2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2015–2016, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 13 November 2015 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and ended with the final on 13 March 2016 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

In total, six competition weekends were held at five different locations, 18 cups were contested (nine for men, and nine for women), and 88 races took place. Additionally, there were two Grand World Cups, one for men and one for women, in which all individual races, regardless of distance, counted.

The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).

Calendar The detailed schedule for the season.

City Venue Date 1 Calgary Olympic Oval 2m, 2w m, w m, w w m m, w m, w m, w 2 Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Oval 2m, 2w m, w m, w w m m, w m, w 3 Inzell Eisstadion Inzell 2m, 2w m, w m, w w m m, w m, w 4 Heerenveen Thialf 2m, 2w m, w m, w w m m, w m, w m, w Minsk Minsk-Arena 2016 European Speed Skating Championships 5 Stavanger Sørmarka Arena 2m, 2w 2m, 2w m, w w m Kolomna Kolomna Speed Skating Center 2016 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships Seoul Taereung International Ice Rink 2016 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships Berlin 2016 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 6 Heerenveen Thialf 2m, 2w m, w m, w w m m, w m, w m, w Total 5w 1m Note: the men's 5000 and 10000 metres were contested as one cup, and the women's 3000 and 5000 metres were contested as one cup, as indicated by the color coding.

In addition, there were two combination cups, the allround combination and the sprint combination. For the allround combination, the distances were 1500 + 5000 metres for men, and 1500 + 3000 metres for women. For the sprint combination, the distances were 500 + 1000 metres, both for men and women. These cups were contested only in World Cup 5, in Stavanger, Norway.

Entry rules

Qualification criteria

In order to qualify, skaters had to achieve the following results in ISU events, international competitions or national championships between 1 July 2014 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned.

+ Men Distance Time required Time required 500 m 36.20 36.60 1000 m 1:11.90 1:12.80 1500 m 1:51.00 1:52.50 3000 m — — 5000 m 6:48.00 6:52.00 10000 m 13:40.00 13:50.00

+ Women Distance Time required Time required 500 m 40.00 40.50 1000 m 1:20.00 1:21.00 1500 m 2:03.00 2:05.00 3000 m 4:24.00 4:28.00 5000 m 7:25.00 7:32.00 10000 m — —

in the Olympic Oval, Calgary, or the Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City in other ice rinks or 6:35.00 on 5000 m or 6:40.00 on 5000 m or 4:15.00 on 3000 m or 4:20.00 on 3000 m

For the mass start and team pursuit events, skaters who had achieved any one of the above results were qualified. However, every ISU member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of one skater per gender who had not achieved any of these results, provided that they had achieved a 1500 m result of 1:57.50 (men) or 2:10.00 (women).

World records

World records going into the 2015–16 season.

Men

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center" |- ! Distance ! Time ! Holder(s) ! Nat. ! Date ! Venue ! Reference |- | 500 m | 34.03 | align=left | Jeremy Wotherspoon | | align=right | 9 November 2007 | align=left | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

Women

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center" |- ! Distance ! Time ! Holder(s) ! Nat. ! Date ! Venue ! Reference |- | 500 m | 36.36 | align=left | Lee Sang-hwa | | align=right | 16 November 2013 | align=left | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

New records : 500 m Pavel Kulizhnikov 1000 m (lowland) Pavel Kulizhnikov 1500 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 1000 m Brittany Bowe 10.000 m Ted-Jan Bloemen

Men's standings

500 m

Rank Name Points 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov 705 2 Ruslan Murashov 705 3 Gilmore Junio 637

1000 m

Rank Name Points 1 Kjeld Nuis 630 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 480 3 Gerben Jorritsma 396

1500 m

Rank Name Points 1 Denis Yuskov 530 2 Kjeld Nuis 456 3 Joey Mantia 405

5000 and 10000 m

Rank Name Points 1 Sven Kramer 530 2 Jorrit Bergsma 530 3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 369

Mass start

Rank Name Points 1 Arjan Stroetinga 404 2 Jorrit Bergsma 380 3 Fabio Francolini 378

Team pursuit

Rank Country Points 1 350 2 280 3 279

Team sprint

Rank Country Points 1 390 2 334 3 320

Grand World Cup

Rank Name Points 1 Kjeld Nuis 630 2 Bart Swings 580 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 530

Women's standings

500 m

Rank Name Points 1 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 848 2 Zhang Hong 842 3 Brittany Bowe 785

1000 m

Rank Name Points 1 Brittany Bowe 710 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 508 3 Marrit Leenstra 465

1500 m

Rank Name Points 1 Brittany Bowe 590 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 501 3 Marrit Leenstra 396

3000 and 5000 m

Rank Name Points 1 Martina Sábliková 500 2 Natalya Voronina 450 3 Irene Schouten 361

Mass start

Rank Name Points 1 Irene Schouten 466 2 Ivanie Blondin 420 3 Misaki Oshigiri 271

Team pursuit

Rank Country Points 1 430 2 380 3 290

Team sprint

Rank Country Points 1 330 2 314 3 290

Grand World Cup

Rank Name Points 1 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 1020 2 Brittany Bowe 960 3 Martina Sábliková 770

References

External links International Skating Union

Results at ISUresults.eu

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

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