2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Uralskaya Molniya in Chelyabinsk, Russia, from Friday, 18 November, until Sunday, 20 November 2011.

Schedule of events

The schedule of the event is below:^[1]

Date	Time	Events
18 November	15:00 YEKT	500 m women 500 m men 3000 m women 1500 m men
19 November	15:00 YEKT	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 5000 m men
20 November	15:00 YEKT	1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pekka Koskela  Finland	35.00	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.01	Yūya Oikawa  Japan	35.07
	2	Joji Kato  Japan	34.92	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	35.01	Yūya Oikawa  Japan	35.14
1000 m		Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:08.49	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:08.56	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:09.26
1500 m		Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:45.70	Shani Davis  United States	1:46.27	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	1:46.47
5000 m		Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:18.74	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:20.60	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	6:21.96
Team pursuit		Netherlands Sven Kramer Jan Blokhuijsen Wouter olde Heuvel	3:41.25	United States Shani Davis Jonathan Kuck Brian Hansen	3:44.52	Germany Patrick Beckert Marco Weber Alexej Baumgartner	3:45.29

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Yu Jing  China	37.81	Maki Tsuji  Japan Thijsje Oenema  Netherlands	38.22
	2	Yu Jing  China	37.65	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.09	Jenny Wolf  Germany	38.22
1000 m		Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:15.97	Margot Boer  Netherlands	1:16.52	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:16.77
1500 m		Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:57.02	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:57.44	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:58.27
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:06.54	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:07.16	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	4:07.81
Team pursuit		Canada Brittany Schussler Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt	3:02.07	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg Marrit Leenstra	3:02.72	Russia Yuliya Skokova Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova	3:03.37