lars-Göran ArwidsonTore ErikssonOlle PetrussonHolmfrid Olsson 2:17:26.3 2 Józef RóżakAndrzej FiedorStanisław ŁukaszczykStanisław Szczepaniak 2:20:19.6 1 Juhani SuutarinenHeikki FlöjtKalevi VähäkyläArve Kinnari 2:20:41.8 3 Heinz KlugeHans-Gert JahnHorst KoschkaDieter Speer 2:21:54.5 8 Gheorghe CimpoiaConstantin CarabelaNicolae BărbăşescuVilmoş Gheorghe 2:25:39.8 +12:37.4 13 Ralph WakleyEdward WilliamsBill SpencerJohn Ehrensbeck 2:28:35.5 +15:33.1 6 Herbert HindelangTheo MerkelXaver KrausGerhard Gehring 2:29:56.6 +16:54.2 10 9 Daniel ClaudonSerge LegrandAimé Gruet-MassonJean-Claude Viry 2:31:12.9 +18:10.5 11 11 Paul ErnstAdolf ScherwitzlHorst SchneiderFranz Vetter 2:33:47.1 +20:44.7 12 10 Marcus HallidayAlan NotleyPeter TancockFrederick Andrew 2:34:40.9 +21:38.5 13 14 Isao OnoMiki ShibuyaShozo OkuyamaHajime Yoshimura 2:35:21.0 +22:18.6 5 George EdeKnowles McGillGeorge RattaiEsko Karu DNF
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