2015 World Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance Championships

Interior view of the Thialf Hall

The 16th individual speed skating world championships were held from February 12th to 15th, 2015 in the Thialf Hall in Heerenveen .

Time schedule

• 12.2. from 6 p.m .: 3000 m women, 10,000 m men
• 13.2. from 6 p.m .: 1000 m women, 1500 m men, 5000 m women, men's team competition
• 14.2. from 1 p.m .: 5000 m men, 500 m 1 + 2 women, 1000 m men, team competition women
• 15.2. from 1:15 p.m .: 500 m 1 + 2 men, 1500 m women, mass start women / men

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Netherlands	5	7th	5	17th
2	United States	4th	2	1	7th
3	Russia	2	1	1	4th
4th	Czech Republic	2	-	1	3
5	Japan	1	-	1	2
6th	Canada	-	3	1	4th
7th	Italy	-	1	-	1
8th	Germany	-	-	2	2
9	France	-	-	1	1
	South Korea	-	-	1	1
total		14th	14th	14th	42

Medalist

Shows the three medal winners of the individual distances.

Women

distance	gold	silver	bronze
2 × 500 meters	Heather Richardson	Brittany Bowe	Nao Kodaira
1000 meters	Brittany Bowe	Heather Richardson	Karolína Erbanová
1500 meters	Brittany Bowe	Ireen Wüst	Heather Richardson
3000 meters	Martina Sáblíková	Ireen Wüst	Marije Joling
5000 meters	Martina Sáblíková	Carlijn eight-eects	Claudia Pechstein
Mass start	Irene Schouten	Ivanie Blondin	Mariska Huisman
Team tracking	Japan Nana Takagi Miho Takagi Ayaka Kikuchi	Netherlands Marije Joling Ireen Wüst Marrit Leenstra	Russia Olga Count Natalja Voronina Julia Skokowa

Men

distance	gold	silver	bronze
2 × 500 meters	Pavel Kulischnikow	Michel Mulder	Laurent Dubreuil
1000 meters	Shani Davis	Pavel Kulischnikow	Kjeld Nuis
1500 meters	Denis Yuskov	Denny Morrison	Koen Verweij
5000 meters	Sven Kramer	Jorrit Bergsma	Douwe de Vries
10,000 meters	Jorrit Bergsma	Erik Jan Kooiman	Patrick Beckert
Mass start	Arjan Stroetinga	Fabio Francolini	Alexis Contin
Team tracking	Netherlands Douwe de Vries Koen Verweij Sven Kramer	Canada Denny Morrison Ted-Jan Bloemen Jordan Belchos	South Korea Lee Seung-Hoon Koo Byung-Wook Kim Cheol-Min

Results

Women

2 × 500 meters

The times of both 500 m runs were converted into points, added up and resulted in the total number of points.

space	Surname	country	1st run 500 meters	2nd run 500 meters	Total points
1	Heather Richardson	United States	37.703 s	37.629 s	75.332
2	Brittany Bowe	United States	37.977 s	37.788 s	75.785
3	Nao Kodaira	Japan	38.047 s	37.846 s	75.893
4th	Thijsje Oenema	Netherlands	38.025 s	37.971 s	75.996
5	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	38.104 s	37,900 s	76.004
6th	Judith Hesse	Germany	38.172 s	38.276 s	76,448
7th	Karolína Erbanová	Czech Republic	38,283 s	38.339 s	76.622
8th	Ekaterina Ajdova	Kazakhstan	38.379 s	38.259 s	76.638
9	Floor van den Brandt	Netherlands	38,492 s	38,308 s	76,800
10	Vanessa Bittner	Austria	38,441 s	38,411 s	76.852

1000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Brittany Bowe	United States	1: 13.90 min
2	Heather Richardson	United States	1: 14.49 min
3	Karolína Erbanová	Czech Republic	1: 15.26 min
4th	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1: 15.50 min
5	Li Qishi	People's Republic of China	1: 15.65 min
6th	Kali Christ	Canada	1: 15.74 min
7th	Marrit Leenstra	Netherlands	1: 15.84 min
8th	Judith Hesse	Germany	1: 15.86 min
9	Vanessa Bittner	Austria	1: 16.08 min
10	Laurine van Riessen	Netherlands	1: 16.15 min

1500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Brittany Bowe	United States	1: 54.27 min
2	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1: 54.76 min
3	Heather Richardson	United States	1: 55.60 min
4th	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	1: 55.65 min
5	Marrit Leenstra	Netherlands	1: 55.90 min
6th	Marije Joling	Netherlands	1: 56.85 min
7th	Ida Njåtun	Norway	1: 57.79 min
8th	Kali Christ	Canada	1: 57.82 min
9	Luiza Złotkowska	Poland	1: 58.22 min
10	Julia Skokowa	Russia	1: 58.25 min

3000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	4: 02.17 min
2	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	4: 03.46 min
3	Marije Joling	Netherlands	4: 05.51 min
4th	Jorien Voorhuis	Netherlands	4: 05.76 min
5	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	4: 05.95 min
6th	Bente Kraus	Germany	4: 09.75 min
7th	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	4: 09.85 min
8th	Olga Graf	Russia	4: 10.32 min
9	Luiza Złotkowska	Poland	4: 11.04 min
10	Anna Chernova	Russia	4: 11.82 min

5000 meters

Claudia Pechstein

space	Surname	country	time
1	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	6: 52.73 min
2	Carlijn eight-eects	Netherlands	6: 54.49 min
3	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	6: 56.53 min
4th	Jorien Voorhuis	Netherlands	7: 05.64 min
5	Olga Graf	Russia	7: 07.89 min
6th	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	7: 08.97 min
7th	Anna Chernova	Russia	7: 13.71 min
8th	Stephanie Beckert	Germany	7: 16.19 min
9	Jelena Peeters	Belgium	7: 17.28 min
10	Shoko Fujimura	Japan	7: 19.44 min

Mass start

space	Surname	country
1	Irene Schouten	Netherlands
2	Ivanie Blondin	Canada
3	Mariska Huisman	Netherlands
4th	Miho Takagi	Japan
5	Vanessa Bittner	Austria
6th	Bente Kraus	Germany
7th	Liu Yichi	People's Republic of China
8th	Liu Jing	People's Republic of China
9	Marina Sujewa	Belarus
10	Saskia Alusalu	Estonia

Team competition

space	Surname	country	time
1	Nana Takagi Miho Takagi Ayaka Kikuchi	Japan	3: 01.53 min
2	Marije Joling Ireen Wüst Marrit Leenstra	Netherlands	3: 01.55 min
3	Olga Count Natalja Voronina Julia Skokowa	Russia	3: 03.19 min
4th	Ivanie Blondin Kali Christ Josie Spence	Canada	3: 04.11 min
5	Jun Ye-jin Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong	South Korea	3: 05.84 min
6th	Aleksandra Goss Katarzyna Woźniak Urszula Włodarczyk	Poland	3: 06.09 min
7th	Bente Kraus Isabell Ost Claudia Pechstein	Germany	3: 06.65 min
8th	Liu Jing Liu Yichi Zhao Xin	People's Republic of China	3: 07.27 min

Men

2 × 500 meters

The times of both 500 m runs were converted into points, added up and resulted in the total number of points.

space	Surname	country	1st run 500 meters	2nd run 500 meters	Total points
1	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	34,383 s	34.548 s	68.931
2	Michel Mulder	Netherlands	34,852 s	34.770 s	69.622
3	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	34.971 s	34.723 s	69.694
4th	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	34.742 s	35.032 s	69.774
5	Artur Was	Poland	35.017 s	34.790 s	69,807
6th	Ruslan Murashov	Russia	34.964 s	35.002 s	69.966
7th	Espen-Aarnes Hvammen	Norway	34,979 s	35.057 s	70.036
8th	Gilmore Junio	Canada	35.162 s	34.985 s	70.147
9	Mo Tae-bum	South Korea	34.905 s	35.262 s	70.167
10	Jesper Hospes	Netherlands	35.248 s	35.064 s	70.312

1000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Shani Davis	United States	1: 08.57 min
2	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	1: 08.61 min
3	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 08.71 min
4th	Denny Morrison	Canada	1: 08.72 min
5	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	1: 08.88 min
6th	Stefan Groothuis	Netherlands	1: 09.13 min
7th	Nico Ihle	Germany	1: 09.15 min
8th	Denis Kusin	Kazakhstan	1: 09.40 min
9	Samuel Black	Germany	1: 09.42 min
10	Joey Mantia	United States	1: 09.87 min

1500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Denis Yuskov	Russia	1: 43.36 min
2	Denny Morrison	Canada	1: 45.08 min
3	Koen Verweij	Netherlands	1: 45.15 min
4th	Shani Davis	United States	1: 45.84 min
5	Alexis Contin	France	1: 46.02 min
6th	Zbigniew Bródka	Poland	1: 46.19 min
7th	Beard swings	Belgium	1: 46.23 min
8th	Jan Szymański	Poland	1: 46.24 min
9	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 46.32 min
10	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1: 46.43 min

5000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6: 09.65 min
2	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	6: 11.53 min
3	Douwe de Vries	Netherlands	6: 18.24 min
4th	Denis Yuskov	Russia	6: 19.74 min
5	Alexis Contin	France	6: 19.99 min
6th	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	6: 21.16 min
7th	Patrick Beckert	Germany	6: 21.63 min
8th	Lee Seung-hoon	South Korea	6: 23.02 min
9	Beard swings	Belgium	6: 23.77 min
10	Aleksandr Rumyantsev	Russia	6: 24.41 min

10,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12: 54.82 min
2	Erik Jan Kooiman	Netherlands	13: 02.57 min
3	Patrick Beckert	Germany	13: 10.95 min
4th	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	13: 12.40 min
5	Aleksandr Rumyantsev	Russia	13: 14.62 min
6th	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	13: 17.24 min
7th	Seung-Hoon Lee	South Korea	13: 19.03 min
8th	Beard swings	Belgium	13: 22.85 min
9	Alexej Baumgartner	Germany	13: 30.24 min
10	Yevgeny Seryaev	Russia	13: 36.34 min

Mass start

space	Surname	country
1	Arjan Stroetinga	Netherlands
2	Fabio Francolini	Italy
3	Alexis Contin	France
4th	Haralds Silovs	Latvia
5	Andrea Giovannini	Italy
6th	Peter Michael	New Zealand
7th	Tyler Derraugh	Canada
8th	Jeffrey Swider-Peltz	United States
9	Marco Weber	Germany
10	Shane Williamson	Japan

Team competition

space	Surname	country	time
1	Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Douwe de Vries	Netherlands	3: 41.40 min
2	Denny Morrison Ted-Jan Bloemen Jordan Belchos	Canada	3: 44.09 min
3	Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook	South Korea	3: 44.96 min
4th	Danila Semerikov Danil Sinitsyn Sergey Gryazsov	Russia	3: 46.78 min
5	Andrea Giovannini Luca Stefani Nicola Tumolero	Italy	3: 47.07 min
6th	Zbigniew Bródka Jan Szymański Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	3: 48.94 min
7th	Håvard Bøkko Simen player Nilsen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	3: 50.58 min
8th	Alexej Baumgärtner Marco Weber Jonas Pflug	Germany	3: 50.76 min

Web links

• http://www.schaatsen.nl/
• ISU results page