2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from Friday, 13 November, until Sunday, 15 November 2015. ^[1]

The weekend saw five world records. On Saturday, Heather Richardson-Bergsma of the United States beat fellow American Brittany Bowe's 1000 m world record from 2013. ^[2] Bowe, who skated in the pairing before Richardson, also skated better than the old record, and finished second, 3/100 behind Richardson. World records were also noted in the team sprints, as they were raced officially for the first time, with the Dutch team winning the men's race, and the Japanese team winning the women's race. ^[2]

On Sunday, Bowe beat the 1500 m world record, held by Cindy Klassen of Canada since 2005. ^[3] In the men's 500 metres, Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov set a new world record in the Sunday race, ^[3] stripping Jeremy Wotherspoon of Canada of the record he had held since 2007. Kulizhnikov had previously won the Friday race in a time that was a new national record. ^[4]

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events: ^[5]

Date	Session	Events	Comment
Friday, 13 November	Morning	09:00: 3000 m women   10:04: 500 m women (1)   10:44: 500 m men (1)	Division B
	Afternoon	12:30: 3000 m women   13:34: 500 m women (1)   13:59: 500 m men (1)   14:44: 5000 m men	Division A
		16:51: 5000 m men	Division B
Saturday, 14 November	Morning	09:30: 1000 m women   10:21: 1000 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	12:30: 1000 m women   13:00: 1000 m men	Division A
		13:55: Team pursuit men   14:55: Team pursuit women   15:54: Team sprint men   16:17: Team sprint women
Sunday, 15 November	Morning	09:30: 1500 m women   10:35: 1500 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	12:30: 1500 m women   13:12: 1500 m men   14:02: 500 m women (2)   14:27: 500 m men (2)   15:07: Mass start women   15:37: Mass start men	Division A
		16:57: 500 m women (2)   17:39: 500 m men (2)   18:27: Mass start women   18:42: Mass start men	Division B

All times are MST (UTC−7).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	34.11	Mika Poutala   Finland	34.28	William Dutton   Canada	34.46	[6]
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	34.00 WR	William Dutton   Canada	34.25	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix   Canada	34.30	[7]
1000 m		Gerben Jorritsma   Netherlands	1:07.20	Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	1:07.33	Kjeld Nuis   Netherlands	1:07.40	[8]
1500 m		Denis Yuskov   Russia	1:41.88	Bart Swings   Belgium	1:42.480	Joey Mantia   United States	1:42.482	[9]
5000 m		Sven Kramer   Netherlands	6:08.61	Jorrit Bergsma   Netherlands	6:10.44	Ted-Jan Bloemen   Canada	6:12.72	[10]
Mass start		Bart Swings   Belgium	65 A	Jorrit Bergsma   Netherlands	45 A	Reyon Kay   New Zealand	25 A	[11]
Team pursuit		Canada Ted-Jan Bloemen Jordan Belchos Benjamin Donnelly	3:39.32	South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Joo Hyong-jun	3:39.60	Italy Andrea Giovannini Luca Stefani Fabio Francolini	3:41.97	[12] [13]
Team sprint		Netherlands Ronald Mulder Kai Verbij Stefan Groothuis	1:18.79 WR	United States Mitchell Whitmore Jonathan Garcia Joey Mantia	1:19.39	Russia Ruslan Murashov Artyom Kuznetsov Aleksey Yesin	1:19.59	[14] [15]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Lee Sang-hwa   South Korea	36.96	Zhang Hong   China	37.18	Brittany Bowe   United States	37.22	[16]
	2	Zhang Hong   China	36.94	Lee Sang-hwa   South Korea	36.99	Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	37.06	[17]
1000 m		Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	1:12.51 WR	Brittany Bowe   United States	1:12.54	Zhang Hong   China	1:12.65	[18]
1500 m		Brittany Bowe   United States	1:51.59 WR	Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	1:52.27	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	1:54.18	[19]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	3:57.21	Irene Schouten   Netherlands	3:58.39	Natalya Voronina   Russia	3:58.78	[20]
Mass start		Kim Bo-reum   South Korea	60 A	Irene Schouten   Netherlands	41 A	Ivanie Blondin   Canada	23 A	[21]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Antoinette de Jong Marije Joling	2:56.11	Japan Ayaka Kikuchi Miho Takagi Misaki Oshigiri	2:56.46	Russia Olga Graf Natalya Voronina Elizaveta Kazelina	2:56.98	[22] [23]
Team sprint		Japan Erina Kamiya Maki Tsuji Nao Kodaira	1:26.82 WR	China Yu Jing Zhang Hong Li Qishi	1:27.08	Canada Marsha Hudey Noémie Fiset Heather McLean	1:28.39	[24] [25]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Standings

The top ten standings in the contested cups after the weekend. The top five nations in the team pursuit and team sprint cups.

Men's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 Total 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov 100 100 200 2 William Dutton 70 80 150 3 Mika Poutala 80 36 116 4 Ronald Mulder 60 40 100 5 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix 25 70 95 6 Laurent Dubreuil 36 45 81 7 Gilmore Junio 19 60 79 8 Yūya Oikawa 45 32 77 9 Mitchell Whitmore 15 50 65 10 Ruslan Murashov 50 8 58 [26]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Gerben Jorritsma 100 100 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 80 80 3 Kjeld Nuis 70 70 4 Joey Mantia 60 60 5 Shani Davis 50 50 6 Aleksey Yesin 45 45 7 Kai Verbij 40 40 8 Vincent De Haître 36 36 9 Denis Kuzin 32 32 10 Piotr Michalski 28 28 [27]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Denis Yuskov 100 100 2 Bart Swings 80 80 3 Joey Mantia 70 70 4 Kjeld Nuis 60 60 5 Konrad Niedźwiedzki 50 50 6 Thomas Krol 45 45 7 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 40 8 Shani Davis 36 36 9 Gerben Jorritsma 32 32 10 Li Bailin 28 28 [28]

5000/10000 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Sven Kramer 100 100 2 Jorrit Bergsma 80 80 3 Ted-Jan Bloemen 70 70 4 Patrick Beckert 60 60 5 Bart Swings 50 50 6 Douwe de Vries 45 45 7 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 40 8 Erik Jan Kooiman 35 35 9 Peter Michael 32 32 10 Aleksandr Rumyantsev 30 30 [29]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Bart Swings 100 100 2 Jorrit Bergsma 80 80 3 Reyon Kay 70 70 4 Livio Wenger 60 60 5 Arjan Stroetinga 50 50 6 Shane Williamson 45 45 7 Peter Michael 40 40 8 Sun Longjiang 36 36 9 Andrea Giovannini 32 32 10 Fabio Francolini 28 28 [30]

Team pursuit # Country CGY Total 1   Canada 100 100 2   South Korea 80 80 3   Italy 70 70 4   Poland 60 60 5   Japan 50 50 [31]

Team sprint # Country CGY Total 1   Netherlands 100 100 2   United States 80 80 3   Russia 70 70 4   Japan 60 60 5   Kazakhstan 50 50 [32]

Grand World Cup # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Bart Swings 230 230 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 180 180 3 Jorrit Bergsma 160 160 4 Joey Mantia 130 130 Kjeld Nuis 130 130 6 Gerben Jorritsma 100 100 Sven Kramer 100 100 Denis Yuskov 100 100 9 William Dutton 75 75 10 Ted-Jan Bloemen 70 70 Reyon Kay 70 70 [33]

Women's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 Total 1 Lee Sang-hwa 100 80 180 Zhang Hong 80 100 180 3 Brittany Bowe 70 60 130 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 60 70 130 5 Yu Jing 45 50 95 6 Vanessa Bittner 50 36 86 7 Jorien ter Mors 21 45 77 8 Erina Kamiya 36 40 76 9 Maki Tsuji 40 32 72 10 Olga Fatkulina 28 21 49 [34]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 100 100 2 Brittany Bowe 80 80 3 Zhang Hong 70 70 4 Jorien ter Mors 60 60 5 Vanessa Bittner 50 50 6 Marrit Leenstra 45 45 7 Ida Njåtun 40 40 8 Karolína Erbanová 36 36 9 Margot Boer 32 32 10 Lee Sang-hwa 28 28 [35]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Brittany Bowe 100 100 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 80 80 3 Martina Sáblíková 70 70 4 Ida Njåtun 60 60 5 Marrit Leenstra 50 50 6 Marije Joling 45 45 7 Li Qishi 40 40 8 Antoinette de Jong 36 36 9 Sanneke de Neeling 32 32 10 Misaki Oshigiri 28 28 [36]

3000/5000 m # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Martina Sáblíková 100 100 2 Irene Schouten 80 80 3 Natalya Voronina 70 70 4 Jorien Voorhuis 60 60 5 Annouk van der Weijden 50 50 6 Marije Joling 45 45 7 Ivanie Blondin 40 40 8 Claudia Pechstein 35 35 9 Misaki Oshigiri 32 32 10 Olga Graf 30 30 [37]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Kim Bo-reum 100 100 2 Irene Schouten 80 80 3 Ivanie Blondin 70 70 4 Martina Sáblíková 60 60 5 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 50 50 6 Nikola Zdráhalová 45 45 7 Park Do-yeong 40 40 8 Miho Takagi 36 36 9 Janneke Ensing 32 32 10 Nana Takagi 28 28 [38]

Team pursuit # Country CGY Total 1   Netherlands 100 100 2   Japan 80 80 3   Russia 70 70 4   Canada 60 60 5   South Korea 50 50 [39]

Team sprint # Country CGY Total 1   Japan 100 100 2   China 80 80 3   Canada 70 70 4   Netherlands 60 60 5   Belarus 50 50 [40]

Grand World Cup # Name Nat. CGY Total 1 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 295 295 2 Brittany Bowe 245 245 3 Martina Sáblíková 230 230 4 Irene Schouten 160 160 Zhang Hong 160 160 6 Kim Bo-reum 100 100 7 Lee Sang-hwa 90 90 8 Vanessa Bittner 75 75 9 Ivanie Blondin 70 70 Natalya Voronina 70 70 [41]

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