2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4 – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 4, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on the weekend of 12–14 December 2014.^[1]

Race one was won by Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, while Artur Waś of Poland came second, and Laurent Dubreuil of France came third.^[2] Pim Schipper of the Netherlands won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two. Christian Oberbichler of Austria set a new national record for the second straight weekend.^[3]

Kulizhnikov and Waś also took the first two places in race two, while Jan Smeekens of the Netherlands came third.^[4] Yūya Oikawa of Japan won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 12 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:40, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 17:22.^[5]

Division A

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov	10	i	34.63	100	50
	Artur Waś	7	i	34.91	80	40
	Laurent Dubreuil	10	o	35.16	70	35
4	Michel Mulder	3	i	35.19	60	30
5	Mika Poutala	1	o	35.22	50	25
6	Ryohei Haga	7	o	35.23	45	—
7	Denis Koval	6	i	35.257	40
8	Hein Otterspeer	6	o	35.258	36
9	Kim Jun-ho	5	o	35.27	32
10	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi	2	o	35.33	28
11	Keiichiro Nagashima	3	o	35.34	24
12	Espen Aarnes Hvammen	8	o	35.36	21
13	Mo Tae-bum	9	o	35.38	18
14	Artyom Kuznetsov	4	i	35.43	16
15	Gilmore Junio	5	i	35.45	14
16	Jan Smeekens	9	i	35.47	12
17	Xie Jiaxuan	1	i	35.59	10
18	Gerben Jorritsma	2	i	35.68	8
19	Nico Ihle	8	i	DQ
19	Aleksey Yesin	4	o	DQ

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Division B

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Pim Schipper	17	o	35.37	25
2	Mu Zhongsheng	16	i	35.41	19
3	Samuel Schwarz	14	o	35.44	15
4	Tsubasa Hasegawa	13	i	35.53	11
5	Mitchell Whitmore	11	i	35.61	8
6	Artur Nogal	13	o	35.70	6
7	Christian Oberbichler	7	i	35.71 NR	4
8	Yūya Oikawa	17	i	35.72	2
9	Denny Ihle	15	o	35.75	1
10	Lee Kang-seok	16	o	35.76	—
11	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	9	i	35.78
12	David Bosa	11	o	35.80
13	Jonathan Garcia	8	i	35.86
14	Richard Maclennan	14	i	35.91
15	William Dutton	15	i	35.93
16	Wang Nan	12	i	35.94
17	Tyler Derraugh	9	o	35.95
18	Daichi Yamanaka	12	o	36.05
19	Piotr Michalski	10	o	36.12
20	Shani Davis	10	i	36.161
21	Juho Vaittinen	4	i	36.166
22	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke	7	o	36.28
23	Luca Zanghellini	5	i	36.391
24	Kimani Griffin	6	o	36.395
25	Aleksandr Zhigin	5	o	36.399
26	Mikhail Kozlov	1	i	36.43
27	Denis Dressel	8	o	36.47
28	Denis Kuzin	6	i	36.53
29	David Andersson	3	i	36.54
30	Benjamin Macé	3	o	36.61
31	Yevgeny Kazimirenko	4	o	36.79
32	Tommi Pulli	2	o	36.83
33	Armin Hager	2	i	37.05

Notes: NR = national record.

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 14 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:09, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:29.^[5]

Division A

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov	11	o	34.58	100	50
	Artur Waś	10	o	34.87	80	40
	Jan Smeekens	5	o	35.01	70	35
4	Laurent Dubreuil	11	i	35.072	60	30
5	Mika Poutala	10	i	35.073	50	25
6	Mo Tae-bum	2	i	35.09	45	—
7	Michel Mulder	9	o	35.10	40
8	Gilmore Junio	6	o	35.12	36
9	Nico Ihle	2	o	35.13	32
10	Hein Otterspeer	8	i	35.144	28
10	Aleksey Yesin	1	i	35.144	28
12	Kim Jun-ho	7	i	35.22	21
13	Denis Koval	8	o	35.23	18
14	Espen Aarnes Hvammen	4	i	35.25	16
15	Pim Schipper	3	i	35.34	14
16	Gerben Jorritsma	3	o	35.35	12
17	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi	6	i	35.37	10
18	Ryohei Haga	9	i	35.49	8
19	Xie Jiaxuan	4	o	35.58	6
20	Keiichiro Nagashima	5	i	35.61	5
21	Artyom Kuznetsov	7	o	DQ

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Division B

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Yūya Oikawa	9	o	35.49	25
2	Artur Nogal	13	i	35.54	19
3	Mitchell Whitmore	11	o	35.70	15
4	William Dutton	6	o	35.72	11
5	Richard Maclennan	7	o	35.74	8
6	Denny Ihle	12	i	35.82	6
7	Tsubasa Hasegawa	12	o	35.83	4
8	Lee Kang-seok	11	i	35.84	2
9	Piotr Michalski	7	i	35.884	1
10	Mu Zhongsheng	13	o	35.887	—
11	Jonathan Garcia	8	o	35.92
12	Pekka Koskela	1	i	35.93
13	Christian Oberbichler	10	o	35.94
14	Kirill Golubev	1	o	35.96
15	Tyler Derraugh	9	i	36.021
16	David Bosa	10	i	36.022
17	Daichi Yamanaka	8	i	36.06
18	Wang Nan	5	o	36.10
19	Denis Dressel	4	i	36.22
20	Luca Zanghellini	3	o	36.31
21	Kimani Griffin	5	i	36.33
22	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke	6	i	36.46
23	Juho Vaittinen	4	o	36.51
24	Yevgeny Kazimirenko	2	i	36.79
25	David Andersson	2	o	36.92
26	Benjamin Macé	3	i	DNS

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2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4 – Men's 500 metres

Contents

Race 1

Division A

Division B

Race 2

Division A

Division B

References