The 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 10 December 2017 in Hochfilzen and will finish on Sunday 18 March 2018 in Oslo Holmenkollen. The defending team is 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).
2016–17 Top 3 standings Medal Nation PointsGold: 259Silver: 242Bronze: 237
Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Hochfilzendetails 1:21:21.8 1:23:16.7 1:23:55.8 Oberhofdetails 1:19:44.1 1:20:54.9 1:21:48.7 Ruhpoldingdetails 1:13:11.1 1:13:36.0 1:14:04.5 Oslo Holmenkollendetails1:13:13.7(0+0) (0+0)(0+2) (0+0)(0+1) (0+0)(0+0) (0+0) 1:14:04.0(0+0) (0+2)(0+1) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0) 1:14:10.6(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)(0+2) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)
Standings # Nation HOC OBE RUH OSL Total Men's relay 1 60 48 60 60 228 2 43 60 38 43 184 3 48 40 54 38 180 4 54 38 43 40 175 5 34 43 48 48 173 6 40 54 36 30 160 7 22 32 40 54 148 8 36 36 28 28 128 9 38 30 26 29 123 10 27 29 31 32 119 11 30 34 32 22 118 12 23 27 34 31 115 13 26 31 27 25 109 14 28 25 24 26 103 15 29 19 22 27 97 16 25 28 18 23 94 17 17 22 29 24 92 18 15 17 25 34 91 19 31 23 19 18 91 20 16 26 30 19 91 21 20 24 23 20 87 22 32 — 17 36 85 23 21 21 16 16 74 24 18 18 21 17 74 25 24 0 15 21 60 26 19 20 20 — 59
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