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 2014
Competitors	76 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:12:15.9
Medalists
	← 2010 2018 →

Last updated January 03, 2025

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, Evgeny Ustyugov and Russian men's 4 x 7.5km relay team had been disqualified from the 2014 Olympics.^[2] The International Olympic Committee results affirm the decision, but medals have not yet been reallocated. Norway is shown in third place, but Germany and Austria still hold the silver and bronze medals.^[3]

Results

The race started at 18:30.^[4]

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
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	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
7	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
8	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
9	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
10	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
11	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
12	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
13	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
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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". Biathlon World. International Biathlon Union. 15 February 2020. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
↑ Sochi 2014 Biathlon 4x7.5km relay men Results
↑ Final Results

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

[Ustyugov-2] "IBU anti-doping hearing panel renders verdicts on Sleptsova and Ustyugov". Biathlon World. International Biathlon Union. 15 February 2020. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

[3] Sochi 2014 Biathlon 4x7.5km relay men Results

[4] Final Results

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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Qualification
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Sprint	men	women
Pursuit	men	women
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