Speed ​​skating world cup 1995/96

The 1995/96 Speed ​​Skating World Cup was held for women and men at ten World Cup stations in nine countries from November 24, 1995 to March 3, 1996. 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
24 to 26 Nov. 1995	Berlin ( Sportforum Hohenschönhausen )	500 m	Svetlana Shurova	Catriona LeMay	Franziska Schenk
		1,000 m	Chris Witty	Franziska Schenk	Shiho Kusunose
		1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Mie Uehara	Annamarie Thomas
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Claudia Pechstein	Mie Uehara
December 2 to 3 , 1995	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Claudia Pechstein	Mie Uehara
		1,000 m	Chris Witty	Sandra Zwolle	Becky Sundstrom
		1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Svetlana Bashanova	Claudia Pechstein
		500 m	Svetlana Shurova	Catriona LeMay	Kyoko Shimazaki
		500 m	Svetlana Shurova	Catriona LeMay	Kyoko Shimazaki
9. Until 10 Dec. 1995	Hamar ( Vikingskipet )	1,500 m	Sandra Zwolle	Mie Uehara	Claudia Pechstein
		3,000 m	Claudia Pechstein	Mie Uehara	Carla Zijlstra
Jan. 6 to 7, 1996	Alma-Ata ( Kompleks Medeo )	500 m (Jan. 6)	Svetlana Shurova	Susan too	Edel Therese Høiseth
		1,000 m (Jan. 6)	Oksana Ravilova	Edel Therese Høiseth	Sandra Zwolle
		500 m (Jan. 7)	Svetlana Shurova	Catriona LeMay	Oksana Ravilova
		1,000 m (Jan. 7)	Oksana Ravilova	Edel Therese Høiseth	Christine Aaftink
Jan. 12 to Jan. 14, 1996	Davos ( Ice Stadium Davos )	Failed
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 19. – 21. January 1996
27. Until 28 Jan. 1996	Baselga di Pinè ( Stadio del Ghiaccio )	1,500 m	Gunda Niemann	Mie Uehara	Barbara de Loor
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Svetlana Bashanova	Elena Belci-Dal Farra
All -around world championship in Inzell ( Ludwig-Schwabl-Stadion ), 2nd – 4th February 1996
10th to 11th Feb. 1996	Innsbruck ( Olympic Ice Stadium Innsbruck )	500 m (Feb. 10)	Svetlana Shurova	Tomomi Okazaki	Edel Therese Høiseth
		1,000 m (Feb 10)	Chris Witty	Sabine Völker	Eriko Sanmiya
		500 m (Feb 11)	Svetlana Shurova	Catriona LeMay	Tomomi Okazaki
		1,000 m (Feb. 11)	Chris Witty	Sabine Völker	Sandra Zwolle
Sprint World Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 17.-18. February 1996
Feb. 23 to 24, 1996	Roseville ( Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval )	500 m (Feb. 23)	Tomomi Okazaki	Svetlana Shurova	Edel Therese Høiseth
		1,000 m (Feb. 23)	Edel Therese Høiseth	Chris Witty	Franziska Schenk
		500 m (Feb. 24)	Tomomi Okazaki	Oksana Ravilova	Susan too
		1,000 m (Feb. 24)	Franziska Schenk	Edel Therese Høiseth	Shiho Kusunose
24. Until 25 Feb. 1996	Milwaukee ( Pettit National Ice Center )	1,500 m	Mie Shimizu	Gunda Niemann	Annamarie Thomas
		3,000 m	Gunda Niemann	Mie Uehara	Claudia Pechstein
1st to 3rd March 1996	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	5,000 m	Mie Uehara	Carla Zijlstra	Elena Belci-Dal Farra
		3,000 m	Claudia Pechstein	Gunda Niemann	Mie Uehara
		1,500 m	Annamarie Thomas	Mie Uehara	Gunda Niemann
		500 m	Svetlana Shurova	Tomomi Okazaki	Kyoko Shimazaki
		1,000 m	Chris Witty	Oksana Ravilova	Shiho Kusunose
		500 m	Tomomi Okazaki	Svetlana Shurova	Susan too
		1,000 m	Shiho Kusunose Tomomi Okazaki		Sandra Zwolle
Individual distance world championships in Hamar ( Vikingskipet ), 15. – 17. March 1996

500 meters

(Final result: after 11 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Svetlana Shurova	Russia	360
2	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	281
3	Catriona LeMay	Canada	268
4th	Susan too	Canada	240
5	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	230
6th	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	169
7th	Franziska Schenk	Germany	154
8th	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	151
9	Sabine Völker	Germany	116
10	Chris Witty	United States	91
18th	Anke Baier	Germany	47
22nd	Christina Zummack	Germany	25th

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 10 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Chris Witty	United States	264
2	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	228
3	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	202
4th	Franziska Schenk	Germany	192
5	Sandra Zwolle	Netherlands	190
6th	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	188
7th	Christine Aaftink	Netherlands	137
8th	Sabine Völker	Germany	126
9	Eriko Sanmiya	Japan	124
10	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	116
15th	Anke Baier	Germany	66
26th	Christina Zummack	Germany	13
28	Jacqueline Borner	Germany	10

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 6 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Gunda Niemann	Germany	155
2	Mie Uehara	Japan	140
3	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	125
4th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	103
5	Mie Shimizu	Japan	96
6th	Sandra Zwolle	Netherlands	86
7th	Chiharu Nozaki	Japan	85
8th	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	79
9	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	66
10	Maki Tabata	Japan	62
14th	Anni Friesinger	Germany	30th
19th	Emese Hunyady	Austria	22nd
20th	Jacqueline Borner	Germany	22nd
22nd	Ulrike Adeberg	Germany	16
27	Sabine Völker	Germany	8th

3,000 / 5,000 meters

(Final result: after 7 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Gunda Niemann	Germany	195
2	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	180
3	Mie Uehara	Japan	170
4th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	130
5	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	128
6th	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	109
7th	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	88
8th	Heike Warnicke	Germany	73
9	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	73
10	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	65
15th	Anni Friesinger	Germany	40
18th	Emese Hunyady	Austria	30th
28	Emese Antal	Austria	6th
29	Jacqueline Borner	Germany	5

Men

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
24 to 26 Nov. 1995	Berlin ( Sportforum Hohenschönhausen )	1,500 m	Martin Hersman	Ådne Søndrål	Hiroyuki Noake
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Gianni Rummy	Keiji Shirahata
December 2 to 3 , 1995	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	500 m (Dec. 2)	Manabu Horii	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Junichi Inoue
		5,000 m (Dec. 2)	Keiji Shirahata	Gianni Rummy	Toshihiko Itokawa
		1,000 m	Ådne Søndrål	Manabu Horii	Yukinori Miyabe
		500 m (December 3)	Manabu Horii	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Junichi Inoue
		1,500 m (December 3rd)	Keiji Shirahata	Martin Hersman	Ids Postma
9. Until 10 Dec. 1995	Oslo ( Valle Hovin Kunstisbane )	500 m (Dec 9)	Yasunori Miyabe	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Roger Strøm
		5,000 m (Dec 9)	Bart Veldkamp	Rintje Ritsma	Gianni Rummy
		1,000 m	Casey Fitzrandolph	Ådne Søndrål	Manabu Horii
		500 m (10 Dec)	Grund Njøs	Yasunori Miyabe	Junichi Inoue
		1,500 m (Dec 10)	Neal Marshall	Toru Aoyanagi	Andrei Anufrijenko
Jan. 6 to 7, 1996	Alma-Ata ( Kompleks Medeo )	1,000 m (Jan. 6)	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Yasunori Miyabe	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev
		500 m (Jan. 7)	Yasunori Miyabe Manabu Horii		Junichi Inoue
		1,000 m (Jan. 7)	Yasunori Miyabe	Gerard van Velde	Roland Brunner
Jan. 12 to Jan. 14, 1996	Davos ( Ice Stadium Davos )	Failed
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 19. – 21. January 1996
27. Until 28 Jan. 1996	Baselga di Pinè ( Stadio del Ghiaccio )	1,500 m	Hiroyuki Noake	Neal Marshall	KC Boutiette
		5,000 m	Gianni Rummy	Toru Aoyanagi	Rintje Ritsma
All -around world championship in Inzell ( Ludwig-Schwabl-Stadion ), 2nd – 4th February 1996
10th to 11th Feb. 1996	Innsbruck ( Olympic Ice Stadium Innsbruck )	500 m (Feb. 10)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Grund Njøs	Sergej Klevtsjenija Yasunori Miyabe
		1,000 m (Feb 10)	Junichi Inoue	Ådne Søndrål	Gerard van Velde Sylvain Bouchard
		500 m (Feb 11)	Manabu Horii	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Junichi Inoue
		1,000 m (Feb. 11)	Junichi Inoue	Ådne Søndrål	Gerard van Velde
Sprint World Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 17.-18. February 1996
Feb. 23 to 24, 1996	Roseville ( Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval )	500 m (Feb. 23)	Manabu Horii	Junichi Inoue	Sergej Klevtsjenija
		1,000 m (Feb. 23)	Jaegal Seong-yeol	Junichi Inoue	Ådne Søndrål
		500 m (Feb. 24)	Jaegal Seong-yeol	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Hiroyasu Shimizu
		1,000 m (Feb. 24)	Yukinori Miyabe	Junichi Inoue	Ådne Søndrål Roland Brunner
24. Until 25 Feb. 1996	Milwaukee ( Pettit National Ice Center )	1,500 m	Hiroyuki Noake	Neal Marshall	KC Boutiette
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata	Gianni Rummy
1st to 3rd March 1996	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	10,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Gianni Rummy	Frank Dittrich
		5,000 m	Rintje Ritsma	Keiji Shirahata	Ids Postma
		1,500 m	Hiroyuki Noake	Neal Marshall	Ådne Søndrål
		500 m	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Manabu Horii	Hiroyasu Shimizu
		1,000 m	Manabu Horii	Ådne Søndrål	Yukinori Miyabe
		500 m	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Manabu Horii	Sergej Klevtsjenija
		1,000 m	Manabu Horii	Jaegal Seong-yeol	Gerard van Velde
Individual distance world championships in Hamar ( Vikingskipet ), 15. – 17. March 1996

500 meters

(Final result: after 12 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Manabu Horii	Japan	335
2	Sergei Klevchenya	Russia	284
3	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	275
4th	Junichi Inoue	Japan	239
5	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	237
6th	Jaegal Seong-yeol	South Korea	184
7th	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	155
8th	Roger Strøm	Norway	152
9	Grund Njøs	Norway	136
10	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Kazakhstan	130
18th	Roland Brunner	Austria	42
19th	Michael Künzel	Germany	38
26th	Matthias Pfeiffer	Germany	15th
28	Lars Funke	Germany	12

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 10 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	260
2	Junichi Inoue	Japan	213
3	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	202
4th	Manabu Horii	Japan	193
5	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	174
6th	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	162
7th	Jaegal Seong-yeol	South Korea	158
8th	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	150
9	Sylvain Bouchard	Canada	147
10	Roland Brunner	Austria	128
22nd	Matthias Pfeiffer	Germany	18th
23	Michael Spielmann	Germany	18th
24	Peter Adeberg	Germany	17th

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 6 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	150
2	Neal Marshall	Canada	145
3	Martin Hersman	Netherlands	103
4th	Andrei Anufrijenko	Russia	95
5	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	93
6th	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	93
7th	KC Boutiette	United States	92
8th	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	90
9	Jeroen Straathof	Netherlands	84
10	Ids Postma	Netherlands	78
12	Peter Adeberg	Germany	37
21st	Thomas Kumm	Germany	11
23	Michael Spielmann	Germany	10

5,000 / 10,000 meters

(Final result: after 7 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	195
2	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	175
3	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	165
4th	Bart Veldkamp	Netherlands	123
5	Frank Dittrich	Germany	113
6th	Ids Postma	Netherlands	96
7th	Toshihiko Itokawa	Japan	86
8th	Martin Hersman	Netherlands	85
9	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	81
10	KC Boutiette	United States	66
14th	Christian Eminger	Austria	42
16	Alexander Baumgartel	Germany	38
22nd	René Taubenrauch	Germany	16

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 1995/96

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Svetlana Shurova	Russia	8th	2	0	10
2.	Manabu Horii	Japan	7th	3	1	11
3.	Gunda Niemann	Germany	7th	2	1	10
4th	Chris Witty	United States	5	1	0	6th
5.	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	4th	2	1	7th
6th	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	4th	1	1	6th
7th	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	3	2	1	6th
8th.	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	3	0	1	4th
9.	Junichi Inoue	Japan	2	3	5	10
10.	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	2	2	3	7th

Women

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Svetlana Shurova	Russia	8th	2	0	10
2.	Gunda Niemann	Germany	7th	2	1	10
3.	Chris Witty	United States	5	1	0	6th
4th	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	4th	2	1	7th
5.	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	2	2	3	7th
6th	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	2	2	1	5
7th	Mie Uehara	Japan	1	6th	3	10
8th.	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	1	3	3	7th
9.	Sandra Zwolle	Netherlands	1	1	3	5
10.	Franziska Schenk	Germany	1	1	2	4th
11.	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	1	0	3	4th
12.	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	1	0	2	3
13.	Mie Shimizu	Japan	1	0	0	1
14th	Catriona LeMay	Canada	0	5	0	5
15th	Sabine Völker	Germany	0	2	0	2
15th	Svetlana Bashanova	Russia	0	2	0	2
17th	Susan too	Canada	0	1	2	3
18th	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
19th	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	0	0	3	3
20th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	0	0	2	2
21st	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
21st	Becky Sundstrom	United States	0	0	1	1
21st	Christine Aaftink	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
21st	Eriko Sanmiya	Japan	0	0	1	1

Men

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Manabu Horii	Japan	7th	3	1	11
2.	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	4th	1	1	6th
3.	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	3	2	1	6th
4th	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	3	0	1	4th
5.	Junichi Inoue	Japan	2	3	5	10
6th	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	2	2	1	5
7th	Jaegal Seong-yeol	South Korea	2	1	0	3
8th.	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	2	0	2	4th
9.	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	1	5	3	9
10.	Sergej Klevtsjenija	Russia	1	4th	3	8th
11.	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	1	3	2	6th
12.	Neal Marshall	Canada	1	3	0	4th
13.	Grund Njøs	Norway	1	1	0	2
13.	Martin Hersman	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
13.	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	1	1	0	2
16.	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	1	0	2	3
17th	Bart Veldkamp	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
17th	Casey Fitzrandolph	United States	1	0	0	1
19th	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	0	2	0	2
20th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	0	1	3	4th
21st	Ids Postma	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
21st	KC Boutiette	United States	0	0	2	2
21st	Roland Brunner	Austria	0	0	2	2
24.	Andrei Anufrijenko	Russia	0	0	1	1
24.	Frank Dittrich	Germany	0	0	1	1
24.	Roger Strøm	Norway	0	0	1	1
24.	Sylvain Bouchard	Canada	0	0	1	1
24.	Toshihiko Itokawa	Japan	0	0	1	1
24.	Vadim Sjaksjakbajev	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

• The nation ranking shows the most successful nations (athletes) of the speed skating world cup 1995/96

space	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Japan	28	21st	25th	74
2.	Russia	11	10	5	26th
3.	Germany	10	7th	7th	24
4th	Netherlands	9	8th	16	33
5.	United States	6th	1	3	10
6th	Norway	3	9	7th	19th
7th	South Korea	2	1	0	3
8th.	Canada	1	9	3	13
9.	Austria	0	0	2	2
9.	Italy	0	0	2	2
11.	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results of the overall World Cup 1995/96 (DESG)