# 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held at the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro, Japan, from Friday, 16 November, until Sunday, 18 November 2018.

## Schedule

The detailed event schedule:
| Date | Events | Division |
| Friday, 16 November | 500 m women (1)  500 m men (1) | B |
| Friday, 16 November | Mass start men semifinal 1 men  Mass start men semifinal 2 men  Team pursuit women  Team pursuit men | |
| Friday, 16 November | 500 m women (1)  500 m men (1) | A |
| Saturday, 17 November | 500 m women (2)  500 m men (2)  1500 m women  1500 m men | B |
| Saturday, 17 November | 500 m women (1)  1500 m women  1500 m men  500 m men (2) | A |
| Saturday, 17 November | Mass start final women  Mass start final men | |
| Sunday, 18 November | 1000 m women  1000 m men  3000 m women  5000 m men | B |
| Sunday, 18 November | 1000 m women  1000 m men  3000 m women  5000 m men | A |
| Sunday, 18 November | Team sprint women  Team sprint men | |

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 500 m | 1 | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | 34.732 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 34.777 | Tatsuya Shinhama | 34.871 |
| 500 m | 2 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 34.619 | Ryohei Haga | 34.716 | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | 34.771 |
| 1000 m | | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 1:07.858 | Kjeld Nuis | 1:08.392 | Thomas Krol | 1:08.623 |
| 1500 m | | Denis Yuskov | 1:44.550 | Kjeld Nuis | 1:44.819 | Patrick Roest | 1:45.124 |
| 5000 m | | Patrick Roest | 6:13.019 | Aleksandr Rumyantsev | 6:17.677 | Marcel Bosker | 6:18.121 |
| Mass start | | Andrea Giovannini | 62 $^A$ | Simon Schouten | 40 $^A$ | Um Cheon-ho | 20 $^A$ |
| Team pursuit | | Russia Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Sergey Trofimov | 3:41.260 | Netherlands Douwe de Vries Chris Huizinga Marcel Bosker | 3:42.140 | Norway Håvard Bøkko Sverre Lunde Pedersen Simen Spieler Nilsen | 3:42.770 |
| Team sprint | | Netherlands Michel Mulder Kai Verbij Kjeld Nuis | 1:19.780 | Norway Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Johann Jørgen Sæves Henrik Fagerli Rukke | 1:20.790 | Canada Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Laurent Dubreuil Christopher Fiola | 1:20.980 |
    $^A$ In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.

### Women's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 500 m | 1 | Nao Kodaira | 37.496 | Vanessa Herzog | 37.624 | Maki Tsuji | 38.040 |
| 500 m | 2 | Nao Kodaira | 37.298 | Vanessa Herzog | 37.651 | Olga Fatkulina | 37.876 |
| 1000 m | | Vanessa Herzog | 1:14.568 | Miho Takagi | 1:14.824 | Nao Kodaira | 1:14.842 |
| 1500 m | | Brittany Bowe | 1:55.034 | Miho Takagi | 1:55.127 | Yekaterina Shikhova | 1:55.458 |
| 3000 m | | Esmee Visser | 4:04.60 | Natalia Voronina | 4:05.02 | Martina Sáblíková | 4:05.23 |
| Mass start | | Nana Takagi | 120 $^A$ | Irene Schouten | 108 $^A$ | Kim Bo-reum | 96 $^A$ |
| Team pursuit | | Japan Nana Takagi Miho Takagi Ayano Sato | 2:57.800 | Netherlands Ireen Wüst Lotte van Beek Joy Beune | 3:00.130 | Russia Evgeniya Lalenkova Natalya Voronina Elizaveta Kazelina | 3:01.110 |
| Team sprint | | Russia Yekaterina Shikhova Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikova | 1:27.230 | Japan Maki Tsuji Nao Kodaira Konami Soga | 1:27.350 | Netherlands Janine Smit Letitia de Jong Jutta Leerdam | 1:28.810 |
    $^A$ In mass start, race points are accumulated during the race based on results of the intermediate sprints and the final sprint. The skater with most race points is the winner.