Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's relay

Men's relay
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Men's relay; at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for biathlon
Venue	Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex
Date	22 February
Competitors	76 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:12:15.9
Medalists
	← 2010 2018 →

Last updated February 12, 2024

The men's relay competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 22 February 2014.^[1]

On 15 February 2020, the International Biathlon Union announced that because of a doping violation by Evgeny Ustyugov, the Russian relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics.^[2] There is no official decision by the International Olympic Committee yet.

Results

The race started at 18:30.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Country	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	1	Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp	1:12:19.4 17:13.7 18:17.4 17:54.5 18:53.8	0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0	+3.5
	3	Austria Christoph Sumann Daniel Mesotitsch Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger	1:12:45.7 17:26.7 18:11.4 18:04.1 19:03.5	0+4 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1	+29.8
4	5	Norway Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Ole Einar Bjørndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen	1:13:10.3 17:03.4 18:07.6 18:12.6 19:46.7	0+2 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 1+3	+54.4
5	16	Italy Christian De Lorenzi Dominik Windisch Markus Windisch Lukas Hofer	1:13:15.5 17:36.0 18:01.4 18:54.2 18:43.9	0+4 0+7 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+2	+59.6
6	9	Slovenia Peter Dokl Jakov Fak Klemen Bauer Janez Marič	1:13:43.1 18:04.4 17:33.3 18:03.9 20:01.5	0+1 0+4 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+3	+1:27.2
7	12	Canada Jean-Philippe Leguellec Scott Perras Brendan Green Nathan Smith	1:13:46.2 17:47.2 18:04.3 18:24.4 19:30.3	0+4 1+6 0+0 1+3 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+2	+1:30.3
8	6	France Alexis Bœuf Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade	1:13:46.4 17:35.4 18:13.0 18:42.9 19:15.1	0+3 0+4 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+0	+1:30.5
9	10	Ukraine Dmytro Pidruchnyi Andriy Deryzemlya Artem Pryma Serhiy Semenov	1:14:21.1 17:35.4 18:17.4 18:59.9 19:28.4	0+6 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0	+2:05.2
10	2	Sweden Tobias Arwidson Björn Ferry Fredrik Lindström Carl Johan Bergman	1:14:32.0 18:02.6 18:18.2 18:52.9 19:18.3	0+4 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+1	+2:16.1
11	7	Czech Republic Michal Krčmář Jaroslav Soukup Tomáš Krupčík Ondřej Moravec	1:15:11.9 17:37.1 18:14.8 19:54.3 19:25.7	0+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+0	+2:56.0
12	11	Slovakia Pavol Hurajt Tomáš Hasilla Miroslav Matiaško Matej Kazár	1:15:23.8 17:33.4 18:37.8 19:21.0 19:51.6	0+3 1+6 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+2 1+3	+3:07.9
13	17	Belarus Sergey Novikov Vladimir Chepelin Yuryi Liadov Evgeny Abramenko	1:16:02.3 18:21.3 18:52.2 19:01.8 19:47.0	0+1 0+4 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2	+3:46.4
14	8	Switzerland Claudio Böckli Ivan Joller Serafin Wiestner Benjamin Weger	1:16:15.8 18:28.3 19:11.6 18:50.0 19:45.9	0+3 0+7 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+3 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+1	+3:59.9
15	13	Bulgaria Michail Kletcherov Ivan Zlatev Vladimir Iliev Krasimir Anev	1:17:38.4 18:25.9 20:40.4 19:14.9 19:17.2	0+3 2+5 0+0 0+1 0+1 2+3 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+0	+5:22.5
16	18	United States Lowell Bailey Russell Currier Sean Doherty Leif Nordgren	1:17:39.1 17:20.7 20:11.3 19:37.3 20:29.8	3+8 0+4 0+0 0+0 3+3 0+2 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+2	+5:23.2
17	14	Estonia Daniil Steptšenko Kalev Ermits Kauri Kõiv Roland Lessing	LAP 18:05.5 20:08.4 19:31.2 LAP	2+7 1+5 0+1 0+0 0+0 1+3 1+3 0+0 1+3 0+2
18	15	Kazakhstan Anton Pantov Sergey Naumik Alexandr Trifonov Dias Keneshev	LAP 18:13.3 19:18.0 20:02.4 LAP	0+4 0+6 0+0 0+3 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+2
19	19	Poland Krzysztof Pływaczyk Łukasz Szczurek Łukasz Słonina Rafał Lepel	LAP 17:53.7 21:29.1 20:57.5 LAP	1+7 1+5 0+0 0+0 1+3 1+3 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+2
DSQ	4	Russia Alexey Volkov Evgeny Ustyugov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin	~~1:12:15.9~~ 17:19.5 18:15.9 18:04.8 18:35.7	0+4 0+4 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+0	—

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References

↑ "Biathlon Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
↑ IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel renders verdicts on Sleptsova and Ustyugov
↑ Final Results

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[1] "Biathlon Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.

[2] IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel renders verdicts on Sleptsova and Ustyugov

[3] Final Results

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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Qualification
Individual	men	women
Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
Mass start	men	women
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