The 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on Saturday 7 December 2019 in Östersund and finished on Saturday 7 March 2020 in Nové Město. The defending 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).
2018–19 Top 3 standings Medal Nation PointsGold: 270Silver: 236Bronze: 233
Medal winners Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Östersunddetails 1:10:30.4 1:11:02.7 1:11:57.5 Hochfilzendetails 1:14:44.2 1:14:46.2 1:15:36.1 Oberhofdetails 1:19:32.3 1:19:36.7 1:20:20.5 Ruhpoldingdetails 1:18:11.2 1:19:23.4 1:19:35.5 World Championshipsdetails 1:12:35.9(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+2) 1:12:57.4(0+0) (1+3)(0+0) (0+3)(0+1) (0+2)(0+2) (0+1) 1:13:12.1(0+0) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+1)(0+3) (1+3) Nové Městodetails 1:10:25.3(0+1) (0+1)(0+2) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1)(0+0) (0+0) 1:11:03.5(0+0) (0+2)(0+1) (0+0)(0+1) (0+0)(0+0) (0+1) 1:11:08.6(0+1) (0+0)(0+0) (1+3)(0+3) (0+0)(0+1) (0+0)
Standings # Nation ÖST HOC OBE RUH ANT NOV Total Men's relay 1 60 60 60 54 54 60 348 2 54 48 54 60 60 26 302 3 34 54 48 40 48 40 264 4 43 38 43 43 43 43 253 5 38 30 31 34 29 54 216 6 36 32 38 36 40 34 216 7 40 31 30 32 31 48 212 8 27 36 40 38 32 36 209 9 29 29 32 48 38 31 207 10 48 34 18 29 36 38 203 11 28 40 34 30 28 29 189 12 31 27 36 25 26 32 177 13 30 43 27 22 27 27 176 14 26 23 29 31 34 30 173 15 32 24 15 24 30 28 153 16 25 26 19 28 25 18 141 17 24 25 28 19 20 25 141 18 23 28 22 26 15 19 133 19 19 16 25 23 23 24 130 20 22 22 23 16 24 34 130 21 21 19 21 27 17 20 125 22 20 15 26 20 18 22 121 23 15 20 20 17 19 16 107 24 18 17 24 15 16 15 105 25 — 21 17 21 22 21 102 26 16 14 16 18 14 17 95 27 17 18 — — 21 — 56
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