The 2018–19 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Sunday 16 December 2018 in Hochfilzen and finished on Saturday 16 March 2019 in Östersund. The defending team was Norway.

The winning team was Norway.

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).

2017–18 Top 3 standings Medal Nation PointsGold: 228Silver: 184Bronze: 180

Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Hochfilzendetails 1:16:10.6 1:16:14.2 1:16:39.4 Oberhofdetails 1:20:54.3 1:21:55.4 1:23:12.9 Ruhpoldingdetails 1:09:54.3 1:10:07.8 1:10:20.5 Canmoredetails 1:16:36.6 1:17:47.0 1:18:25.0World Championshipsdetails 1:12:03.7 1:12:41.8 1:13:07.8

Standings # Nation HOC OBE RUH CAN ÖST Total Men's relay 1 54 36 60 60 60 270 2 40 60 40 48 48 236 3 48 34 54 43 54 233 4 32 54 48 54 38 226 5 43 48 43 40 34 208 6 60 40 38 28 36 202 7 36 43 34 38 43 194 8 38 38 32 34 26 168 9 34 31 30 26 30 151 10 25 19 36 36 29 145 11 24 28 31 29 31 143 12 26 30 28 32 23 139 13 22 27 23 30 27 129 14 30 32 26 — 40 128 14 31 17 29 19 32 128 14 21 23 25 31 28 128 17 23 29 21 25 25 123 18 29 22 24 24 22 121 19 28 20 22 27 18 115 20 27 25 27 — 24 103 20 20 26 16 20 21 103 22 17 24 18 23 19 101 23 18 15 15 21 15 84 24 16 21 17 — 20 74 25 19 16 20 — 16 71 26 0 14 14 22 17 67 27 — 18 19 18 — 55

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