2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships Explained

Event:	2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
Venue:	Kolomna Speed Skating Center, Russia
Dates:	11–14 February
Prev:	2015 Heerenveen
Next:	2017 Gangneung

The 2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held between 11 and 14 February 2016 in Kolomna, Russia.^[1]

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+3).^[2]

Date	Time	Events
11 February	16:45	10,000 m men
		3000 m women
12 February	17:10	1000 m women
		1500 m men
		5000 m women
		Team pursuit men
13 February	15:00	5000 m men
		500 m women
		1000 m men
		Team pursuit women
14 February	14:30	500 m men
		1500 m women
		Mass start men
		Mass start women

Medal summary

Men's events

500 m^[3] ^[4] ^[5]	Pavel Kulizhnikov	69.026	Ruslan Murashov	69.680	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada	69.788
1000 m^[6]	Pavel Kulizhnikov	1:08.33	Denis Yuskov	1:08.43	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:08.47
1500 m^[7]	Denis Yuskov	1:44.13	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:45.66	Thomas Krol Netherlands	1:45.75
5000 m^[8]	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:10.31	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:10.66	Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway	6:15.08
10000 m^[9]	Sven Kramer Netherlands	12:56.77	Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada	12:59.69	Erik Jan Kooiman Netherlands	13:02.15
Team pursuit^[10]	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga	3:40.04	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:41.26	Canada Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Benjamin Donnelly	3:43.28
Mass start^[11] ^[12]	Lee Seung-hoon	7:18.26	Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands	7:18.32	Alexis Contin France	7:18.41

Women's events

500 m^[13] ^[14] ^[15]	Lee Sang-hwa	74.859	Brittany Bowe United States	75.663	Zhang Hong China	75.688
1000 m^[16]	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:14.73	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:14.94	Brittany Bowe United States	1:15.01
1500 m^[17]	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:53.92	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:54.67	Brittany Bowe United States	1:55.09
3000 m^[18]	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:03.05	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:03.13	Antoinette de Jong Netherlands	4:04.25
5000 m^[19]	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:51.09	Carien Kleibeuker Netherlands	6:54.96	Irene Schouten Netherlands	6:55.93
Team pursuit^[20]	Netherlands Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	2:58.12	Japan Misaki Oshigiri Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	2:58.31	Olga Graf Elizaveta Kazelina Natalya Voronina	3:02.61
Mass start^[21] ^[22]	Ivanie Blondin Canada	8:17.53	Kim Bo-reum	8:17.66	Miho Takagi Japan	8:17.68

Participating nations

161 speed skaters (not all skaters at the team pursuit included) from 24 nations participated at the championships. The number of speed skaters per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.

External links

• World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, 11 - 14 Feb 2016, Kolomna, Russia (entries, results and announcements)
• ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016 (results)

Notes and References

1. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships 2016, Kolomna, Russia . ISU.org . . February 10, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160311172946/http://static.isu.org/media/1002/announcement-world-single-distances-ss-champs-2016-kolomna.pdf . 2016-03-11.
2. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016 . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215051723/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/index.htm . 2016-02-15.
3. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Classification Men (500m) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215061359/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/standings1.htm . 2016-02-15.
4. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 500m Men (race 1) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216072621/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1201.htm . 2016-02-16.
5. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 500m Men (race 2) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216072626/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1202.htm . 2016-02-16.
6. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 1000m Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216065124/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1203.htm . 2016-02-16.
7. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 1500m Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215062441/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1204.htm . 2016-02-15.
8. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 5000m Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216071240/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1205.htm . 2016-02-16.
9. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 5000m Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160214053344/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1206.htm . 2016-02-14.
10. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result Team Pursuit Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215054904/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1207.htm . 2016-02-15.
11. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships: Result by rank Men Mass Start - 14 February 2016 . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160220184435/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/result_men_massstart_a.pdf . 2016-02-20.
12. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result Mass Start Men . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216072631/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1208.htm . 2016-02-16.
13. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Classification Ladies (500m) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160213092956/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/standings2.htm . 2016-02-13.
14. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 500m Ladies (race 1) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216183344/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1211.htm . 2016-02-16.
15. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 500m Ladies (race 2) . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216183352/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1212.htm . 2016-02-16.
16. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 1000m Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215054919/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1213.htm . 2016-02-15.
17. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 1500m Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216072637/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1214.htm . 2016-02-16.
18. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 3000m Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215051731/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1215.htm . 2016-02-15.
19. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result 5000m Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215054932/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1216.htm . 2016-02-15.
20. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result Team Pursuit Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216065129/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1217.htm . 2016-02-16.
21. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships: Result by rank Ladies Mass Start - 14 February 2016 . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160220184430/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/result_ladies_massstart_a.pdf . 2016-02-20.
22. Web site: ISU World Single Distances Championships 2016: Result Mass Start Ladies . ISUresults.eu . International Skating Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160216072641/http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/kolomna/r1218.htm . 2016-02-16.