2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 14 November, until Sunday, 16 November 2014.[1]

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Obihiro • Seoul • Berlin • Heerenveen (1)
Hamar • Heerenveen (2) • Erfurt
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Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia made a successful World Cup debut by taking the silver medal in the men's first 500 m race on Friday,[2] and then winning both the 1000 m race on Saturday[3] and the second 500 m race on Sunday.[4] Sven Kramer of the Netherlands won gold medals in both 5000 m[2] and team pursuit.[3]

Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands managed to win three gold medals over the weekend, in the women's 1500[4] and 3000 m races,[2] and as part of the Dutch team in the team pursuit.[3] She also won a silver medal in the 1000 m competition.[3] Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea took the gold medal in both 500 m races.[2][4]

No world records were set during the weekend, but in the women's 500 m, Vanessa Bittner of Austria set a new national record on both senior and junior level in the A division of the Sunday race,[4][5] after having won the B division on Friday.[2]

Martin Hänggi of Switzerland, at age 46, set a record as the oldest participant at a World Cup event when he skated in the 5000 m race.[2]

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:[6][7]

 Date   Session   Events   Comment 
 Friday, 14 November   Morning   10:54: 5000 m men 
 11:54: 500 m women (1) 
 12:13: 500 m men (1) 
 13:00: 3000 m women 		  Division B 
 Afternoon   15:00: 5000 m men 
 16:22: 500 m women (1) 
 16:47: 500 m men (1) 
 17:32: 3000 m women 		  Division A 
 Saturday, 15 November   Morning   12:25: 1000 m women 
 13:07: 1000 m men 
  Division B 
 Afternoon   15:00: 1000 m women 
 15:30: 1000 m men 		  Division A 
 16:23: Team pursuit men 
 17:32: Team pursuit women 
 Sunday, 16 November   Morning   10:35: 1500 m women 
 11:28: 1500 m men 
 12:30: 500 m women (2) 
 12:49: 500 m men (2) 		  Division B 
 Afternoon   14:30: 1500 m women 
 15:23: 1500 m men 
 16:13: 500 m women (2) 
 16:40: 500 m men (2) 		  Division A 
 17:25: Mass start women 
 17:45: Mass start men 

All times are JST (UTC+9).

Medal summary

Men's events
Event Race # Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report
500 m 1 Jan Smeekens
 Netherlands		35.06 Pavel Kulizhnikov
 Russia		35.16 Ruslan Murashov
 Russia		35.24 [8]
2 Pavel Kulizhnikov
 Russia		34.96 Jan Smeekens
 Netherlands		35.09 Ryohei Haga
 Japan		35.17 [9]
1000 m Pavel Kulizhnikov
 Russia		1:09.23 Kjeld Nuis
 Netherlands		1:09.27 Samuel Schwarz
 Germany		1:09.77 [10]
1500 m Kjeld Nuis
 Netherlands		1:45.97 Wouter olde Heuvel
 Netherlands		1:46.52 Koen Verweij
 Netherlands		1:46.90 [11]
5000 m Sven Kramer
 Netherlands		6:20.90 Aleksandr Rumyantsev
 Russia		6:23.56 Wouter olde Heuvel
 Netherlands		6:24.03 [12]
Mass start Lee Seung-hoon
 South Korea		60 A Kim Cheol-min
 South Korea		40 A Bart Swings
 Belgium		20 A [13]
Team pursuit  Netherlands
Sven Kramer
Wouter olde Heuvel
Douwe de Vries		3:43.68  South Korea
Lee Seung-hoon
Kim Cheol-min
Ko Byung-wook		3:47.15  Russia
Aleksandr Rumyantsev
Danila Semerikov
Danil Sinitsyn		3:48.22 [14]
A 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
 South Korea		38.07 Nao Kodaira
 Japan		38.18 Olga Fatkulina
 Russia		38.50 [15]
2 Lee Sang-hwa
 South Korea		37.92 Nao Kodaira
 Japan		38.06 Vanessa Bittner
 Austria		38.33
NR 		[16]
1000 m Marrit Leenstra
 Netherlands		1:16.23 Ireen Wüst
 Netherlands		1:16.34 Li Qishi
 China		1:16.54 [17]
1500 m Ireen Wüst
 Netherlands		1:56.93 Marrit Leenstra
 Netherlands		1:57.76 Yuliya Skokova
 Russia		1:58.10 [18]
3000 m Ireen Wüst
 Netherlands		4:04.91 Martina Sáblíková
 Czech Republic		4:06.11 Jorien Voorhuis
 Netherlands		4:07.04 [19]
Mass start Ivanie Blondin
 Canada		61 A Nana Takagi
 Japan		40 A Irene Schouten
 Netherlands		20 A [20]
Team pursuit  Netherlands
Ireen Wüst
Marrit Leenstra
Marije Joling		3:02.54  Japan
Nana Takagi
Ayaka Kikuchi
Maki Tabata		3:04.78  Germany
Claudia Pechstein
Bente Kraus
Gabriele Hirschbichler		3:06.51 [21]
A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.


References
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