2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2015–2016, was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 13 November 2015 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and ended with the final on 13 March 2016 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
In total, six competition weekends were held at five different locations, 18 cups were contested, and 88 races took place. Additionally, there were two Grand World Cups, one for men and one for women, in which all individual races, regardless of distance, counted.
The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union.

Calendar

The detailed schedule for the season.
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.

Entry rules

Qualification criteria

In order to qualify, skaters had to achieve the following results in ISU events, international competitions or national championships between 1 July 2014 and the entry deadline for the competition concerned.

Distance	Time required	Time required
500 m	36.20	36.60
1000 m	1:11.90	1:12.80
1500 m	1:51.00	1:52.50
3000 m	—	—
5000 m	6:48.00	6:52.00
10000 m	13:40.00	13:50.00

Distance	Time required	Time required
500 m	40.00	40.50
1000 m	1:20.00	1:21.00
1500 m	2:03.00	2:05.00
3000 m	4:24.00	4:28.00
5000 m	7:25.00	7:32.00
10000 m	—	—

For the mass start and team pursuit events, skaters who had achieved any one of the above results were qualified. However, every ISU member nation was allowed to enter a maximum of one skater per gender who had not achieved any of these results, provided that they had achieved a 1500 m result of 1:57.50 or 2:10.00.

World records

World records going into the 2015–16 season.

Men

Distance	Time	Holder	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	34.03	Jeremy Wotherspoon		9 November 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1000 m	1:06.42	Shani Davis		7 March 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m	1:41.04	Shani Davis		11 December 2009	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
5000 m	6:03.32	Sven Kramer		17 November 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary
10000 m	12:41.69	Sven Kramer		10 March 2007	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
Team pursuit	3:35.60	Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

Women

Distance	Time	Holder	Nat.	Date	Venue	Reference
500 m	36.36	Lee Sang-hwa		16 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1000 m	1:12.58	Brittany Bowe		17 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m	1:51.79	Cindy Klassen		20 November 2005	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
3000 m	3:53.34	Cindy Klassen		18 March 2006	Olympic Oval, Calgary
5000 m	6:42.66	Martina Sáblíková		18 February 2011	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
Team pursuit	2:55.79	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler		6 December 2009	Olympic Oval, Calgary

New records :
500 m Pavel Kulizhnikov
1000 m Pavel Kulizhnikov
1500 Heather Richardson-Bergsma
1000 m Brittany Bowe
10.000 m Ted-Jan Bloemen
Men's standings

500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Pavel Kulizhnikov	705
2	Ruslan Murashov	705
3	Gilmore Junio	637

1000 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kjeld Nuis	630
2	Pavel Kulizhnikov	480
3	Gerben Jorritsma	396

1500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Denis Yuskov	530
2	Kjeld Nuis	456
3	Joey Mantia	405

5000 and 10000 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Sven Kramer	530
2	Jorrit Bergsma	530
3	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	369

Mass start

Rank	Name	Points
1	Arjan Stroetinga	404
2	Jorrit Bergsma	380
3	Fabio Francolini	378

Team pursuit

Rank	Country	Points
1		350
2		280
3		279

Team sprint

Rank	Country	Points
1		390
2		334
3		320

Grand World Cup

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kjeld Nuis	630
2	Bart Swings	580
2	Pavel Kulizhnikov	530