2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1
# 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 16 November, until Sunday, 18 November 2012.

## Schedule of events

Schedule of the event:

| Date | Time | Events |
| - | - | - |
| 16 November | 16:00 CET | 3000 m women 500 m women 5000 m men |
| 17 November | 14:00 CET | 500 m men 500 m women 1000 m men 1500 m women Team pursuit men Mass start women |
| 18 November | 14:00 CET | 500 m men 1000 m women 1500 m men Team pursuit women Mass start men |

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Pekka Koskela Finland | 34.96 | Artur Waś Poland | 34.98 | Jan Smeekens Netherlands | 35.07 |
| 500 m | 2 | Joji Kato Japan | 34.98 | Jan Smeekens Netherlands | 35.04 | Mo Tae-bum South Korea | 35.15 |
| 1000 m | | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:09.43 | Pekka Koskela Finland | 1:09.51 | Kjeld Nuis Netherlands | 1:09.53 |
| 1500 m | | Maurice Vriend Netherlands | 1:46.13 | Håvard Bøkko Norway | 1:46.40 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway | 1:46.54 |
| 5000 m | | Sven Kramer Netherlands | 6:16.09 | Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands | 6:16.78 | Jan Blokhuijsen Netherlands | 6:16.81 |
| Mass start | | Christijn Groeneveld Netherlands | 10:14.55 | Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands | 10:14.61 | Alexis Contin France | 10:14.67 |
| Team pursuit | | Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij | 3:39.76 | Russia Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov | 3:42.90 | South Korea Joo Hyung-joon Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon | 3:43.57 |

### Women's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.85 | Heather Richardson United States | 37.95 | Nao Kodaira Japan | 38.26 |
| 500 m | 2 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.92 | Heather Richardson United States | 38.13 | Jenny Wolf Germany | 38.14 |
| 1000 m | | Heather Richardson United States | 1:15.27 | Zhang Hong China | 1:15.41 | Lotte van Beek Netherlands | 1:15.83 |
| 1500 m | | Christine Nesbitt Canada | 1:56.35 | Marrit Leenstra Netherlands | 1:56.42 | Lotte van Beek Netherlands | 1:57.42 |
| 3000 m | | Stephanie Beckert Germany | 4:04.39 | Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic | 4:06.71 | Jorien Ter Mors Netherlands | 4:06.90 |
| Mass start | | Mariska Huisman Netherlands | 8:22.96 | Jorien Ter Mors Netherlands | 8:22.97 | Claudia Pechstein Germany | 8:23.05 |
| Team pursuit | | Germany Stephanie Beckert Isabell Ost Claudia Pechstein | 3:01.14 | Netherlands Marije Joling Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg | 3:02.332 | Canada Ivanie Blondin Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler | 3:02.337 |

## Standings

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

### Men's cups

**500 m**

| # | Name | HVN1 | HVN2 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Joji Kato | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 1 | Jan Smeekens | 70 | 80 | 150 |
| 3 | Mo Tae-bum | 60 | 70 | 130 |
| 3 | Artur Waś | 80 | 50 | 130 |
| 5 | Pekka Koskela | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| 6 | Gilmore Junio | 32 | 60 | 92 |
| 7 | Keiichiro Nagashima | 24 | 45 | 69 |
| 8 | Jamie Gregg | 40 | 25 | 65 |
| 9 | Alex Boisvert-Lacroix | 32 | 28 | 60 |
| 10 | Hein Otterspeer | 40 | 18 | 58 |

**1000 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Denny Morrison | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Pekka Koskela | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Kjeld Nuis | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Pim Schipper | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Hein Otterspeer | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Aleksey Yesin | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Brian Hansen | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Sjoerd de Vries | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Samuel Schwarz | 28 | 28 |

**1500 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Maurice Vriend | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Håvard Bøkko | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Zbigniew Bródka | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Brian Hansen | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Ivan Skobrev | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Denis Yuskov | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Kjeld Nuis | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Koen Verweij | 28 | 28 |

**5000/10000 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sven Kramer | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Jorrit Bergsma | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Jan Blokhuijsen | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Bob de Jong | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Ivan Skobrev | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Ted-Jan Bloemen | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Alexis Contin | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Håvard Bøkko | 35 | 35 |
| 9 | Lee Seung-hoon | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 30 | 30 |

**Mass start**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Christijn Groeneveld | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Arjan Stroetinga | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Alexis Contin | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Bart Swings | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Dmitry Babenko | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Jorrit Bergsma | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Marco Weber | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Jordan Belchos | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Fredrik van der Horst | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Tyler Derraugh | 28 | 28 |

**Team pursuit**

| # | Name | HVN1 | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Netherlands | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Russia | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | South Korea | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Canada | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Germany | 50 | 50 |

### Women's cups

**500 m**

| # | Name | HVN1 | HVN2 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Lee Sang-hwa | 100 | 100 | 200 |
| 2 | Heather Richardson | 80 | 80 | 160 |
| 3 | Jenny Wolf | 50 | 70 | 120 |
| 3 | Zhang Hong | 60 | 60 | 120 |
| 5 | Nao Kodaira | 70 | 36 | 106 |
| 6 | Yu Jing | 45 | 50 | 95 |
| 7 | Margot Boer | 32 | 45 | 77 |
| 8 | Olga Fatkulina | 40 | 32 | 72 |
| 9 | Wang Beixing | 18 | 40 | 58 |
| 10 | Karolína Erbanová | 28 | 28 | 56 |

**1000 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Heather Richardson | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Zhang Hong | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Lotte van Beek | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Marrit Leenstra | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Laurine van Riessen | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Brittany Bowe | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Karolína Erbanová | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Yekaterina Aydova | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Yu Jing | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Christine Nesbitt | 28 | 28 |

**1500 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Christine Nesbitt | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Marrit Leenstra | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Lotte van Beek | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Claudia Pechstein | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Martina Sáblíková | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Marije Joling | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Laurine van Riessen | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Ida Njåtun | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Olga Graf | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Brittany Schussler | 28 | 28 |

**3000/5000 m**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Stephanie Beckert | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Martina Sáblíková | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Jorien Ter Mors | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Diane Valkenburg | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Olga Graf | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Marije Joling | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Antoinette de Jong | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Ireen Wüst | 35 | 35 |
| 9 | Kim Bo-reum | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Ida Njåtun | 30 | 30 |

**Mass start**

| # | Name | HVN | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mariska Huisman | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Jorien Ter Mors | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Claudia Pechstein | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Kim Bo-reum | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | Ivanie Blondin | 50 | 50 |
| 6 | Park Do-yeong | 45 | 45 |
| 7 | Bente Kraus | 40 | 40 |
| 8 | Karolina Domanska-Ksyt | 36 | 36 |
| 9 | Jelena Peeters | 32 | 32 |
| 10 | Lim Yung-soo | 28 | 28 |

**Team pursuit**

| # | Name | HVN1 | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Germany | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 80 | 80 |
| 3 | Canada | 70 | 70 |
| 4 | Poland | 60 | 60 |
| 5 | South Korea | 50 | 50 |
