Speed ​​Skating World Cup 2012/13

World Cup 2012/13
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Grand World Cup	Jorrit Bergsma	Ireen Wüst
500 meters	Jan Smeekens	Sang-Hwa Lee
1000 meters	Kjeld Nuis	Heather Richardson
1500 meters	Zbigniew Brodka	Marrit Leenstra
Long haul	Jorrit Bergsma	Martina Sáblíková
Mass start	Arjan Stroetinga	Bo-Reum Kim
Team tracking	Netherlands	Netherlands
Competitions
Venues	9	9
Individual competitions	37	37
Team competitions	4th	4th
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The Speed ​​Skating World Cup 2012/13 (official name: Essent ISU World Cup Speed ​​Skating) is a series of competitions in speed skating organized by the International Skating Union (ISU) . The series of competitions began on November 16, 2012 in Heerenveen and ends with the World Cup finals also in Heerenveen on March 10, 2013. World Cups are awarded in the individual disciplines as well as in the team pursuit. In addition, introduced in the 2011/12 season, there is an overall World Cup classification called the "Grand World Cup". There are world cup rankings in the disciplines 500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters, mass start and team pursuit. There is also a World Cup ranking with the races over 3000 meters and 5000 meters for women and over 5000 meters and 10000 meters for men. The so-called team sprint is also held at various World Cup events, but only as a demonstration competition for which there are no World Cup points.

Venues

Venues for the 2012/13 season

The series of events of the World Cup consists of a total of nine events. The World Cup series begins in Heerenveen and then makes a round trip in the northern hemisphere of our earth in an easterly direction to finally land back in Europe after stations in Russia , Kazakhstan , Japan , China and Canada (with stations in Inzell and Erfurt ) and finally with the World Cup Finals to end in Heerenveen.

date	place	train
16.-18. November 2012	Heerenveen ( Netherlands )	Thialf
24.-25. November 2012	Kolomna ( Russia )	Kometa
1st – 2nd December 2012	Astana ( Kazakhstan )	Ice Palace Alau
8th-9th December 2012	Nagano ( Japan )	M-Wave
15.-16. December 2012	Harbin ( China )	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink
19. – 20. January 2013	Calgary ( Canada )	Olympic oval
9-10 February 2013	Inzell ( Germany )	Max Aicher Arena
1st - 3rd March 2013	Erfurt ( Germany )	Gunda-Niemann-Stirnemann Hall
8-10 March 2013	Heerenveen ( Netherlands )	Thialf

Races in all World Cup categories are only run at the first and last event of the World Cup. At the other World Cup events, the World Cup program is different, there are events in which only the short distances are run (500 meters and 1000 meters), in other events only a selection of the longer distances are run (1500 meters to 10000 meters) and finally there are Events in which both shorter and longer distances are run.

Point system

Discipline World Cup

On the basis of the last positions achieved, athletes participating in the respective competition are divided into either Division A or Division B. There are now two different point systems for each division. A distinction is made between whether Division A has up to 16 or more than 16 participants. There are increased World Cup points in the races of the World Cup finals, in which only Division A is entitled to participate.

Division A (up to 16 participants)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.
100	80	70	60	50	45	40	35	30th	25th	21st	18th	16	14th	12	10

Division A (more than 16 participants)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.
100	80	70	60	50	45	40	36	32	28	24	21st	18th	16	14th	12	10	8th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Division B (if Division A up to 16 participants)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th
32	27	23	19th	15th	11	9	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Division B (if Division A has more than 16 participants)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.
25th	19th	15th	11	8th	6th	4th	2	1

World Cup Finals

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th
150	120	105	90	75	45	40	36	32	28	24	21st	18th	16	14th	12	10	8th	6th	5

Grand World Cup

For the overall World Cup, the Grand World Cup, only the five best in each race receive points.

There are increased points in the competitions of the World Cup finals. If a course is run twice at an event (which is usually the case with 500 meters and occasionally with 1000 meters), only half the points are awarded.

Simple points

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
10	8th	7th	6th	5

Increased Points (World Cup Finals)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
15th	12	10.5	9	7.5

Half points

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
5	4th	3.5	3	2.5

Half points (World Cup finals)

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.
7.5	6th	5.25	4.5	3.75

Results

Ladies

Heerenveen

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
November 16, 2012	500 m (1)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.85	Heather Richardson 37.95	Nao Kodaira 38.26
17th November 2012	500 m (2)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.92	Heather Richardson 38:13	Jenny Wolf 38.14
November 18, 2012	1000 m	Heather Richardson 1: 15.27	Zhang Hong 1: 15.41	Lotte van Beek 1: 15.83
17th November 2012	1500 m	Christine Nesbitt 1: 56.35	Marrit Leenstra 1: 56.42	Lotte van Beek 1: 57.42
November 16, 2012	3000 m	Stephanie Beckert 4: 04.39	Martina Sáblíková 4: 06.71	Jorien ter Mors 4: 06.90
17th November 2012	Mass start	Mariska Huisman 31 pt. 8: 22.96	Jorien ter Mors 15 pt. 8: 22.97	Claudia Pechstein 14 pt. 8: 23.05
November 18, 2012	Team tracking	Germany 3: 01.14 Stephanie Beckert Isabell Ost Claudia Pechstein	Netherlands 3: 02.33 Marije Joling Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg	Canada 3: 02.33 Ivanie Blondin Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler

Kolomna

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
November 24, 2012	1500 m	Marrit Leenstra 1: 55.03	Ekaterina Sheikhova 1: 55.52	Christine Nesbitt 1: 56.16
November 25, 2012	3000 m	Claudia Pechstein 4: 02.31	Martina Sáblíková 4: 02.46	Marije Joling 4: 03.90
November 24, 2012	Mass start	Kim Bo-reum 31 pt. 8: 40.77	Ivanie Blondin 19 pts. 8: 41.19	Mariska Huisman 15 pt. 8: 40.90

Astana

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 2, 2012	1500 m	Christine Nesbitt 1: 57.18	Marrit Leenstra 1: 57.28	Linda de Vries 1: 57.30
December 1, 2012	5000 m	Martina Sáblíková 7:00 am	Claudia Pechstein 7: 01.05	Olga Graf 7: 01.38
December 2, 2012	Team tracking	Canada 2: 58.40 Ivanie Blondin Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	South Korea 3: 00.55 Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Park Do-yeong	Netherlands 3: 00.71 Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Linda de Vries

Nagano

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 8, 2012	500 m (1)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.63	Nao Kodaira 37.96	Heather Richardson 1/38
December 9, 2012	500 m (2)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.60	Jenny Wolf 37.91	Nao Kodaira 09/38
December 8, 2012	1000 m (1)	Heather Richardson 1: 15.24	Christine Nesbitt 1: 15.45	Lotte van Beek 1: 16.15
December 9, 2012	1000 m (2)	Christine Nesbitt 1: 15.13	Heather Richardson 1: 15.26	Lotte van Beek 1: 15.87

Harbin

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 15, 2012	500 m (1)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.94	Jenny Wolf 37.95	Jing Yu 38.53
December 16, 2012	500 m (2)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.65	Jing Yu 38.34	Nao Kodaira 38.38
December 15, 2012	1000 m (1)	Karolína Erbanová 1: 17.10	Zhang Hong 1: 17.14	Margot Boer 1: 17.35
December 16, 2012	1000 m (2)	Zhang Hong 1: 16.71 (7)	Karolína Erbanová 1: 16.71 (8)	Olga Fatkulina 1: 17.12
December 16, 2012	Team sprint	People's Republic of China 1: 29.11 Beixing Wang Jing Yu Zhang Hong	Russia 1: 30.60 Ekaterina Malysheva Nadezhda Assejewa Olga Fatkulina	Canada 1: 35.15 Paola Simionato Danielle Wotherspoon Anastasia Bucsis

Calgary

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
19th January 2013	500 m (1)	Lee Sang-hwa 36.99	Heather Richardson 12.37	Jing Yu 37.28
20th January 2013	500 m (2)	Lee Sang-hwa 36.80 ( WR )	Heather Richardson 37.42	Margot Boer 37.54
19th January 2013	1000 m (1)	Heather Richardson 1: 13.09 ( CR )	Christine Nesbitt 1: 13.67	Brittany Bowe 1: 13.92
20th January 2013	1000 m (2)	Heather Richardson 1: 13.30	Ireen Wüst 1: 13.89	Brittany Bowe 1: 13.96

Inzell

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
February 9, 2013	1500 m	Ireen Wüst 1: 55.95	Diane Valkenburg 1: 56.42	Yekaterina Shikhova 1: 57.07
February 10, 2013	3000 m	Ireen Wüst 4: 02.23	Diane Valkenburg 4: 05.31	Martina Sáblíková 4: 05.41
February 9, 2013	Mass start	Kim Bo-reum 8: 13.80	Francesca Lollobrigida 8: 14.10	Mariska Huisman 8: 14.11

Erfurt

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
1st of March 2013	500 m (1)	Beixing Wang 07/38	Thijsje Oenema 38.34	Jenny Wolf 38.39
March 2, 2013	500 m (2)	Beixing Wang 38.15	Olga Fatkulina 38.21 (5)	Thijsje Oenema 38.21 (7)
March 3, 2013	1000 m	Brittany Bowe 1: 15.34	Ireen Wüst 1: 15.74	Olga Fatkulina 1: 15.79
March 2, 2013	1500 m	Ireen Wüst 1: 55.61	Diane Valkenburg 1: 58.32	Marrit Leenstra 1: 58.38
1st of March 2013	5000 m	Martina Sáblíková 7: 01.33	Stephanie Beckert 7: 02.84	Claudia Pechstein 7: 06.96
March 3, 2013	Team sprint	Germany 1: 29.65 Jennifer Plate Judith Hesse Monique Angermüller	Canada 1: 30.05 Danielle Wotherspoon Kaylin Irvine Anastasia Bucsis	Italy 1: 35.69 Yvonne Daldossi Paola Simionato Francesca Lollobrigida
March 3, 2013	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 02.83 Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	Canada 3: 04.34 Ivanie Blondin Kali Christ Cindy Klassen	Poland 3: 05.23 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska

Heerenveen

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
March 8, 2013	500 m (1)	Jenny Wolf 37.77	Beixing Wang 37.81	Lee Sang-hwa 37.82
March 10, 2013	500 m (2)	Lee Sang-hwa 37.77	Beixing Wang 37.78	Thijsje Oenema 38.10
March 9, 2013	1000 m	Christine Nesbitt 1: 15.48	Zhang Hong 1: 15.50	Laurine van Riessen 1: 15.95
March 10, 2013	1500 m	Ireen Wüst 1: 54.67	Lotte van Beek 1: 56.68	Christine Nesbitt 1: 56.86
March 9, 2013	3000 m	Ireen Wüst 3: 58.68	Diane Valkenburg 4: 04.75	Linda de Vries 4: 04.87
March 10, 2013	Mass start	Irene Schouten 33 pt. 9: 14.26	Ivanie Blondin 15 pts. 9: 14.29	Kim Bo-reum 11 pt. 9: 14.38
March 8, 2013	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 00.50 Marrit Leenstra Linda de Vries Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	Canada 3: 03.50 Ivanie Blondin Kali Christ Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	Poland 3: 04.19 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska Katarzyna Woźniak

Men's

Heerenveen

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
17th November 2012	500 m (1)	Pekka Koskela 34.96	Artur Waś 34.98	Jan Smeekens 07/35
November 18, 2012	500 m (2)	Jōji Katō 34.98	Jan Smeekens April 35	Mo Tae-bum 35.15
17th November 2012	1000 m	Denny Morrison 1: 09.43	Pekka Koskela 1: 09.51	Kjeld Nuis 1: 09.53
November 18, 2012	1500 m	Maurice Vriend 1: 46.13	Håvard Bøkko 1: 46.40	Sverre Lunde Pedersen 1: 46.54
November 16, 2012	5000 m	Sven Kramer 6: 16.09	Jorrit Bergsma 6: 16.78	Jan Blokhuijsen 6: 16.81
November 18, 2012	Mass start	Christijn Groeneveld 31 pt. 10: 14.55	Arjan Stroetinga 15 pt. 10: 14.61	Alexis Contin 12 pt. 10: 14.67
17th November 2012	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 39.76 Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	Russia 3: 42.90 Yevgeny Lalenkow Ivan Skobrew Denis Juskow	South Korea 3: 43.57 Joo Hyung-joon Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon

Kolomna

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
November 25, 2012	1500 m	Koen Verweij 1: 45.56	Beard Swings 1: 45.77	Brian Hansen 1: 45.91
November 24, 2012	5000 m	Sven Kramer 6: 10.62	Jan Blokhuijsen 6: 11.97	Jorrit Bergsma 6: 13.08
November 25, 2012	Mass start	Jorrit Bergsma 40 pts. 10: 00.07	Ewen Fernandez 22 pt. 10: 00.42	Alexis Contin 10 pt. 10: 08.98

Astana

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 1, 2012	1500 m	Shani Davis 1: 46.01	Håvard Bøkko 1: 46.34	Zbigniew Bródka 1: 46.42
December 2, 2012	10,000 m	Jorrit Bergsma 12:50:40	Bob de Jong 12: 51.22	Lee Seung-Hoon 13: 07.06
December 1, 2012	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 41.27 Jan Blokhuijsen Jorrit Bergsma Koen Verweij	South Korea 3: 41.49 Joo Hyung-joon Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	Norway 3: 43.43 Håvard Bøkko Sverre Lunde Pedersen Simen player Nilsen

Nagano

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 8, 2012	500 m (1)	Pekka Koskela 34.64	Michel Mulder 34.95	Tucker Fredricks 35.10
December 9, 2012	500 m (2)	Keiichirō Nagashima 35.14	Gilmore Junio 35.16	Jan Smeekens 35.18
December 8, 2012	1000 m (1)	Pekka Koskela 1: 09.52	Samuel Black 1: 09.69	Kyou-Hyuk Lee 1: 09.85
December 9, 2012	1000 m (2)	Hein Otterspeer 1: 09.20	Denny Morrison 1: 09.64	Kjeld Nuis 1: 09.72

Harbin

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
December 15, 2012	500 m (1)	Jan Smeekens 35.15	Michel Mulder 35.20	Joji Kato 35.22
December 16, 2012	500 m (2)	Joji Kato 34.94	Ronald Mulder 35.21	Jan Smeekens 35.27
December 15, 2012	1000 m (1)	Shani Davis 1: 10.05	Hein Otterspeer 1: 10.07	Samuel Schwarz 1: 10.10
December 16, 2012	1000 m (2)	Samuel Black 1: 09.69	Shani Davis 1: 09.87	Hein Otterspeer 1: 09.92
December 16, 2012	Team sprint	Kazakhstan 1: 23.48 Alexander Gluschenko Viktor Gluschenko Denis Kusin	Germany 1: 24.05 Denny Ihle Nico Ihle Samuel Black	Russia 1: 24.24 Denis Kowal Artyom Kuznetsov Igor Bogolyubsky

Calgary

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
19th January 2013	500 m (1)	Jan Smeekens 34.32	Pekka Koskela 34.36 (1)	Jamie Gregg 34.36 (9)
20th January 2013	500 m (2)	Jan Smeekens 34.39	Joji Kato 34.44	Michel Mulder 34.55
19th January 2013	1000 m (1)	Shani Davis 1: 07.49	Kjeld Nuis 1: 07.64	Michel Mulder 1: 07.87
20th January 2013	1000 m (2)	Hein Otterspeer 1: 07.76	Shani Davis 1: 07.83	Samuel Black 1: 07.85 ( DR )

Inzell

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
February 10, 2013	1500 m	Denis Juskow 1: 46.07	Zbigniew Bródka 1: 46.09	Brian Hansen 1: 46.16
February 9, 2013	5000 m	Sven Kramer 6: 11.76	Bob de Jong 6: 14.08	Jorrit Bergsma 6: 14.55
February 10, 2013	Mass start	Arjan Stroetinga 9: 57.56	Haralds Silovs 9: 58.93	Christijn Groeneveld 9: 59.80

Erfurt

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
March 2, 2013	500 m (1)	Jan Smeekens June 35	Joji Kato 35.16	Ronald Mulder 35.28
March 3, 2013	500 m (2)	Jan Smeekens 34.96	Joji Kato 35.05	Ronald Mulder 35.28
March 2, 2013	1000 m	Brian Hansen 1: 09.79	Stefan Groothuis 1: 09.84	Dmitry Lobkov 1: 10.18 (9) Nico Ihle 1: 10.18 (9)
March 3, 2013	1500 m	Zbigniew Bródka 1: 46.88	Haralds Silovs 1: 46.98	Brian Hansen 1: 47.01
1st of March 2013	10,000 m	Bob de Jong 12: 53.56	Jorrit Bergsma 12: 55.36	Lee Sang-hwa 13: 19.84
March 3, 2013	Team sprint	Canada 1: 21.88 Guillaume Blais-Dufour Gilmore Junio William Dutton	Kazakhstan 1: 23.20 Roman Krech Fyodor Mezentsev Aleksandr Zhigin	Germany 1: 23.26 Denny Ihle Hubert Hirschbichler Samuel Schwarz
March 2, 2013	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 45.21 Sven Kramer Jorrit Bergsma Koen Verweij	South Korea 3: 45.33 Lee Sang-hwa Ko Byung-Wook Kim Cheol-Min	Poland 3: 45.79 Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański

Heerenveen

date	competition	winner	Second	Third
March 8, 2013	500 m (1)	Jan Smeekens 34.84	Jamie Gregg 34.96	Ronald Mulder 04/35
March 10, 2013	500 m (2)	Jan Smeekens 34.83	Joji Kato 34.92	Michel Mulder 34.97
March 9, 2013	1000 m	Stefan Groothuis 1: 08.91	Mark Tuitert 1: 09.22	Kjeld Nuis 1: 09.24
March 10, 2013	1500 m	Beard Swings 1:45.50	Zbigniew Bródka 1: 45.96	Shani Davis 1: 46.13
March 9, 2013	5000 m	Sven Kramer 6: 10.78	Jorrit Bergsma 6: 15.74	Bob de Jong 6: 18.26
March 10, 2013	Mass start	Beard Swings 33 pt. 10: 32.32	Joo Hyung-joon 15 pt. 10: 32.37	Arjan Stroetinga 11 pt. 10: 32.40
March 8, 2013	Team tracking	Netherlands 3: 40.64 Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Jorrit Bergsma	South Korea 3: 42.69 Joo Hyung-joon Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min	Russia 3: 43.02 Yevgeny Lalenkow Ivan Skobrew Denis Juskow

Web links

• Homepage of the International Skating Union
• Season results 2012/2013
• Statistics and current World Cup results