2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2017–2018, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season.^[1] Compared to previous seasons, there were fewer competition weekends; the season was restricted due to the 2018 Winter Olympics, which were arranged in Pyeongchang, South Korea, during February 2018.^[2][3]

ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Dates	10 November 2017 – 18 March 2018
←2016–17 2018–19→

Calendar

The detailed schedule for the season.^[1]

WC #	City	Venue	Date	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10000 m	Mass start	Team pursuit	Team sprint
1	Heerenveen	Thialf	10–12 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
2	Stavanger	Sørmarka Arena	17–19 November	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w		w	m			m, w
3	Calgary	Olympic Oval	1–3 December	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w
4	Salt Lake City	Utah Olympic Oval	8–10 December	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
	Kolomna	Kolomna Speed Skating Center	5–7 January	2018 European Speed Skating Championships
5	Erfurt	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Halle	19–21 January	2m, 2w	2m, 2w	m, w	w	m
	PyeongChang	Gangneung Oval	2–25 February	2018 Winter Olympic games
	Changchun	Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink	3–4 March	2018 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
	Amsterdam	Olympic Stadium	9–10 March	2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
6	Minsk	Minsk-Arena	17–18 March	2m, 2w	m, w	m, w	w	m		m, w	m, w	m, w
Total				12m, 12w	7m, 7w	6m, 6w	5w	5m, 1w	1m	5m, 5w	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.^[1]

In addition, there were two combination cups, the allround combination and the sprint combination. For the allround combination, the distances were 1500 + 5000 metres for men, and 1500 + 3000 metres for women. For the sprint combination, the distances were 500 + 1000 metres, both for men and women. These cups were contested only in World Cup 5, in Stavanger, Norway.

Men's standings

500 m Rank Name Points 1 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 716 2 Hein Otterspeer 568 3 Ronald Mulder 556 1000 m Rank Name Points 1 Kjeld Nuis 530 2 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 516 3 Kai Verbij 440 1500 m Rank Name Points 1 Denis Yuskov 520 2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 385 3 Thomas Krol 320 5000 and 10000 m Rank Name Points 1 Ted-Jan Bloemen 486 2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 445 3 Sven Kramer 300

Mass start Rank Name Points 1 Bart Swings 234 2 Andrea Giovannini 226 3 Lee Seung-hoon 218 Team pursuit Rank Name Points 1  Norway 345 2  Italy 305 3  Japan 284 Team sprint Rank Name Points 1  Norway 370 2  Russia 314 3  Canada 300 Grand World Cup Rank Name Points 1 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 734 2 Denis Yuskov 715 3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 700

Women's standings

500 m Rank Name Points 1 Vanessa Herzog 795 2 Karolína Erbanová 786 3 Angelina Golikova 709 1000 m Rank Name Points 1 Yekaterina Shikhova 444 2 Marrit Leenstra 420 3 Hege Bøkko 393 1500 m Rank Name Points 1 Miho Takagi 550 2 Marrit Leenstra 390 3 Yekaterina Shikhova 281 3000 and 5000 m Rank Name Points 1 Antoinette de Jong 445 2 Ivanie Blondin 439 3 Natalya Voronina 391

Mass start Rank Name Points 1 Francesca Lollobrigida 324 2 Ayano Sato 290 3 Ivanie Blondin 257 Team pursuit Rank Name Points 1  Japan 450 2  Germany 299 3  Netherlands 280 Team sprint Rank Name Points 1  Russia 350 2  Norway 344 3  Netherlands 230 Grand World Cup Rank Name Points 1 Miho Takagi 1040 2 Marrit Leenstra 770 3 Nao Kodaira 700