World speed skating sprint championship 2019

Sprint world champion Nao Kodaira (here 2018)

The 50th speed skating sprint world championship took place on February 23 and 24, 2019 in Thialf in Heerenveen , the Netherlands .

In the women decided Nao Kodaira the Sprint Cup for themselves, for men was Pawel Kulischnikow successfully for the third time.

Competition mode

In the sprint world championship, four routes are run, twice each over a distance of 500 m and 1,000 m, two routes each on both days. If an athlete starts over a distance on the first day on the inside track, he starts on the second day on the outside track or vice versa.

The times achieved are converted into points. Over 500 m the elapsed time corresponds to the number of points, over 1,000 m results in the elapsed time in seconds divided by 2 the number of points. The athlete with the lowest total number of points after four routes wins the Sprint World Championship.

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's sprint all-around event consisted of 28 female athletes from 15 nations.

• 3 starters: Japan ↑, Netherlands , Russia , United States ↑, People's Republic of China     
• 2 starters: Canada ↑↑, Norway ↓, South Korea ↑   
• 1 starter: Argentina ↑, Germany , Kazakhstan ↑, Austria , Poland ↑, Taiwan ↑, Belarus ↑       

Compared to the previous edition , athletes from Finland and Romania were no longer represented .

Men

The field of participants in the men's sprint all-around event consisted of 28 athletes from 15 nations.

• 3 starters: Germany ↑, Japan ↑, Netherlands , Russia ↑, South Korea ↑↑     
• 2 starters: Canada ↑, Norway ↓, Poland   
• 1 starter: Belgium ↑, Estonia ↑, Finland , Italy ↑, Kazakhstan ↑, United States ↓, Belarus ↑       

Athletes from Australia, Great Britain and the People's Republic of China were no longer represented compared to the previous edition.

competition

Women

In the absence of defending champion Jorien ter Mors , who suspended the season due to injury, Nao Kodaira - 2017 world champion - won her second world title and, together with Miho Takagi, achieved a Japanese double victory. Takagi's medal success was considered surprising because, according to her coach Johan de Wit , she concentrated on the all- around world championships a week later . After the competition, Takagi stated that her dream was to reach the podium in both the sprint and all-around world championships in a year. 2019 was the last option for this, as both world championships were held together on one weekend from 2020 onwards. In fact, Takagi also won the silver medal at the all-around world championships. American Brittany Bowe came in third ahead of Vanessa Herzog from Austria. The reigning 500 meter world champion Herzog was only a few hundredths of a second behind Kodaira in the first run on the sprint course.

Final score

• Shows the twelve most successful athletes of the Sprint World Cup
• The number in brackets indicates the position per individual route, the fastest in each case in bold.

rank	Surname	1st run 500 meters	1st run 1,000 meters	2nd run 500 meters	2nd run 1,000 meters	Total points
1	Nao Kodaira	37.27 (1)	1: 15.01 (4)	37.41 (1)	1: 14.96 (3)	149.665
2	Miho Takagi	37.62 (4)	1: 14.82 (2)	37.74 (4)	1: 14.56 (1)	150.050
3	Brittany Bowe	37.89 (5)	1: 14.60 (1)	37.67 (2)	1: 14.64 (2)	150.180
4th	Vanessa Herzog	37.31 (2)	1: 15.78 (8)	37.81 (5)	1: 16.07 (9)	151.045
5	Ekaterina Aidova	38.04 (8)	1: 15.36 (7)	37.94 (7)	1: 15.04 (5)	151.180
6th	Sanneke de Neeling	38.09 (10)	1: 15.08 (5)	38.25 (12)	1: 15.28 (6)	151.520
7th	Darja Kachanova	38.00 (7)	1: 14.94 (3)	38.39 (13)	1: 15.33 (7)	151.525
8th	Angelina Golikova	37.49 (3)	1: 16.11 (10)	37.71 (3)	1: 16.64 (14)	151.575
9	Olga Fatkulina	37.99 (6)	1: 16.48 (14)	37.90 (6)	1: 15.62 (8)	151.940
10	Jutta Leerdam	38.58 (16)	1: 15.31 (6)	38.50 (15)	1: 15.03 (4)	152,250
11	Maki Tsuji	38.07 (9)	1: 16.71 (15)	38.00 (8)	1: 16.34 (11)	152.595
12	Heather McLean	38.10 (11)	1: 16.23 (12)	38.12 (10)	1: 16.66 (15)	152.665
20th	Gabriele Hirschbichler	39.38 (22)	1: 17.01 (17)	39.81 (25)	1: 17.25 (18)	156.320

1st run 500 meters

At the individual distance world championships in Inzell Nao Kodaira had lost her world title over 500 meters to Vanessa Herzog. As part of the Sprint World Championships, she improved Herzog's time of 37.31 seconds in the penultimate pair by four hundredths in the final duel. Kodaira stated after the race that he had suffered from severe hip pain in Inzell, which has now got better.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Nao Kodaira	Japan	37.27 s	37.270
02	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	37.31 s	37.310
03	Angelina Golikova	Russia	37.49 s	37,490
04th	Miho Takagi	Japan	37.62 s	37.620
05	Brittany Bowe	United States	37.89 s	37.890
06th	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	37.99 s	37.990
07th	Darja Kachanova	Russia	38.00 s	38,000
08th	Ekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	38.04 s	38.040
09	Maki Tsuji	Japan	38.07 s	38.070
10	Sanneke de Neeling	Netherlands	38.09 s	38.090
22nd	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	39.38 s	39,380

1st run 1000 meters

Although Brittany Bowe stayed more than 1.3 seconds above the track record she had set, her time of 1: 14.60 minutes was enough to win the course in the first 1000-meter run. In the overall standings, she improved to third place behind Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi, with a hundredth of a point ahead of Vanessa Herzog.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Brittany Bowe	United States	1: 14.60 min	37,300
02	Miho Takagi	Japan	1: 14.82 min	37.410
03	Darja Kachanova	Russia	1: 14.94 min	37,470
04th	Nao Kodaira	Japan	1: 15.01 min	37.505
05	Sanneke de Neeling	United States	1: 15.08 min	37.540
06th	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	1: 15.31 min	37.655
07th	Ekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	1: 15.36 min	37.680
08th	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	1: 15.78 min	37.890
09	Natalia Czerwonka	Poland	1: 16.10 min	38,050
10	Angelina Golikova	Russia	1: 16.11 min	38.055
17th	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	1: 17.01 min	38.505

2nd run 500 meters

In the penultimate pair Brittany Bowe beat Vanessa Herzog, in the last duel Nao Kodaira faced her teammate Miho Takagi and set the fastest time of the race. In the overall standings, Kodaira and Takagi remained in the lead.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Nao Kodaira	Japan	37.41 s	37.410
02	Brittany Bowe	United States	37.67 s	37.670
03	Angelina Golikova	Russia	37.71 s	37.710
04th	Miho Takagi	Japan	37.74 s	37.740
05	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	37.81 s	37.810
06th	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	37.90 s	37,900
07th	Ekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	37.94 s	37.940
08th	Maki Tsuji	Japan	38.00 s	38,000
09	Letitia de Jong	Netherlands	38.05 s	38,050
10	Heather McLean	Canada	38.12 s	38.120
22nd	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	39.81 s	39.810

2nd run 1000 meters

Before the final 1000 meter run, Miho Takagi was 1.17 seconds behind Nao Kodaira, Brittany Bowe was another 0.18 seconds behind. After the race, both Takagi and Bowe said they believed they could make up their deficit on Kodaira. Both ran the fastest times in the race, but Kodaira was third but less than half a second slower and won the overall standings.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Miho Takagi	Japan	1: 14.56 min	37.280
02	Brittany Bowe	United States	1: 14.64 min	37,320
03	Nao Kodaira	Japan	1: 14.96 min	37,480
04th	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	1: 15.03 min	37.515
05	Ekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	1: 15.04 min	37,520
06th	Sanneke de Neeling	Netherlands	1: 15.28 min	37.640
07th	Darja Kachanova	Russia	1: 15.33 min	37.665
08th	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	1: 15.62 min	37.810
09	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	1: 16.07 min	38.035
10	Letitia de Jong	Netherlands	1: 16.11 min	38.055
18th	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	1: 17.25 min	38.625

Men

The Russian Pavel Kulischnikow won his third sprint world title after 2015 and 2016 . Kulischnikow, who shortly before had missed the medal ranks at the individual distance world championships , was already leading the overall standings after two third places on the first day and extended his lead on the second day with a victory over 500 meters. Behind him, the 500-meter specialist Tatsuya Shinhama from Japan and the Dutchman Kjeld Nuis , who won both 1000-meter races, took second and third place. Defending champion Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen was only hundredths of a point behind Kulischnikow in the overall standings after the first day, but fell back to fourth place on the day of the final. Of the three German starters, Nico Ihle achieved the best result in seventh place.

Final score

• Shows the twelve most successful athletes of the Sprint World Cup
• The number in brackets indicates the position per individual route, the fastest in each case in bold.

rank	Surname	1st run 500 meters	1st run 1,000 meters	2nd run 500 meters	2nd run 1,000 meters	Total points
1	Pavel Kulischnikow	34.74 (3)	1: 08.06 (3)	34.31 (1)	1: 08.62 (2)	137.390
2	Tatsuya Shinhama	34.66 (1)	1: 08.57 (5)	34.45 (2)	1: 08.82 (5)	137,805
3	Kjeld Nuis	34.98 (9)	1: 07.86 (1)	35.05 (7)	1: 07.80 (1)	137.860
4th	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	34.74 (3)	1: 08.19 (4)	34.91 (6)	1: 08.73 (3)	138.110
5	Kai Verbij	34.72 (2)	1: 09.21 (10)	34.74 (3)	1: 08.85 (6)	138.490
6th	Masaya Yamada	35.07 (11)	1: 08.03 (2)	35.17 (12)	1: 09.00 (7)	138.755
7th	Nico Ihle	34.92 (7)	1: 08.79 (7)	35.14 (10)	1: 08.76 (4)	138.835
8th	Hein Otterspeer	34.92 (7)	1: 08.67 (6)	35.14 (10)	1: 09.05 (8)	138.920
9	Viktor Mushtakov	34.75 (5)	1: 08.93 (9)	35.05 (7)	1: 09.38 (10)	138.955
10	Ruslan Murashov	34.75 (5)	1: 10.07 (14)	34.77 (4)	1: 09.69 (11)	139,400
11	Joel Dufter	35.20 (15)	1: 08.79 (7)	35.41 (15)	1: 09.26 (9)	139.635
12	Laurent Dubreuil	35.05 (10)	1: 09.75 (13)	35.05 (7)	1: 09.83 (12)	139.890
26th	Jeremias Marx	36.06 (26)	1: 11.29 (27)	36.41 (26)	1: 11.87 (26)	144.050

1st run 500 meters

Tatsuya Shinhama ran the fastest time over 500 meters in the eleventh pair with Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen. Several athletes were a few hundredths of a second behind.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	34.66 s	34.660
02	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	34.72 s	34.720
03	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	34.74 s	34.740
03	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	34.74 s	34.740
05	Viktor Mushtakov	Russia	34.75 s	34.750
05	Ruslan Murashov	Russia	34.75 s	34.750
07th	Nico Ihle	Germany	34.92 s	34.920
07th	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	34.92 s	34.920
09	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	34.98 s	34.980
10	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	35.05 s	35,050
15th	Joel Dufter	Germany	35.20 s	35,200
26th	Jeremias Marx	Germany	36.06 s	36.060

1st run 1000 meters

Kjeld Nuis was the only athlete to achieve a time under 1:08 minutes. After him, Pawel Kulischnikow and Kai Verbij ran against each other in the last duel, with Kulischnikow being more than a second ahead of the Dutchman and also taking the lead in the overall standings after the first day.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 07.86 min	33,930
02	Masaya Yamada	Japan	1: 08.03 min	34.015
03	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	1: 08.06 min	34.030
04th	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	1: 08.19 min	34.095
05	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	1: 08.57 min	34.285
06th	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	1: 08.67 min	34,335
07th	Nico Ihle	Germany	1: 08.79 min	34.395
07th	Joel Dufter	Germany	1: 08.79 min	34.395
09	Viktor Mushtakov	Russia	1: 08.93 min	34.465
10	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	1: 09.21 min	34,605
27	Jeremias Marx	Germany	1: 11.29 min	35.645

2nd run 500 meters

With his victory in the second 500-meter race, Pawel Kulischnikow significantly expanded his initially narrow lead in the overall standings. His time of 34.31 seconds was a setting of the Thialf track record.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	34.31 s	34,310
02	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	34.45 s	34,450
03	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	34.74 s	34.740
04th	Ruslan Murashov	Russia	34.77 s	34.770
05	Artur Nogal	Poland	34.78 s	34.780
06th	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	34.91 s	34.910
07th	Viktor Mushtakov	Russia	35.05 s	35,050
07th	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	35.05 s	35,050
07th	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	35.05 s	35,050
10	Nico Ihle	Germany	35.14 s	35,140
10	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	35.14 s	35,140
15th	Joel Dufter	Germany	35.41 s	35,410
26th	Jeremias Marx	Germany	36.41 s	36,410

2nd run 1000 meters

The fastest runner in the second 1000 meter race was again Kjeld Nuis, who ousted Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen from bronze in the overall standings. Kulischnikow was enough to win a second place in the overall standings.

space	Surname	country	time	Points
01	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 07.80 min	33,900
02	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	1: 08.62 min	34,310
03	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	1: 08.73 min	34.365
04th	Nico Ihle	Germany	1: 08.76 min	34,380
05	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	1: 08.82 min	34,410
06th	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	1: 08.85 min	34.425
07th	Masaya Yamada	Japan	1: 09.00 min	34,500
08th	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	1: 09.05 min	34.525
09	Joel Dufter	Germany	1:09:26 min	34.630
10	Viktor Mushtakov	Russia	1: 09.38 min	34.690
26th	Jeremias Marx	Germany	1: 11.87 min	35.935

Web links

• Results on speedskatingnews.info
• Results on isuresults.eu: Total Women , Men Total
• ISU press releases:
  • 50th ISU World Sprint Speed ​​Skating Championships in Heerenveen on isu.org, February 21, 2019
  • Kodaira and Kulizhnikov lead after first day on isu.org, February 23, 2019
  • Kulizhnikov and Kodaira crowned king and queen of Sprint on isu.org, February 24, 2019