2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 5

The fifth competition weekend of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup took place at the Max Aicher Arena in Inzell, Germany, from Friday, 23 January, until Sunday, 25 January 2026. It is the fifth and final event of the tour, that determines qualification for the 2026 World Allround Speed Skating Championships and the 2026 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. It is seen as the final test event for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Norwegian Sander Eitrem established a new world record at the 5000 meter race and became the first person to cover the distance in less than 6 minutes.

Medal summary

Men's events EventGoldTimeSilverTimeBronzeTimeReport500 m (1)34.09 TR 34.2634.29500 m (2)34.06 TR34.1034.291000 m1:06.83TR1:07.201:07.231500 m1:41.951:43.181:43.815000 m5:58.52WRTR6:01.986:03.65Mass start664120Team sprintConor McDermott-MostowyCooper McLeodZach Stoppelmoor1:17.61Siver BrattgjerdHenrik Fagerli RukkeBjørn Magnussen1:18.27Stefan WestenbroekKayo VosMerijn Scheperkamp1:19.33 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 EventGoldTimeSilverTimeBronzeTimeReport500 m (1)36.87 TR 37.2237.22500 m (2)37.2537.6137.621000 m1:12.74TR1:13.431:13.671500 m1:53.341:53.591:53.723000 m3:54.74TR3:56.963:59.92Mass start604020Team sprintMarrit FledderusNaomi VerkerkIsabel Grevelt1:25.52Carolina Hiller-DonnellyBéatrice LamarcheIvanie Blondin1:26.84Katja FranzenJosephine HeimerlAnna Ostlender1:28.45 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.

Medal count

Results

Men's events

1st 500 m The race started on 23 January 2026 at 18:58. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 10 o Damian Zurek 34.09TR 60 9 i Jordan Stolz 34.26 +0.17 54 5 i Marten Liiv 34.29 +0.20 48 4 7 i Yevgeniy Koshkin 34.34 +0.25 43 5 8 o Bjørn Magnussen 34.37 +0.28 40 6 3 o Marek Kania 34.42 +0.33 38 7 10 i Jenning de Boo 34.51 +0.42 36 8 7 o Yuta Hirose 34.57 +0.48 34 9 6 o Cooper McLeod 34.68 +0.59 32 10 3 i Katsuhiro Kuratsubo 34.68 +0.59 31 11 4 i Tatsuya Shinhama 34.72 +0.63 30 12 8 i Sebas Diniz 34.75 +0.66 29 13 2 o Joep Wennemars 34.93 +0.84 28 14 4 o Lian Ziwen 34.97 +0.88 27 15 1 i Nil Llop Izquierdo 35.13 +1.04 26 16 1 o Jeffrey Rosanelli 42.74 +8.65 25 17 9 o Wataru Morishige 1:37.87 +1:03.78 24 18 2 i Cedric Brunet DNF 23 18 5 o Laurent Dubreuil 23 18 6 i Kim Jun-ho 23

2nd 500 m The race started on 25 January 2026 at 14:28. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 10 i Damian Żurek 34.06TR 60 10 o Jordan Stolz 34.10 +0.04 54 3 i Marek Kania 34.29 +0.23 48 4 8 i Jenning de Boo 34.37 +0.31 43 5 5 i Kim Jun-ho 34.37 +0.31 40 6 1 o Stefan Westenbroek 34.41 +0.35 38 7 9 o Bjørn Magnussen 34.47 +0.41 36 8 2 o Anders Johnson 34.49 +0.43 34 9 7 i Marten Liiv 34.53 +0.47 32 10 1 i Chung Jae-woong 34.53 +0.47 31 11 7 o Sebas Diniz 34.63 +0.57 30 12 5 o Katsuhiro Kuratsubo 34.64 +0.58 29 12 6 o Cooper McLeod 34.64 +0.58 29 14 2 i Piotr Michalski 34.66 +0.60 27 15 6 i Yuta Hirose 34.69 +0.63 26 16 4 i Lian Ziwen 34.85 +0.79 25 17 4 o Cedrick Brunet 35.08 +1.02 24 18 3 o Nil Llop Izquierdo 35.15 +1.09 23 19 9 i Wataru Morishige DNF 22 8 o Yevgeniy Koshkin DQ

1000 m The race started on 24 January at 15:11. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 9 o Jordan Stolz 1:06.83TR 60 10 o Damian Żurek 1:07.20 +0.37 54 5 o Joep Wennemars 1:07.23 +0.40 48 4 10 i Jenning de Boo 1:07.39 +0.56 43 5 7 i Cooper McLeod 1:07.68 +0.85 40 6 8 i Tim Prins 1:07.84 +1.01 38 7 6 i Conor McDermott-Mostowy 1:07.92 +1.09 36 8 8 o Marten Liiv 1:07.95 +1.12 34 9 6 o Ryota Kojima 1:08.02 +1.19 32 10 5 i Lian Ziwen 1:08.07 +1.24 31 11 9 i Finn Sonnekalb 1:08.12 +1.29 30 12 1 i Merijn Scheperkamp 1:08.21 +1.38 29 13 4 o Taiyo Nonomura 1:08.32 +1.49 28 14 2 i Piotr Michalski 1:08.45 +1.62 27 15 7 o Ning Zhongyan 1:08.51 +1.68 26 16 1 o David La Rue 1:08.67 +1.84 25 17 3 i Mathias Vosté 1:08.68 +1.85 24 18 2 o Moritz Klein 1:08.90 +2.07 23 19 3 o Hendrik Dombek 1:09.31 +2.48 22 20 4 i Kjeld Nuis DNF 21

1500 m The race started on 23 January 2026 at 20:18. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 9 o Jordan Stolz 1:41.95 60 8 i Ning Zhongyan 1:43.18 +1.23 54 10 o Kjeld Nuis 1:43.81 +1.86 48 4 9 i Sander Eitrem 1:43.90 +1.95 43 5 4 i Metoděj Jílek 1:44.05 +2.10 40 6 7 o Daniele Di Stefano 1:44.12 +2.17 38 7 1 o Li Wenhao 1:44.47 +2.52 36 8 7 i Gabriel Odor 1:44.68 +2.73 34 9 10 i Finn Sonnekalb 1:44.78 +2.83 32 10 3 o Valentin Thiebault 1:44.87 +2.92 31 11 5 i Taiyo Nonomura 1:45.13 +3.18 30 12 8 o Tim Prins 1:45.13 +3.18 29 13 3 i Vladimir Semirunniy 1:45.32 +3.37 28 14 2 i David La Rue 1:45.46 +3.51 27 15 6 o Tijmen Snel 1:45.49 +3.54 26 16 4 o Hendrik Dombek 1:45.58 +3.63 25 17 2 o Emery Lehman 1:45.70 +3.75 24 18 1 i Moritz Klein 1:45.86 +3.91 23 19 6 i Kazuya Yamada 1:47.08 +5.13 22 5 o Alexander Farthofer DQ

5000 m The race started on 24 January 2026 at 17:00. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 8 o Sander Eitrem 5:58.52WRTR 60 8 i Metoděj Jílek 6:01.98 +3.46 54 6 o Timothy Loubineaud 6:03.65 +5.13 48 4 7 o Casey Dawson 6:05.13 +6.61 43 5 6 i Davide Ghiotto 6:05.67 +7.15 40 6 1 i Vladimir Semirunniy 6:07.81 +9.29 38 7 4 i Michele Malfatti 6:10.53 +12.01 36 8 5 i Chris Huizinga 6:12.27 +13.75 34 9 2 i Fridtjof Petzold 6:13.43 +14.91 32 10 2 o Sigurd Henriksen 6:14.98 +16.46 31 11 1 o Viktor Hald Thorup 6:15.24 +16.72 30 12 5 o Jorrit Bergsma 6:15.34 +16.82 29 13 3 i Felix Maly 6:16.26 +17.74 28 14 3 o Bart Swings 6:16.74 +18.22 27 15 4 o Alexander Farthofer 6:22.33 +23.81 26 16 7 i Ted-Jan Bloemen 6:25.17 +26.65 25

Mass start The race started on 25 January 2026 at 15:41. RankNameCountryPointsTimeWC Points Metoděj Jílek 66 7:41.19 60 Mathieu Belloir 41 7:43.03 54 Andrea Giovannini 20 7:43.07 48 4 Viktor Hald Thorup 13 7:43.24 43 5 Bart Swings 6 7:43.48 40 6 Livio Wenger 3 7:43.68 38 7 Shomu Sasaki 3 7:44.75 36 8 Timothy Loubineaud 2 7:46.02 34 9 Felix Maly 2 7:56.67 32 10 Philip Due Schmidt 1 7:49.45 31 11 Jorrit Bergsma 7:44.14 30 12 Gabriel Odor 7:44.50 29 13 Li Yuhaochen 7:44.94 28 14 Fridtjof Petzold 7:45.13 27 15 Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu 7:45.86 26 16 Ethan Cepuran 7:46.20 25 17 Marcin Bachanek 7:46.37 24 18 Daniel Hall 7:47.25 23 19 Stijn van de Bunt 7:47.93 22 20 Miguel Bravo 7:49.63 21 21 Sigurd Holbø Dyrset 7:50.34 20 22 Indra Medard 7:56.88 19 23 Vadim Yakubovskiy 18

Team sprint The race started on 25 January 2026 at 16:37. Rank Pair Lane Country Time Diff WC Points 5 c Conor McDermott-MostowyCooper McLeodZach Stoppelmoor 1:17.61 60 5 s Siver BrattgjerdHenrik Fagerli RukkeBjørn Magnussen 1:18.27 +0.66 54 6 s Stefan WestenbroekKayo VosMerijn Scheperkamp 1:19.33 +1.72 48 4 4 s Oliver GrobFlavio GrossLivio Wenger 1:20.69 +3.08 43 5 1 c Maximilian StrübeTomy NguyenStefan Emele 1:20.77 +3.16 40 6 6 c Kacper AbratkiewiczSzymon WojtakowskiMateusz Śliwka 1:21.11 +3.50 38 7 3 c Botond BejcziBálint BödeiKonrád Nagy 1:21.41 +3.80 36 8 4 c Deng ZhihanCao JingqiLi Wenhao 1:21.44 +3.83 34 9 2 c Alexander RezzonicoDaniel MilagrosManuel Robla 1:22.23 +4.62 32 10 3 s Nuraly AkzholAleksandr KlenkoRoman Binazarov 1:23.11 +5.50 31 11 1 s Jakub KočíTadeáš ProcházkaMetoděj Jílek 1:24.42 +6.81 30 12 2 s Max KokkoAlvar MuhonenJuuso Lehtonen DNF 29

Women's events

1st 500 m The race started on 23 January 2026 at 18:30. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 9 i Femke Kok 36.87TR 60 6 i Jutta Leerdam 37.22 +0.35 54 10 i Kaja Ziomek-Nogal 37.22 +0.35 48 4 9 o Erin Jackson 37.44 +0.57 43 5 6 o Andżelika Wójcik 37.50 +0.62 40 6 7 o Béatrice Lamarche 37.60 +0.72 38 7 5 o Rio Yamada 37.76 +0.88 36 8 3 i Carolina Hiller-Donnelly 37.88 +1.00 34 9 8 o Marrit Fledderus 37.97 +1.09 32 10 8 i Martyna Baran 38.06 +1.19 31 11 5 i Kristina Silaeva 38.08 +1.20 30 12 4 o Kurumi Inagawa 38.10 +1.22 29 13 1 o Karolina Bosiek 38.22 +1.34 28 14 10 o Serena Pergher 38.25 +1.37 27 15 2 o Jung Hui-dan 38.32 +1.45 26 16 1 i Sofia Thorup 38.32 +1.45 25 17 4 i Tian Ruining 38.38 +1.50 24 18 3 o Wang Jingziqian 38.40 +1.53 23 19 2 i Brooklyn McDougall 38.43 +1.56 22 20 7 i Sophie Warmuth 1:25.16 +48.28 21

2nd 500 m The race started on 25 January 2026 at 14:00. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 10 i Kaja Ziomek-Nogal 37.25 60 7 o Sophie Warmuth 37.61 +0.36 54 9 i Marrit Fledderus 37.62 +0.37 48 4 1 o Isabel Grevelt 37.67 +0.42 43 4 6 o Kristina Silaeva 37.67 +0.42 43 6 7 i Andżelika Wójcik 37.83 +0.58 38 7 10 o Erin Jackson 37.85 +0.60 36 8 4 o Carolina Hiller-Donnelly 37.86 +0.61 34 9 8 o Martyna Baran 37.89 +0.64 32 10 8 i Béatrice Lamarche 37.93 +0.68 31 11 5 i Rio Yamada 37.95 +0.70 30 12 9 o Serena Pergher 38.08 +0.83 29 13 2 i Julie Nistad Samsonsen 38.15 +0.90 28 14 5 o Tian Ruining 38.17 +0.92 27 15 6 i Kim Min-sun 38.21 +0.96 26 16 2 o Sofia Thorup 38.41 +1.16 25 17 1 i Jung Hui-dan 38.43 +1.18 24 18 4 i Kurumi Inagawa 38.52 +1.27 23 19 3 i Wang Jingziqian 38.89 +1.64 22 20 3 o Brooklyn McDougall 39.03 +1.78 21

1000 m The race started on 24 January 2026 at 14:38. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 10 o Jutta Leerdam 1:12.74TR 60 8 i Miho Takagi 1:13.43 +0.69 54 10 i Femke Kok 1:13.67 +0.93 48 4 9 i Brittany Bowe 1:14.02 +1.28 43 5 5 i Erin Jackson 1:14.32 +1.58 40 6 9 o Béatrice Lamarche 1:14.74 +2.00 38 7 7 i Rio Yamada 1:14.92 +2.18 36 8 8 o Marrit Fledderus 1:15.04 +2.30 34 9 6 i Ellia Smeding 1:15.06 +2.32 32 10 5 o Sofia Thorup 1:15.43 +2.69 31 11 4 o Han Mei 1:15.47 +2.73 30 12 7 o Yin Qi 1:15.56 +2.82 29 13 6 o Karolina Bosiek 1:15.64 +2.90 28 14 1 o Anna Ostlender 1:15.68 +2.94 27 15 4 i Elizaveta Golubeva 1:16.25 +3.51 26 16 2 i Lea Sophie Scholz 1:16.35 +3.61 25 17 3 o Natalia Czerwonka 1:16.45 +3.71 24 18 2 o Kaitlyn McGregor 1:16.53 +3.79 23 19 3 i Isabelle van Elst 1:16.53 +3.79 22 20 1 i Iga Wojtasik 1:17.23 +4.49 21

1500 m The race started on 23 January 2026 at 19:38. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 9 i Joy Beune 1:53.34 60 10 i Miho Takagi 1:53.59 +0.25 54 8 o Ragne Wiklund 1:53.72 +0.38 48 4 6 i Han Mei 1:54.36 +1.02 43 5 10 o Brittany Bowe 1:54.57 +1.23 40 6 6 o Kaitlyn McGregor 1:54.62 +1.28 38 7 9 o Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong 1:54.92 +1.58 36 8 3 o Marijke Groenewoud 1:55.07 +1.73 34 9 8 i Nadezhda Morozova 1:55.14 +1.80 32 10 7 o Ivanie Blondin 1:55.25 +1.91 31 11 7 i Nikola Zdráhalová 1:55.47 +2.13 30 12 5 o Elizaveta Golubeva 1:55.76 +2.42 29 13 3 i Greta Myers 1:56.68 +3.34 28 14 1 i Li Jiaxuan 1:56.88 +3.54 27 15 5 i Isabelle van Elst 1:57.03 +3.69 26 16 1 o Momoka Horikawa 1:57.12 +3.78 25 17 2 o Isabelle Weidemann 1:57.31 +3.97 24 18 2 i Natalia Czerwonka 1:57.99 +4.65 23 19 4 i Ayano Sato 1:59.50 +6.16 22 4 o Yang Binyu DQ

3000 m The race started on 24 January 2026 at 16:04. RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeDiffWC Points 7 i Ragne Wiklund 3:54.74TR 60 8 o Joy Beune 3:56.96 +2.22 54 7 o Valérie Maltais 3:59.92 +5.18 48 4 4 i Nadezhda Morozova 4:00.19 +5.45 43 5 5 o Sandrine Tas 4:00.92 +6.18 40 6 5 i Martina Sáblíková 4:01.98 +7.24 38 7 6 i Isabelle Weidemann 4:02.11 +7.37 36 8 6 o Marijke Groenewoud 4:02.95 +8.21 34 9 8 i Francesca Lollobrigida 4:03.63 +8.89 32 10 4 o Ivanie Blondin 4:03.91 +9.17 31 11 2 o Momoka Horikawa 4:04.60 +9.86 30 12 1 o Jeannine Rosner 4:04.67 +9.93 29 13 2 i Josie Hofmann 4:05.08 +10.34 28 14 1 i Violette Braun 4:09.01 +14.27 27 15 3 o Tai Zhien 4:09.56 +14.82 26 16 3 i Bente Kerkhoff 4:09.66 +14.92 25

Mass start The race started on 25 January 2026 at 15:21.