2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 14 November, until Sunday, 16 November 2014.^[1]

Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia made a successful World Cup debut by taking the silver medal in the men's first 500 m race on Friday,^[2] and then winning both the 1000 m race on Saturday^[3] and the second 500 m race on Sunday.^[4] Sven Kramer of the Netherlands won gold medals in both 5000 m^[2] and team pursuit.^[3]

Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands managed to win three gold medals over the weekend, in the women's 1500^[4] and 3000 m races,^[2] and as part of the Dutch team in the team pursuit.^[3] She also won a silver medal in the 1000 m competition.^[3] Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea took the gold medal in both 500 m races.^[2][4]

No world records were set during the weekend, but in the women's 500 m, Vanessa Bittner of Austria set a new national record on both senior and junior level in the A division of the Sunday race,^[4][5] after having won the B division on Friday.^[2]

Martin Hänggi of Switzerland, at age 46, set a record as the oldest participant at a World Cup event when he skated in the 5000 m race.^[2]

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:^[6][7]

Date	Session	Events	Comment
Friday, 14 November	Morning	10:54: 5000 m men   11:54: 500 m women (1)   12:13: 500 m men (1)   13:00: 3000 m women	Division B
	Afternoon	15:00: 5000 m men   16:22: 500 m women (1)   16:47: 500 m men (1)   17:32: 3000 m women	Division A
Saturday, 15 November	Morning	12:25: 1000 m women   13:07: 1000 m men	Division B
	Afternoon	15:00: 1000 m women   15:30: 1000 m men	Division A
		16:23: Team pursuit men   17:32: Team pursuit women
Sunday, 16 November	Morning	10:35: 1500 m women   11:28: 1500 m men   12:30: 500 m women (2)   12:49: 500 m men (2)	Division B
	Afternoon	14:30: 1500 m women   15:23: 1500 m men   16:13: 500 m women (2)   16:40: 500 m men (2)	Division A
		17:25: Mass start women   17:45: Mass start men

All times are JST (UTC+9).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.06	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	35.16	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	35.24	[8]
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.96	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.09	Ryohei Haga  Japan	35.17	[9]
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	1:09.23	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:09.27	Samuel Schwarz  Germany	1:09.77	[10]
1500 m		Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:45.97	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	1:46.52	Koen Verweij  Netherlands	1:46.90	[11]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:20.90	Aleksandr Rumyantsev  Russia	6:23.56	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	6:24.03	[12]
Mass start		Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	60 ^A	Kim Cheol-min  South Korea	40 ^A	Bart Swings  Belgium	20 ^A	[13]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Douwe de Vries	3:43.68	South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook	3:47.15	Russia Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Danil Sinitsyn	3:48.22	[14]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.07	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.18	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	38.50	[15]
	2	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.92	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.06	Vanessa Bittner  Austria	38.33 NR	[16]
1000 m		Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:16.23	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:16.34	Li Qishi  China	1:16.54	[17]
1500 m		Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:56.93	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:57.76	Yuliya Skokova  Russia	1:58.10	[18]
3000 m		Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:04.91	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:06.11	Jorien Voorhuis  Netherlands	4:07.04	[19]
Mass start		Ivanie Blondin  Canada	61 ^A	Nana Takagi  Japan	40 ^A	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	20 ^A	[20]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Ireen Wüst Marrit Leenstra Marije Joling	3:02.54	Japan Nana Takagi Ayaka Kikuchi Maki Tabata	3:04.78	Germany Claudia Pechstein Bente Kraus Gabriele Hirschbichler	3:06.51	[21]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

References

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