2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3

The third competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in Eisstadion Inzell in Inzell, Germany, from Friday, 4 December, until Sunday, 6 December 2015.[1]

There were no world records over the weekend.[2][3][4] Multiple winners were Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea, who won both women's 500 m races, and Brittany Bowe of the United States, who won the women's 1000 and 1500 m races.

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:[5]

Date	Session	Events	Comment
Friday, 4 December	Afternoon	12:00: 500 m women (1)   12:20: 500 m men (1)   13:10: 3000 m women	Division B
	Evening	16:00: 3000 m women   17:04: 500 m women (1)   17:29: 500 m men (1)	Division A
		18:19: Team pursuit men
Saturday, 5 December	Morning	09:30: 1000 m men   10:35: 1000 m women   11:23: 5000 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	14:00: 1000 m men   14:30: 1000 m women   15:15: 5000 m men	Division A
		16:47: Team pursuit women
Sunday, 6 December	Morning	09:45: 500 m women (2)   09:59: 500 m men (2)   10:45: 1500 m women   11:41: 1500 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	14:00: 1500 m women   14:53: 1500 m men   15:43: 500 m women (2)   16:08: 500 m men (2)   16:48: Mass start women   17:17: Mass start men	Division A
	Evening	18:07: Mass start women   18:39: Mass start men	Division B

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Gilmore Junio  Canada	34.86	Alexandre St-Jean  Canada	34.90	Artur Waś  Poland	34.97	[6]
	2	Artur Waś  Poland	34.65	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix  Canada	34.74	Kai Verbij  Netherlands	34.80	[7]
1000 m		Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:08:31	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:08:55	Kai Verbij  Netherlands	1:08.60	[8]
1500 m		Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:44:21	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:45:20	Joey Mantia  United States	1:45.25	[9]
5000 m		Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:17.35	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	6:19.52	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	6:21.66	[10]
Mass start		Alexis Contin  France	60 ^A	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	48 ^A	Fabio Francolini  Italy	22 ^A	[11]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga	3:41.27	Norway Sverre Lunde Pedersen Håvard Bøkko Sindre Henriksen	3:44.88	Poland Jan Szymański Konrad Niedźwiedzki Zbigniew Bródka	3:46.17	[12][13]

^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	37.33	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.70	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.99	[14]
	2	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.36	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.84	Heather McLean  Canada	38.02	[15]
1000 m		Brittany Bowe  United States	1:14.01	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:14.52	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	1:15.27	[16]
1500 m		Brittany Bowe  United States	1:54.68	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:54.94	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:55.79	[17]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:03.18	Marije Joling  Netherlands	4:04.08	Olga Graf  Russia	4:05.87	[18]
Mass start		Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60 ^A	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40 ^A	Park Do-yeong  South Korea	20 ^A	[19]
Team pursuit		Japan Miho Takagi Nana Takagi Misaki Oshigiri	2:59.08	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Antoinette de Jong Marije Joling	2:59.69	Russia Natalya Voronina Olga Graf Elizaveta Kazelina	3:00.36	[20][21]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Standings

The top ten standings in the contested cups after the weekend. The top five nations in the team pursuit cups.

Men's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 SLC1 SLC2 INZ1 INZ2 Total 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov 100 100 100 100 400 2 William Dutton 70 80 70 80 8 16 324 3 Gilmore Junio 19 60 28 18 100 60 285 4 Artur Waś 40 12 8 50 70 100 280 5 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix 25 70 40 28 32 80 275 6 Mika Poutala 80 36 36 60 50 262 7 Laurent Dubreuil 36 45 14 70 60 32 257 8 Kai Verbij 16 21 60 12 16 70 195 9 Alexandre St-Jean 11 6 25 36 80 12 170 10 Mitchell Whitmore 15 50 80 24 169 [22]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Kjeld Nuis 70 80 100 250 2 Gerben Jorritsma 100 70 28 198 3 Pavel Kulizhnikov 80 100 180 4 Joey Mantia 60 40 60 160 5 Kai Verbij 40 45 70 155 6 Shani Davis 50 60 24 134 7 Aleksey Yesin 45 32 45 122 8 Vincent De Haître 36 50 21 107 9 Denis Yuskov 25 80 105 10 Thomas Krol 18 28 50 96 [23]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Kjeld Nuis 60 100 80 240 2 Joey Mantia 70 80 70 220 3 Denis Yuskov 100 100 200 4 Thomas Krol 45 28 60 133 5 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 60 32 132 6 Bart Swings 80 50 130 7 Shani Davis 36 70 18 124 8 Konrad Niedźwiedzki 50 12 50 112 9 Håvard Bøkko 21 45 40 106 10 Gerben Jorritsma 32 36 36 104 [24]

5k/10k # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Jorrit Bergsma 80 70 100 250 2 Sven Kramer 100 80 180 3 Ted-Jan Bloemen 70 100 170 4 Patrick Beckert 60 60 40 160 5 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 40 25 80 145 6 Peter Michael 32 45 50 127 7 Erik Jan Kooiman 35 40 45 120 8 Douwe de Vries 45 60 105 9 Bart Swings 50 50 100 10 Arjan Stroetinga 27 70 97 [25]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Jorrit Bergsma 80 40 80 200 Arjan Stroetinga 50 100 50 200 3 Fabio Francolini 28 80 70 178 4 Bart Swings 100 70 170 5 Alexis Contin 60 100 160 6 Reyon Kay 70 16 40 126 7 Peter Michael 40 32 28 100 8 Viktor Hald Thorup 25 50 14 89 9 Kim Cheol-min 19 45 24 88 10 Haralds Silovs 4 19 60 83 [26]

Team pursuit # Country CGY INZ Total 1  South Korea 80 60 140 2  Poland 60 70 130 3  Italy 70 50 120 4  Canada 100 100  Netherlands 100 100 [27]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	INZ	Total
1	Kjeld Nuis		130	180	180	490
2	Jorrit Bergsma		160	70	180	410
3	Bart Swings		230	170		400
4	Pavel Kulizhnikov		180	200		380
5	Joey Mantia		130	80	130	340
6	Dennis Yuskov		100		180	280
7	Arjan Stroetinga		50	100	120	270
8	Shani Davis		50	130		180
	Sven Kramer		100	80		180
10	Ted-Jan Bloemen		70	100		170
	Gerben Jorritsma		100	70		170

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Women's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 SLC1 SLC2 INZ1 INZ2 Total 1 Lee Sang-hwa 100 80 60 80 100 100 520 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 60 70 70 60 70 80 410 3 Zhang Hong 80 100 100 100 380 4 Brittany Bowe 70 60 80 70 80 360 5 Vanessa Bittner 50 36 45 21 50 50 252 6 Heather McLean 19 28 16 45 60 70 238 7 Erina Kamiya 36 40 21 28 36 60 221 8 Maki Tsuji 40 32 28 36 24 36 196 9 Yu Jing 45 50 50 50 195 10 Olga Fatkulina 28 21 32 40 45 18 184 [29]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Brittany Bowe 80 100 100 280 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 100 70 80 250 3 Marrit Leenstra 45 60 50 155 4 Zhang Hong 70 80 150 5 Li Qishi 25 50 60 135 6 Vanessa Bittner 50 40 40 130 7 Lee Sang-hwa 28 70 98 8 Olga Fatkulina 24 45 28 97 9 Ida Njåtun 40 8 45 93 10 Margot Boer 32 32 16 80 [30]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Brittany Bowe 100 80 100 280 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 80 100 80 260 3 Martina Sáblíková 70 70 50 190 4 Marrit Leenstra 50 60 70 180 5 Ida Njåtun 60 50 60 170 6 Marije Joling 45 28 40 113 7 Miho Takagi 25 32 45 102 8 Misaki Oshigiri 28 45 28 101 9 Ayaka Kikuchi 21 40 36 97 10 Antoinette de Jong 36 36 18 90 [31]

3k/5k # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Martina Sáblíková 100 100 100 300 2 Natalya Voronina 70 80 50 200 3 Irene Schouten 80 50 25 155 4 Ivanie Blondin 40 70 30 140 Olga Graf 30 40 70 140 6 Claudia Pechstein 35 60 35 130 7 Marije Joling 45 80 125 8 Jorien Voorhuis 60 60 120 9 Miho Takagi 23 35 40 98 10 Yvonne Nauta 12 30 45 96 [32]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC INZ Total 1 Irene Schouten 80 100 100 280 2 Ivanie Blondin 70 80 80 230 3 Janneke Ensing 32 60 40 132 4 Park Do-yeong 40 19 70 129 5 Heather Richardson-Bergsma 50 28 45 123 6 Martina Sáblíková 60 60 120 7 Kim Bo-reum 100 5 105 8 Liu Jing 14 40 50 104 9 Misaki Oshigiri 25 70 95 10 Luiza Złotkowska 11 50 32 93 [33]

Team pursuit # Country CGY INZ Total 1  Japan 80 100 180  Netherlands 100 80 180 3  Russia 70 70 140 4  Canada 60 45 105 5  Germany 45 50 95  Poland 35 60 95 [34]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	INZ	Total
1	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		295	235	235	765
2	Brittany Bowe		245	255	240	740
3	Martina Sáblíková		230	170	210	610
4	Irene Schouten		160	150	100	410
5	Zhang Hong		160	180		340
6	Lee Sang-hwa		90	70	170	330
7	Ivanie Blondin		70	150	80	300
8	Marrit Leenstra		50	120	120	290
9	Natalya Voronina		70	80	50	200
10	Ida Njåtun		60	50	60	170

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