2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4 – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres races of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 4, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on 11 and 13 December 2015.[1]

Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia won race one, while his compatriot Aleksey Yesin came second, and Alex Boisvert-Lacroix of Canada came third.[2] Espen Aarnes Hvammen of Norway won the first Division B race.

Ruslan Murashov of Russia won race two, with Boisvert-Lacroix in second place, and Hvammen in third.[3] Denis Koval of Russia won the second Division B race.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 11 December, with Division B scheduled in the afternoon session, at 14:00, and Division A scheduled in the evening session, at 17:22.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov		10	i	34.48	100	50
	Aleksey Yesin		3	i	34.65	80	40
	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		8	i	34.78	70	35
4	Artur Waś		9	o	34.80	60	30
5	Kai Verbij		7	o	34.86	50	25
6	Mika Poutala		8	o	34.90	45	—
7	Ruslan Murashov		4	i	34.96	40
8	Tsubasa Hasegawa		2	o	34.97	36
9	Mo Tae-bum		2	i	35.03	32
10	Roman Krech		3	o	35.04	28
11	Gilmore Junio		9	i	35.09	24
12	Ryohei Haga		5	i	35.12	21
13	Laurent Dubreuil		7	i	35.13	18
14	Hein Otterspeer		5	o	35.19	16
15	Alexandre St-Jean		6	i	35.23	14
16	Jesper Hospes		1	o	35.28	12
17	William Dutton		10	o	35.30	10
18	Yūya Oikawa		6	o	35.37	8
19	Michel Mulder		1	i	35.48	6
20	Joji Kato		4	o	35.68	5

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		15	o	35.16	25
2	Artyom Kuznetsov		14	i	35.22	19
3	Nico Ihle		11	i	35.27	15
4	Denis Koval		7	i	35.33	11
5	David Bosa		13	i	35.43	8
6	Pekka Koskela		10	o	35.49	6
7	Piotr Michalski		9	o	35.51	4
8	Xie Jiaxuan		10	i	35.522	2
9	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		9	i	35.527	1
10	Jan Smeekens		15	i	35.54	—
11	Kim Tae-yun		14	o	35.55
12	Tsukasa Owada		7	o	35.61
13	Lee Kang-seok		11	o	35.640
14	Artur Nogal		13	o	35.647
15	Mu Zhongsheng		12	i	35.68
16	Jonathan Garcia		8	i	35.72
17	Daniel Greig		6	o	35.74
18	Liu An		6	i	35.76
19	Wang Chaoyu		3	i	35.88
20	Kim Jun-ho		12	o	36.03
21	Christian Oberbichler		5	o	36.18
22	Joel Dufter		5	i	36.19
23	Henrik Fagerli Rukke		1	i	36.37
24	David Andersson		4	o	36.38
25	Marten Liiv		3	o	36.56
26	Harri Levo		4	i	36.63
27	Denis Kuzin		2	o	36.73
28	Artyom Chaban		2	i	36.93
29	Sung Ching-yang		8	o	DQ

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 13 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:15, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:27.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Ruslan Murashov		5	i	34.67	100	50
	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix		10	o	34.76	80	40
	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		3	i	34.86	70	35
4	Alexandre St-Jean		6	o	34.87	60	30
5	Laurent Dubreuil		7	i	34.90	50	25
6	Aleksey Yesin		6	i	34.97	45	—
7	Kai Verbij		7	o	34.981	40
8	Jan Smeekens		3	o	34.984	36
9	Mika Poutala		8	o	35.01	32
10	Hein Otterspeer		4	o	35.09	28
11	Ryohei Haga		5	o	35.12	24
12	Roman Krech		2	o	35.17	21
13	Gilmore Junio		8	i	35.183	18
	Artur Waś		9	i	35.183	18
15	Yūya Oikawa		4	i	35.22	14
16	Kim Tae-yun		1	i	35.28	12
17	Artyom Kuznetsov		2	i	35.29	10
18	Nico Ihle		1	o	35.30	8
19	William Dutton		9	o	35.44	6
20	Pavel Kulizhnikov		10	i	1:26.89	5
21	Joji Kato		—	—	WDR	—

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Denis Koval		9	o	35.17	25
2	Piotr Michalski		8	i	35.20	19
3	Mo Tae-bum		13	i	35.23	15
4	Jonathan Garcia		7	o	35.29	11
5	David Bosa		13	o	35.33	8
6	Jesper Hospes		9	i	35.35	6
7	Pekka Koskela		10	i	35.37	4
8	Tsubasa Hasegawa		12	i	35.41	2
9	Artur Nogal		12	o	35.44	1
10	Michel Mulder		7	i	35.475	—
11	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		8	o	35.476
12	Daniel Greig		5	o	35.50
13	Liu An		5	i	35.56
14	Xie Jiaxuan		10	o	35.57
15	Tsukasa Owada		6	o	35.59
16	Mu Zhongsheng		11	i	35.68
17	Kim Jun-ho		11	o	35.77
18	Sung Ching-yang		6	i	35.82
19	Christian Oberbichler		4	o	36.05
20	Wang Chaoyu		3	i	36.08
21	Henrik Fagerli Rukke		2	i	36.09
22	Joel Dufter		4	i	36.22
23	Harri Levo		3	o	36.30
24	Denis Kuzin		1	i	36.46
25	Artyom Chaban		2	o	36.84
26	David Andersson		—	—	WDR
	Hubert Hirschbichler		—	—	WDR

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