2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

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World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships, Thialf Heerenveen.jpg
Thialf during the event
Venue Thialf, Heerenveen
Dates 12–15 February 2015
Competitors 161 from 23 nations
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2015 World Speed Skating Championships
Speed skating pictogram.svg
Participating nations
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10000 m men
Team pursuit men women
Mass start men women

The 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held between 12 and 15 February 2015 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Schedule[edit]

Date Time Events
12 February 18:00 3000 m women
19:33 10000 m men
13 February 18:00 1000 m women
18:53 1500 m men
19:53 5000 m women
21:29 Team pursuit men
14 February 13:00 5000 m men
14:57 500 m women
15:41 1000 m men
17:24 Team pursuit women
15 February 13:15 500 m men
14:00 1500 m women
15:54 Mass start men
16:19 Mass start women

Source:schaatsen.nl[1][2][3][4]

Participating nations[edit]

161 speed skaters from 23 nations participated. The number of speed skaters per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.

Participating nations
Click on a nation to go to the nations' 2015 Championships page

Medal summary[edit]

Pechstein thanking Thialf

Medal table[edit]

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Netherlands 5 7 5 17
2  United States 4 2 1 7
3  Russia 2 1 1 4
4  Czech Republic 2 0 1 3
5  Japan 1 0 1 2
6  Canada 0 3 1 4
7  Italy 0 1 0 1
8  Germany 0 0 2 2
9  France 0 0 1 1
 South Korea 0 0 1 1
Total 14 14 14 42

Men's events[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 m[5]
details
Pavel Kulizhnikov
 Russia
1:08.931 Michel Mulder
 Netherlands
1:09.622 Laurent Dubreuil
 Canada
1:09.723
1000 m[6]
details
Shani Davis
 United States
1:08.57 Pavel Kulizhnikov
 Russia
1:08.61 Kjeld Nuis
 Netherlands
1:08.71
1500 m[7]
details
Denis Yuskov
 Russia
1:43.36 Denny Morrison
 Canada
1:45.08 Koen Verweij
 Netherlands
1:45.15
5000 m[8]
details
Sven Kramer
 Netherlands
6:09.65 Jorrit Bergsma
 Netherlands
6:11.53 Douwe de Vries
 Netherlands
6:18.24
10000 m[9]
details
Jorrit Bergsma
 Netherlands
12:54.82 Erik Jan Kooiman
 Netherlands
13:02.57 Patrick Beckert
 Germany
13:10.95
Team pursuit[10]
details
 Netherlands
Sven Kramer
Koen Verweij
Douwe de Vries
3:41.40  Canada
Ted-Jan Bloemen
Denny Morrison
Jordan Belchos
3:44.09  South Korea
Lee Seung-hoon
Kim Cheol-min
Ko Byung-wook
3:44.96
Mass start
details
Arjan Stroetinga
 Netherlands
Fabio Francolini
 Italy
Alexis Contin
 France

Women's events[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 m[11]
details
Heather Richardson
 United States
1:15.332 Brittany Bowe
 United States
1:15.785 Nao Kodaira
 Japan
1:15.893
1000 m[12]
details
Brittany Bowe
 United States
1:13.90 Heather Richardson
 United States
1:14.49 Karolína Erbanová
 Czech Republic
1:15.26
1500 m[13]
details
Brittany Bowe
 United States
1:54.27 Ireen Wüst
 Netherlands
1:54.76 Heather Richardson
 United States
1:55.60
3000 m[14]
details
Martina Sáblíková
 Czech Republic
4:02.17 Ireen Wüst
 Netherlands
4:03.46 Marije Joling
 Netherlands
4:05.51
5000 m[15]
details
Martina Sáblíková
 Czech Republic
6:52.73 Carlijn Achtereekte
 Netherlands
6:54.49 Claudia Pechstein
 Germany
6:56.53
Team pursuit[16]
details
 Japan
Ayaka Kikuchi
Miho Takagi
Nana Takagi
3:01.53  Netherlands
Marije Joling
Marrit Leenstra
Ireen Wüst
3:01.55  Russia
Olga Graf
Yuliya Skokova
Natalya Voronina
3:03.19
Mass start[17]
details
Irene Schouten
 Netherlands
Ivanie Blondin
 Canada
Mariska Huisman
 Netherlands

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