The first competition weekend of the 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held at the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 16 November, until Sunday, 18 November 2018.

Schedule The detailed event schedule:  Date   Events   Division   Friday, 16 November   500 m women (1)  500 m men (1)   B   Mass start men semifinal 1 men   Mass start men semifinal 2 men   Team pursuit women   Team pursuit men   500 m women (1)  500 m men (1)   A   Saturday, 17 November   500 m women (2)  500 m men (2)  1500 m women  1500 m men   B   500 m women (1)   1500 m women  1500 m men  500 m men (2)   A   Mass start final women    Mass start final men   Sunday, 18 November   1000 m women  1000 m men  3000 m women  5000 m men   B   1000 m women  1000 m men  3000 m women  5000 m men   A   Team sprint women  Team sprint men 

Medal summary

Men's events Event Race # Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report 500 m 1 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 34.732 Pavel Kulizhnikov 34.777 Tatsuya Shinhama 34.871 2 Pavel Kulizhnikov 34.619 Ryohei Haga 34.716 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 34.771 1000 m Pavel Kulizhnikov 1:07.858 Kjeld Nuis 1:08.392 Thomas Krol 1:08.623 1500 m Denis Yuskov 1:44.550 Kjeld Nuis 1:44.819 Patrick Roest 1:45.124 5000 m Patrick Roest 6:13.019 Aleksandr Rumyantsev 6:17.677 Marcel Bosker 6:18.121 Mass start Andrea Giovannini 62 Simon Schouten 40 Um Cheon-ho 20 Team pursuit Aleksandr RumyantsevDanila SemerikovSergey Trofimov 3:41.260 Douwe de VriesChris HuizingaMarcel Bosker 3:42.140 Håvard BøkkoSverre Lunde PedersenSimen Spieler Nilsen 3:42.770 Team sprint Michel MulderKai VerbijKjeld Nuis 1:19.780 Håvard Holmefjord LorentzenJohann Jørgen SævesHenrik Fagerli Rukke 1:20.790 Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Laurent DubreuilChristopher Fiola 1:20.980 In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Women's events Event Race # Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report 500 m 1 Nao Kodaira 37.496 Vanessa Herzog 37.624 Maki Tsuji 38.040 2 Nao Kodaira 37.298 Vanessa Herzog 37.651 Olga Fatkulina 37.876 1000 m Vanessa Herzog 1:14.568 Miho Takagi 1:14.824 Nao Kodaira 1:14.842 1500 m Brittany Bowe 1:55.034 Miho Takagi 1:55.127 Yekaterina Shikhova 1:55.458 3000 m Esmee Visser 4:04.60 Natalia Voronina 4:05.02 Martina Sáblíková 4:05.23 Mass start Nana Takagi 120 Irene Schouten 108 Kim Bo-reum 96 Team pursuit Nana TakagiMiho TakagiAyano Sato 2:57.800 Ireen WüstLotte van BeekJoy Beune 3:00.130 Evgeniya LalenkovaNatalya VoroninaElizaveta Kazelina 3:01.110 Team sprint Yekaterina ShikhovaOlga FatkulinaAngelina Golikova 1:27.230 Maki TsujiNao KodairaKonami Soga 1:27.350 Janine SmitLetitia de JongJutta Leerdam 1:28.810 In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.

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