The first competition weekend of the 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held at the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 16 November, until Sunday, 18 November 2018.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

The detailed event schedule:^[8]

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	34.732	Pavel Kulizhnikov	34.777	Tatsuya Shinhama	34.871	[9]
	2	Pavel Kulizhnikov	34.619	Ryohei Haga	34.716	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	34.771	[10]
1000 m		Pavel Kulizhnikov	1:07.858	Kjeld Nuis	1:08.392	Thomas Krol	1:08.623	[11]
1500 m		Denis Yuskov	1:44.550	Kjeld Nuis	1:44.819	Patrick Roest	1:45.124	[12]
5000 m		Patrick Roest	6:13.019	Aleksandr Rumyantsev	6:17.677	Marcel Bosker	6:18.121	[13]
Mass start		Andrea Giovannini	62 A	Simon Schouten	40 A	Um Cheon-ho	20 A	[14]
Team pursuit		Russia Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Sergey Trofimov	3:41.260	Netherlands Douwe de Vries Chris Huizinga Marcel Bosker	3:42.140	Norway Håvard Bøkko Sverre Lunde Pedersen Simen Spieler Nilsen	3:42.770	[15]
Team sprint		Netherlands Michel Mulder Kai Verbij Kjeld Nuis	1:19.780	Norway Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Johann Jørgen Sæves Henrik Fagerli Rukke	1:20.790	Canada Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Laurent Dubreuil Christopher Fiola	1:20.980	[16]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Nao Kodaira	37.496	Vanessa Herzog	37.624	Maki Tsuji	38.040	[17]
	2	Nao Kodaira	37.298	Vanessa Herzog	37.651	Olga Fatkulina	37.876	[18]
1000 m		Vanessa Herzog	1:14.568	Miho Takagi	1:14.824	Nao Kodaira	1:14.842	[19]
1500 m		Brittany Bowe	1:55.034	Miho Takagi	1:55.127	Yekaterina Shikhova	1:55.458	[20]
3000 m		Esmee Visser	4:04.60	Natalia Voronina	4:05.02	Martina Sáblíková	4:05.23	[21]
Mass start		Nana Takagi	120 A	Irene Schouten	108 A	Kim Bo-reum	96 A	[22]
Team pursuit		Japan Nana Takagi Miho Takagi Ayano Sato	2:57.800	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Lotte van Beek Joy Beune	3:00.130	Russia Evgeniya Lalenkova Natalya Voronina Elizaveta Kazelina	3:01.110	[23]
Team sprint		Russia Yekaterina Shikhova Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikova	1:27.230	Japan Maki Tsuji Nao Kodaira Konami Soga	1:27.350	Netherlands Janine Smit Letitia de Jong Jutta Leerdam	1:28.810	[24]

^A In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.