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 edit

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 edit

Men's events edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

[26]

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

[33]

Women's cups edit

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

[34]

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

[41]

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