2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen in Berlin, Germany, from Friday, 7 November, until Sunday, 9 November 2008.

Schedule of events

Schedule of the event:^[1]

Date	Time	Events
7 November	15:00 CET	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 5000 m men
8 November	13:30 CET	500 m women 500 m men 3000 m women 1500 m men
9 November	13:30 CET	1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	34.92	Pekka Koskela Finland	34.99	Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea	35.01	^[2]
500 m	2	Joji Kato Japan	34.70	Yu Fengtong China	35.07	Mika Poutala Finland	35.13	^[3]
1000 m		Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:09.13	Shani Davis United States	1:09.15	Simon Kuipers Netherlands	1:09.30	^[4]
1500 m		Sven Kramer Netherlands	1:45.69	Erben Wennemars Netherlands	1:45.85	Simon Kuipers Netherlands	1:45.95	^[5]
5000 m		Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:15.74	Håvard Bøkko Norway	6:20.03	Carl Verheijen Netherlands	6:20.87	^[6]
Team pursuit		Canada Denny Morrison Lucas Makowsky Steven Elm	3:47.29	Germany Jörg Dallmann Robert Lehmann Marco Weber	3:47.37	Japan Teruhiro Sugimori Hiroki Hirako Shigeyuki Dejima	3:48.02	^[7]

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Jenny Wolf Germany	37.75	Wang Beixing China	37.75	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	38.12	^[8]
500 m	2	Wang Beixing China	37.91	Jenny Wolf Germany	37.95	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	38.26	^[9]
1000 m		Christine Nesbitt Canada	1:16.86	Shannon Rempel Canada	1:17.11	Laurine van Riessen Netherlands	1:17.21	^[10]
1500 m		Kristina Groves Canada	1:57.65	Brittany Schussler Canada	1:57.74	Shannon Rempel Canada	1:58.04	^[11]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:03.70	Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Germany	4:07.08	Masako Hozumi Japan	4:07.92	^[12]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Renate Groenewold Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg	3:04.34	Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Claudia Pechstein Lucille Opitz	3:04.51	United States Nancy Swider-Peltz, Jr Catherine Raney Mia Manganello	3:05.68	^[13]