Speed ​​skating world cup 1994/95

The 1994/95 Speed ​​Skating World Cup was held for women and men at ten World Cup stations in seven countries. The season began on November 26, 1994 and ended on March 12, 1995. Women ran distances from 500 to 5,000 meters and men from 500 to 10,000 meters.

See also: List of overall world cup winners in speed skating

Competitions

Women

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
26th to 27th Nov. 1994	Berlin ( Sportforum Hohenschönhausen )	1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Mie Uehara	Emese Hunyady
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Emese Hunyady
3rd to 4th Dec. 1994	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Annamarie Thomas	Emese Hunyady
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Noriko Munekata
		5,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Heike Warnicke
3rd to 4th Dec. 1994	Obihiro-Nemuro ( No Mori Skating Center )	500 m (December 3)	Bonnie Blair	Franziska Schenk	Shiho Kusunose
		1,000 m (December 3)	Shiho Kusunose	Franziska Schenk	Bonnie Blair
		1,000 m (Dec. 4)	Bonnie Blair	Oksana Ravilova	Monique Garbrecht
		500 m (Dec. 4)	Bonnie Blair	Kyoko Shimazaki	Oksana Ravilova
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Sapporo ( Makomanai Skating Center ), 4th – 5th December 1994
7th to 8th Dec. 1994	Obihiro-Nemuro ( No Mori Skating Center )	500 m (December 7th)	Bonnie Blair	Monique Garbrecht	Susan too
		1,000 m (Dec. 7)	Shiho Kusunose	Bonnie Blair	Monique Garbrecht
		500 m (Dec. 8)	Bonnie Blair	Oksana Ravilova	Kyoko Shimazaki
		1,000 m (Dec. 8)	Bonnie Blair	Monique Garbrecht	Oksana Ravilova
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 6-8 . January 1995
20. To 22. Jan. 1995	Davos ( Ice Stadium Davos )	1,000 m	Franziska Schenk	Oksana Ravilova	Susan too
		1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Svetlana Bashanova	Annamarie Thomas
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Elena Belci-Dal Farra
		500 m	Bonnie Blair	Oksana Ravilova	Franziska Schenk
		500 m	Bonnie Blair	Susan too	Monique Garbrecht
28 to 29 Jan. 1995	Innsbruck ( Olympic Ice Stadium Innsbruck )	500 m (Jan. 28)	Susan too	Svetlana Shurova	Bonnie Blair
		1,000 m (Jan. 28)	Gunda Niemann	Emese Hunyady	Annamarie Thomas
		1,500 m (Jan. 29)	Emese Hunyady Gunda Niemann		Barbara de Loor
		3,000 m (Jan. 29)	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Elena Belci-Dal Farra
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar ( Central Stadium Ulaanbaatar ), 11. – 12. February 1995
11-12 Feb 1995	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	500 m (Feb 11)	Susan too	Bonnie Blair	Kyoko Shimazaki
		1,000 m (Feb. 11)	Bonnie Blair	Chris Witty	Sabine Völker
		500 m (Feb. 12)	Bonnie Blair	Susan too	Svetlana Shurova
		1,000 m (Feb. 12)	Bonnie Blair	Franziska Schenk	Chris Witty
Sprint World Championship in Milwaukee ( Pettit National Ice Center ), 18. – 19. February 1995
24 to 26 Feb. 1995	Inzell ( Inzell Ice Stadium )	1,000 m	Emese Hunyady	Mie Shimizu	Eriko Sanmiya-Mitake
		1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Heike Warnicke	Claudia Pechstein
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Heike Warnicke
		500 m	Bonnie Blair	Shiho Kusunose	Sabine Völker
		500 m	Bonnie Blair	Susan too	Sabine Völker
All around world championship in Savalen , 4th – 5th March 1995
11th to 12th Mar. 1995	Hamar ( Vikingskipet )	1,000 m	Bonnie Blair	Shiho Kusunose	Susan too
		1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Bonnie Blair
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Svetlana Bashanova	Lyudmila Prokasheva
		5,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Carla Zijlstra	Elena Belci-Dal Farra
		500 m	Susan too	Bonnie Blair	Monique Garbrecht
		500 m	Bonnie Blair	Susan too	Svetlana Shurova

500 meters

(Final result: after 13 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Bonnie Blair	United States	395
2	Susan too	Canada	333
3	Svetlana Shurova	Russia	230
4th	Franziska Schenk	Germany	217
5	Monique Garbrecht	Germany	210
6th	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	210
7th	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	199
8th	Sabine Völker	Germany	197
9	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	181
10	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	159
24	Christina Zummack	Germany	17th
26th	Gunda Niemann	Germany	15th
29	Emese Antal	Austria	8th

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 10 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Bonnie Blair	United States	285
2	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	228
3	Monique Garbrecht	Germany	193
4th	Franziska Schenk	Germany	176
5	Chris Witty	United States	161
6th	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	156
7th	Susan too	Canada	134
8th	Emese Hunyady	Austria	133
9	Sabine Völker	Germany	122
10	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	97
22nd	Gunda Niemann	Germany	40
23	Jacqueline Borner	Germany	33
25th	Emese Antal	Austria	30th
29	Christina Zummack	Germany	18th

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 6 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Gunda Niemann	Germany	200
2	Emese Hunyady	Austria	143
3	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	120
4th	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	105
5	Mie Uehara	Japan	105
6th	Maki Tabata	Japan	95
7th	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	83
8th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	80
9	Ulrike Adeberg	Germany	66
10	Noriko Munekata	Japan	59
14th	Heike Warnicke	Germany	44
16	Anni Friesinger	Germany	38
23	Emese Antal	Austria	19th
24	Jacqueline Borner	Germany	18th
29	Anke Baier	Germany	6th

3,000 / 5,000 meters

(Final result: after 8 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Gunda Niemann	Germany	280
2	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	221
3	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	190
4th	Heike Warnicke	Germany	161
5	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	151
6th	Mie Uehara	Japan	122
7th	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	107
8th	Noriko Munekata	Japan	101
9	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	79
10	Hiromi Yamamoto	Japan	73
11	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	70
13	Emese Hunyady	Austria	53
14th	Ulrike Adeberg	Germany	49
20th	Emese Antal	Austria	14th
23	Anni Friesinger	Germany	11

Men

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
26th to 27th Nov. 1994	Berlin ( Sportforum Hohenschönhausen )	1,500 m	Neal Marshall	Ådne Søndrål	Martin Hersman
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata	Vadim Sajutin
3rd to 4th Dec. 1994	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	1,500 m	Hiroyuki Noake	Rintje Ritsma	Jeroen Straathof
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Toshihiko Itokawa	Falko Zandstra
3rd to 4th Dec. 1994	Obihiro-Nemuro ( No Mori Skating Center )	500 m (December 3)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Grund Njøs	Manabu Horii
		1,000 m (December 3)	Yukinori Miyabe	Manabu Horii	Kim Yoon-man
		1,000 m (Dec. 4)	Yukinori Miyabe	Kim Yoon-man	Sergej Klevtsjenija
		500 m (Dec. 4)	Manabu Horii	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Michael Ireland
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Sapporo ( Makomanai Skating Center ), 4th – 5th December 1994
7th to 8th Dec. 1994	Obihiro-Nemuro ( No Mori Skating Center )	500 m (December 7th)	Manabu Horii	Kim Yoon-man	Sergej Klevtsjenija
		1,000 m (Dec. 7)	Kim Yoon-man	Yukinori Miyabe	Manabu Horii
		500 m (Dec. 8)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Grund Njøs	Kim Yoon-man
		1,000 m (Dec. 8)	Yukinori Miyabe	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Yasunori Miyabe
10th to 11th Dec. 1994	Bergen ( Slåtthaug Kunstisbane )	1,500 m	Rintje Ritsma	Ådne Søndrål	Neal Marshall
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Kjell Storelid	Keiji Shirahata
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 6-8 . January 1995
20. To 22. Jan. 1995	Davos ( Ice Stadium Davos )	1,000 m	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Kim Yoon-man	Kevin Scott
		1,500 m	Neal Marshall	Toru Aoyanagi	Keiji Shirahata
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata	Takahiro Nozaki
		500 m	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Manabu Horii	Yukinori Miyabe
		500 m	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Sylvain Bouchard	Takahiro Hamamichi
28 to 29 Jan. 1995	Innsbruck ( Olympic Ice Stadium Innsbruck )	500 m (Jan. 28)	Kim Yoon-man	Yasunori Miyabe	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
		1,000 m (Jan. 28)	Yukinori Miyabe	Kevin Scott	Yasunori Miyabe
		1,500 m (Jan. 29)	Rintje Ritsma	Jeroen Straathof	Martin Hersman
		5,000 m (Jan. 29)	Rintje Ritsma	Bart Veldkamp	Keiji Shirahata
All around world championship in Baselga di Pinè ( Stadio del Ghiaccio ), 11. – 12. February 1995
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar ( Central Stadium Ulaanbaatar ), 11. – 12. February 1995
11-12 Feb 1995	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	500 m (Feb 11)	Manabu Horii	Kim Yoon-man	Jaegal Seong-yeol Hiroyasu Shimizu
		1,000 m (Feb. 11)	Yasunori Miyabe	Kevin Scott	Jaegal Seong-yeol
		500 m (Feb. 12)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Manabu Horii	Jaegal Seong-yeol
		1,000 m (Feb. 12)	Kim Yoon-man	Yukinori Miyabe	Kevin Scott
Sprint World Championship in Milwaukee ( Pettit National Ice Center ), 18. – 19. February 1995
24 to 26 Feb. 1995	Inzell ( Inzell Ice Stadium )	1,000 m	Manabu Horii	Ådne Søndrål	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
		1,500 m	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata	Jeroen Straathof
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Bart Veldkamp	Keiji Shirahata
		500 m	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Junichi Inoue	Manabu Horii
		500 m	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Junichi Inoue	Manabu Horii
11th to 12th Mar. 1995	Hamar ( Vikingskipet )	500 m (Mar 11)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Roger Strøm	Grund Njøs
		1,000 m	Ådne Søndrål	Gerard van Velde	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
		1,500 m	Ådne Søndrål	Neal Marshall	Keiji Shirahata
		5,000 m	Bart Veldkamp	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata
		10,000 m	Bart Veldkamp	Kjell Storelid	Vadim Sajutin
		500 m (March 12)	Roger Strøm	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Junichi Inoue

500 meters

(Final result: after 13 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	340
2	Manabu Horii	Japan	325
3	Grund Njøs	Norway	220
4th	Junichi Inoue	Japan	219
5	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	212
6th	Roger Strøm	Norway	209
7th	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	189
8th	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Kazakhstan	187
9	Mike Ireland	Canada	166
10	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	139
22nd	Matthias Pfeiffer	Germany	32
23	Michael Künzel	Germany	27
25th	Roland Brunner	Austria	25th
27	Gordon Reyes-Loredo	Germany	22nd

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 10 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	248
2	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	221
3	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	201
4th	Manabu Horii	Japan	177
5	Kevin Scott	Canada	174
6th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	156
7th	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	137
8th	Pat Kelly	Canada	133
9	Sylvain Bouchard	Canada	127
10	Roland Brunner	Austria	108
16	Matthias Pfeiffer	Germany	66
24	Gordon Reyes-Loredo	Germany	33
27	Lars Funke	Germany	18th
29	Michael Künzel	Germany	16

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 7 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Neal Marshall	Canada	195
2	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	193
3	Jeroen Straathof	Netherlands	150
4th	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	149
5	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	135
6th	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	132
7th	Martin Hersman	Netherlands	132
8th	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	120
9	Falko Zandstra	Netherlands	97
10	Arjan Schreuder	Netherlands	75
17th	Uwe Tonat	Germany	33
18th	Thomas Kumm	Germany	26th
23	René Taubenrauch	Germany	14th
24	Gordon Reyes-Loredo	Germany	14th
29	Dan Kramer	Germany	6th

5,000 / 10,000 meters

(Final result: after 8 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	251
2	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	208
3	Bart Veldkamp	Netherlands	206
4th	Kjell Storelid	Norway	188
5	Falko Zandstra	Netherlands	116
6th	Toshihiko Itokawa	Japan	103
7th	Kazuhiro Satō	Japan	90
8th	Vadim Sajutin	Russia	87
9	René Taubenrauch	Germany	52
10	Frank Dittrich	Germany	51
15th	Christian Eminger	Austria	40
26th	Alexander Baumgartel	Germany	23
27	Uwe Tonat	Germany	22nd

total

• Place: Indicates the order of the athletes. This is determined by the number of World Cup victories. If the number is the same, the 2nd placements are compared, then the 3rd placements
• Name: gives the name of the athlete
• Country: Name the country for which the athlete started
• Victories: states the number of World Cup victories
• 2nd places: states the number of 2nd places achieved
• 3rd places: states the number of 3rd places achieved
• Total: states the number of all medals won

Top ten

• The top ten shows the ten most successful athletes of the Speed ​​Skating World Cup 1994/95

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Bonnie Blair	United States	15th	3	3	21st
2.	Gunda Niemann	Germany	15th	0	0	15th
3.	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	9	2	0	11
4th	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	6th	3	1	10
5.	Manabu Horii	Japan	4th	3	4th	11
6th	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	4th	2	1	7th
7th	Susan too	Canada	3	4th	3	10
8th.	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	3	4th	2	9
9.	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	2	3	0	5
10.	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	2	2	1	5

Women

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Bonnie Blair	United States	15th	3	3	21st
2.	Gunda Niemann	Germany	15th	0	0	15th
3.	Susan too	Canada	3	4th	3	10
4th	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	2	2	1	5
5.	Emese Hunyady	Austria	2	1	3	6th
6th	Franziska Schenk	Germany	1	3	1	5
7th	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	0	7th	0	7th
8th.	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	0	4th	2	6th
9.	Monique Garbrecht	Germany	0	2	4th	6th
10.	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	0	2	0	2
11.	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	0	1	2	3
11.	Heike Warnicke	Germany	0	1	2	3
11.	Svetlana Shurova	Russia	0	1	2	3
11.	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	0	1	2	3
15th	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
15th	Chris Witty	United States	0	1	1	2
17th	Mie Shimizu	Japan	0	1	0	1
17th	Mie Uehara	Japan	0	1	0	1
19th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	0	0	3	3
19th	Sabine Völker	Germany	0	0	3	3
21st	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
21st	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	0	0	1	1
21st	Eriko Sanmiya-Mitake	Japan	0	0	1	1
21st	Noriko Munekata	Japan	0	0	1	1

Men

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	9	2	0	11
2.	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	6th	3	1	10
3.	Manabu Horii	Japan	4th	3	4th	11
4th	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	4th	2	1	7th
5.	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	3	4th	2	9
6th	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	2	3	0	5
7th	Bart Veldkamp	Netherlands	2	2	0	4th
8th.	Neal Marshall	Canada	2	1	1	4th
9.	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2
10.	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	1	1	2	4th
11.	Roger Strøm	Norway	1	1	0	2
12.	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	1	0	3	4th
13.	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	1	0	0	1
14th	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	0	3	6th	9
15th	Kevin Scott	Canada	0	2	2	4th
16.	Junichi Inoue	Japan	0	2	1	3
16.	Grund Njøs	Norway	0	2	1	3
18th	Kjell Storelid	Norway	0	2	0	2
19th	Jeroen Straathof	Netherlands	0	1	2	3
20th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
20th	Sylvain Bouchard	Canada	0	1	0	1
20th	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	0	1	0	1
20th	Toshihiko Itokawa	Japan	0	1	0	1
24.	Jaegal Seong-yeol	South Korea	0	0	3	3
25th	Martin Hersman	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
25th	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Russia	0	0	2	2
25th	Vadim Sajutin	Russia	0	0	2	2
28.	Michael Ireland	Canada	0	0	1	1
28.	Falko Zandstra	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
28.	Takahiro Hamamichi	Japan	0	0	1	1
28.	Takahiro Nozaki	Japan	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

• The nation ranking shows the most successful nations (athletes) of the Speed ​​Skating World Cup 1994/95

space	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Japan	19th	21st	25th	65
2.	Germany	16	6th	11	33
3.	United States	15th	4th	4th	23
4th	Netherlands	11	14th	8th	33
5.	Canada	5	8th	7th	20th
6th	Norway	3	8th	1	12
7th	South Korea	3	4th	5	12
8th.	Austria	2	1	3	6th
9.	Kazakhstan	2	1	1	4th
10.	Russia	0	7th	8th	15th
11.	Italy	0	0	3	3

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