2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2010–2011, was a series of international speed skating competitions which ran the entire season. The season started on 12 November 2010 in Heerenveen, Netherlands, and ended on 6 March 2011, also in Heerenveen.^[1] In total, eight competition weekends were held at seven different locations, ten cups were contested (five for men, and five for women), and 70 races took place.

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	12 November 2010 – 6 March 2011
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The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).

Calendar

WC #	City	Venue	Date	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10000 m	Team pursuit
1	Heerenveen	Thialf	12–14 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m
2	Berlin	Hohenschönhausen	19–21 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
3	Hamar	Vikingskipet	27–28 November			m, w		w	m	m, w
4	Changchun	Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink	4–5 December	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
5	Obihiro	Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval	11–12 December	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
	Harbin	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink	28–29 December	2011 Asian Speed Skating Championships
	Collalbo	Arena Ritten	7–9 January	2011 European Speed Skating Championships
	Heerenveen	Thialf	22–23 January	2011 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
6	Moscow	Krylatskoye Skating Hall	28–30 January	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w
	Calgary	Olympic Oval	12–13 February	2011 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
7	Salt Lake City	Utah Olympic Oval	18–19 February			m, w		w	m
8	Heerenveen	Thialf	4–6 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m
	Inzell	Eisstadion Inzell	10–13 March	2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Total				12m, 12w	8m, 8w	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 2010–11 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Nat.	Holder	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	34.03		Jeremy Wotherspoon	9 November 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[2]
1000 m	1:06.42		Shani Davis	7 March 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[3]
1500 m	1:41.04		Shani Davis	11 December 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[4]
5000 m	6:03.32		Sven Kramer	17 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[5]
10000 m	12:41.69		Sven Kramer	10 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[6]
Team pursuit (8 laps)	3:37.80		Sven Kramer Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	11 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[7]

Women

Distance	Time	Nat.	Holder	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	37.00		Jenny Wolf	11 December 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[8]
1000 m	1:13.11		Cindy Klassen	25 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[9]
1500 m	1:51.79		Cindy Klassen	20 November 2005	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[10]
3000 m	3:53.34		Cindy Klassen	18 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[11]
5000 m	6:45.61		Martina Sáblíková	11 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City	[12]
Team pursuit (6 laps)	2:55.79		Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	6 December 2009	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[13]

At the World Cup stop in Salt Lake City on 18 February 2011, Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic set a new world record on the women's 5000 metres with a time of 6:42.66.^[12]

Men's standings

500 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[14]
1	Lee Kang-seok	845
2	Lee Kyou-hyuk	745
3	Joji Kato	671

1000 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[15]
1	Stefan Groothuis	580
2	Lee Kyou-hyuk	522
3	Shani Davis	485

1500 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[16]
1	Shani Davis	440
2	Håvard Bøkko	357
3	Stefan Groothuis	342

5000 and 10000 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[17]
1	Bob de Jong	610
2	Ivan Skobrev	400
3	Bob de Vries	356

Team pursuit

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit

Rank	Name	Points[18]
1	Norway	270
2	Russia	250
3	United States	232

Women's standings

500 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[19]
1	Jenny Wolf	1190
2	Lee Sang-hwa	875
3	Margot Boer	735

1000 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[20]
1	Heather Richardson	605
2	Christine Nesbitt	590
3	Margot Boer	360

1500 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[21]
1	Christine Nesbitt	575
2	Marrit Leenstra	466
3	Ireen Wüst	460

3000 and 5000 m

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[22]
1	Martina Sáblíková	510
2	Stephanie Beckert	475
3	Jilleanne Rookard	351

Team pursuit

Main article: 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team pursuit

Rank	Name	Points[23]
1	Netherlands	300
2	Germany	250
3	Norway	250