| Men's relay at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 | |
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| Venue | Kontiolahti, Finland |
| Date | 14 March 2015 |
| Competitors | 108 from 27 nations |
| Winning time | 1:13:49.5 |
| Medalists | |
| Biathlon at the 2015 World Championships | |||
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| Individual | men | women | |
| Sprint | men | women | |
| Pursuit | men | women | |
| Mass start | men | women | |
| Relay | men | women | mixed |
The Men's relay event of the Biathlon World Championships 2015 was held on 14 March 2015. [1] [2]
The race was started at 17:30 EET. [3]
| Rank | Bib | Team | Time | Penalties (P+S) | Deficit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3 |  Germany Erik Lesser Daniel Böhm Arnd Peiffer Simon Schempp | 1:13:49.5 18:33.9 18:50.8 18:24.7 18:00.1 | 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 | |
 | 2 |  Norway Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen | 1:14:04.9 18:27.5 19:05.3 18:31.9 18:00.2 | 0+0 0+6 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+1 | +15.4 |
 | 4 |  France Simon Fourcade Jean-Guillaume Béatrix Quentin Fillon Maillet Martin Fourcade | 1:14:23.1 18:28.8 18:52.8 19:08.3 17:53.2 | 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 | +33.6 |
| 4 | 1 |  Russia Evgeniy Garanichev Alexey Volkov Dmitry Malyshko Anton Shipulin | 1:14:39.2 19:19.1 18:52.3 18:36.8 17:51.0 | 1+6 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 | +49.7 |
| 5 | 5 |  Austria Daniel Mesotitsch Sven Grossegger Simon Eder Dominik Landertinger | 1:14:44.3 19:16.8 18:23.1 18:54.7 18:09.7 | 0+0 1+4 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 | +54.8 |
| 6 | 8 |  Czech Republic Michal Krčmář Jaroslav Soukup Michal Šlesingr Ondřej Moravec | 1:14:44.6 18:45.1 18:54.9 18:24.8 18:39.8 | 0+4 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+3 0+0 | +55.1 |
| 7 | 11 |  Switzerland Mario Dolder Benjamin Weger Serafin Wiestner Ivan Joller | 1:15:38.3 19:09.9 18:22.4 18:59.4 19:06.6 | 0+1 0+6 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 | +1:48.8 |
| 8 | 9 |  Slovenia Janez Marič Klemen Bauer Jakov Fak Rok Tršan | 1:15:38.7 19:21.4 18:46.9 18:20.9 19:09.5 | 0+4 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 | +1:49.2 |
| 9 | 7 |  Ukraine Dmytro Pidruchnyi Artem Pryma Oleksander Zhyrnyi Serhiy Semenov | 1:16:21.0 19:18.6 18:56.6 19:20.6 18:45.2 | 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 | +2:31.5 |
| 10 | 12 |  Belarus Vladimir Chepelin Dmitriy Dyuzhev Dzmitry Abasheu Yuryi Liadov | 1:16:24.2 18:57.2 19:00.6 19:54.4 18:32.0 | 0+6 0+5 0+3 0+1 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+3 | +2:34.7 |
| 11 | 14 |  Slovakia Tomáš Hasilla Matej Kazár Miroslav Matiaško Martin Otčenáš | 1:46:46.5 19:27.9 18:45.0 19:44.2 18:49.4 | 0+2 0+6 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+2 | +2:57.0 |
| 12 | 10 |  Italy Christian De Lorenzi Lukas Hofer Thomas Bormolini Dominik Windisch | 1:16:52.7 18:58.8 18:23.5 20:42.9 18:47.5 | 1+4 0+5 0+0 0+3 0+1 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+0 0+2 | +3:03.2 |
| 13 | 25 |  Finland Jarkko Kauppinen Ahti Toivanen Olli Hiidensalo Tuomas Grönman | 1:17:18.6 18:57.8 19:33.7 19:09.5 19:33.6 | 0+4 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+1 | +3:29.1 |
| 14 | 20 |  United States Lowell Bailey Leif Nordgren Tim Burke Sean Doherty | 1:17:21.1 18:57.8 18:58.5 20:15.1 19:09.7 | 0+5 2+6 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+1 2+3 0+3 0+0 | +3:31.6 |
| 15 | 15 |  Estonia Kauri Kõiv Kalev Ermits Rene Zahkna Roland Lessing | 1:17:22.0 19:35.5 19:05.7 20:04.1 18:36.7 | 0+2 0+5 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+1 | +3:32.5 |
| 16 | 13 |  Bulgaria Krasimir Anev Ivan Zlatev Vladimir Iliev Dimitar Gerdzhikov | 1:17:29.5 18:54.5 19:30.2 18:48.1 20:16.7 | 1+7 0+5 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+2 1+3 0+3 | +3:40.0 |
| 17 | 16 |  Kazakhstan Yan Savitskiy Anton Pantov Maxim Braun Vassiliy Podkorytrov | 1:17:55.7 19:08.0 19:38.9 19:26.3 19:42.5 | 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 0+0 0+1 | +4:06.2 |
| 18 | 17 |  Sweden Tobias Arwidson Peppe Femling Christofer Eriksson Ted Armgren | 1:18:12.0 19:19.3 18:47.1 20:51.4 19:14.2 | 0+3 2+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+0 2+3 0+0 0+0 | +4:22.5 |
| 19 | 6 |  Canada Christian Gow Nathan Smith Scott Gow Brendan Green | 1:18:52.9 19:47.5 18:18.9 21:31.5 19:15.0 | 2+5 0+4 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+0 2+3 0+2 0+0 0+1 | +5:03.4 |
| 20 | 21 |  Poland Mateusz Janik Łukasz Szczurek Grzegorz Guzik Krzysztof Pływaczyk | LAP 20:22.3 19.39.1 21:06.8 | 1+5 0+5 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+1 1+3 0+1 0+1 0+0 | |
| 21 | 24 |  Japan Kazuya Inomata Tsukasa Kobonoki Mikito Tachizaki Ryo Maeda | LAP 20:10.0 20:03.9 20:03.5 | 0+6 0+9 0+2 0+3 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+3 | |
| 22 | 18 |  Romania George Buta Remus Faur Marian Marcel Dănilă Cornel Puchianu | LAP 19:09.8 20:04.2 21:06.8 | 0+5 4+7 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+1 1+3 0+1 3+3 | |
| 23 | 22 |  Lithuania Tomas Kaukėnas Karol Dombrovski Vytautas Strolia Rokas Suslavičius | LAP 19:14.1 19:41.7 22:06.2 | 1+4 1+11 0+1 0+3 0+0 0+2 1+3 1+3 0+0 0+3 | |
| 24 | 19 |  Great Britain Lee-Steve Jackson Scott Dixon Kevin Kane Marcel Laponder | LAP 19:34.6 20.47.9 21:39.8 | 0+3 0+7 0+0 0+3 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+1 | |
| 25 | 26 |  South Korea Jun Je-uk Kim Jong-min Kim Yong-gyu Lee Su-young | LAP 20:11.7 20:59.8 21:47.1 | 1+8 1+8 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+2 0+2 0+3 1+3 1+3 | |
| 26 | 23 |  Latvia Rolands Pužulis Toms Praulītis Roberts Slotiņš Aleksandrs Patrijuks | LAP 20:53.3 22:54.2 21:12.4 | 0+5 4+8 0+0 1+3 0+1 3+3 0+2 0+0 0+2 0+2 | |
| 27 | 27 |  Serbia Damir Rastić Edin Hodžić Dejan Krsmanović Ajlan Rastić | LAP 21:42.3 21:58.0 24:20.2 | 4+10 0+7 1+3 0+1 0+1 0+3 3+3 0+3 0+3 |
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