2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	14 November 2014 – 22 March 2015
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ISU Speed Skating World Cup

2014–15

Men

500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 5k/10k | Mass start | Team pursuit Grand World Cup

Women

500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 3k/5k | Mass start | Team pursuit Grand World Cup

World Cup weekends

Obihiro | Seoul | Berlin | Heerenveen (1) Hamar | Heerenveen (2) | Erfurt

The 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2014–2015, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 14 November 2014 in Obihiro, Japan, and ended with the final on 22 March 2015 in Erfurt, Germany.^[1] In total, seven competition weekends were held at six different locations, twelve cups were contested (six for men, and six for women), and 80 races took place.

The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).

Calendar

The detailed schedule for the season.^[1] In addition, the team sprint was held as demonstration event in Obihiro and Seoul.

WC #	City	Venue	Date	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10000 m	Mass start	Team pursuit
1	Obihiro	Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval	14–16 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
2	Seoul	Taereung International Ice Rink	21–23 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w		w	m	m, w
3	Berlin	Sportforum Hohenschönhausen	5–7 December	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
4	Heerenveen	Thialf	12–14 December	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
	Chelyabinsk	Uralskaya Molniya	10–11 January	2015 European Allround Speed Skating Championships
	Changchun	Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink	10–11 January	2015 Asian Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
5	Hamar	Vikingskipet	31 January – 1 February			m, w	w	m		m, w
6	Heerenveen	Thialf	7–8 February	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
	Heerenveen	Thialf	12–15 February	2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
	Astana	Alau Ice Palace	28 February – 1 March	2015 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
	Calgary	Olympic Oval	7–8 March	2015 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
7	Erfurt	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Halle	21–22 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
Total				12m, 12w	7m, 7w	6m, 6w	5w	5m, 1w	1m	6m, 6w	3m, 3w

Note: the men's 5000 and 10000 metres was contested as one cup, and the women's 3000 and 5000 metres was contested as one cup, as indicated by the color coding.^[1]

Entry rules

Qualification criteria

In order to qualify, skaters had to achieve the following results in ISU events, international competitions or national championships between 1 July 2013 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned.^[1]

Men Distance Time required ^A Time required ^B 500 m 36.20 36.60 1000 m 1:11.90 1:12.80 1500 m 1:51.00 1:52.50 3000 m — — 5000 m 6:48.00 6:52.00 10000 m 13:40.00 ^C 13:50.00 ^D

Women Distance Time required ^A Time required ^B 500 m 40.00 40.50 1000 m 1:20.00 1:21.00 1500 m 2:03.00 2:05.00 3000 m 4:24.00 4:28.00 5000 m 7:25.00 ^E 7:32.00 ^F 10000 m — —

^A in the Olympic Oval, Calgary, or the Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

^B in other ice rinks

^C or 6:35.00 on 5000 m

^D or 6:40.00 on 5000 m

^E or 4:15.00 on 3000 m

^F or 4:20.00 on 3000 m

For the mass start and team pursuit events, skaters who had achieved any one of the above results qualified. However, every ISU member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of one skater per gender who had not achieved any of these results, provided that they had achieved a 1500 m result of 1:57.50 (men) or 2:10.00 (women).^[1]

Nation quotas

Every ISU member nation was allowed to enter at least one competitor for each distance, subject to the qualification criteria above. Additionally, skaters placed among the top 32 in the final 2013–14 World Cup, or included in the final qualifying list (including the reserve list) of the 2014 Winter Olympics, for the distance category concerned, was allowed entry. Nations were also allowed to earn a quota place for each skater placed on the final qualifying list (excluding the reserve list) for the Olympics. The maximum quota was 5 skaters. A member nation organizing a World Cup competition was granted the maximum quota in all events. Member nations not mentioned were allowed to enter a maximum of one skater for each distance.^[1]

Men Nation 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 5k/10k Mass start  Australia 2 2 1 1 1  Austria 1 2 2 1 2  Belgium 1 2 2 2 2  Belarus 1 1 1 1 1  Canada 5 4 4 2 1  China 3 2 2 2 1  Czech Republic 1 1 1 1 1  Denmark 1 1 1 1 1  Estonia 1 1 1 1 1  Finland 3 3 1 1 1  France 2 2 3 3 1  Germany 4 3 3 5 2  Hungary 1 1 2 1 1  Italy 3 2 3 2 2  Japan 5 3 2 2 2  Kazakhstan 2 4 4 2 1  South Korea 4 4 3 3 1  Latvia 2 2 2 2 1  Netherlands 5 5 5 5 2  Norway 3 4 4 4 2  New Zealand 1 1 2 2 1  Poland 3 3 4 3 2  Romania 1 1 1 1 1  Russia 5 4 5 5 2   Switzerland 1 1 1 1 2  Sweden 1 2 2 2 1  Chinese Taipei 2 2 1 1 1  United States 4 5 5 5 2

Women Nation 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 3k/5k Mass start  Australia 1 1 1 1 1  Austria 2 2 2 2 1  Belgium 1 1 2 2 2  Belarus 2 1 1 1 1  Canada 4 4 4 3 2  China 4 5 3 2 1  Czech Republic 2 2 3 2 1  Denmark 1 1 1 1 1  Estonia 1 1 1 1 2  Finland 2 1 1 1 1  France 1 1 1 1 1  Germany 5 4 4 4 2  Hungary 2 1 1 1 1  Italy 2 2 2 2 2  Japan 5 5 5 5 2  Kazakhstan 2 2 2 2 1  South Korea 4 3 4 4 1  Latvia 1 1 1 1 1  Netherlands 5 5 5 5 2  Norway 1 2 3 3 2  New Zealand 1 1 1 1 1  Poland 1 4 4 5 2  Romania 1 1 1 2 1  Russia 4 5 5 4 1   Switzerland 2 2 2 1 1  Sweden 1 2 1 1 1  Chinese Taipei 1 1 1 1 1  United States 5 4 4 3 2

For the mass start event, a member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of two skaters, all subject to the qualifying criteria above. For the team pursuit event, a member nation was allowed to enter one team only per category (men/women).^[1]

The World Cup competitions 1–4 served as qualifying events for the 2015 World Single Distance Championships. World Cup 5 served as a qualifying event for the 2015 World Allround Championships, and World Cup 6 served as a qualifying event for the 2015 World Sprint Championships. Results from World Cups 1–6 defined the seeding for the Single Distance Championships. World Cups 5 and 6 had extended entry quotas due to their status as qualifying events; each ISU member nation got one more quota place than its highest quota of either of the two distances in the competition, however, the maximum quota was still 5 places.^[1]

World records

World records going into the 2014–15 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	34.03	Jeremy Wotherspoon		9 November 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[2]
1000 m	1:06.42	Shani Davis		7 March 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[3]
1500 m	1:41.04	Shani Davis		11 December 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[4]
5000 m	6:03.32	Sven Kramer		17 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[5]
10000 m	12:41.69	Sven Kramer		10 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[6]
Team pursuit (8 laps)	3:35.60	Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[7]

Women

Distance	Time	Holder(s)	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	36.36	Lee Sang-hwa		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[8]
1000 m	1:12.58	Brittany Bowe		17 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[9]
1500 m	1:51.79	Cindy Klassen		20 November 2005	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[10]
3000 m	3:53.34	Cindy Klassen		18 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[11]
5000 m	6:42.66	Martina Sáblíková		18 February 2011	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[12]
Team pursuit (6 laps)	2:55.79	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler		6 December 2009	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[13]

References

1. "International Skating Union – Communication No. 1889" (PDF). International Skating Union. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
2. "Evolution of the world record 500 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
3. "Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
4. "Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
5. "Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
6. "Evolution of the world record 10,000 meters Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
7. "Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Men". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
8. "Evolution of the world record 500 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
9. "Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
10. "Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
11. "Evolution of the world record 3000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
12. "Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
13. "Evolution of the world record Team pursuit Women". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 30 September 2013.

External links

• International Skating Union
• Results at ISUresults.eu