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

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup World Cup 1 – Calgary
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
Mass start		men		women
Team pursuit		men		women
Team sprint		men		women

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

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. 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.

On Sunday, Bowe beat the 1500 m world record, held by Cindy Klassen of Canada since 2005. In the men's 500 metres, Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov set a new world record in the Sunday race, 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.

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:

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
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	34.00 WR	William Dutton Canada	34.25	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada	34.30
1000 m		Gerben Jorritsma Netherlands	1:07.20	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	1:07.33	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:07.40
1500 m		Denis Yuskov Russia	1:41.88	Bart Swings Belgium	1:42.480	Joey Mantia United States	1:42.482
5000 m		Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:08.61	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:10.44	Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada	6:12.72
Mass start		Bart Swings Belgium	65 A	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	45 A	Reyon Kay New Zealand	25 A
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
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

^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
	2	Zhang Hong China	36.94	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	36.99	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	37.06
1000 m		Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:12.51 WR	Brittany Bowe United States	1:12.54	Zhang Hong China	1:12.65
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
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	3:57.21	Irene Schouten Netherlands	3:58.39	Natalya Voronina Russia	3:58.78
Mass start		Kim Bo-reum South Korea	60 A	Irene Schouten Netherlands	41 A	Ivanie Blondin Canada	23 A
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
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

^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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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