2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2008–2009, was a series of international speed skating competitions which ran the entire season. The season started on 7 November 2008 in Berlin, Germany, and ended on 7 March 2009 in Salt Lake City, United States.^[1][2] In total, nine competition weekends were held at eight different locations, twelve cups were contested (six for men, and six for women), and 84 races took place. The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	7 November 2008 – 7 March 2009
←2007–08 2009–10→

Calendar

WC #	City	Venue	Date	100 m	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10000 m	Team pursuit
1	Berlin	Sportforum Hohenschönhausen	7–9 November		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
2	Heerenveen	Thialf	14–16 November		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
3	Moscow	Krylatskoye Sport Complex	22–23 November				m, w		w	m
4	Changchun	Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink	6–7 December	m, w	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
5	Nagano	M-Wave	13–14 December	m, w	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
	Tomakomai	Tomakomai Highland Sports Center	4–5 January	2009 Asian Speed Skating Championships
	Heerenveen	Thialf	9–11 January	2009 European Speed Skating Championships
	Moscow	Krylatskoye Sport Complex	17–18 January	2009 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
6	Kolomna	Kometa Ice Rink	24–25 January	m, w	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
7	Erfurt	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Halle	30 January – 1 February		2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
	Hamar	Vikingskipet	7–8 February	2009 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
8	Heerenveen	Thialf	14–15 February				m, w		w	m
9	Salt Lake City	Utah Olympic Oval	6–7 March	m, w	m, w	m, w	m, w	w	m
	Vancouver	Richmond Olympic Oval	12–15 March	2009 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Total				4m, 4w	13m, 13w	10m, 10w	6m, 6w	4w	4m, 2w	2m	3m, 3w

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.

World records

World records going into the 2008–09 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Nat.	Holder	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	34.03		Jeremy Wotherspoon	9 November 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[3]
1000 m	1:07.00		Pekka Koskela	10 November 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[4]
1500 m	1:42.01		Denny Morrison	14 March 2008	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[5]
5000 m	6:03.32		Sven Kramer	17 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[6]
10000 m	12:41.69		Sven Kramer	10 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[7]
Team pursuit (8 laps)	3:37.80		Sven Kramer Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	11 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[8]

At the World Cup stop in Salt Lake City on 6 March 2009, Shani Davis of the United States set a new world record on the men's 1500 metres with a time of 1:41.80.^[5] The next day, Davis' countryman Trevor Marsicano first set a new world record on the 1000 metres distance with a time of 1:06.88,^[4] after which Davis improved it further, with a time of 1:06.42.^[4]

Women

Distance	Time	Nat.	Holder	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	37.02		Jenny Wolf	16 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[9]
1000 m	1:13.11		Cindy Klassen	25 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[10]
1500 m	1:51.79		Cindy Klassen	20 November 2005	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[11]
3000 m	3:53.34		Cindy Klassen	18 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[12]
5000 m	6:45.61		Martina Sáblíková	11 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[13]
Team pursuit (6 laps)	2:56.04		Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Anni Friesinger Claudia Pechstein	12 November 2005	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[14]

Men's standings

100 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 100 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Yuya Oikawa	450
2	Yu Fengtong	305
3	Lee Kang-seok	270

500 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Yu Fengtong	1086
2	Keiichiro Nagashima	957
3	Tucker Fredricks	642

1000 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Shani Davis	840
2	Denny Morrison	705
3	Stefan Groothuis	590

1500 m

Mark Tuitert, early leader in the 1500 m World Cup.

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Shani Davis	470
2	Trevor Marsicano	374
3	Håvard Bøkko	363

5000 and 10000 m

Sven Kramer, winner of the 5 km in Berlin and Heerenveen.

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Sven Kramer	550
2	Håvard Bøkko	485
3	Bob de Jong	425

Team pursuit

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit

Rank	Name	Points
1	Canada	310
2	Italy	220
3	Japan	210

Women's standings

100 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 100 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Jenny Wolf	450
2	Thijsje Oenema	236
3	Xing Aihua	230

500 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Jenny Wolf	1205
2	Margot Boer	642
3	Lee Sang-hwa	635

1000 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Christine Nesbitt	646
2	Kristina Groves	507
3	Laurine van Riessen	468

1500 m

Kristina Groves, winner of the 1500 m in Berlin and Heerenveen, and the World Cup winner.

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kristina Groves	526
2	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms	355
3	Christine Nesbitt	335

3000 and 5000 m

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres

Rank	Name	Points
1	Martina Sáblíková	610
2	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms	375
3	Kristina Groves	375

Team pursuit

Main article: 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team pursuit

Rank	Name	Points
1	Czech Republic	235
2	United States	205
3	Netherlands	200