Speed ​​Skating World Cup 2003/04

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The speed skating World Cup 2003/04 was held for women and men at nine World Cup stations in seven countries. The season began on November 8, 2003 and ended on February 29, 2004. Women ran distances from 100 to 5,000 meters and men from 100 to 10,000 meters. For the first time, a World Cup over the 100 meters will be held in which up to three athletes start at the same time. After the test run in the 2002/03 season, three dates are now planned.

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

Competitions

Women

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
Nov 8 to 9, 2003	Hamar ( Vikingskipet )	1,500 m	Jennifer Rodriguez	Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold
		3,000 m	Anni Friesinger	Claudia Pechstein	Renate Groenewold
Nov. 15-16, 2003	Erfurt ( Gunda-Niemann- Stirnemann Hall )	1,500 m	Jennifer Rodriguez	Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold
		3,000 m	Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold	Claudia Pechstein
21. To 23. Nov. 2003	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	5,000 m	Gretha Smit	Claudia Pechstein	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
		1,500 m	Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold	Jennifer Rodriguez
December 6th to 7th , 2003	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	500 m (December 6)	Shihomi Shin'ya	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Marianne Timmer
		1,000 m (December 6)	Jennifer Rodriguez	Chiara Simionato	Anzhelika Kotjuga
		500 m (December 7th)	Wang Manli	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Shihomi Shin'ya
		1,000 m (Dec. 7)	Jennifer Rodriguez	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Chiara Simionato
December 12th to 13th , 2003	Salt Lake City ( Utah Olympic Oval )	100 m (December 12-13)	Sayuri Ōsuga	Shihomi Shin'ya	Wang Manli
		500 m (December 12)	Shihomi Shin'ya	Wang Manli	Sayuri Ōsuga Marianne Timmer
		1,000 m (Dec. 12)	Jennifer Rodriguez	Chiara Simionato	Sabine Völker
		500 m (December 13)	Marianne Timmer	Wang Manli	Shihomi Shin'ya
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Chuncheon , 3rd – 4th January 2004
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 9. – 11. January 2004
Sprint World Championship in Nagano ( M-Wave ), 17.-18. January 2004
Jan. 24 to 25, 2004	Harbin ( Heilongjiang Indoor Rink )	500 m (Jan. 24)	Wang Manli	Ren Hui	Marianne Timmer
		1,000 m (Jan. 24)	Marianne Timmer	Wang Manli	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
		1,000 m (Jan. 25)	Marianne Timmer	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Wang Manli
		500 m (Jan. 25)	Marianne Timmer	Wang Manli	Ren Hui
All around world championship in Hamar ( Vikingskipet ), 7th – 8th February 2004
February 14th to 15th, 2004	Collalbo ( Ice Rink Ritten )	100 m (Feb. 14-15)	Shihomi Shin'ya	Jenny Wolf	Wang Manli
		500 m (Feb. 14)	Marianne Timmer	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Shihomi Shin'ya
		1,000 m (Feb. 14)	Jennifer Rodriguez	Marianne Timmer	Chris Witty
		500 m (Feb. 15)	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Tomomi Okazaki	Wang Manli
February 20-22, 2004	Inzell ( Ludwig Schwabl Stadium )	1,000 m (Feb. 20)	Chris Witty	Jennifer Rodriguez	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
		3,000 m (Feb 21)	Renate Groenewold	Claudia Pechstein	Gretha Smit
		500 m (Feb. 21)	Wang Manli	Frouke Oonk	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
		500 m (Feb. 22)	Wang Manli	Ren Hui	Marianne Timmer
		1,500 m (Feb. 22)	Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold	Jennifer Rodriguez Annamarie Thomas
27 to 29 Feb. 2004	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	100 m (Feb. 27-29)	Jenny Wolf	Shihomi Shin'ya	Wang Manli
		500 m (Feb. 27)	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Wang Manli	Marianne Timmer
		1,500 m (Feb. 27)	Anni Friesinger	Jennifer Rodriguez	Cindy classes
		3,000 m (Feb. 28)	Claudia Pechstein	Anni Friesinger	Gretha Smit
		1,000 m (Feb. 28)	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Cindy classes	Chris Witty
		500 m (Feb. 29)	Wang Manli	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
		5,000 m (Feb. 29)	Claudia Pechstein	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Gretha Smit
Individual Distance World Championships in Seoul ( Taeneung International Ice-Skating Rink ), 12. – 14. March 2004

100 meters

(Final result: after 3 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Shihomi Shin'ya	Japan	260
2	Jenny Wolf	Germany	240
3	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	210
4th	Frouke Oonk	Netherlands	136
5	Judith Hesse	Germany	130
6th	Svetlana Kaikan	Russia	105
7th	Sayuri Ōsuga	Japan	100
8th	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	98
9	Marieke Wijsman	Netherlands	91
10	Svetlana Radkevitsj	Belarus	86
27	Anke Hartmann	Germany	4th

500 meters

(Final result: after 12 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	990
2	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	810
3	Shihomi Shin'ya	Japan	558
4th	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	525
5	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Belarus	500
6th	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	440
7th	Pamela Zoellner	Germany	402
8th	Jenny Wolf	Germany	385
9	Andrea Nuyt	Netherlands	383
10	Chiara Simionato	Italy	365
24	Judith Hesse	Germany	100
26th	Sabine Völker	Germany	88

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 8 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	540
2	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	526
3	Chiara Simionato	Italy	446
4th	Chris Witty	United States	380
5	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Belarus	326
6th	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	312
7th	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	304
8th	Pamela Zoellner	Germany	271
9	Aki Tonoike	Japan	245
10	Ren Hui	People's Republic of China	210
11	Sabine Völker	Germany	195
23	Judith Hesse	Germany	77

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 5 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Anni Friesinger	Germany	460
2	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	420
3	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	336
4th	Maki Tabata	Japan	226
5	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	180
6th	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	172
7th	Olga Tarasova-Sakharovskaja	Russia	161
8th	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	144
9	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	122
10	Eriko Ishino	Japan	117
15th	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	87
27	Katrin Kalex	Germany	36
28	Lucille Opitz	Germany	33

3,000 / 5,000 meters

(Final result: after 6 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	460
2	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	400
3	Anni Friesinger	Germany	390
4th	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	320
5	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	302
6th	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	208
7th	Catherine Raney	United States	176
8th	Kristina Groves	Canada	168
9	Helen van Goozen	Netherlands	147
10	Valentina Jaksjina	Russia	145
16	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	80
17th	Lucille Opitz	Germany	70

Men

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
Nov 8 to 9, 2003	Hamar ( Vikingskipet )	1,500 m (Nov. 8)	Wennemar's heirs	Mark Tuitert	Derek Parra
		5,000 m (Nov. 9)	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	Leave Sætre
Nov. 15-16, 2003	Erfurt ( Gunda-Niemann- Stirnemann Hall )	10,000 m (Nov. 15)	Bob de Jong	Jochem Uytdehaage	Carl Verheijen
		1,500 m (Nov. 16)	Mark Tuitert	Wennemar's heirs	Ids Postma
21. To 23. Nov. 2003	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	5,000 m	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	Jochem Uytdehaage
		1,500 m	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Mark Tuitert	Ids Postma
December 6th to 7th , 2003	Calgary ( Olympic Oval )	500 m (December 6)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Gerard van Velde	Dmitri Lobkov
		1,000 m (December 6)	Wennemar's heirs	Beorn Nijenhuis	Mike Ireland
		500 m (December 7th)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Wennemar's heirs	Hiroyasu Shimizu
		1,000 m (Dec. 7)	Wennemar's heirs	Gerard van Velde	Jeremy Wotherspoon
December 12th to 13th , 2003	Salt Lake City ( Utah Olympic Oval )	100 m (December 12-13)	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Mark Nielsen	Jōji Katō
		500 m (December 12)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Dmitri Lobkov
		1,000 m (Dec. 12)	Wennemar's heirs	Gerard van Velde	Beorn Nijenhuis
		500 m (December 13)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Dmitri Lobkov	Hiroyasu Shimizu
Individual Distance Asian Championships in Chuncheon , 3rd – 4th January 2004
All-around European Championship in Heerenveen ( Thialf ), 9. – 11. January 2004
Sprint World Championship in Nagano ( M-Wave ), 17.-18. January 2004
Jan. 24 to 25, 2004	Harbin ( Heilongjiang Indoor Rink )	500 m (Jan. 24)	Mike Ireland	Yu Fengtong	Jeremy Wotherspoon
		1,000 m (Jan. 24)	Wennemar's heirs	Gerard van Velde	Kip Carpenter
		500 m (Jan. 25)	Mike Ireland	Jeremy Wotherspoon Yu Fengtong
		1,000 m (Jan. 25)	Gerard van Velde	Beorn Nijenhuis	Wennemar's heirs
All around world championship in Hamar ( Vikingskipet ), 7th – 8th February 2004
February 14th to 15th, 2004	Collalbo ( Ice Rink Ritten )	100 m (Feb. 14-15)	Yu Fengtong 9.52 ( JWR )	Pekka Koskela HF : 9.49 s ( ER )	Tucker Fredricks
		500 m (Feb. 14)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Dmitri Lobkov	Masaaki Kobayashi
		1,000 m (Feb. 14)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Wennemar's heirs	Kip Carpenter
		500 m (Feb. 15)	Masaaki Kobayashi	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Ryohei Shimizu
February 20-22, 2004	Inzell ( Ludwig Schwabl Stadium )	1,000 m (Feb. 20)	Takaharu Nakajima	Wennemar's heirs	Beorn Nijenhuis
		5,000 m (Feb. 20)	Chad Hedrick	Gianni Rummy	Carl Verheijen
		1,500 m (Feb 21)	Mark Tuitert	Chad Hedrick	Enrico Fabris
		500 m (Feb. 21)	Gerard van Velde	Dmitri Lobkov	Mike Ireland Casey Fitzrandolph
		500 m (Feb. 22)	Yu Fengtong	Jeremy Wotherspoon Hiroyasu Shimizu
27 to 29 Feb. 2004	Heerenveen ( Thialf )	100 m (Feb. 27-29)	Yu Fengtong	Mark Nielsen	Ryohei Shimizu
		500 m (Feb. 27)	Yu Fengtong	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Dmitri Lobkov
		5,000 m (Feb. 27)	Carl Verheijen	Chad Hedrick	Bob de Jong
		10,000 m (Feb. 28)	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	KC Boutiette
		1,000 m (Feb. 28)	Jan Bos	Wennemar's heirs	Gerard van Velde
		500 m (Feb. 28)	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Yu Fengtong	Hiroyasu Shimizu
		1,500 m (Feb. 29)	Mark Tuitert	Wennemar's heirs	Yevgeny Lalenkov
Individual Distance World Championships in Seoul ( Taeneung International Ice-Skating Rink ), 12. – 14. March 2004

100 meters

(Final result: after 3 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Yu Fengtong	People's Republic of China	260
2	Mark Nielsen	Canada	200
3	Jōji Katō	Japan	175
4th	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	160
5	Pekka Koskela	Finland	153
6th	Tucker Fredricks	United States	150
7th	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	136
8th	Ryohei Shimizu	Japan	115
9	Dino Gillarduzzi	Germany	82
10	Zhang Zhongqi	People's Republic of China	76
18th	Jan Waterstradt	Germany	32
20th	Andreas Behr	Germany	28
23	Christian Zoller	Austria	20th

500 meters

(Final result: after 12 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	1040
2	Dmitri Lobkov	Russia	700
3	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	660
4th	Yu Fengtong	People's Republic of China	657
5	Mike Ireland	Canada	626
6th	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	511
7th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	466
8th	Jōji Katō	Japan	398
9	Kip Carpenter	United States	387
10	Casey Fitzrandolph	United States	351
21st	Dino Gillarduzzi	Germany	106

1,000 meters

(Final result: after 8 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	710
2	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	536
3	Beorn Nijenhuis	Netherlands	482
4th	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	441
5	Mike Ireland	Canada	342
6th	Kip Carpenter	United States	311
7th	Dmitri Lobkov	Russia	276
8th	Janne Hänninen	Finland	270
9	Jan Bos	Netherlands	227
10	Alexander Oltrop	Netherlands	226
20th	Dino Gillarduzzi	Germany	79

1,500 meters

(Final result: after 5 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	460
2	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	380
3	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	283
4th	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	238
5	Enrico Fabris	Italy	189
6th	Derek Parra	United States	180
7th	Ids Postma	Netherlands	162
8th	Petter Andersen	Norway	153
9	Ivan Skobrew	Russia	152
10	Chad Hedrick	United States	148
13	Jan Friesinger	Germany	124
20th	Jörg Dallmann	Germany	62

5,000 / 10,000 meters

(Final result: after 6 races)

rank	Surname	country	Points
1	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	465
2	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	440
3	Chad Hedrick	United States	307
4th	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	302
5	KC Boutiette	United States	231
6th	Enrico Fabris	Italy	224
7th	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	220
8th	Frank Dittrich	Germany	182
9	Øystein Grødum	Norway	157
10	Tom Prinsen	Netherlands	156
16	René Taubenrauch	Germany	80
19th	Jens Boden	Germany	67
23	Tobias Schneider	Germany	53
29	Knut Morgenstern	Germany	17th

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 2003/04.

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	7th	4th	2	13
2.	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	6th	2	2	10
3.	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	5	6th	1	12
4th	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	5	5	5	15th
5.	Anni Friesinger	Germany	5	3	0	8th
6th	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	5	1	5	11
7th	Yu Fengtong	People's Republic of China	4th	3	0	7th
8th.	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	4th	0	1	5
9.	Shihomi Shinya	Japan	3	2	3	8th
10.	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	3	2	0	5

Women

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	6th	2	2	10
2.	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	5	5	5	15th
3.	Anni Friesinger	Germany	5	3	0	8th
4th	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	5	1	5	11
5.	Shihomi Shinya	Japan	3	2	3	8th
6th	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Belarus	2	4th	1	7th
7th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	2	3	1	6th
8th.	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	1	3	3	7th
9.	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	1	2	4th	7th
10.	Jenny Wolf	Germany	1	1	0	2
11.	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	1	0	3	4th
12.	Chris Witty	United States	1	0	2	3
13.	Sayuri Ōsuga	Japan	1	0	1	2
14th	Chiara Simionato	Italy	0	2	1	3
14th	Ren Hui	People's Republic of China	0	2	1	3
16.	Cindy classes	Canada	0	1	1	2
16.	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	0	1	1	2
18th	Frouke Oonk	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
18th	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	0	1	0	1
20th	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
20th	Sabine Völker	Germany	0	0	1	1

Men

space	Surname	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	7th	4th	2	13
2.	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	5	6th	1	12
3.	Yu Fengtong	People's Republic of China	4th	3	0	7th
4th	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	4th	0	1	5
5.	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	3	2	0	5
6th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	2	4th	1	7th
7th	Mike Ireland	Canada	2	0	2	4th
8th.	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	1	3	2	6th
9.	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	1	2	3	6th
10.	Chad Hedrick	United States	1	2	0	3
11.	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1	0	1	2
11.	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	1	0	1	2
13.	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
13.	Takaharu Nakajima	Japan	1	0	0	1
15th	Dmitri Lobkov	Russia	0	3	3	6th
16.	Beorn Nijenhuis	Netherlands	0	2	2	4th
17th	Mark Nielsen	Canada	0	2	0	2
18th	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
19th	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
19th	Pekka Koskela	Finland	0	1	0	1
21st	Ids Postma	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
21st	Kip Carpenter	United States	0	0	2	2
21st	Ryohei Shimizu	Japan	0	0	2	2
24.	Derek Parra	United States	0	0	1	1
24.	Enrico Fabris	Italy	0	0	1	1
24.	Casey Fitzrandolph	United States	0	0	1	1
24.	Jōji Katō	Japan	0	0	1	1
24.	KC Boutiette	United States	0	0	1	1
24.	Leave Sætre	Norway	0	0	1	1
24.	Tucker Fredricks	United States	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

The nation ranking shows the most successful nations (athletes) of the speed skating world cup 2003/04.

space	country	Victories	2nd places	3rd places	total
1.	Netherlands	23	24	22nd	69
2.	Germany	9	10	7th	26th
3.	People's Republic of China	9	10	6th	25th
4th	Canada	9	7th	5	21st
5.	United States	8th	4th	10	22nd
6th	Japan	7th	5	11	23
7th	Belarus	2	4th	1	7th
8th.	Russia	1	3	4th	8th
9.	Italy	0	2	2	4th
10.	Finland	0	1	0	1
11.	Norway	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results of the overall World Cup 2003/04 (DESG)