2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 6

The sixth competition weekend of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 11 March, until Sunday, 13 March 2016.^[1]

Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:^[2]

Date	Events
Friday, 11 March	16:15: 500 m women (1)   16:32: 500 m men (1)   17:07: 3000 m women   18:13: Team pursuit men   18:28: Team sprint women
Saturday, 12 March	14:00: 500 m women (2)   14:17: 1000 m men   15:05: 1500 m women   15:48: 5000 m men   17:09: Team pursuit women   17:23: Team sprint men
Sunday, 13 March	15:00: 500 m men (2)   15:17: 1000 m women   16:06: 1500 m men   16:49: Mass start women   17:09: Mass start men

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	34.96	Ronald Mulder  Netherlands	35.05	Gilmore Junio  Canada	35.123	[3]
	2	Ronald Mulder  Netherlands	34.81	Ruslan Murashov  Russia	34.89	Mika Poutala  Finland	35.02	[4]
1000 m		Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:08:94	Kai Verbij  Netherlands	1:09:08	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:09.22	[5]
1500 m		Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:45.39	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	1:45.46	Bart Swings  Belgium	1:45.65	[6]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:11.44	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:12.74	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	6:16.36	[7]
Mass start		Bart Swings  Belgium	68 A	Fabio Francolini  Italy	40 A	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	21 A	[8]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga	3:42.28	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:43.42	Poland Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:47.03	[9][10]
Team sprint		Netherlands Ronald Mulder Kai Verbij Stefan Groothuis	1:20.40	Canada Gilmore Junio Alexandre St-Jean Vincent De Haître	1:20.41	Russia Ruslan Murashov Aleksey Yesin Kirill Golubev	1:20.86	[11][12]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.84	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	38.02	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	38.20	[13]
	2	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.64	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.88	Heather McLean  Canada	38.07	[14]
1000 m		Brittany Bowe  United States	1:14.22	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	1:14.44	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:15.07	[15]
1500 m		Brittany Bowe  United States	1:54.34	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	1:54.90	Antoinette de Jong  Netherlands	1:56.32	[16]
3000 m		Natalya Voronina  Russia	4:08.15	Jorien Voorhuis  Netherlands	4:08.18	Olga Graf  Russia	4:08.40	[17]
Mass start		Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60 A	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40 A	Miho Takagi  Japan	20 A	[18]
Team pursuit		Japan Misaki Oshigiri Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	2:58.06	Netherlands Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	2:58.21	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:02.34	[19][20]
Team sprint		China Li Qishi Yu Jing Zhang Hong	1:28.98	Japan Maki Tsuji Nao Kodaira Erina Kamiya	1:29.98	Netherlands Janine Smit Bo van der Werff Margot Boer	1:30.04	[21][22]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner.