2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 6

The sixth competition weekend of the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 2 March, until Sunday, 4 March 2012.

Schedule of events

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

Date	Time	Events
2 March	16:00 CET	500 m women 500 m men 5000 m women 1500 m men
3 March	13:15 CET	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 10000 m men
4 March	14:00 CET	1000 m women 1000 m men Mass start women Mass start men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Dmitry Lobkov  Russia	35.11	Hein Otterspeer  Netherlands	35.14	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	35.20
	2	Tucker Fredricks  United States	35.05	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	35.12	Joji Kato  Japan	35.16
1000 m		Shani Davis  United States	1:08.88	Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:09.00	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:09.05
1500 m		Shani Davis  United States	1:46.89	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:46.98	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:47.21
10000 m		Bob de Jong  Netherlands	12:58.47	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:59.34	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	13:11.95
Mass start		Jonathan Kuck  United States	10:09.89	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	10:10.25	Alexis Contin  France	10:10.31

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Yu Jing  China	38.03	Margot Boer  Netherlands	38.30	Heather Richardson  United States	38.51
	2	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.93	Yu Jing  China	38.01	Heather Richardson  United States	38.28
1000 m		Heather Richardson  United States	1:15.82	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:16.48	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:16.54
1500 m		Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:56.01	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:57.35	Diane Valkenburg  Netherlands	1:58.05
5000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:52.50	Stephanie Beckert  Germany	6:53.36	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	7:05.37
Mass start		Mariska Huisman  Netherlands	8:23.46	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	8:24.13	Foske Tamar van der Wal  Netherlands	8:23.47