The 2015–16

ISU Speed Skating World Cup The ISU Speed Skating World Cup is a series of international speed skating competitions, organised annually by the International Skating Union since the winter of 1985–86. Every year during the winter season, a number of competitions on different ...

, officially the ''ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2015–2016'', was a series of international

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competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 13 November 2015 in

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, Canada, and ended with the final on 13 March 2016 in

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, Netherlands. In total, six competition weekends were held at five different locations, 18 cups were contested (nine for men, and nine for women), and 88 races took place. Additionally, there were two Grand World Cups, one for men and one for women, in which all individual races, regardless of distance, counted. The World Cup is organized by the

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(ISU).

Calendar

The detailed schedule for the season. :Note: the men's 5000 and 10000 metres were contested as one cup, and the women's 3000 and 5000 metres were contested as one cup, as indicated by the color coding. In addition, there were two combination cups, the allround combination and the sprint combination. For the allround combination, the distances were 1500 + 5000 metres for men, and 1500 + 3000 metres for women. For the sprint combination, the distances were 500 + 1000 metres, both for men and women. These cups were contested only in World Cup 5, in Stavanger, Norway.

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 2014 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned. : in the

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, Salt Lake City : in other ice rinks : or 6:35.00 on 5000 m : or 6:40.00 on 5000 m : or 4:15.00 on 3000 m : 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 were 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).

World records

World records going into the 2015–16 season.

Men

Women

* New records : *500 m

Pavel Kulizhnikov Pavel Aleksandrovich Kulizhnikov (russian: Павел Александрович Кулижников; born 20 April 1994) is a Russian speed skater. He won the men's 500 metres event at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships as well as t ...

*1000 m (lowland)

*1500

Heather Richardson-Bergsma Heather Bergsma (''née'' Richardson; born March 20, 1989) is an American former speed skater who competed between 2006 and 2020. Career Bergsma is a native of North Carolina. She represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vanc ...

*1000 m

Brittany Bowe Brittany Starr Bowe (born February 24, 1988) is an American speed skater and former inline skater and basketball player. She has eight gold, one silver, and two bronze medals from the world inline speedskating championships. From her junior year ...

*10.000 m

Ted-Jan Bloemen Ted-Jan Bloemen (born 16 August 1986) is a Dutch-Canadian long track speed skater. He started competing for the Canadian national speed skating team during the 2014–15 season, but before that, he competed for the Netherlands in international ...

Men's standings

500 m

1000 m

1500 m

5000 and 10000 m

Mass start

Team pursuit

Team sprint

Grand World Cup

Women's standings

500 m

1000 m

1500 m

3000 and 5000 m

Mass start

Team pursuit

Team sprint

Grand World Cup

References

External links

International Skating Union

Results
at ISUresults.eu {{DEFAULTSORT:2015-16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 15-16 Isu Speed Skating World Cup, 2015-16 Isu Speed Skating World Cup, 2015-16