2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2016–2017, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 11 November 2016 in Harbin, China, and ended with the final on 11 March 2017 in Stavanger, Norway.^[1]

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	11 November 2016 – 11 March 2017
←2015–16 2017–18→

In total, six competition weekends were held at six different locations, 18 cups were contested (nine for men, and nine for women), and 88 races took place. Additionally, there were two Grand World Cups, one for men and one for women, in which all individual races, regardless of distance, counted.

The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).

Calendar

The detailed schedule for the season.^[1]

WC #	City	Venue	Date	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10000 m	Mass start	Team pursuit	Team sprint
1	Harbin	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink	11–13 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
2	Nagano	M-Wave	18–20 November	m, w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
3	Astana	Alau Ice Palace	2–4 December	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
4	Heerenveen	Thialf	9–11 December	m, w	m, w	m, w		w	m	m, w	m, w	m, w
	Heerenveen	Thialf	6–8 January	2017 European Speed Skating Championships
5	Berlin	Sportforum Hohenschönhausen	27–29 January	2m, 2w	2m, 2w	m, w	w	m
	Gangneung	Gangneung Oval	9–12 February	2017 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
	Calgary	Olympic Oval	25–26 February	2017 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
	Hamar	Vikingskipet	4–5 March	2017 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
6	TBD	TBD	10–12 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
Total				10m, 10w	7m, 7w	6m, 6w	5w	5m, 1w	1m	5m, 5w	5m, 5w	3m, 3w

Note: the men's 5000 and 10000 metres were contested as one cup, and the women's 3000 and 5000 metres were contested as one cup, as indicated by the color coding.^[1]

In addition, there were two combination cups, the allround combination and the sprint combination. For the allround combination, the distances were 1500 + 5000 metres for men, and 1500 + 3000 metres for women. For the sprint combination, the distances were 500 + 1000 metres, both for men and women. These cups were contested only in World Cup 5, in Berlin, Germany.

Entry rules

Qualification criteria

In order to qualify, skaters had to achieve the following results in ISU events, international competitions or national championships between 1 July 2015 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned.^[1]

Men Distance Time required ^A Time required ^B 500 m 36.20 36.60 1000 m 1:11.90 1:12.80 1500 m 1:51.00 1:52.50 3000 m — — 5000 m 6:48.00 6:52.00 10000 m 13:40.00 ^C 13:50.00 ^D

Women Distance Time required ^A Time required ^B 500 m 40.00 40.50 1000 m 1:20.00 1:21.00 1500 m 2:03.00 2:05.00 3000 m 4:24.00 4:28.00 5000 m 7:25.00 ^E 7:32.00 ^F 10000 m — —

^A in the Olympic Oval, Calgary, the Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City, or the Xinjiang Ice Sports Center, Ürümqi

^B in other ice rinks

^C or 6:35.00 on 5000 m

^D or 6:40.00 on 5000 m

^E or 4:15.00 on 3000 m

^F or 4:20.00 on 3000 m

For the mass start and team pursuit events, skaters who had achieved any one of the above results were qualified. However, every ISU member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of one skater per gender who had not achieved any of these results, provided that they had achieved a 1500 m result of 1:57.50 (men) or 2:10.00 (women).^[1]

Nation quotas

Every ISU member nation was allowed to enter at least one competitor for each distance, subject to the qualification criteria above. Additionally, countries placed among the top 40 in the final 2015–16 World Cup were allowed an additional entry per top 40 (though 5 riders in the top 40 were required to have the full quotum of 5). The maximum quota was 5 skaters. A member nation organizing a World Cup competition was granted the maximum quota in all events. Member nations not mentioned were allowed to enter a maximum of one skater for each distance.^[1]

For the mass start event, a member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of two skaters, all subject to the qualifying criteria above. For the team pursuit and team sprint events, a member nation was allowed to enter one team only per category (men/women).^[1]

The World Cup competitions 1–4 served as qualifying events for the 2017 European Championships and 2017 World Single Distance Championships. World Cup 5 served as a qualifying event for the 2017 World Allround Championships and 2017 World Sprint Championships. Results from World Cups 1–5 defined the seeding for the Single Distance Championships. World Cup 5 had extended entry quotas due to its status as qualifying event; each ISU member nation got one more quota place than its highest quota of either of the two distances in the competition, however, the maximum quota was still 5 places.^[1]

Competition format

Seeding of skaters

If the number of entered skaters exceeded a certain limit, skaters competed in two separate divisions, A and B.^[1] In the first competition, the composition of skaters in the respective division was determined by the ranking of the skaters in the respective distance category from the 2015–16 World Cup and the seeding submitted by the respective team leaders before the draw. For each country and distance category, the number of skaters in the ranking top of the previous year decided the number of places available in Division A, but the team leader's seeding decided which skater goes into which division.

In the following competitions, the current World Cup ranking was used, with special considerations to top-placed skaters in Division B of the previous competition. A skater was also under certain conditions allowed to apply for a wild card for Division A, but only the first time the skater participated in a distance category, and not in the first and last competitions of the season.^[1] In the last competition for the season, there was no Division B.

Number of competitors in Division A

	World Cup 1–5 number of entries				World Cup 6
Distance	up to 20	21 to 24	25 to 28	29 or more
500 m 1000 m 1500 m	all	all	all	20	20
5000 m men 3000 m women	all	12	16	16	16
10000 m men 5000 m women	12	12	12	12	—
Mass start	all	all	16	20	20

Points system

Points tables

World Cup points for all competitions, except the last, were awarded in both divisions, using two sets of tables, A1/B1 and A2/B2. Tables A1 and B1 were used when the number of competitors in Division A exceeded 16, while tables A2 and B2 were used when that number was between 12 and 16. However, if table B1 was used for Division B in the first race in an event that is raced twice in the same competition, it was used also in the second race, regardless of the number of competitors in Division A.^[1]

For the last competition, since there was no Division B, points were awarded using table A3.^[1]

Points system, tables A1/B1 (more than 16 entries in A) Rank Division A Division B 1 100 25 2 80 19 3 70 15 4 60 11 5 50 8 6 45 6 7 40 4 8 36 2 9 32 1 10 28 — 11 24 12 21 13 18 14 16 15 14 16 12 17 10 18 8 19 6 20 5 21 4 22 3 23 2 24 1

Points system, tables A2/B2 (12–16 entries in A) Rank Division A Division B 1 100 32 2 80 27 3 70 23 4 60 19 5 50 15 6 45 11 7 40 9 8 35 7 9 30 6 10 25 5 11 21 4 12 18 3 13 16 2 14 14 1 15 12 — 16 10

Points system, table A3 Rank Division A 1 150 2 120 3 105 4 90 5 75 6 45 7 40 8 36 9 32 10 28 11 24 12 21 13 18 14 16 15 14 16 12 17 10 18 8 19 6 20 5

Mass start ranking

The mass start races were over 20 laps for men and 15 laps for women. There were three intermediate sprints, at 5, 10 and 15 laps for men, and at 4, 8 and 12 laps for women. Race points were awarded to the four first skaters at the intermediate sprints, and to the six first skaters at the final sprint.^[1] The accumulated points a skater collected during a race decided the final ranking. For skaters who were tied in race points, including those who had failed to collect any, their finishing order broke the tie.

Points table for mass start

Rank	Intermediate sprints	Final sprint (finish)
1	5	31
2	3	15
3	2	10
4	1	5
5	—	3
6		1

Grand World Cup

In order to determine an overall World Cup winner, one for men and one for women, a special points system was used, awarding points for the top five skaters in each individual event.^[1]

Points table for Grand World Cup

Rank	World Cup 1–5	World Cup 6
1	10	15
2	8	12
3	7	10,5
4	6	9
5	5	7,5

Note: half points were awarded in distances that were skated twice in the same competition.

Prize money

Prize money for each competition^[1] Rank Individual events Mass start Team pursuit 1 $1500 $750 $2100 2 $1000 $500 $1500 3 $800 $400 $1200 Note: half amounts were awarded in distances that were skated twice in the same competition.

Prize money for final ranking^[1] Rank Individual events Mass start Team pursuit 1 $15000 $5000 $5000 2 $10000 $3000 $3000 3 $7000 $2500 $2500 4 $5000 $2000 $2000 5 $4000 $1500 $1500 6 $3500 — — 7 $3000 8 $2500 9 $2000 10 $1500

Additionally, the Grand World Cup winner of each category (men/women) was awarded $20000.^[1]

World records

World records going into the 2016–17 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	33.98	Pavel Kulizhnikov		20 November 2015	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[2]
1000 m	1:06.42	Shani Davis		7 March 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[3]
1500 m	1:41.04	Shani Davis		11 December 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[4]
5000 m	6:03.32	Sven Kramer		17 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[5]
10000 m	12:36.30	Ted-Jan Bloemen		21 November 2015	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[6]
Team pursuit (8 laps)	3:35.60	Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[7]

Women

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	36.36	Lee Sang-hwa		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[8]
1000 m	1:12.18	Brittany Bowe		22 November 2015	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[9]
1500 m	1:50.85	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		21 November 2015	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[10]
3000 m	3:53.34	Cindy Klassen		18 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[11]
5000 m	6:42.66	Martina Sáblíková		18 February 2011	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[12]
Team pursuit (6 laps)	2:55.79	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler		6 December 2009	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[13]

• New records :

Men's standings

500 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres Rank Name Points 1   Dai Dai Ntab 585 2   Ruslan Murashov 557 3   Ronald Mulder 541

1000 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres Rank Name Points 1   Kjeld Nuis 550 2   Vincent De Haitre 440 3   Kai Verbij 394

1500 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres Rank Name Points 1   Kjeld Nuis 455 2   Denis Yuskov 430 3   Patrick Roest 345

5000 and 10000 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres Rank Name Points 1   Jorrit Bergsma 480 2   Ted-Jan Bloemen 413 3   Peter Michael 338

Mass start Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's mass start Rank Name Points 1   Seung-Hoon Lee 412 2   Andrea Giovannini 280 3   Jorrit Bergsma 270

Team pursuit Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit Rank Name Points 1   Netherlands 430 2   Norway 390 3   Japan 374

Team sprint Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team sprint Rank Name Points 1   Canada 300 2   Netherlands 260 3   Germany 234

Grand World Cup Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's Grand World Cup Rank Name Points 1   Kjeld Nuis 930 2   Jorrit Bergsma 700 3   Kai Verbij 507

Women's standings

500 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres Rank Name Points 1   Nao Kodaira 900 2   Maki Tsuji 585 3   Erina Kamiya 527

1000 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres Rank Name Points 1   Heather Bergsma 650 2   Miho Takagi 476 3   Marrit Leenstra 451

1500 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres Rank Name Points 1   Heather Bergsma 480 2   Marrit Leenstra 460 3   Miho Takagi 430

3000 and 5000 m Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres Rank Name Points 1   Martina Sáblíková 630 2   Anna Yurakova 395 3   Antoinette de Jong 360

Mass start Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's mass start Rank Name Points 1   Bo-Reum Kim 460 2   Francesca Lollobrigida 364 3   Ivanie Blondin 344

Team pursuit Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team pursuit Rank Name Points 1   Japan 430 2   Netherlands 430 3   Russia 384

Team sprint Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team sprint Rank Name Points 1   Japan 320 2   Netherlands 290 3   Russia 160

Grand World Cup Main article: 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's Grand World Cup Rank Name Points 1   Heather Bergsma 1217 2   Miho Takagi 960 3   Martina Sáblíková 864

References

1. (PDF). International Skating Union. 3 August 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
2. "Evolution of the world record 500 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
3. "Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
4. "Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
5. "Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
6. "Evolution of the world record 10,000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
7. "Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
8. "Evolution of the world record 500 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
9. "Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
10. "Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
11. "Evolution of the world record 3000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
12. "Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
13. "Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

External links

• at ISUresults.eu