2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men

The 2009–10 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men will start at Sunday December 6, 2009 in Östersund and will finish Friday February 26, 2009 in Vancouver at the olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is Austrian team.

The relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi), each leg skied over three laps, with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually one at a time from spare round holders or bullets deposited by the competitor into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each missed target remaining. 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 position in race.), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shoots at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the range in 5th place, you shoot at lane five.).

2008–09 Top 3 Standings

Medal Country Points[1]
Gold:  Austria 276
Silver:  Norway 254
Bronze:  Germany 247

Medal winners

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Östersund
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 France
Vincent Jay
Vincent Defrasne
Simon Fourcade
Martin Fourcade
1:15:10.3
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
 Norway
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Alexander Os
Lars Berger
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
1:15:24.0
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (1+3)
(0+0) (2+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Austria
Daniel Mesotitsch
Simon Eder
Dominik Landertinger
Christoph Sumann
1:15:28.5
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
Hochfilzen
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 Austria
Simon Eder
Daniel Mesotitsch
Dominik Landertinger
Christoph Sumann
1:16:13.1
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+3) (0+1)
 Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Evgeny Ustyugov
Nikolay Kruglov
Maxim Tchoudov
1:16:38.8
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (1+3)
(0+0) (0+1)
 Germany
Christoph Stephan
Arnd Peiffer
Michael Greis
Simon Schempp
1:16:45.1
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+1)
Oberhof
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 Norway
Halvard Hanevold
Tarjei Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
1:17:03.3
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
 France
Vincent Jay
Vincent Defrasne
Simon Fourcade
Martin Fourcade
1:17:30.8
(0+2) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+3)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
 Germany
Christoph Stephan
Michael Greis
Arnd Peiffer
Simon Schempp
1:17:45.5
(0+1) (0+2)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+2) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
Ruhpolding
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 Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Anton Shipulin
Maxim Tchoudov
Evgeny Ustyugov
1:22:29.8
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
 Norway
Halvard Hanevold
Tarjei Bø
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Emil Hegle Svendsen
1:22:58.4
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+3)
(0+1) (0+0)
 Austria
Daniel Mesotitsch
Friedrich Pinter
Tobias Eberhard
Dominik Landertinger
1:24:04.6
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+2)
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+1) (1+3)
2010 Winter Olympics
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 Norway
Halvard Hanevold
Tarjei Bø
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
1:21:38.1
(0+1) (0+0)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+0)
 Austria
Simon Eder
Daniel Mesotitsch
Dominik Landertinger
Christoph Sumann
1:22:16.7
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+2) (0+1)
(0+1) (0+0)
(1+3) (0+0)
 Russia
Ivan Tcherezov
Anton Shipulin
Maxim Tchoudov
Evgeny Ustyugov
1:22:16.9
(0+0) (0+1)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+0)
(0+0) (0+3)

Standings

# Name ÖST HOC OBE RUH OLY Total[2]
1  Norway 54 40 60 54 60 228
2  Austria 48 60 43 48 54 210
3  Russia 43 54 40 60 48 205
4  France 60 43 54 34 38 195
5  Germany 40 48 48 43 40 179
6  Sweden 38 38 31 36 43 155
7  Switzerland 32 34 38 40 32 144
8  United States 36 31 38 28 133
9  Czech Republic 30 36 31 36 133
10  Ukraine 34 21 34 29 34 131
11  Belarus 31 30 29 32 30 123
12  Italy 29 32 30 29 120
13  Canada 27 24 28 31 110
14  Latvia 24 20 36 25 22 107
15  Estonia 20 29 27 24 27 107
16  Slovenia 19 26 28 27 24 105
17  Japan 26 22 32 21 101
18  Bulgaria 22 23 30 20 25 100
19  Slovakia 23 27 22 26 98
20  Kazakhstan 21 25 26 23 23 97
21  Finland 25 28 0 26 79
22  Lithuania 16 18 23 18 75
23  Poland 28 19 25 72
24  United Kingdom 18 24 19 61
25  Serbia 17 17 17 51
26  Hungary 15 15

References

  1. ^ "2008/09 Final Standings". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  2. ^ "Standings Relay men" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2009-12-06.