2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4

The fourth competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 11 December, until Sunday, 13 December 2015.[1]

There were no world records over the weekend.[2][3][4] Multiple winners were Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, who won one of the men's 500 m races and the 1000 m race, and Sven Kramer of the Netherlands, who won the men's 5000 m race and the team pursuit.

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:[5]

Date	Session	Events	Comment
Friday, 11 December	Afternoon	12:45: 3000 m women   13:40: 500 m women (1)   14:00: 500 m men (1)	Division B
	Evening	15:55: 3000 m women   16:59: 500 m women (1)   17:22: 500 m men (1)	Division A
		18:12: Team pursuit men   19:14: Team sprint women   19:29: Team sprint men
Saturday, 12 December	Morning	10:00: 1000 m women   10:31: 1000 m men   11:32: 5000 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	14:00: 1000 m women   14:46: 5000 m men	Division A
		16:40: Team pursuit women
		17:18: 1000 m men	Division A
Sunday, 13 December	Morning	09:45: 1500 m women   10:45: 1500 m men   11:54: 500 m women (2)   12:15: 500 m men (2)	Division B
	Afternoon	14:00: 1500 m women   14:54: 1500 m men   15:47: 500 m women (2)   16:27: 500 m men (2)   17:07: Mass start women   17:27: Mass start men	Division A
		17:45: Mass start women   18:05: Mass start men	Division B

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.48	Aleksey Yesin  Russia	34.65	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix  Canada	34.78	[6]
	2	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	34.67	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix  Canada	34.76	Espen Aarnes Hvammen  Norway	34.86	[7]
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	1:08:16	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:08:59	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:08.61	[8]
1500 m		Joey Mantia  United States	1:44.26	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:44.38	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:45.33	[9]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:14.99	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:16.41	Bart Swings  Belgium	6:20.80	[10]
Mass start		Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	63 ^A	Fabio Francolini  Italy	40 ^A	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	20 ^A	[11]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Sven Kramer Jorrit Bergsma Jan Blokhuijsen	3:43.77	Norway Sverre Lunde Pedersen Håvard Bøkko Sindre Henriksen	3:44.66	Russia Danil Sinitsyn Aleksandr Rumyantsev Sergey Gryaztsov	3:46.24	[12][13]
Team sprint		Canada Gilmore Junio Alexandre St-Jean Vincent De Haître	1:19.75	Russia Ruslan Murashov Aleksey Yesin Kirill Golubev	1:21.27	Netherlands Jesper Hospes Michel Mulder Stefan Groothuis	1:21.29	[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	37.59	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.86	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.93	[16]
	2	Yu Jing  China	37.84	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.87	Zhang Hong  China	37.90	[17]
1000 m		Brittany Bowe  United States	1:14.49	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:15.33	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:15.77	[18]
1500 m		Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:55.29	Brittany Bowe  United States	1:55.44	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:56.12	[19]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:03.50	Annouk van der Weijden  Netherlands	4:05.39	Olga Graf  Russia	4:06.57	[20]
Mass start		Misaki Oshigiri  Japan	65 ^A	Carien Kleibeuker  Netherlands	43 ^A	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	20 ^A	[21]
Team pursuit		Japan Ayaka Kikuchi Nana Takagi Miho Takagi	2:59.58	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Antoinette de Jong Linda de Vries	3:01.26	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:01.51	[22][23]
Team sprint		Netherlands Floor van den Brandt Janine Smit Margot Boer	1:29.23	Russia Yekaterina Shikhova Nadezhda Aseyeva Olga Fatkulina	1:29.64	No bronze medalist team		[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	SLC1	SLC2	INZ1	INZ2	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Pavel Kulizhnikov		100	100	100	100			100	5	505
2	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		25	70	40	28	32	80	70	80	425
3	Artur Waś		40	12	8	50	70	100	60	18	358
4	William Dutton		70	80	70	80	8	16	10	6	340
5	Mika Poutala		80	36	36	60		50	45	32	339
6	Gilmore Junio		19	60	28	18	100	60	24	18	327
7	Laurent Dubreuil		36	45	14	70	60	32	18	50	325
8	Kai Verbij		16	21	60	12	16	70	50	40	285
9	Ruslan Murashov		50	8	5	40	24	8	40	100	275
10	Alexandre St-Jean		11	6	25	36	80	12	14	60	244

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1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Kjeld Nuis 70 80 100 70 320 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 80 100 100 280 3 Gerben Jorritsma 100 70 28 36 234 4 Joey Mantia 60 40 60 45 205 5 Kai Verbij 40 45 70 40 195 6 Shani Davis 50 60 24 60 194 7 Denis Yuskov 25 80 80 185 8 Aleksey Yesin 45 32 45 50 172 9 Vincent De Haître 36 50 21 28 135 10 Thomas Krol 18 28 50 32 128 [27]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Joey Mantia 70 80 70 100 320 2 Kjeld Nuis 60 100 80 70 310 3 Denis Yuskov 100 100 80 280 4 Thomas Krol 45 28 60 60 193 5 Bart Swings 80 50 50 180 6 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 60 32 45 177 7 Shani Davis 36 70 18 36 160 8 Jan Szymański 24 32 45 40 141 9 Håvard Bøkko 21 45 40 28 134 10 Konrad Niedźwiedzki 50 12 50 112 [28]

5k/10k # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Jorrit Bergsma 80 70 100 80 330 2 Sven Kramer 100 80 100 280 3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 25 80 60 205 4 Patrick Beckert 60 60 40 35 195 5 Ted-Jan Bloemen 70 100 170 Bart Swings 50 50 70 170 7 Erik Jan Kooiman 35 40 45 40 160 8 Peter Michael 32 45 50 25 152 9 Douwe de Vries 45 60 45 150 10 Arjan Stroetinga 27 70 30 127 [29]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Arjan Stroetinga 50 100 50 100 300 2 Fabio Francolini 28 80 70 80 258 3 Jorrit Bergsma 80 40 80 36 236 4 Bart Swings 100 70 60 230 5 Alexis Contin 60 100 50 210 6 Reyon Kay 70 16 40 18 144 7 Lee Seung-hoon 28 25 70 123 8 Jordan Belchos 21 18 32 40 111 9 Peter Michael 40 32 28 8 108 10 Viktor Hald Thorup 25 50 14 14 103 [30]

Team pursuit # Country CGY INZ HVN1 Total 1  Netherlands 100 100 200  South Korea 80 60 60 200 3  Poland 60 70 45 175 4  Italy 70 50 50 170 5  Norway 80 80 160 [31]

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC HVN1 Total 1  Netherlands 100 70 70 240 2  Russia 70 80 80 230 3  Canada 100 100 200 4  Poland 45 40 50 135 5  United States 80 45 125 [32]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	INZ	HVN1	Total
1	Kjeld Nuis		130	180	180	140	630
2	Bart Swings		230	170		180	580
3	Pavel Kulizhnikov		180	200		150	530
4	Jorrit Bergsma		160	70	180	80	490
5	Joey Mantia		130	80	130	100	440
	Dennis Yuskov		100		180	160	440
7	Arjan Stroetinga		50	100	120	100	370
8	Sven Kramer		100	80		100	280
9	Alexis Contin			60	100	100	260
10	Shani Davis		50	130		60	240

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Women's cups

500 m

#	Name	Nat.	CGY1	CGY2	SLC1	SLC2	INZ1	INZ2	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Lee Sang-hwa		100	80	60	80	100	100	100	60	680
2	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		60	70	70	60	70	80	70	80	560
3	Zhang Hong		80	100	100	100			60	70	510
4	Brittany Bowe		70	60	80	70	80		80		440
5	Vanessa Bittner		50	36	45	21	50	50	45	40	337
6	Yu Jing		45	50	50	50			36	100	331
7	Heather McLean		19	28	16	45	60	70	32	28	298
8	Olga Fatkulina		28	21	32	40	45	18	50	45	279
9	Erina Kamiya		36	40	21	28	36	60	21	18	260
8	Maki Tsuji		40	32	28	36	24	36	16	24	236

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1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Brittany Bowe 80 100 100 100 380 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 100 70 80 80 330 3 Marrit Leenstra 45 60 50 70 225 4 Zhang Hong 70 80 45 195 5 Vanessa Bittner 50 40 40 60 190 6 Li Qishi 25 50 60 24 159 7 Olga Fatkulina 24 45 28 40 137 8 Ida Njåtun 40 8 45 36 129 9 Karolína Erbanová 36 21 18 50 125 10 Miho Takagi 11 28 32 28 99 [35]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Brittany Bowe 100 80 100 80 360 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 80 100 80 100 360 3 Marrit Leenstra 50 60 70 70 250 Martina Sáblíková 70 70 50 60 250 5 Ida Njåtun 60 50 60 45 215 6 Marije Joling 45 28 40 40 153 7 Miho Takagi 25 32 45 50 152 8 Ayaka Kikuchi 21 40 36 32 129 Misaki Oshigiri 28 45 28 28 129 10 Antoinette de Jong 36 36 18 36 126 [36]

3k/5k # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Martina Sáblíková 100 100 100 100 400 2 Natalya Voronina 70 80 50 50 250 3 Irene Schouten 80 50 25 60 215 4 Olga Graf 30 40 70 70 210 5 Marije Joling 45 80 45 170 6 Ivanie Blondin 40 70 30 25 165 7 Claudia Pechstein 35 60 35 30 160 8 Jorien Voorhuis 60 60 35 155 9 Annouk van der Weijden 50 21 80 151 10 Yvonne Nauta 12 30 45 40 136 [37]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 Irene Schouten 80 100 100 36 316 2 Ivanie Blondin 70 80 80 70 300 3 Misaki Oshigiri 25 70 100 195 4 Janneke Ensing 32 60 40 25 157 5 Park Do-yeong 40 19 70 21 150 6 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 50 28 45 24 147 7 Luiza Złotkowska 11 50 32 40 133 8 Martina Sáblíková 60 60 5 125 9 Miho Takagi 36 16 28 45 125 10 Carien Kleibeuker 11 25 80 116 Liu Jing 14 40 50 12 116 [38]

Team pursuit # Country CGY INZ HVN1 Total 1  Japan 80 100 100 280 2  Netherlands 100 80 80 260 3  Russia 70 70 60 200 4  Poland 35 60 70 165 5  Canada 60 45 50 155 [39]

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC HVN1 Total 1  Netherlands 60 50 100 210 2  China 80 100 180 3  Japan 100 70 170 4  Russia 80 80 160 5  Canada 70 60 130 [40]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	INZ	HVN1	Total
1	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		295	235	235	255	1020
2	Brittany Bowe		245	255	240	220	960
3	Martina Sáblíková		230	170	210	160	770
4	Irene Schouten		160	150	100	60	470
5	Marrit Leenstra		50	120	120	140	430
6	Lee Sang-hwa		90	70	170	80	410
7	Zhang Hong		160	180		65	405
8	Ivanie Blondin		70	150	80	70	370
9	Natalya Voronina		70	80	50	50	250
10	Vanessa Bittner		75	75	50	120	245

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