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 Russia 100 100 100 100 100 5 505
2 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada 25 70 40 28 32 80 70 80 425
3 Artur Waś Poland 40 12 8 50 70 100 60 18 358
4 William Dutton Canada 70 80 70 80 8 16 10 6 340
5 Mika Poutala Finland 80 36 36 60 50 45 32 339
6 Gilmore Junio Canada 19 60 28 18 100 60 24 18 327
7 Laurent Dubreuil Canada 36 45 14 70 60 32 18 50 325
8 Kai Verbij Netherlands 16 21 60 12 16 70 50 40 285
9 Ruslan Murashov Russia 50 8 5 40 24 8 40 100 275
10 Alexandre St-Jean Canada 11 6 25 36 80 12 14 60 244

[26]

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

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Women's cups[edit]

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

[34]

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

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