2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2012–2013, was a series of international speed skating competitions which ran the entire season. The season started on 16 November 2012 in Heerenveen, Netherlands, and ended with the final on 10 March 2013, also in Heerenveen. In total, nine competition weekends were held at eight different locations, twelve cups were contested (six for men, and six for women), and 82 races took place.

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	16 November 2012 – 10 March 2013
←2011–12 2013–14→

This season world cup points was awarded in the mass start event. Additionally, the team sprint was contested as a demonstration event at both Heerenveen competitions. 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	Mass start	Team pursuit
1	Heerenveen	Thialf	16–18 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
2	Kolomna	Speed Skating Centre	24–25 November			m, w	w	m		m, w
3	Astana	Alau Ice Palace	1–2 December			m, w		w	m		m, w
4	Nagano	M-Wave	8–9 December	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
5	Harbin	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink	15–16 December	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
	Heerenveen	Thialf	11–13 January	2013 European Speed Skating Championships
6	Calgary	Olympic Oval	19–20 January	2m, 2w	2m, 2w
	Salt Lake City	Utah Olympic Oval	26–27 January	2013 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
7	Inzell	Eisstadion Inzell	9–10 February			m, w	w	m		m, w
	Hamar	Vikingskipet	16–17 February	2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
8	Erfurt	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Halle	1–3 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w		w	m		m, w
9	Heerenveen	Thialf	8–10 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
Total				12m, 12w	9m, 9w	6m, 6w	4w	4m, 2w	2m	4m, 4w	4m, 4w

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.

Source: ISU^[1]

World records

World records going into the 2012–13 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	36.94		Yu Jing	29 January 2012	Olympic Oval, Calgary	[8]
1000 m	1:12.68		Christine Nesbitt	28 January 2012	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	6:42.66		Martina Sáblíková	18 February 2011	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 Calgary on 20 January 2013, Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea set a new world record on the women's 500 metres with a time of 36.80 seconds.^[8]

Men's standings

500 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[14]
1	Jan Smeekens	1130
2	Joji Kato	896
3	Michel Mulder	665

1000 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[15]
1	Kjeld Nuis	587
2	Shani Davis	546
3	Hein Otterspeer	507

1500 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[16]
1	Zbigniew Bródka	460
2	Bart Swings	336
3	Håvard Bøkko	329

5000 and 10000 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[17]
1	Jorrit Bergsma	520
2	Bob de Jong	485
3	Sven Kramer	450

Mass start

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's mass start

Rank	Name	Points[18]
1	Arjan Stroetinga	330
2	Bart Swings	310
3	Jordan Belchos	216

Team pursuit

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's team pursuit

Rank	Team	Points[19]
1	Netherlands	450
2	South Korea	350
3	Russia	285

Women's standings

500 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[20]
1	Lee Sang-hwa	1055
2	Jenny Wolf	851
3	Wang Beixing	756

1000 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[21]
1	Heather Richardson	525
2	Brittany Bowe	480
3	Karolína Erbanová	465

1500 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres

Rank	Name	Points[22]
1	Marrit Leenstra	411
2	Christine Nesbitt	375
3	Ireen Wüst	350

3000 and 5000 m

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres

Rank	Name	Points[23]
1	Martina Sáblíková	475
2	Claudia Pechstein	421
3	Diane Valkenburg	410

Mass start

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's mass start

Rank	Name	Points[24]
1	Kim Bo-reum	365
2	Mariska Huisman	330
3	Ivanie Blondin	300

Team pursuit

Main article: 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's team pursuit

Rank	Team	Points[25]
1	Netherlands	400
2	Canada	370
3	Poland	295

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	35	27	36	98
2	South Korea	11	5	7	23
3	United States	9	7	8	24
4	Canada	6	9	4	19
5	Germany	5	5	7	17
6	China	3	6	2	11
7	Japan	3	5	4	12
8	Czech Republic	3	3	1	7
9	Finland	3	2	0	5
10	Belgium	2	1	0	3
11	Russia	1	3	6	10
12	Poland	1	3	4	8
13	Norway	0	2	2	4
14	Latvia	0	2	0	2
15	France	0	1	2	3
16	Italy	0	1	0	1
Totals (16 entries)		82	82	83	247