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

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

There were no world records over the weekend. 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 sprint.

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:

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	34.63	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada	34.78
	2	Ruslan Murashov Russia	34.67	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada	34.76	Espen Aarnes Hvammen Norway	34.86
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	1:08:16	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:08:59	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:08.61
1500 m		Joey Mantia United States	1:44.26	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:44.38	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:45.33
5000 m		Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:14.99	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:16.40	Bart Swings Belgium	6:20.80
Mass start		Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands	63 A	Fabio Francolini Italy	40 A	Lee Seung-hoon South Korea	20 A
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	3:46.26
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

^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
	2	Yu Jing China	37.84	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	37.87	Zhang Hong China	37.90
1000 m		Brittany Bowe United States	1:14.49	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:15.33	Marrit Leenstra Netherlands	1:15.77
1500 m		Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:55.29	Brittany Bowe United States	1:55.44	Marrit Leenstra Netherlands	1:56.12
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:03.50	Annouk van der Weijden Netherlands	4:05.39	Olga Graf Russia	4:06.57
Mass start		Misaki Oshigiri Japan	65 A	Carien Kleibeuker Netherlands	43 A	Ivanie Blondin Canada	20 A
Team pursuit		Japan Ayaka Kikuchi Nana Takagi Miho Takagi	2:59.77	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Antoinette de Jong Linda de Vries	3:01.26	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:01.51
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

^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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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