2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 2

The second competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, United States, from Friday, November 20, until Sunday, November 22, 2015.^[1]

There were six world records over the course of the weekend. On Friday, Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia shaved another 2/100 off his 500 m world record from the previous weekend.^[2] On Saturday, Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada unexpectedly beat Dutchman Sven Kramer's 10000 m world record from 2007 with more than five seconds, and American Heather Richardson-Bergsma beat compatriot Brittany Bowe's 1500 m world record from the weekend before.^[3]

On Sunday, Bowe responded by taking back her 1000 m world record, which she had lost to Richardson the previous weekend.^[4] Additionally, both the men's and the women's team sprint records, established only the weekend before, were beaten.

Multiple winners were Kulizhnikov, who won both 500 m races and the 1000 m race, and Zhang Hong of China, who won both women's 500 m races and the team sprint.

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:^[5]

Date	Session	Events	Comment
Friday, November 20	Morning	09:00: 5000 m women   10:23: 500 m women (1)   11:04: 500 m men (1)	Division B
	Afternoon	13:00: 5000 m women   14:10: 500 m women (1)   14:35: 500 m men (1)   15:15: 1500 m men	Division A
		16:52: 1500 m men	Division B
Saturday, November 21	Morning	09:00: 500 m women (2)   09:26: 1000 m men   10:48: 1500 m women	Division B
	Afternoon	13:00: 10000 m men   15:06: 500 m women (2)   15:31: 1000 m men   16:16: 1500 m women	Division A
		17:53: 10000 m men	Division B
Sunday, November 22	Morning	09:00: 1000 m women   09:50: 500 m men (2)   10:43: Mass start women   11:13: Mass start men	Division B
	Afternoon	13:00: 1000 m women   13:35: 500 m men (2)   14:15: Mass start women   14:45: Mass start men	Division A
		15:30: Team sprint women   15:47: Team sprint men

All times are MST (UTC−7).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	33.98 WR	Mitchell Whitmore   United States	34.19	William Dutton   Canada	34.35	^[6]
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	34.13	William Dutton   Canada	34.34	Laurent Dubreuil   Canada	34.36	^[7]
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov   Russia	1:06.70	Kjeld Nuis   Netherlands	1:07.02	Gerben Jorritsma   Netherlands	1:07.23	^[8]
1500 m		Kjeld Nuis   Netherlands	1:42.18	Joey Mantia   United States	1:42.45	Shani Davis   United States	1:42.90	^[9]
10000 m		Ted-Jan Bloemen   Canada	12:36.30 WR	Sven Kramer   Netherlands	12:44.26	Jorrit Bergsma   Netherlands	12:53.99	^[10]
Mass start		Arjan Stroetinga   Netherlands	60 ^A	Fabio Francolini   Italy	41 ^A	Bart Swings   Belgium	21 ^A	^[11]
Team sprint		Canada William Dutton Alexandre St-Jean Vincent De Haître	1:17.75 WR	Russia Kirill Golubev Artyom Kuznetsov Aleksey Yesin	1:19.12	Netherlands Hein Otterspeer Kai Verbij Stefan Groothuis	1:19.20	^[12]

^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	Zhang Hong   China	36.56	Brittany Bowe   United States	37.03	Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	37.13	^[13]
	2	Zhang Hong   China	36.82	Lee Sang-hwa   South Korea	36.83	Brittany Bowe   United States	37.08	^[14]
1000 m		Brittany Bowe   United States	1:12.18 WR	Zhang Hong   China	1:12.77	Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	1:13.45	^[15]
1500 m		Heather Richardson-Bergsma   United States	1:50.85 WR	Brittany Bowe   United States	1:51.31	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	1:53.44	^[16]
5000 m		Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	6:47.42	Natalya Voronina   Russia	6:53.16	Ivanie Blondin   Canada	6:55.88	^[17]
Mass start		Irene Schouten   Netherlands	60 ^A	Ivanie Blondin   Canada	40 ^A	Misaki Oshigiri   Japan	20 ^A	^[18]
Team sprint		China Yu Jing Zhang Hong Li Qishi	1:24.65 WR	Russia Yekaterina Shikhova Nadezhda Aseyeva Olga Fatkulina	1:26.07	Japan Erina Kamiya Maki Tsuji Nao Kodaira	1:26.62	^[19]

^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 sprint cups.

Men's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 SLC1 SLC2 Total 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov   100 100 100 100 400 2 William Dutton   70 80 70 80 300 3 Mika Poutala   80 36 36 60 212 4 Mitchell Whitmore   15 50 80 24 169 5 Laurent Dubreuil   36 45 14 70 165 6 Ronald Mulder   60 40 50 14 164 7 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix   25 70 40 28 163 8 Gilmore Junio   19 60 28 18 125 9 Joji Kato   12 28 32 45 117 10 Artur Waś   40 12 8 50 110 ^[20]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov   80 100 180 2 Gerben Jorritsma   100 70 170 3 Kjeld Nuis   70 80 150 4 Shani Davis   50 60 110 5 Joey Mantia   60 40 100 6 Vincent De Haître   36 50 86 7 Kai Verbij   40 45 85 8 Aleksey Yesin   45 32 77 9 Mika Poutala   25 36 61 10 Thomas Krol   18 28 46 ^[21]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Kjeld Nuis   60 100 160 2 Joey Mantia   70 80 150 3 Bart Swings   80 50 130 4 Shani Davis   36 70 106 5 Sverre Lunde Pedersen   40 60 100 Denis Yuskov   100 100 7 Thomas Krol   45 28 73 8 Gerben Jorritsma   32 36 68 Li Bailin   28 40 68 10 Håvard Bøkko   21 45 66 ^[22]

5000/10000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Sven Kramer   100 80 180 2 Ted-Jan Bloemen   70 100 170 3 Jorrit Bergsma   80 70 150 4 Patrick Beckert   60 60 120 5 Bart Swings   50 50 100 6 Peter Michael   32 45 77 7 Erik Jan Kooiman   35 40 75 8 Sverre Lunde Pedersen   40 25 65 9 Andrea Giovannini   25 35 60 10 Jordan Belchos   27 30 57 ^[23]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Bart Swings   100 70 170 2 Arjan Stroetinga   50 100 150 3 Jorrit Bergsma   80 40 120 4 Fabio Francolini   28 80 108 5 Reyon Kay   70 16 86 6 Viktor Hald Thorup   25 50 75 7 Peter Michael   40 32 72 Sun Longjiang   36 36 72 9 Kim Cheol-min   19 45 64 10 Livio Wenger   60 2 62 ^[24]

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC Total 1   Netherlands 100 70 170 2   Russia 70 80 150 3   United States 80 45 125 4   Canada 100 100 5   Poland 45 40 85 ^[25]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	Total
1	Bart Swings		230	170	400
2	Pavel Kulizhnikov		180	200	380
3	Kjeld Nuis		130	180	310
4	Jorrit Bergsma		160	70	230
5	Joey Mantia		130	80	210
6	Shani Davis		50	130	180
	Sven Kramer		100	80	180
8	Ted-Jan Bloemen		70	100	170
9	Gerben Jorritsma		100	70	170
10	William Dutton		75	75	150
	Arjan Stroetinga		50	100	150

^[26]

Women's cups

500 m # Name Nat. CGY1 CGY2 SLC1 SLC2 Total 1 Zhang Hong   80 100 100 100 380 2 Lee Sang-hwa   100 80 60 80 320 3 Brittany Bowe   70 60 80 70 280 4 Heather Richardson-Bergsma   60 70 70 60 260 5 Yu Jing   45 50 50 50 195 6 Vanessa Bittner   50 36 45 21 152 7 Maki Tsuji   40 32 28 36 136 8 Erina Kamiya   36 40 21 28 125 9 Olga Fatkulina   28 21 32 40 121 10 Heather McLean   19 28 16 45 108 ^[27]

1000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Brittany Bowe   80 100 180 2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma   100 70 170 3 Zhang Hong   70 80 150 4 Marrit Leenstra   45 60 105 5 Vanessa Bittner   50 40 90 6 Li Qishi   25 50 75 7 Olga Fatkulina   24 45 69 8 Margot Boer   32 32 64 9 Jorien ter Mors   60 60 10 Karolína Erbanová   36 21 57 ^[28]

1500 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Brittany Bowe   100 80 180 Heather Richardson-Bergsma   80 100 180 3 Martina Sáblíková   70 70 140 4 Marrit Leenstra   50 60 110 Ida Njåtun   60 50 110 6 Marije Joling   45 28 73 Misaki Oshigiri   28 45 73 8 Antoinette de Jong   36 36 72 9 Ayaka Kikuchi   21 40 61 Li Qishi   40 21 61 ^[29]

3000/5000 m # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Martina Sáblíková   100 100 200 2 Natalya Voronina   70 80 150 3 Irene Schouten   80 50 130 4 Ivanie Blondin   40 70 110 5 Claudia Pechstein   35 60 95 6 Misaki Oshigiri   32 45 77 7 Olga Graf   30 40 70 8 Jorien Voorhuis   60 60 9 Miho Takagi   23 35 58 10 Yvonne Nauta   12 30 51 ^[30]

Mass start # Name Nat. CGY SLC Total 1 Irene Schouten   80 100 180 2 Ivanie Blondin   70 80 150 3 Kim Bo-reum   100 5 105 4 Misaki Oshigiri   25 70 95 5 Janneke Ensing   32 60 92 6 Heather Richardson-Bergsma   50 28 78 7 Luiza Złotkowska   11 50 61 8 Martina Sáblíková   60 60 9 Park Do-yeong   40 19 59 10 Hao Jiachen   21 36 57 ^[31]

Team sprint # Country CGY SLC Total 1   China 80 100 180 2   Japan 100 70 170 3   Canada 70 60 130 4   Netherlands 60 50 110 5   Belarus 50 40 90 ^[32]

Grand World Cup

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	Total
1	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		295	235	530
2	Brittany Bowe		245	255	500
3	Martina Sáblíková		230	170	400
4	Zhang Hong		160	180	340
5	Irene Schouten		160	150	310
6	Ivanie Blondin		70	150	220
7	Marrit Leenstra		50	120	170
8	Lee Sang-hwa		90	70	160
9	Natalya Voronina		70	80	150
10	Ida Njåtun		60	50	110

^[33]

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