2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3
# 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3

The third competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in Eisstadion Inzell in Inzell, Germany, from Friday, 4 December, until Sunday, 6 December 2015.

There were no world records over the weekend. Multiple winners were Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea, who won both women's 500 m races, and Brittany Bowe of the United States, who won the women's 1000 and 1500 m races.

## Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:

| Date | Session | Events | Comment |
| - | - | - | - |
| Friday, 4 December | Afternoon | 12:00: 500 m women (1)  12:20: 500 m men (1)  13:10: 3000 m women | Division B |
| Friday, 4 December | Evening | 16:00: 3000 m women  17:04: 500 m women (1)  17:29: 500 m men (1) | Division A |
| Friday, 4 December | Evening | 18:19: Team pursuit men | |
| Saturday, 5 December | Morning | 09:30: 1000 m men  10:35: 1000 m women  11:23: 5000 m men | Division B |
| Saturday, 5 December | Afternoon | 14:00: 1000 m men  14:30: 1000 m women  15:15: 5000 m men | Division A |
| Saturday, 5 December | Afternoon | 16:47: Team pursuit women | |
| Sunday, 6 December | Morning | 09:45: 500 m women (2)  09:59: 500 m men (2)  10:45: 1500 m women  11:41: 1500 m men | Division B |
| Sunday, 6 December | Afternoon | 14:00: 1500 m women  14:53: 1500 m men  15:43: 500 m women (2)  16:08: 500 m men (2)  16:48: Mass start women  17:17: Mass start men | Division A |
| Sunday, 6 December | Evening | 18:07: Mass start women  18:39: Mass start men | Division B |

All times are CET (UTC+1).

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Gilmore Junio Canada | 34.86 | Alexandre St-Jean Canada | 34.90 | Artur Waś Poland | 34.97 |
| 500 m | 2 | Artur Waś Poland | 34.65 | Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada | 34.74 | Kai Verbij Netherlands | 34.80 |
| 1000 m | | Kjeld Nuis Netherlands | 1:08:31 | Denis Yuskov Russia | 1:08:55 | Kai Verbij Netherlands | 1:08.60 |
| 1500 m | | Denis Yuskov Russia | 1:44:21 | Kjeld Nuis Netherlands | 1:45:20 | Joey Mantia United States | 1:45.25 |
| 5000 m | | Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands | 6:17.35 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway | 6:19.52 | Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands | 6:21.66 |
| Mass start | | Alexis Contin France | 60 $^A$ | Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands | 48 $^A$ | Fabio Francolini Italy | 22 $^A$ |
| Team pursuit | | Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga | 3:41.27 | Norway Sverre Lunde Pedersen Håvard Bøkko Sindre Henriksen | 3:44.88 | Poland Jan Szymański Konrad Niedźwiedzki Zbigniew Bródka | 3:46.17 |

    $^A$ In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

### Women's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.33 | Brittany Bowe United States | 37.70 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States | 37.99 |
| 500 m | 2 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.36 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States | 37.84 | Heather McLean Canada | 38.02 |
| 1000 m | | Brittany Bowe United States | 1:14.01 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States | 1:14.52 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 1:15.27 |
| 1500 m | | Brittany Bowe United States | 1:54.68 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States | 1:54.94 | Marrit Leenstra Netherlands | 1:55.79 |
| 3000 m | | Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic | 4:03.18 | Marije Joling Netherlands | 4:04.08 | Olga Graf Russia | 4:05.87 |
| Mass start | | Irene Schouten Netherlands | 60 $^A$ | Ivanie Blondin Canada | 40 $^A$ | Park Do-yeong South Korea | 20 $^A$ |
| Team pursuit | | Japan Miho Takagi Nana Takagi Misaki Oshigiri | 2:59.08 | Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Antoinette de Jong Marije Joling | 2:59.69 | Russia Natalya Voronina Olga Graf Elizaveta Kazelina | 3:00.36 |

    $^A$ In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

## Standings

The top ten standings in the contested cups after the weekend. The top five nations in the team pursuit cups.

### Men's cups

| # | Name | CGY1 | CGY2 | SLC1 | SLC2 | INZ1 | INZ2 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | | | 400 |
| 2 | William Dutton | 70 | 80 | 70 | 80 | 8 | 16 | 324 |
| 3 | Gilmore Junio | 19 | 60 | 28 | 18 | 100 | 60 | 285 |
| 4 | Artur Waś | 40 | 12 | 8 | 50 | 70 | 100 | 280 |
| 5 | Alex Boisvert-Lacroix | 25 | 70 | 40 | 28 | 32 | 80 | 275 |
| 6 | Mika Poutala | 80 | 36 | 36 | 60 | | 50 | 262 |
| 7 | Laurent Dubreuil | 36 | 45 | 14 | 70 | 60 | 32 | 257 |
| 8 | Kai Verbij | 16 | 21 | 60 | 12 | 16 | 70 | 195 |
| 9 | Alexandre St-Jean | 11 | 6 | 25 | 36 | 80 | 12 | 170 |
| 10 | Mitchell Whitmore | 15 | 50 | 80 | 24 | | | 169 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Kjeld Nuis | 70 | 80 | 100 | 250 |
| 2 | Gerben Jorritsma | 100 | 70 | 28 | 198 |
| 3 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 80 | 100 | | 180 |
| 4 | Joey Mantia | 60 | 40 | 60 | 160 |
| 5 | Kai Verbij | 40 | 45 | 70 | 155 |
| 6 | Shani Davis | 50 | 60 | 24 | 134 |
| 7 | Aleksey Yesin | 45 | 32 | 45 | 122 |
| 8 | Vincent De Haître | 36 | 50 | 21 | 107 |
| 9 | Denis Yuskov | | 25 | 80 | 105 |
| 10 | Thomas Krol | 18 | 28 | 50 | 96 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Kjeld Nuis | 60 | 100 | 80 | 240 |
| 2 | Joey Mantia | 70 | 80 | 70 | 220 |
| 3 | Denis Yuskov | 100 | | 100 | 200 |
| 4 | Thomas Krol | 45 | 28 | 60 | 133 |
| 5 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 40 | 60 | 32 | 132 |
| 6 | Bart Swings | 80 | 50 | | 130 |
| 7 | Shani Davis | 36 | 70 | 18 | 124 |
| 8 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 50 | 12 | 50 | 112 |
| 9 | Håvard Bøkko | 21 | 45 | 40 | 106 |
| 10 | Gerben Jorritsma | 32 | 36 | 36 | 104 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Jorrit Bergsma | 80 | 70 | 100 | 250 |
| 2 | Sven Kramer | 100 | 80 | | 180 |
| 3 | Ted-Jan Bloemen | 70 | 100 | | 170 |
| 4 | Patrick Beckert | 60 | 60 | 40 | 160 |
| 5 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 40 | 25 | 80 | 145 |
| 6 | Peter Michael | 32 | 45 | 50 | 127 |
| 7 | Erik Jan Kooiman | 35 | 40 | 45 | 120 |
| 8 | Douwe de Vries | 45 | | 60 | 105 |
| 9 | Bart Swings | 50 | 50 | | 100 |
| 10 | Arjan Stroetinga | | 27 | 70 | 97 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Jorrit Bergsma | 80 | 40 | 80 | 200 |
| 1 | Arjan Stroetinga | 50 | 100 | 50 | 200 |
| 3 | Fabio Francolini | 28 | 80 | 70 | 178 |
| 4 | Bart Swings | 100 | 70 | | 170 |
| 5 | Alexis Contin | | 60 | 100 | 160 |
| 6 | Reyon Kay | 70 | 16 | 40 | 126 |
| 7 | Peter Michael | 40 | 32 | 28 | 100 |
| 8 | Viktor Hald Thorup | 25 | 50 | 14 | 89 |
| 9 | Kim Cheol-min | 19 | 45 | 24 | 88 |
| 10 | Haralds Silovs | 4 | 19 | 60 | 83 |
| # | Country | CGY | INZ | Total |
| 1 | South Korea | 80 | 60 | 140 |
| 2 | Poland | 60 | 70 | 130 |
| 3 | Italy | 70 | 50 | 120 |
| 4 | Canada | 100 | | 100 |
| 4 | Netherlands | | 100 | 100 |

**Grand World Cup**

| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Kjeld Nuis | 130 | 180 | 180 | 490 |
| 2 | Jorrit Bergsma | 160 | 70 | 180 | 410 |
| 3 | Bart Swings | 230 | 170 | | 400 |
| 4 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 180 | 200 | | 380 |
| 5 | Joey Mantia | 130 | 80 | 130 | 340 |
| 6 | Dennis Yuskov | 100 | | 180 | 280 |
| 7 | Arjan Stroetinga | 50 | 100 | 120 | 270 |
| 8 | Shani Davis | 50 | 130 | | 180 |
| 8 | Sven Kramer | 100 | 80 | | 180 |
| 10 | Ted-Jan Bloemen | 70 | 100 | | 170 |
| 10 | Gerben Jorritsma | 100 | 70 | | 170 |

### Women's cups

| # | Name | CGY1 | CGY2 | SLC1 | SLC2 | INZ1 | INZ2 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Lee Sang-hwa | 100 | 80 | 60 | 80 | 100 | 100 | 520 |
| 2 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma | 60 | 70 | 70 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 410 |
| 3 | Zhang Hong | 80 | 100 | 100 | 100 | | | 380 |
| 4 | Brittany Bowe | 70 | 60 | 80 | 70 | 80 | | 360 |
| 5 | Vanessa Bittner | 50 | 36 | 45 | 21 | 50 | 50 | 252 |
| 6 | Heather McLean | 19 | 28 | 16 | 45 | 60 | 70 | 238 |
| 7 | Erina Kamiya | 36 | 40 | 21 | 28 | 36 | 60 | 221 |
| 8 | Maki Tsuji | 40 | 32 | 28 | 36 | 24 | 36 | 196 |
| 9 | Yu Jing | 45 | 50 | 50 | 50 | | | 195 |
| 10 | Olga Fatkulina | 28 | 21 | 32 | 40 | 45 | 18 | 184 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Brittany Bowe | 80 | 100 | 100 | 280 |
| 2 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma | 100 | 70 | 80 | 250 |
| 3 | Marrit Leenstra | 45 | 60 | 50 | 155 |
| 4 | Zhang Hong | 70 | 80 | | 150 |
| 5 | Li Qishi | 25 | 50 | 60 | 135 |
| 6 | Vanessa Bittner | 50 | 40 | 40 | 130 |
| 7 | Lee Sang-hwa | 28 | | 70 | 98 |
| 8 | Olga Fatkulina | 24 | 45 | 28 | 97 |
| 9 | Ida Njåtun | 40 | 8 | 45 | 93 |
| 10 | Margot Boer | 32 | 32 | 16 | 80 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Brittany Bowe | 100 | 80 | 100 | 280 |
| 2 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma | 80 | 100 | 80 | 260 |
| 3 | Martina Sáblíková | 70 | 70 | 50 | 190 |
| 4 | Marrit Leenstra | 50 | 60 | 70 | 180 |
| 5 | Ida Njåtun | 60 | 50 | 60 | 170 |
| 6 | Marije Joling | 45 | 28 | 40 | 113 |
| 7 | Miho Takagi | 25 | 32 | 45 | 102 |
| 8 | Misaki Oshigiri | 28 | 45 | 28 | 101 |
| 9 | Ayaka Kikuchi | 21 | 40 | 36 | 97 |
| 10 | Antoinette de Jong | 36 | 36 | 18 | 90 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Martina Sáblíková | 100 | 100 | 100 | 300 |
| 2 | Natalya Voronina | 70 | 80 | 50 | 200 |
| 3 | Irene Schouten | 80 | 50 | 25 | 155 |
| 4 | Ivanie Blondin | 40 | 70 | 30 | 140 |
| 4 | Olga Graf | 30 | 40 | 70 | 140 |
| 6 | Claudia Pechstein | 35 | 60 | 35 | 130 |
| 7 | Marije Joling | 45 | | 80 | 125 |
| 8 | Jorien Voorhuis | 60 | | 60 | 120 |
| 9 | Miho Takagi | 23 | 35 | 40 | 98 |
| 10 | Yvonne Nauta | 12 | 30 | 45 | 96 |
| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Irene Schouten | 80 | 100 | 100 | 280 |
| 2 | Ivanie Blondin | 70 | 80 | 80 | 230 |
| 3 | Janneke Ensing | 32 | 60 | 40 | 132 |
| 4 | Park Do-yeong | 40 | 19 | 70 | 129 |
| 5 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma | 50 | 28 | 45 | 123 |
| 6 | Martina Sáblíková | 60 | | 60 | 120 |
| 7 | Kim Bo-reum | 100 | 5 | | 105 |
| 8 | Liu Jing | 14 | 40 | 50 | 104 |
| 9 | Misaki Oshigiri | 25 | 70 | | 95 |
| 10 | Luiza Złotkowska | 11 | 50 | 32 | 93 |
| # | Country | CGY | INZ | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 80 | 100 | 180 |
| 1 | Netherlands | 100 | 80 | 180 |
| 3 | Russia | 70 | 70 | 140 |
| 4 | Canada | 60 | 45 | 105 |
| 5 | Germany | 45 | 50 | 95 |
| 5 | Poland | 35 | 60 | 95 |

**Grand World Cup**

| # | Name | CGY | SLC | INZ | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Heather Richardson-Bergsma | 295 | 235 | 235 | 765 |
| 2 | Brittany Bowe | 245 | 255 | 240 | 740 |
| 3 | Martina Sáblíková | 230 | 170 | 210 | 610 |
| 4 | Irene Schouten | 160 | 150 | 100 | 410 |
| 5 | Zhang Hong | 160 | 180 | | 340 |
| 6 | Lee Sang-hwa | 90 | 70 | 170 | 330 |
| 7 | Ivanie Blondin | 70 | 150 | 80 | 300 |
| 8 | Marrit Leenstra | 50 | 120 | 120 | 290 |
| 9 | Natalya Voronina | 70 | 80 | 50 | 200 |
| 10 | Ida Njåtun | 60 | 50 | 60 | 170 |
