2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

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 first competition weekend of the 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen in Berlin, Germany, from Friday, 7 November, until Sunday, 9 November 2008.

Schedule of events

Timeschedule of the event:^[1]

Date	Time	Events
7 November	15:00 CET	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 5000 m men
8 November	13:30 CET	500 m women 500 m men 3000 m women 1500 m men
9 November	13:30 CET	1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	34.92	Pekka Koskela  Finland	34.99	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.01	[2]
	2	Joji Kato  Japan	34.70	Yu Fengtong  China	35.07	Mika Poutala  Finland	35.13	[3]
1000 m		Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:09.13	Shani Davis  United States	1:09.15	Simon Kuipers  Netherlands	1:09.30	[4]
1500 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	1:45.69	Erben Wennemars  Netherlands	1:45.85	Simon Kuipers  Netherlands	1:45.95	[5]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:15.74	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	6:20.03	Carl Verheijen  Netherlands	6:20.87	[6]
Team pursuit		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	[7]

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.75	Wang Beixing  China	37.75	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.12	[8]
	2	Wang Beixing  China	37.91	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.95	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.26	[9]
1000 m		Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:16.86	Shannon Rempel  Canada	1:17.11	Laurine van Riessen  Netherlands	1:17.21	[10]
1500 m		Kristina Groves  Canada	1:57.65	Brittany Schussler  Canada	1:57.74	Shannon Rempel  Canada	1:58.04	[11]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:03.70	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms  Germany	4:07.08	Masako Hozumi  Japan	4:07.92	[12]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Renate Groenewold Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg	3:04.34	Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Claudia Pechstein Lucille Opitz	3:04.51	United States Nancy Swider-Peltz, Jr Catherine Raney Mia Manganello	3:05.68	[13]

References

1. Berlin World Cup announcement
2. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1st 500 meters Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
3. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 2nd 500 meters Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
4. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1000 meters Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
5. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1500 meters Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
6. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 5000 meters Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
7. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results Team pursuit Men, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
8. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1st 500 meters Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
9. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 2nd 500 meters Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
10. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1000 meters Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
11. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 1500 meters Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
12. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results 3000 meters Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.
13. 2008-09 World Cup #1 - Results Team pursuit Women, SpeedSkatingStats.com.