2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3 explained

The third competition weekend of the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 2 December, until Sunday, 4 December 2011.

Schedule of events

The schedule of the event is below:^[1]

Date	Time	Events
2 December	16:00 CET	500 m women 500 m men 5000 m women 1500 m men
3 December	13:15 CET	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 10000 m men
4 December	13:00 CET	1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men Team sprint women Team sprint men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Tucker Fredricks	34.98	Joji Kato	35.07	Mo Tae-bum	35.08	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100603/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r301.htm
2	Pekka Koskela	35.01	Joji Kato	35.02	Jesper Hospes	35.06	https://web.archive.org/web/20130502233119/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r302.htm
1000 m		Kjeld Nuis	1:08.64	Sjoerd de Vries	1:09.14	Mo Tae-bum	1:09.18	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100754/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r303.htm
1500 m		Ivan Skobrev	1:45.81	Kjeld Nuis	1:45.99	Håvard Bøkko	1:46.49	https://web.archive.org/web/20111205054652/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r304.htm
10000 m		Jorrit Bergsma	12:50.33	Bob de Jong	12:55.11	Bob de Vries	13:03.41	https://web.archive.org/web/20111207055402/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r305.htm
Team pursuit		Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Jan Blokhuijsen	3:42.35	Lee Seung-hoon Ko Byung-wook Joo Hyung-joon	3:43.82	Patrick Beckert Alexej Baumgartner Marco Weber	3:45.28	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100609/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r306.htm

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Yu Jing	37.84	Lee Sang-hwa	37.91	Wang Beixing	38.17	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209101103/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r311.htm
2	Yu Jing	37.67	Jenny Wolf	38.19	Laurine van Riessen	38.20	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209090047/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r312.htm
1000 m		Christine Nesbitt	1:15.32	Yu Jing	1:15.85	Yekaterina Shikhova	1:16.16	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100808/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r313.htm
1500 m		Christine Nesbitt	1:55.68	Ireen Wüst	1:57.15	Yekaterina Shikhova	1:57.17	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100813/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r314.htm
5000 m		Martina Sáblíková	6:58.87	Claudia Pechstein	7:02.92	Stephanie Beckert	7:04.77	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209090052/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r315.htm
Team pursuit		Brittany Schussler Christine Nesbitt Cindy Klassen	3:00.01	Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova	3:02.38	Lee Ju-yeon Noh Seon-yeong Kim Bo-reum	3:03.18	https://web.archive.org/web/20111209100833/http://live.isuresults.eu/2011-2012/heerenveen-1/r316.htm

Notes

• The team sprint events were included as demonstration events.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Heerenveen World Cup announcement . 2011-12-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425232826/http://isu.sportcentric.net/db//files/serve.php?id=3027 . 2012-04-25 . dead .
2. http://www.isu.org/vsite/vnavsite/page/directory/0,10853,4844-205151-222374-nav-list,00.html?id=971Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating Heerenveen (NED)