2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3
# 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3

The third competition weekend of the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 2 December, until Sunday, 4 December 2011.

## Schedule of events

The schedule of the event is below:

| Date | Time | Events |
| - | - | - |
| 2 December | 16:00 CET | 500 m women 500 m men 5000 m women 1500 m men |
| 3 December | 13:15 CET | 500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 10000 m men |
| 4 December | 13:00 CET | 1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men Team sprint women Team sprint men |

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Tucker Fredricks United States | 34.98 | Joji Kato Japan | 35.07 | Mo Tae-bum South Korea | 35.08 |
| 500 m | 2 | Pekka Koskela Finland | 35.01 | Joji Kato Japan | 35.02 | Jesper Hospes Netherlands | 35.06 |
| 1000 m | | Kjeld Nuis Netherlands | 1:08.64 | Sjoerd de Vries Netherlands | 1:09.14 | Mo Tae-bum South Korea | 1:09.18 |
| 1500 m | | Ivan Skobrev Russia | 1:45.81 | Kjeld Nuis Netherlands | 1:45.99 | Håvard Bøkko Norway | 1:46.49 |
| 10000 m | | Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands | 12:50.33 | Bob de Jong Netherlands | 12:55.11 | Bob de Vries Netherlands | 13:03.41 |
| Team pursuit | | Netherlands Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Jan Blokhuijsen | 3:42.35 | South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Ko Byung-wook Joo Hyung-joon | 3:43.82 | Germany Patrick Beckert Alexej Baumgartner Marco Weber | 3:45.28 |

### Women's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 500 m | 1 | Yu Jing China | 37.84 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.91 | Wang Beixing China | 38.17 |
| 500 m | 2 | Yu Jing China | 37.67 | Jenny Wolf Germany | 38.19 | Laurine van Riessen Netherlands | 38.20 |
| 1000 m | | Christine Nesbitt Canada | 1:15.32 | Yu Jing China | 1:15.85 | Yekaterina Shikhova Russia | 1:16.16 |
| 1500 m | | Christine Nesbitt Canada | 1:55.68 | Ireen Wüst Netherlands | 1:57.15 | Yekaterina Shikhova Russia | 1:57.17 |
| 5000 m | | Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic | 6:58.87 | Claudia Pechstein Germany | 7:02.92 | Stephanie Beckert Germany | 7:04.77 |
| Team pursuit | | Canada Brittany Schussler Christine Nesbitt Cindy Klassen | 3:00.01 | Russia Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova | 3:02.38 | South Korea Lee Ju-yeon Noh Seon-yeong Kim Bo-reum | 3:03.18 |
