2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup explained

The 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2015–2016, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 13 November 2015 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and ended with the final on 13 March 2016 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.^[1]

In total, six competition weekends were held at five 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]

	City	Venue	Date
1	align=left	Calgary	align=left	Olympic Oval	align=right		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
2	align=left	Salt Lake City	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval	align=right		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w		bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m	m, w		m, w
3	align=left	Inzell	align=left	Eisstadion Inzell	align=right		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m		m, w	m, w
4	align=left	Heerenveen	align=left	Thialf	align=right		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
	align=left	Minsk	align=left	Minsk-Arena	align=right		2016 European Speed Skating Championships<									--	-bgcolor=#faecc8		align=left	Xxxx	align=left	Xxxx	align=right		2016 Asian Single Distance Speed Skating Championships -->
5	align=left	Stavanger	align=left	Sørmarka Arena	align=right		2m, 2w	2m, 2w	m, w	bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m
	align=left	Kolomna	align=left	Kolomna Speed Skating Center	align=right		2016 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
	align=left	Seoul	align=left	Taereung International Ice Rink	align=right		2016 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
	align=left	Berlin	align=left		align=right		2016 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
6	align=left	Heerenveen	align=left	Thialf	align=right		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	bgcolor=pink	w	bgcolor=lightblue	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
align=left colspan=4	Total				5w		1m

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 Stavanger, Norway.

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 2014 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned.^[1]

Men

Distance	Time required	Time required
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	13:50.00

Women

Distance	Time required	Time required
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	7:32.00
10000 m	—	—

in the Olympic Oval, Calgary, or the Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

in other ice rinks

or 6:35.00 on 5000 m

or 6:40.00 on 5000 m

or 4:15.00 on 3000 m

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]

World records

World records going into the 2015–16 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	34.03	align=left	Jeremy Wotherspoon		align=right	9 November 2007	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[2]
1000 m	1:06.42	align=left	Shani Davis		align=right	7 March 2009	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[3]
1500 m	1:41.04	align=left	Shani Davis		align=right	11 December 2009	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[4]
5000 m	6:03.32	align=left	Sven Kramer		align=right	17 November 2007	align=left	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[5]
10000 m	12:41.69	align=left	Sven Kramer		align=right	10 March 2007	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[6]
Team pursuit (8 laps)	3:35.60	align=left	Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer		align=right	16 November 2013	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[7]

Women

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	36.36	align=left	Lee Sang-hwa		align=right	16 November 2013	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[8]
1000 m	1:12.58	align=left	Brittany Bowe		align=right	17 November 2013	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[9]
1500 m	1:51.79	align=left	Cindy Klassen		align=right	20 November 2005	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[10]
3000 m	3:53.34	align=left	Cindy Klassen		align=right	18 March 2006	align=left	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[11]
5000 m	6:42.66	align=left	Martina Sáblíková		align=right	18 February 2011	align=left	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	^[12]
Team pursuit (6 laps)	2:55.79	align=left	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler		align=right	6 December 2009	align=left	Olympic Oval, Calgary	^[13]

• New records :
• 500 m Pavel Kulizhnikov
• 1000 m (lowland) Pavel Kulizhnikov
• 1500 Heather Richardson-Bergsma
• 1000 m Brittany Bowe
• 10.000 m Ted-Jan Bloemen

Men's standings

500 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		705
2		705
3		637

1000 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		630
2		480
3		396

1500 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		530
2		456
3		405

5000 and 10000 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		530
2		530
3		369

Mass start

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's mass start.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1	Arjan Stroetinga	404
2		380
3		378

Team pursuit

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Country	width=25	Points
1		350
2		280
3		279

Team sprint

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team sprint.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Country	width=25	Points
1		390
2		334
3		320

Grand World Cup

See main article: article.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		630
2		580
2		530

Women's standings

500 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres.

width=30	Rank	Name	width=25	Points
1		848
2		842
3		785

1000 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres.

width=30	Rank	Name	width=25	Points
1		710
2		508
3		465

1500 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		590
2		501
3		396

3000 and 5000 m

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		500
2		450
3		361

Mass start

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's mass start.

width=30	Rank		Name	width=25	Points
1		466
2		420
3		271

Team pursuit

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team pursuit.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Country	width=25	Points
1		430
2		380
3		290

Team sprint

See main article: article and 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team sprint.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Country	width=25	Points
1		330
2		314
3		290

Grand World Cup

See main article: article.

width=30	Rank	width=150	Name	width=25	Points
1		1020
2		960
3		770

External links

• International Skating Union

• Results at ISUresults.eu

Notes and References

1. Web site: International Skating Union – Communication No. 1958 . International Skating Union . PDF . 3 August 2015 . 14 October 2015 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072318/http://static.isu.org/media/213658/1958-world-cup-ss-2015-16.pdf . dead .
2. Web site: Evolution of the world record 500 meters Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
3. Web site: Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
4. Web site: Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
5. Web site: Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
6. Web site: Evolution of the world record 10,000 meters Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
7. Web site: Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Men . www.speedskatingstats.com . 28 November 2013.
8. Web site: Evolution of the world record 500 meters Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 28 November 2013.
9. Web site: Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 28 November 2013.
10. Web site: Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
11. Web site: Evolution of the world record 3000 meters Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
12. Web site: Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.
13. Web site: Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Women . www.speedskatingstats.com . 30 September 2013.