2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
2008–09
Men

100 m | 500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 5k/10k | Team pursuit

Women

100 m | 500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 3k/5k | Team pursuit

World Cup weekends

Berlin | Heerenveen (1) | Moscow | Changchun | Nagano
Kolomna | Erfurt | Heerenveen (2) | Salt Lake City

The men's team pursuit in the 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over three races on three occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7–9 November 2008, and the last occasion involving the event taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 30 January – 1 February 2009.[1]

Canada won the cup, while Italy came second, and Japan came third. The defending champions, the Netherlands, ended up in seventh place.

Top three

Medal Country Points Previous season
Gold  Canada 310 2nd
Silver  Italy 220 7th
Bronze  Japan 210 9th

Race medallists

Occasion # Location Date Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report
1 Berlin, Germany 9 November  Canada
Denny Morrison
Lucas Makowsky
Steven Elm
3:47.29  Germany
Jörg Dallmann
Robert Lehmann
Marco Weber
3:47.37  Japan
Teruhiro Sugimori
Hiroki Hirako
Shigeyuki Dejima
3:48.02 [2]
2 Heerenveen, Netherlands 16 November  Netherlands
Sven Kramer
Simon Kuipers
Carl Verheijen
3:42.29  United States
Shani Davis
Chad Hedrick
Trevor Marsicano
3:43.48  Sweden
Joel Eriksson
Daniel Friberg
Johan Röjler
3:47.20 [3]
7 Erfurt, Germany 1 February  Canada
Denny Morrison
Lucas Makowsky
Jay Morrison
3:46.03  Italy
Matteo Anesi
Enrico Fabris
Luca Stefani
3:46.56  Norway
Håvard Bøkko
Sverre Haugli
Stian Elvenes
3:48.39 [4]

Final standings

Standings as of 1 February 2009 (end of the season).[5][6]

# Nation BER HVN1 ERF Total
1st  Canada 100 60 150 310
2nd  Italy 60 40 120 220
3rd  Japan 70 50 90 210
4  Germany 80 16 75 171
5  United States 45 80 45 170
6  Norway 45 105 150
7  Netherlands 0 100 40 140
8  Sweden 32 70 28 130
9  Poland 50 32 36 118
10  Russia 40 36 32 108
11  Romania 24 21 21 66
12  South Korea 36 28 64
13  Czech Republic 21 18 24 63
14  China 28 0 28
15  France 24 24
16  Kazakhstan 18 18

References

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