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 pursuit.

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 34.48 Aleksey Yesin 34.65 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix 34.78 2 Ruslan Murashov 34.67 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix 34.76 Espen Aarnes Hvammen 34.86 1000 m Pavel Kulizhnikov 1:08:16 Denis Yuskov 1:08:59 Kjeld Nuis 1:08.61 1500 m Joey Mantia 1:44.26 Denis Yuskov 1:44.38 Kjeld Nuis 1:45.33 5000 m Sven Kramer 6:14.99 Jorrit Bergsma 6:16.41 Bart Swings 6:20.80 Mass start Arjan Stroetinga 63 Fabio Francolini 40 Lee Seung-hoon 20 Team pursuit Sven KramerJorrit BergsmaJan Blokhuijsen 3:43.77 Sverre Lunde PedersenHåvard BøkkoSindre Henriksen 3:44.66 Danil SinitsynAleksandr RumyantsevSergey Gryaztsov 3:46.24 Team sprint Gilmore JunioAlexandre St-JeanVincent De Haître 1:19.75 Ruslan MurashovAleksey YesinKirill Golubev 1:21.27 Jesper HospesMichel MulderStefan Groothuis 1:21.29 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 37.59 Brittany Bowe 37.86 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 37.93 2 Yu Jing 37.84 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 37.87 Zhang Hong 37.90 1000 m Brittany Bowe 1:14.49 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 1:15.33 Marrit Leenstra 1:15.77 1500 m Heather Richardson-Bergsma 1:55.29 Brittany Bowe 1:55.44 Marrit Leenstra 1:56.12 3000 m Martina Sáblíková 4:03.50 Annouk van der Weijden 4:05.39 Olga Graf 4:06.57 Mass start Misaki Oshigiri 65 Carien Kleibeuker 43 Ivanie Blondin 20 Team pursuit Ayaka KikuchiNana TakagiMiho Takagi 2:59.58 Marrit LeenstraAntoinette de JongLinda de Vries 3:01.26 Natalia CzerwonkaKatarzyna WoźniakLuiza Złotkowska 3:01.51 Team sprint Floor van den BrandtJanine SmitMargot Boer 1:29.23 Yekaterina ShikhovaNadezhda AseyevaOlga Fatkulina 1:29.64 No bronze medalist team 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 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 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 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 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 25 50 14 14 103

Team pursuit # Country CGY INZ HVN1 Total 1 100 100 200 80 60 60 200 3 60 70 45 175 4 70 50 50 170 5 80 80 160

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC HVN1 Total 1 100 70 70 240 2 70 80 80 230 3 100 100 200 4 45 40 50 135 5 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 3 180 200 150 530 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 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 2 100 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 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 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 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 80 100 100 280 2 100 80 80 260 3 70 70 60 200 4 35 60 70 165 5 60 45 50 155

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC HVN1 Total 1 60 50 100 210 2 80 100 180 3 100 70 170 4 80 80 160 5 70 60 130

Grand World Cup # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ HVN1 Total 1 295 235 235 255 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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