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.

Competition format The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three laps for a total of , 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 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 Medal Nation PointsGold: 282Silver: 255Bronze: 236

Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Pokljukadetails 1:11:56.5 1:12:12.2 1:12:18.0 Ruhpoldingdetails 1:13:40.7 1:13:45.8 1:14:04.2 Antholz-Anterselvadetails 1:13:57.2 1:13:57.3 1:14:30.8 World Championshipsdetails 1:14:15.0 1:14:20.8 1:14:35.1 Pyeongchangdetails 1:12:09.5 1:12:43.3 1:12:54.9

Standings # Nation POK RUH ANT HOC PYE Total Men's relay 1 54 54 48 60 43 259 2 60 32 36 54 60 242 3 48 48 60 43 38 237 4 32 60 54 34 48 228 5 38 36 40 48 54 216 6 43 43 43 38 40 207 7 40 40 28 31 34 173 8 36 31 31 40 29 167 9 31 30 25 28 36 150 10 34 23 34 25 30 146 11 30 34 30 32 19 145 12 28 28 29 27 32 144 13 27 27 26 29 28 137 14 — 29 38 36 31 134 15 29 26 27 23 25 130 16 19 25 24 22 26 116 17 26 24 23 20 23 116 18 22 21 19 26 24 112 19 24 19 22 21 22 108 20 25 20 18 24 18 105 21 0 38 32 30 0 100 22 20 17 17 19 27 100 23 21 22 21 17 17 98 24 23 18 20 16 20 97 25 0 16 16 18 21 71 26 — — — 15 — 15

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