2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1
Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
500 m Jan Smeekens Netherlands 35.06 Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia 35.16 Ruslan Murashov Russia 35.24
500 m Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia 34.96 Jan Smeekens Netherlands 35.09 Ryohei Haga Japan 35.17
1000 m Pavel Kulizhnikov Russia 1:09.23 Kjeld Nuis Netherlands 1:09.27 Samuel Schwarz Germany 1:09.77
1500 m Kjeld Nuis Netherlands 1:45.97 Wouter olde Heuvel Netherlands 1:46.52 Koen Verweij Netherlands 1:46.90
5000 m Sven Kramer Netherlands 6:20.90 Aleksandr Rumyantsev Russia 6:23.56 Wouter olde Heuvel Netherlands 6:24.03
Mass start Lee Seung-hoon South Korea 60 Kim Cheol-min South Korea 40 Bart Swings Belgium 20
Team pursuit Netherlands Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Douwe de Vries 3:43.68 South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook 3:47.15 Russia Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Danil Sinitsyn 3:48.22
Medal summary -- Men 's events
The first competition weekend of the 2014-15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 14 November, until Sunday, 16 November 2014. Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia made a successful World Cup debut by taking the silver medal in the men's first 500 m race on Friday, and then winning both the 1000 m race on Saturday and the second 500 m race on Sunday. Sven Kramer of the Netherlands won gold medals in both 5000 m and team pursuit. Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands managed to win three gold medals over the weekend, in the women's 1500 and 3000 m races, and as part of the Dutch team in the team pursuit. She also won a silver medal in the 1000 m competition. Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea took the gold medal in both 500 m races. No world records were set during the weekend, but in the women's 500 m, Vanessa Bittner of Austria set a new national record on both senior and junior level in the A division of the Sunday race, after having won the B division on Friday. Martin Hänggi of Switzerland, at age 46, set a record as the oldest participant at a World Cup event when he skated in the 5000 m race.