Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's relay

Men’s relay
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Men’s relay; at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
	Biathlon
Venue	Hualindong Ski Resort
Date	15 February
Competitors	84 from 21 nations
Teams	21
Winning time	1:19:50.2
Medalists
	← 2018 2026 →

Last updated March 24, 2024

Pre-Race

The 2018 Olympics saw Sweden take gold, with Norway and Germany taking silver and bronze respectively. At the most recent 2021 World Championships, Norway again took the gold.

On the 2021–2022 World Cup circuit, four relays were run before the Olympics across different stops: three were won by Norway, and one by Russia.

Race

An exciting competition, the pre-race favorite team from Norway had a disastrous first leg from Sturla Holm Lægreid, who missed four times while shooting in the standing position, forcing a penalty lap and opening the door for the ROC, France, and Belarus squads to stake an early lead.

Throughout the second leg, the ROC continued skiing strong and shooting well, while Norway dropped all the way back to an almost unthinkable 1:40 deficit behind leader Alexander Loginov from the ROC. A tight battle emerged between Émilien Jacquelin of France and Roman Rees of Germany behind Loginov while Belarus, Italy, Canada, and Sweden fell further back and away from medal contention.

The third leg saw more of the same, as perfect shooting from Maxim Tsvetkov kept the ROC well clear of the chasing pack. Behind Tsetkov, Johannes Thingnes Bø led a strong comeback for the Norwegians, as the multi-gold medalist's 19:10.9 proved to be the fastest leg of the day, bringing the favorites Norway back into medal contention. France and Germany kept pace, reducing the race for three medals down to four likely candidates.

On the fourth and final leg, ROC's Eduard Latypov continued to lead going into the last shooting section, entering the checkpoint with a 0:50 lead over France, Germany, and Norway. However, after a disastrous shooting where he missed four out of his first five shots, Latypov left the shooting area having to ski two penalty loops, effectively handing the race back over to the chasing pack. Behind Latypov, both Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen of Norway and Quentin Fillon Maillet of France shot well, but Maillet had to reload manually while Christiansen shot clean, sending Norway off the shooting range first and on their way to their first gold medal in the event since 2010. Maillet finished strong to claim silver for France, while a heartbroken Latypov managed to hold off Germany for bronze.

Qualification

Results

The race was started at 14:30.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Country	Time	Penalties (P+S)	Deficit
	1	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:19:50.2 20:21.2 20:40.1 19:10.9 19:38.0	1+7 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+2 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0	—
	3	France Fabien Claude Émilien Jacquelin Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet	1:20:17.6 19:48.7 20:01.2 20:20.6 20:07.1	0+9 0+2 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+2	+27.4
	2	ROC Said Karimulla Khalili Alexander Loginov Maxim Tsvetkov Eduard Latypov	1:20:35.5 19:40.9 19:32.8 20:15.5 21:06.3	2+6 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0 2+3	+45.3
4	4	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Benedikt Doll Philipp Nawrath	1:20:54.5 20:21.8 20:15.0 19:36.3 20:41.4	1+9 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+1 1+3	+1:04.3
5	8	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	1:21:39.6 20:18.5 21:01.5 20:05.0 20:14.6	1+13 0+1 0+3 1+3 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+0 0+1	+1:49.4
6	10	Canada Adam Runnalls Christian Gow Jules Burnotte Scott Gow	1:21:46.5 20:33.2 20:36.8 20:32.6 20:03.9	2+9 0+1 1+3 0+0 1+3 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+0	+1:56.3
7	7	Italy Thomas Bormolini Tommaso Giacomel Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch	1:21:48.8 20:11.8 20:14.5 20:38.4 20:44.1	2+13 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+3 1+3 0+1 0+1 1+3	+1:58.6
8	5	Belarus Mikita Labastau Dzmitry Lazouski Maksim Varabei Anton Smolski	1:21:49.2 19:41.8 20:43.9 21:13.8 20:09.7	2+11 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+2 0+0 2+3 0+3 0+0	+1:59.0
9	6	Ukraine Bogdan Tsymbal Artem Pryma Anton Dudchenko Dmytro Pidruchnyi	1:23:31.5 20:22.9 21:05.4 20:49.9 21:13.3	4+12 0+1 0+1 0+1 1+3 0+0 1+3 0+0 2+3	+3:41.3
10	14	Austria David Komatz Simon Eder Felix Leitner Harald Lemmerer	1:23:31.9 20:34.2 20:33.2 20:10.9 22:13.6	2+8 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+1 2+3	+3:41.7
11	11	Slovenia Miha Dovžan Jakov Fak Lovro Planko Rok Tršan	1:24:09.6 20:23.6 20:43.1 21:33.7 21:29.2	0+10 0+1 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+2 0+1 0+0 0+2	+4:19.4
12	9	Switzerland Sebastian Stalder Benjamin Weger Niklas Hartweg Joscha Burkhalter	1:24:12.3 20:58.0 20:22.0 20:10.0 22:42.3	1+8 0+0 0+0 0+1 0+1 0+0 0+0 1+3 0+3	+4:22.1
13	15	United States Sean Doherty Jake Brown Paul Schommer Leif Nordgren	1:25:33.0 20:47.2 21:11.5 21:21.2 22:13.1	3+13 0+1 1+3 0+0 1+3 0+0 0+2 1+3 0+1	+5:42.8
14	17	Lithuania Tomas Kaukėnas Vytautas Strolia Karol Dombrovski Linas Banys	1:25:37.8 21:10.3 21:11.6 21:25.9 21:50.0	0+11 0+2 0+0 0+0 0+3 0+0 0+1 0+3 0+2	+5:47.6
15	16	Estonia Rene Zahkna Kristo Siimer Kalev Ermits Raido Ränkel	1:26:03.6 21:25.8 22:26.7 20:56.9 21:14.2	2+12 0+0 1+3 0+3 1+3 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+0	+6:13.4
16	20	China Cheng Fangming Yan Xingyuan Zhu Zhenyu Zhang Chunyu	1:26:27.5 20:12.8 22:37.5 21:46.2 21:51.0	2+11 0+1 0+0 0+2 2+3 0+1 0+3 0+1 0+0	+6:37.3
17	12	Finland Heikki Laitinen Tero Seppälä Olli Hiidensalo Tuomas Harjula	1:26:57.7 22:27.8 20:34.7 21:25.2 22:30.0	4+14 0+2 2+3 0+0 0+2 0+1 0+3 0+0 2+3	+7:07.5
18	18	Bulgaria Blagoy Todev Vladimir Iliev Dimitar Gerdzhikov Anton Sinapov	1:27:05.3 22:27.2 20:26.6 21:58.4 22:13.1	2+11 0+2 0+1 0+1 0+1 1+3 0+0 0+0 1+3	+7:15.1
19	13	Czech Republic Jakub Štvrtecký Mikuláš Karlík Adam Václavík Michal Krčmář	LAP 22:55.8 20:29.3 LAP	1+3 1+3 0+2 0+3 0+0 2+3
20	21	Belgium Florent Claude Thierry Langer Tom Lahaye-Goffart César Beauvais	LAP 21:01.7 22:08.2 LAP	0+0 0+2 0+1 0+2 0+3 0+0
21	19	Slovakia Michal Šíma Matej Baloga Šimon Bartko Tomáš Sklenárik	LAP 21:39.2 22:10.1 LAP	0+0 0+2 0+1 0+2 2+3 0+2

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References

↑ "Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games". www.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
↑ "Beijing". Inside IBU. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
↑ "Final results" (PDF). Ibu.blob.core.windows.net. 15 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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[1] "Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games". www.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-18.

[2] "Beijing". Inside IBU. International Biathlon Union. Retrieved 2022-01-16.

[3] "Final results" (PDF). Ibu.blob.core.windows.net. 15 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Qualification
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Pursuit	men	women
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