The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup – Relay Men started on 6 December 2020 in Kontiolahti and will finished on 5 March 2021 in Nové Město

Competition format

The relay teams consist of four biathletes. Every athlete's leg is skied over three 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) laps for a total of 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi), 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 150 metres (490 ft) 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).

2019–20 Top 3 standings

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold:	Norway	348
Silver:	France	302
Bronze:	Germany	264

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Kontiolahti (2) details	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:16:21.0 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+3) (0+1)	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	1:17:00.2 (0+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Arnd Peiffer Benedikt Doll	1:17:11.7 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2)
Hochfilzen details	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	1:16:31.5 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+0) (0+2)	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:16:37.2 (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+2) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (1+3)	Germany Erik Lesser Roman Rees Benedikt Doll Philipp Horn	1:17:15.6 (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0)
Oberhof (2) details	France Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet Fabien Claude Emilien Jacquelin	1:22:28.0 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1)	Norway Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:22:32.2 (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0)	Italy Thomas Bormolini Lukas Hofer Tommaso Giacomel Dominik Windisch	1:23:34.6 (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)
Antholz-Anterselva details	France Antonin Guigonnat Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Desthieux Emilien Jacquelin	1:14:25.8 (0+2) (0+1) (0+1) (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:14:26.6 (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)	Russia Anton Babikov Matvey Eliseev Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov	1:15:16.6 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (0+3)
World Championships details	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen	1:12:27.4 (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (0+3) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2)	Sweden Peppe Femling Jesper Nelin Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson	1:13:00.5 (0+3) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (0+0)	Russia Said Karimulla Khalili Matvey Eliseev Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov	1:13:18.3 (0+2) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1)
Nové Město details	Germany Erik Lesser Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Philipp Nawrath	1:12:28.1 (0+0) (0+2) (0+0) (0+1) (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0)	Russia Said Karimulla Khalili Matvey Eliseev Alexander Loginov Eduard Latypov	1:13:49.8 (0+3) (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+2) (0+3) (0+0) (0+0)	Norway Sturla Holm Lægreid Johannes Dale Tarjei Bø Johannes Thingnes Bø	1:14:01.3 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3) (0+0) (1+3)

Standings

4 of 6 competitions scored ^[1]

#	Name	KON 2	HOC	OBH 2	ANT	POK	NME	Total
1	Norway	60	54	54	54	60	48	228
2	Sweden	54	60	36	26	54	30	204
3	France	26	38	60	60	43	40	203
4	Germany	48	48	40	43	36	60	199
5	Russia	43	43	43	48	48	54	193
6	Italy	40	34	48	40	38	36	166
7	Austria	38	36	26	38	31	38	150
8	Ukraine	31	28	38	34	40	32	144
9	Slovenia	29	29	30	31	34	43	138
10	Czech Republic	36	40	23	22	28	31	135
11	Finland	28	31	31	36	22	25	126
12	Belarus	30	30	25	28	32	34	126
13	Switzerland	33	32	32	30	30	DNS	126
14	Canada	27	27	34	32	29	29	124
15	United States	23	26	29	21	26	28	109
16	Slovakia	25	21	28	29	24	21	106
17	Japan	26	24	20	19	23	27	100
18	Lithuania	22	20	24	27	15	26	99
19	Estonia	24	19	27	24	20	–	95
20	Bulgaria	20	23	–	–	25	24	92
21	Romania	–	17	18	23	27	22	90
22	Belgium	21	25	17	18	18	23	87
23	Kazakhstan	17	18	22	25	17	19	84
24	Latvia	19	16	21	20	19	20	80
25	Poland	18	22	19	17	16	18	77
26	Moldova	–	–	–	–	21	–	21
27	South Korea	–	–	–	–	14	–	14

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