2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships

The 2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held between 11 and 14 February 2016 in Kolomna, Russia.^[1]

2016 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Kolomna Speed Skating Center, Russia
Dates	11–14 February
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Schedule

All times are local (UTC+3).^[2]

Date	Time	Events
11 February	16:45	10,000 m men
		3000 m women
12 February	17:10	1000 m women
		1500 m men
		5000 m women
		Team pursuit men
13 February	15:00	5000 m men
		500 m women
		1000 m men
		Team pursuit women
14 February	14:30	500 m men
		1500 m women
		Mass start men
		Mass start women

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Russia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	6	5	5	16
2	Russia (RUS)*	3	2	1	6
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	0	3
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	0	2
5	Canada (CAN)	1	1	2	4
6	United States (USA)	0	3	2	5
7	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	1	2
9	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m[3][4][5] details	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	69.026	Ruslan Murashov Russia	69.680	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Canada	69.788
1000 m[6] details	Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia	1:08.33	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:08.43	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:08.47
1500 m[7] details	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:44.13	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:45.66	Thomas Krol Netherlands	1:45.75
5000 m[8] details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:10.31	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:10.66	Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway	6:15.08
10000 m[9] details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	12:56.77	Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada	12:59.69	Erik Jan Kooiman Netherlands	13:02.15
Team pursuit[10] details	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga	3:40.04	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:41.26	Canada Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Benjamin Donnelly	3:43.28
Mass start[11][12] details	Lee Seung-hoon South Korea	7:18.26	Arjan Stroetinga Netherlands	7:18.32	Alexis Contin France	7:18.41

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m[13][14][15] details	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	74.859	Brittany Bowe United States	75.663	Zhang Hong China	75.688
1000 m[16] details	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:14.73	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:14.94	Brittany Bowe United States	1:15.01
1500 m[17] details	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:53.92	Heather Richardson-Bergsma United States	1:54.67	Brittany Bowe United States	1:55.09
3000 m[18] details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:03.05	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:03.13	Antoinette de Jong Netherlands	4:04.25
5000 m[19] details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:51.09	Carien Kleibeuker Netherlands	6:54.96	Irene Schouten Netherlands	6:55.93
Team pursuit[20] details	Netherlands Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	2:58.12	Japan Misaki Oshigiri Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	2:58.31	Russia Olga Graf Elizaveta Kazelina Natalya Voronina	3:02.61
Mass start[21][22] details	Ivanie Blondin Canada	8:17.53	Kim Bo-reum South Korea	8:17.66	Miho Takagi Japan	8:17.68

Participating nations

161 speed skaters (not all skaters at the team pursuit included) from 24 nations participated at the championships. The number of speed skaters per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.

Participating nations Click on a nation to go to the nations' 2016 Championships page
Austria (5) Belarus (3) Belgium (3) Canada (19) China (11) Czech Republic (3) Denmark (1) Estonia (1) Finland (3) France (1) Germany (8) Italy (7) Japan (16) Kazakhstan (5) Latvia (1) Netherlands (22) New Zealand (2) Norway (11) Poland (6) Russia (16) South Korea (7) Sweden (1)  Switzerland (1) United States (8)