2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 6 – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 6, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on the weekend of 7–8 February 2015.[1]

Race one was won by Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, while Artur Waś of Poland came second, and Nico Ihle of Germany came third.[2] Alex Boisvert-Lacroix of Canada won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two.

Kulizhnikov also won race two, while Mo Tae-bum of South Korea came second, and Nico Ihle of Germany came third.[3] Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Saturday, 7 February, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 11:35, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:53.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov		10	i	34.93	100	50
	Artur Waś		8	i	34.97	80	40
	Nico Ihle		8	o	35.11	70	35
4	Michel Mulder		4	i	35.15	60	30
5	Ruslan Murashov		7	o	35.20	50	25
6	Laurent Dubreuil		10	o	35.216	45	—
7	Hein Otterspeer		6	o	35.218	40
8	Mo Tae-bum		9	o	35.23	36
9	Jesper Hospes		1	i	35.27	32
10	Pim Schipper		3	o	35.28	28
11	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		7	i	35.31	24
12	Aleksey Yesin		4	o	35.330	21
13	Mika Poutala		3	i	35.339	18
14	Roman Krech		1	o	35.34	16
15	Gilmore Junio		5	i	35.43	14
16	Yūya Oikawa		2	i	35.44	12
17	Jan Smeekens		9	i	35.49	10
18	Ryohei Haga		6	i	35.53	8
19	Kim Jun-ho		5	o	35.72	6
20	Artur Nogal		2	o	36.35	5

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		5	o	35.37	25
2	Jamie Gregg		5	i	35.57	19
3	Mitchell Whitmore		16	o	35.61	15
4	Mu Zhongsheng		18	i	35.72	11
5	Tsubasa Hasegawa		16	i	35.73	8
6	Samuel Schwarz		17	o	35.74	6
7	Piotr Michalski		14	o	35.773	4
8	Pekka Koskela		12	i	35.778	2
9	Jonathan Garcia		13	o	35.780	1
10	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		19	o	35.783	—
11	Wang Nan		15	i	35.893
12	Xie Jiaxuan		17	i	35.899
13	David Bosa		15	o	35.91
14	Denny Ihle		18	o	35.94
15	Denis Kuzin		9	i	36.01
16	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen		13	i	36.02
17	Luca Zanghellini		8	i	36.14
18	Denis Yuskov		2	i	36.19
19	Kirill Golubev		12	o	36.23
20	Christian Oberbichler		14	i	36.25
21	Keiichiro Nagashima		19	i	36.31
22	Joey Mantia		4	o	36.34
23	Shunsuke Nakamura		7	i	36.36
24	Yang Fan		3	i	36.39
25	Kimani Griffin		9	o	36.46
26	Denis Dressel		11	o	36.62
27	Aleksandr Zhigin		8	o	36.65
28	Vincent De Haître		11	i	36.69
29	Armin Hager		6	o	36.72
30	Daniel Greig		4	i	36.764
31	Tommi Pulli		6	i	36.765
32	Johann Jørgen Sæves		3	o	36.87
33	Juho Vaittinen		10	i	36.89
34	Yevgeny Kazimirenko		7	o	37.21
35	Dmitry Viskovsky		2	o	37.49
36	Maksim Baklashkin		1	i	38.17
37	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke		10	o	DQ

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 8 February, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 11:35, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:42.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov		11	o	34.62	100	50
	Mo Tae-bum		8	i	34.94	80	40
	Nico Ihle		11	i	35.06	70	35
4	Ruslan Murashov		10	i	35.12	60	30
5	Michel Mulder		9	o	35.14	50	25
6	Laurent Dubreuil		9	i	35.152	45	—
	Roman Krech		5	i	35.152	45
8	Jamie Gregg		2	o	35.16	36
9	Artur Waś		10	o	35.25	32
10	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		7	o	35.27	28
11	Aleksey Yesin		6	i	35.30	24
12	Gilmore Junio		5	o	35.32	21
13	Pim Schipper		7	i	35.36	18
14	Jesper Hospes		8	o	35.38	16
15	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		4	i	35.45	14
16	Mika Poutala		6	o	35.56	12
17	Ryohei Haga		3	o	35.646	10
18	Artur Nogal		2	i	35.649	8
19	Kim Jun-ho		3	i	35.65	6
20	Yūya Oikawa		4	o	35.67	5
21	Mu Zhongsheng		1	o	35.89	4

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Keiichiro Nagashima		7	o	35.67	25
2	Xie Jiaxuan		11	o	35.74	19
3	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		13	i	35.77	15
4	Pekka Koskela		13	o	35.81	11
5	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen		10	o	35.83	8
6	Tyler Derraugh		2	o	35.865	6
7	Tsubasa Hasegawa		14	o	35.868	4
8	Piotr Michalski		14	i	35.88	2
9	Denis Dressel		7	i	36.05	1
10	Yang Fan		5	o	36.15	—
11	Denny Ihle		11	i	36.26
12	David Bosa		12	i	36.348
13	Luca Zanghellini		9	o	36.349
14	Christian Oberbichler		8	o	36.35
15	Kirill Golubev		10	i	36.39
16	Johann Jørgen Sæves		4	i	36.49
17	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke		1	i	36.50
18	Joey Mantia		9	i	36.51
19	Kim Jin-su		1	o	36.524
20	Juho Vaittinen		3	o	36.525
21	Shunsuke Nakamura		6	o	36.54
22	Tommi Pulli		4	o	36.77
23	Kimani Griffin		8	i	36.81
24	Aleksandr Zhigin		6	i	36.84
25	Armin Hager		5	i	36.96
26	Dmitry Viskovsky		2	i	37.28
27	Yevgeny Kazimirenko		3	i	37.29
28	Wang Nan		12	o	DQ

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References

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