2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

The 1500 meters distance for men in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Obihiro, Japan, on 14–16 November 2014, and the final occasion taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 21–22 March 2015.[1]

The defending champion was Koen Verweij of the Netherlands. Denny Morrison of Canada won the cup. Verweij had to settle for 11th place.

Top three

Position	Athlete	Points	Previous season
1	Denny Morrison	409	7th
2	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	405	6th
3	Kjeld Nuis	381	10th

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Obihiro, Japan	16 November	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:45.97	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	1:46.52	Koen Verweij  Netherlands	1:46.90	[2]
2	Seoul, South Korea	21 November	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	1:47.76	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	1:48.02	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:48.30	[3]
3	Berlin, Germany	7 December	Jan Szymański  Poland	1:46.80	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	1:47.13	Thomas Krol  Netherlands	1:47.14	[4]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	14 December	Jan Szymański  Poland	1:45.92	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	1:46.22	Shani Davis  United States	1:46.33	[5]
5	Hamar, Norway	1 February	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:45.07	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:45.80	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:46.03	[6]
7	Erfurt, Germany	22 March	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:46.15	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	1:46.51	Bart Swings  Belgium	1:46.81	[7]

Standings

Standings as of 22 March 2015.[8]

#	Name	Nat.	OBI	SEO	BER	HVN	HAM	ERF	Total
1	Denny Morrison		60	60	45	24	70	150	409
2	Sverre Lunde Pedersen		28	100	80	32	45	120	405
3	Kjeld Nuis		100	70	36	50	80	45	381
4	Wouter olde Heuvel		80	80		80	21	40	301
5	Jan Szymański		40	21	100	100		32	293
6	Konrad Niedźwiedzki		45	36	40	45	32	90	288
7	Bart Swings		21	24	60	60	14	106	285
8	Thomas Krol		32	28	70	18	60	76	284
9	Shani Davis		50	45	50	70	40		255
10	Zbigniew Bródka		16	32	24	36	36	28	172
11	Koen Verweij		70	50	32				152
12	Li Bailin		25	18	21	16	28	36	144
13	Denis Yuskov				18	19	100		137
14	Sven Kramer		36	40		40			116
15	Haralds Silovs				25	28	50		103
16	Lee Seung-hoon		19	16	28	21	10		94
17	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen		8	4	15	14	12	24	77
18	Sergey Gryaztsov		6	15	16	12	18		67
19	Kim Jin-su		4	25	14	10			53
	Joey Mantia				4	25	24		53
21	Alec Janssens		15	8	8	8	8		47
22	Mikhail Kozlov		18	5	12	5	6		46
23	Kim Min-seok		11	12	10	8			41
24	Denis Kuzin		14	10			11		35
25	Aleksey Suvorov		5	19	6		4		34
26	Danil Sinitsyn					8	25		33
27	Håvard Bøkko					15	16		31
28	Pavel Kulizhnikov		24	6					30
29	Alexis Contin				2	11	15		28
30	Bram Smallenbroek		8	14	1	1			24
31	Jeffrey Swider-Peltz		12	8					20
32	Benjamin Macé		10		6	4			20
33	Kai Verbij				19				19
	Douwe de Vries						19		19
35	Konrád Nagy		6	11			2		19
36	Ted-Jan Bloemen				8	2	8		18
37	Pim Schipper				11	6			17
38	Kirill Gobulev			6					6
	Piotr Puszkarski						6		6
40	Roland Cieslak			2					2
	Vincent De Haître		2						2
42	Kim Cheol-min			1					1
	Liu Yiming		1						1
	Simen Spieler Nilsen						1		1

References

1. "International Skating Union – Communication No. 1889" (PDF). International Skating Union. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
2. "ISU World Cup Obihiro – November 14-16, 2014 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Nov 16 2014 4:08PM". International Skating Union. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
3. "ISU World Cup Seoul – November 21-23, 2014 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Nov 23 2014 3:56PM". International Skating Union. 23 November 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
4. "ISU World Cup Berlin – December 5-7, 2014 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Dec 7 2014 4:36PM". International Skating Union. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
5. "ISU World Cup Heerenveen – December 12-14, 2014 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Dec 14 2014 3:59PM". International Skating Union. 14 December 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
6. "ISU World Cup Hamar – January 31 - February 1, 2015 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Feb 1 2015 3:00PM". International Skating Union. 1 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
7. "ISU World Cup Erfurt – March 21-22, 2015 – Result 1500m Men Division A – Rankings as of Mar 22 2015 5:31PM". International Skating Union. 22 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
8. "ISU WorldCup 2014/2015 – World Cup Men 1500m – Rankings 1500m Men – Rankings as of Mar 22 2015 5:42PM". International Skating Union. 22 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 23 March 2015.