2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

The 500 meters distance for men in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 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 Ronald Mulder of the Netherlands. Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia won the cup. Mulder did not participate this season.

Top three

Position	Athlete	Points	Previous season
1	Pavel Kulizhnikov	930	–
2	Laurent Dubreuil	771	27th
3	Ruslan Murashov	565	–

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Obihiro, Japan	14 November	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.06	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	35.16	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	35.24	[2]
		16 November	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.96	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.09	Ryohei Haga  Japan	35.17	[3]
2	Seoul, South Korea	21 November	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.94	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	35.363	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	35.364	[4]
		23 November	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	35.18	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	35.32	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	35.35	[5]
3	Berlin, Germany	5 December	Artur Waś  Poland	35.01	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	35.09	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	35.12	[6]
		7 December	Artur Waś  Poland	35.04	Espen Aarnes Hvammen  Norway	35.06	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	35.09	[7]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	12 December	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.63	Artur Waś  Poland	34.91	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	35.16	[8]
		14 December	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.58	Artur Waś  Poland	34.87	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.01	[9]
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	7 February	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.93	Artur Waś  Poland	34.97	Nico Ihle  Germany	35.11	[10]
		8 February	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.62	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	34.94	Nico Ihle  Germany	35.06	[11]
7	Erfurt, Germany	21 March	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.71	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	34.94	Gerben Jorritsma  Netherlands	35.25	[12]
		22 March	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	34.97	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada Michel Mulder  Netherlands	35.109 35.109			[13]

Standings

Standings as of 22 March 2015 (end of the season).[14]

#	Name	Nat.	OBI1	OBI2	SEO1	SEO2	BER1	BER2	HVN1	HVN2	HVN3	HVN4	ERF1	ERF2	Total
1	Pavel Kulizhnikov		80	100	100	100			100	100	100	100	150		930
2	Laurent Dubreuil		45	36	40	70	80	70	70	60	45	45	90	120	771
3	Ruslan Murashov		70	60	70	50	10				50	60	45	150	565
4	Michel Mulder						70	40	60	40	60	50	120	120	560
5	Nico Ihle		50	24	60	40	50	36		32	70	70	36	90	558
6	Artur Waś						100	100	80	80	80	32	18	36	526
7	Mo Tae-bum		16	50	80	80	40	50	18	45	36	80			495
8	Jan Smeekens		100	80	28	60	16	45	12	70	10		14	40	475
9	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		24	45	50	21	28	80	21	16	24	28	40	76	453
10	Aleksey Yesin		25	21	16	14	21	24		28	21	24	76	32	302
11	Ryohei Haga		40	70	5	8	60	14	45	8	8	10	8	14	290
12	Hein Otterspeer		60	10	45	24	18	28	36	28	40				289
13	Gilmore Junio		32	18	32	36	36	16	14	36	14	21			255
14	Denis Koval		36	28	36	12	24	60	40	18					254
15	Gerben Jorritsma		18	16	24	18	4	19	8	12			106	28	253
16	Kim Jun-ho		15	19	18	45	32	32	32	21	6	6			226
17	Pim Schipper		8	8	19	25	12	10	25	14	28	18	32	21	220
18	Mika Poutala						15	11	50	50	18	12	16	45	217
19	Keiichiro Nagashima		28	32	6	16	6	18	24	5		25	24	18	202
20	Yūya Oikawa		14	40	12	10	8	8	2	25	12	5	21	24	181
21	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		12	12	1	19	25	21	28	10		15	10	12	165
22	Artyom Kuznetsov		19	25	8	28	45	12	16						153
23	Mu Zhongsheng		11	11	14	5	6	15	19		11	4	28	16	140
24	Xie Jiaxuan		1	1	2	6		25	10	6		19	12	10	92
25	Lee Kang-seok		8	15	21	6	11			2					63
26	Roman Krech										16	45			61
27	Artur Nogal		6	6		8	2	1	6	19	5	8			61
28	William Dutton		21	14	10	4				11					60
29	Dai Dai Ntab				25	32									57
30	Jamie Gregg										19	36			55
31	Denny Ihle			2	8	15	14	6	1	6					52
32	Tsubasa Hasegawa		2	8	11	4			11	4	8	4			52
33	Jesper Hospes										32	16			48
34	Mitchell Whitmore						8	2	8	15	15				48
35	Samuel Schwarz				6		19		15		6				46
36	Richard Maclennan		4	4	15	2	1	6		8					40
37	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix										25	14			39
38	Wang Nan					11		8							19
39	Daichi Yamanaka		10	5											15
40	Pekka Koskela										2	11			13
41	Kai Verbij		6	6											12
42	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen											8			8
43	David Bosa				4			4							8
	Piotr Michalski					1				1	4	2			8
45	Tyler Derraugh											6			6
46	Shani Davis		5												5
47	Christian Oberbichler								4						4
48	Denis Dressel											1			1
	Jonathan Garcia										1				1

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