2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 16 November, until Sunday, 18 November 2012.

Schedule of events

Timeschedule of the event:[1]

Date	Time	Events
16 November	16:00 CET	3000 m women 500 m women 5000 m men
17 November	14:00 CET	500 m men 500 m women 1000 m men 1500 m women Team pursuit men Mass start women
18 November	14:00 CET	500 m men 1000 m women 1500 m men Team pursuit women Mass start men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pekka Koskela  Finland	34.96	Artur Waś  Poland	34.98	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.07	[2]
	2	Joji Kato  Japan	34.98	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.04	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	35.15	[3]
1000 m		Denny Morrison  Canada	1:09.43	Pekka Koskela  Finland	1:09.51	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:09.53	[4]
1500 m		Maurice Vriend  Netherlands	1:46.13	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:46.40	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	1:46.54	[5]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:16.09	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:16.78	Jan Blokhuijsen  Netherlands	6:16.81	[6]
Mass start		Christijn Groeneveld  Netherlands	10:14.55	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	10:14.61	Alexis Contin  France	10:14.67	[7]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:39.76	Russia Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov	3:42.90	South Korea Joo Hyung-joon Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon	3:43.57	[8]

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.85	Heather Richardson  United States	37.95	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.26	[9]
	2	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.92	Heather Richardson  United States	38.13	Jenny Wolf  Germany	38.14	[10]
1000 m		Heather Richardson  United States	1:15.27	Zhang Hong  China	1:15.41	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:15.83	[11]
1500 m		Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:56.35	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:56.42	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:57.42	[12]
3000 m		Stephanie Beckert  Germany	4:04.39	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:06.71	Jorien Ter Mors  Netherlands	4:06.90	[13]
Mass start		Mariska Huisman  Netherlands	8:22.96	Jorien Ter Mors  Netherlands	8:22.97	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	8:23.05	[14]
Team pursuit		Germany Stephanie Beckert Isabell Ost Claudia Pechstein	3:01.14	Netherlands Marije Joling Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg	3:02.332	Canada Ivanie Blondin Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	3:02.337	[15]

Standings

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

Men's cups

500 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Joji Kato		50	100	150
	Jan Smeekens		70	80	150
3	Mo Tae-bum		60	70	130
	Artur Waś		80	50	130
5	Pekka Koskela		100	0	100
6	Gilmore Junio		32	60	92
7	Keiichiro Nagashima		24	45	69
8	Jamie Gregg		40	25	65
9	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		32	28	60
10	Hein Otterspeer		40	18	58

1000 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Denny Morrison		100	100
2	Pekka Koskela		80	80
3	Kjeld Nuis		70	70
4	Pim Schipper		60	60
5	Hein Otterspeer		50	50
6	Aleksey Yesin		45	45
7	Brian Hansen		40	40
8	Lee Kyou-hyuk		36	36
9	Sjoerd de Vries		32	32
10	Samuel Schwarz		28	28

1500 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Maurice Vriend		100	100
2	Håvard Bøkko		80	80
3	Sverre Lunde Pedersen		70	70
4	Konrad Niedźwiedzki		60	60
5	Zbigniew Bródka		50	50
6	Brian Hansen		45	45
7	Ivan Skobrev		40	40
8	Denis Yuskov		36	36
9	Kjeld Nuis		32	32
10	Koen Verweij		28	28

5000/10000 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Sven Kramer		100	100
2	Jorrit Bergsma		80	80
3	Jan Blokhuijsen		70	70
4	Bob de Jong		60	60
5	Ivan Skobrev		50	50
6	Ted-Jan Bloemen		45	45
7	Alexis Contin		40	40
8	Håvard Bøkko		35	35
9	Lee Seung-hoon		32	32
10	Sverre Lunde Pedersen		30	30

Mass start

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Christijn Groeneveld		100	100
2	Arjan Stroetinga		80	80
3	Alexis Contin		70	70
4	Bart Swings		60	60
5	Dmitry Babenko		50	50
6	Jorrit Bergsma		45	45
7	Marco Weber		40	40
8	Jordan Belchos		36	36
9	Fredrik van der Horst		32	32
10	Tyler Derraugh		28	28

Team pursuit

#	Name	HVN1	Total
1	Netherlands	100	100
2	Russia	80	80
3	South Korea	70	70
4	Canada	60	60
5	Germany	50	50

Women's cups

500 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Lee Sang-hwa		100	100	200
2	Heather Richardson		80	80	160
3	Jenny Wolf		50	70	120
	Zhang Hong		60	60	120
5	Nao Kodaira		70	36	106
6	Yu Jing		45	50	95
7	Margot Boer		32	45	77
8	Olga Fatkulina		40	32	72
9	Wang Beixing		18	40	58
10	Karolína Erbanová		28	28	56

1000 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Heather Richardson		100	100
2	Zhang Hong		80	80
3	Lotte van Beek		70	70
4	Marrit Leenstra		60	60
5	Laurine van Riessen		50	50
6	Brittany Bowe		45	45
7	Karolína Erbanová		40	40
8	Yekaterina Aydova		36	36
9	Yu Jing		32	32
10	Christine Nesbitt		28	28

1500 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Christine Nesbitt		100	100
2	Marrit Leenstra		80	80
3	Lotte van Beek		70	70
4	Claudia Pechstein		60	60
5	Martina Sáblíková		50	50
6	Marije Joling		45	45
7	Laurine van Riessen		40	40
8	Ida Njåtun		36	36
9	Olga Graf		32	32
10	Brittany Schussler		28	28

3000/5000 m

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Stephanie Beckert		100	100
2	Martina Sáblíková		80	80
3	Jorien Ter Mors		70	70
4	Diane Valkenburg		60	60
5	Olga Graf		50	50
6	Marije Joling		45	45
7	Antoinette de Jong		40	40
8	Ireen Wüst		35	35
9	Kim Bo-reum		32	32
10	Ida Njåtun		30	30

Mass start

#	Name	Nat.	HVN	Total
1	Mariska Huisman		100	100
2	Jorien Ter Mors		80	80
3	Claudia Pechstein		70	70
4	Kim Bo-reum		60	60
5	Ivanie Blondin		50	50
6	Park Do-yeong		45	45
7	Bente Kraus		40	40
8	Karolina Domanska-Ksyt		36	36
9	Jelena Peeters		32	32
10	Lim Yung-soo		28	28

Team pursuit

#	Name	HVN1	Total
1	Germany	100	100
2	Netherlands	80	80
3	Canada	70	70
4	Poland	60	60
5	South Korea	50	50

References

1. Heerenveen World Cup announcement
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