2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4

The fourth competition weekend of the 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the M-Wave arena in Nagano, Japan, from Saturday, 8 December, until Sunday, 9 December 2012.

Schedule of events

Schedule of the event:^[1]

Date	Time	Events
8 December	14:50 JST	500 m women 500 m men 1000 m women 1000 m men
9 December	13:50 JST	500 m women 500 m men 1000 m women 1000 m men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pekka Koskela  Finland	34.64	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	34.95	Tucker Fredricks  United States	35.10	[2]
	2	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	35.14	Gilmore Junio  Canada	35.16	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.18	[3]
1000 m	1	Pekka Koskela  Finland	1:09.52	Samuel Schwarz  Germany	1:09.69	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	1:09.85	[4]
	2	Hein Otterspeer  Netherlands	1:09.20	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:09.64	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:09.72	[5]

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.63	Nao Kodaira  Japan	37.96	Heather Richardson  United States	38.01	[6]
	2	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.60	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.91	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.09	[7]
1000 m	1	Heather Richardson  United States	1:15.24	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:15.45	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:16.15	[8]
	2	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:15.13	Heather Richardson  United States	1:15.26	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:15.87	[9]