2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

The 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held between 12 and 15 February 2015 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Thialf during the event
Venue	Thialf, Heerenveen
Dates	12–15 February 2015
Competitors	161 from 23 nations
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Schedule

Date	Time	Events
12 February	18:00	3000 m women
	19:33	10000 m men
13 February	18:00	1000 m women
	18:53	1500 m men
	19:53	5000 m women
	21:29	Team pursuit men
14 February	13:00	5000 m men
	14:57	500 m women
	15:41	1000 m men
	17:24	Team pursuit women
15 February	13:15	500 m men
	14:00	1500 m women
	15:54	Mass start men
	16:19	Mass start women

Source:schaatsen.nl^[1][2][3][4]

Participating nations

161 speed skaters from 23 nations participated. The number of speed skaters per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.

Participating nations Click on a nation to go to the nations' 2015 Championships page
Austria (3) Belarus (2) Belgium (2) Canada (16) China (10) Czech Republic (3) Denmark (1) Estonia (1) Finland (2) France (2) Germany (14) Italy (7) Japan (13) Kazakhstan (2) Latvia (1) Netherlands (25) New Zealand (1) Norway (6) Poland (10) Russia (19) South Korea (12)  Switzerland (1) United States (8)

Medal summary

Pechstein thanking Thialf

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)*	5	7	5	17
2	United States (USA)	4	2	1	7
3	Russia (RUS)	2	1	1	4
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	1	3
5	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
6	Canada (CAN)	0	3	1	4
7	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
8	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
9	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m[5] details	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	68.931	Michel Mulder Netherlands	69.622	Laurent Dubreuil Canada	69.694
1000 m[6] details	Shani Davis United States	1:08.57	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	1:08.61	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:08.71
1500 m[7] details	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:43.36	Denny Morrison Canada	1:45.08	Koen Verweij Netherlands	1:45.15
5000 m[8] details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:09.65	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:11.53	Douwe de Vries Netherlands	6:18.24
10000 m[9] details	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	12:54.82	Erik Jan Kooiman Netherlands	13:02.57	Patrick Beckert Germany	13:10.95
Team pursuit[10] details	Netherlands Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Douwe de Vries	3:41.40	Canada Ted-Jan Bloemen Denny Morrison Jordan Belchos	3:44.09	South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook	3:44.96
Mass start details	Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands		Fabio Francolini Italy		Alexis Contin France

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m[11] details	Heather Richardson United States	75.332	Brittany Bowe United States	75.785	Nao Kodaira Japan	75.893
1000 m[12] details	Brittany Bowe United States	1:13.90	Heather Richardson United States	1:14.49	Karolína Erbanová Czech Republic	1:15.26
1500 m[13] details	Brittany Bowe United States	1:54.27	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:54.76	Heather Richardson United States	1:55.60
3000 m[14] details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:02.17	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:03.46	Marije Joling Netherlands	4:05.51
5000 m[15] details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:52.73	Carlijn Achtereekte Netherlands	6:54.49	Claudia Pechstein Germany	6:56.53
Team pursuit[16] details	Japan Ayaka Kikuchi Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	3:01.53	Netherlands Marije Joling Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	3:01.55	Russia Olga Graf Yuliya Skokova Natalya Voronina	3:03.19
Mass start[17] details	Irene Schouten Netherlands		Ivanie Blondin Canada		Mariska Huisman Netherlands