2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Events
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Mass start	men	women
Team pursuit	men	women
Grand world cup	men	women
World Cup weekends
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2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
World Cup 4 – Heerenveen
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
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The fourth competition weekend of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 12 December, until Sunday, 14 December 2014.^[1]

Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia continued his brilliant form from the start of the season by winning three gold medals in the men's competitions; both 500 m races,^[2][3] and the 1000 m race.^[4]

In the women's competitions, Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe made it a "triple double" for the United States by taking gold and silver in three races, the second 500 m,^[3] the 1000 m,^[4] and the 1500 m.^[3]

In the men's 500 m on Friday, Christian Oberbichler of Austria improved his own national record,^[5] set only the previous weekend. In the 5000 m race on Saturday, Viktor Hald Torup of Denmark set a new national record, and Nils van der Poel of Sweden set a national junior record.^[6]

The detailed schedule of events:^[7][8]

All times are CET (UTC+1).

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.63	Artur Waś  Poland	34.91	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	35.16	[9]
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	34.58	Artur Waś  Poland	34.87	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.01	[10]
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov  Russia	1:08.77	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:09.04	Hein Otterspeer  Netherlands	1:09.06	[11]
1500 m		Jan Szymański  Poland	1:45.92	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	1:46.22	Shani Davis  United States	1:46.33	[12]
5000 m		Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:12.74	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:14.08	Wouter olde Heuvel  Netherlands	6:19,58	[13]
Mass start		Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	70 A	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	40 A	Fabio Francolini  Italy	20 A	[14]
Team pursuit		South Korea Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon	3:44.57	Netherlands Arjan Stroetinga Frank Vreugdenhil Douwe de Vries	3:44.97	Norway Håvard Bøkko Fredrik van der Horst Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:45.52	[15][16]

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

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.69	Nao Kodaira  Japan	37.70	Judith Hesse  Germany	37.88	[17]
	2	Heather Richardson  United States	37.72	Brittany Bowe  United States	38.05	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.07	[18]
1000 m		Heather Richardson  United States	1:14.63	Brittany Bowe  United States	1:14.68	Li Qishi  China	1:15.71	[19]
1500 m		Heather Richardson  United States	1:53.87	Brittany Bowe  United States	1:54.70	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:55.95	[20]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:02.84	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:03.14	Carlijn Achtereekte  Netherlands	4:05.95	[21]
Mass start		Ivanie Blondin  Canada	60 A	Kim Bo-reum  South Korea	40 A	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	20 A	[22]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Carlijn Achtereekte Linda de Vries Marrit Leenstra	2:59.69	Germany Bente Kraus Claudia Pechstein Isabell Ost	3:01.96	Poland Aleksandra Goss Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:02.31	[23][24]

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