2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit explained

The men's team pursuit in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over three races on three occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Obihiro, Japan, on 14–16 November 2014, and the last occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 12–14 December 2014.^[1]

The defending champions were the Netherlands.

The South Korean team won the cup after having collected silver medals in the first two competitions, and a gold medal in the final competition.

Top three

Position	Points	Previous season
1	310	5th
2	290	1st
3	205	4th

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Obihiro, Japan	15 November	Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Douwe de Vries	3:43.68	Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook	3:47.15	Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Danil Sinitsyn	3:48.22	^[2] ^[3]
3	Berlin, Germany	5 December	Zbigniew Bródka Jan Szymański Konrad Niedźwiedzki	3:45.88	Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook	3:46.97	Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga Frank Vreugdenhil	3:47.58	^[4] ^[5]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	12 December	Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon	3:44.57	Arjan Stroetinga Frank Vreugdenhil Douwe de Vries	3:44.97	Håvard Bøkko Fredrik van der Horst Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:45.52	^[6] ^[7]

Standings

Standings as of 12 December 2014 (end of the season).^[8]

	Country	BER	HVN	Total
1	align=left	bgcolor=silver	80	bgcolor=silver	80	bgcolor=gold	150	310
2	align=left	bgcolor=gold	100	bgcolor=cc9966	70	bgcolor=silver	120	290
3	align=left	60	bgcolor=gold	100	45	205
4	align=left	40	50	76	166
5	align=left	bgcolor=cc9966	70	60	36	166
6	align=left	30	45	90	165
7	align=left		35	bgcolor=cc9966	106	141
8	align=left	50	30	32	112
9	align=left	35	25	40	100
10	align=left	45	40		85
11	align=left	25	21	28	74

Notes and References

Web site: International Skating Union – Communication No. 1889 . International Skating Union . 10 September 2014 . 10 November 2014 . 10 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141110074813/http://static.isu.org/media/158518/1889-world-cup-ss-2014-15-update-sep10.pdf . dead .
Web site: ISU World Cup Obihiro – November 11-16, 2014 – Result Team Pursuit Men – Rankings as of Nov 15 2014 6:06PM . International Skating Union . 15 November 2014 . 17 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025124/http://live.isuresults.eu/2014-2015/obihiro/r104.htm . 2014-11-29 . dead.
Web site: Competition: 1. Weltcup 2014/2015 – Men, Team, 8 Runden, Division A, 2.Tag . SpeedSkatingNews[.info] . 18 November 2014 .
Web site: ISU World Cup Berlin – December 5-7, 2014 – Result Team Pursuit Men – Rankings as of Dec 6 2014 11:07AM . International Skating Union . 6 December 2014 . 6 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141209125903/http://live.isuresults.eu/2014-2015/berlin/r306.htm . 2014-12-09 . dead.
Web site: Competition: 3. Weltcup 2014/2015 – Men, Team, 8 Runden, Division A . SpeedSkatingNews[.info] . 6 December 2014 .
Web site: ISU World Cup Heerenveen – December 12-14, 2014 – Result Team Pursuit Men – Rankings as of Dec 13 2014 5:05PM . International Skating Union . 13 December 2014 . 24 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141225011859/http://live.isuresults.eu/2014-2015/heerenveen-1/r406.htm . 2014-12-25 . dead.
Web site: Competition: 4. Weltcup 2014/2015 – Men, Team, 8 Runden, Division A . SpeedSkatingNews[.info] . 24 December 2014 .
Web site: ISU WorldCup 2014/2015 – Rankings Team Pursuit Men – Rankings as of Dec 14 2014 6:06PM . International Skating Union . 14 December 2014 . 25 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129092618/http://live.isuresults.eu/2014-2015/worldcup/wc1_6000.htm . 2014-11-29 . dead.