# 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1000 metres

The 1000 metres distance for men in the 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 10 races on seven occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7–9 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6–7 March 2009.
Shani Davis of the United States defended his title from the previous season, while Denny Morrison of Canada repeated his second place, and Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands came third.
On the last competition weekend of the season, Davis set a new world record of 1:06.42.

## Top three

| Medal | Athlete | Points | Previous season |
| Gold | Shani Davis | 840 | 1st |
| Silver | Denny Morrison | 705 | 2nd |
| Bronze | Stefan Groothuis | 590 | – |

## Race medallists

| Occasion # | Location | Date | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 1 | Berlin, Germany | 9 November | Stefan Groothuis Netherlands | 1:09.13 | Shani Davis United States | 1:09.15 | Simon Kuipers Netherlands | 1:09.30 |
| 2 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 16 November | Shani Davis United States | 1:08.99 | Pekka Koskela Finland | 1:09.05 | Simon Kuipers Netherlands | 1:09.26 |
| 4 | Changchun, China | 6 December | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 1:09.68 | Stefan Groothuis Netherlands | 1:10.15 | Shani Davis United States | 1:10.32 |
| 4 | Changchun, China | 7 December | Simon Kuipers Netherlands | 1:09.83 | Shani Davis United States | 1:09.99 | Stefan Groothuis Netherlands | 1:10.01 |
| 5 | Nagano, Japan | 13 December | Shani Davis United States | 1:09.21 | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:09.40 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 1:09.43 |
| 5 | Nagano, Japan | 14 December | Shani Davis United States | 1:08.92 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 1:09.16 | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:09.23 |
| 6 | Kolomna, Russia | 24 January | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:08.71 | Stefan Groothuis Netherlands | 1:08.97 | Yevgeny Lalenkov Russia | 1:09.02 |
| 6 | Kolomna, Russia | 25 January | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:08.53 | Stefan Groothuis Netherlands | 1:08.67 | Mark Tuitert Netherlands | 1:09.09 |
| 7 | Erfurt, Germany | 1 February | Shani Davis United States | 1:08.40 | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:08.78 | Jan Bos Netherlands | 1:09.03 |
| 9 | Salt Lake City, United States | 7 March | Shani Davis United States | 1:06.42 WR | Trevor Marsicano United States | 1:06.88 | Denny Morrison Canada | 1:07.11 |

## Final standings

Standings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).
| # | Name | BER | HVN | CHA1 | CHA2 | NAG1 | NAG 2 | KOL1 | KOL2 | ERF | SLC | Total |
| 1 | Shani Davis | 80 | 100 | 70 | 80 | 100 | 100 | – | 60 | 100 | 150 | 840 |
| 2 | Denny Morrison | 45 | 40 | 45 | 40 | 80 | 70 | 100 | 100 | 80 | 105 | 705 |
| 3 | Stefan Groothuis | 100 | 45 | 80 | 70 | – | – | 80 | 80 | 45 | 90 | 590 |
| 4 | Simon Kuipers | 70 | 70 | 40 | 100 | – | – | 36 | 50 | 50 | 18 | 434 |
| 5 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | 14 | 18 | 100 | 60 | 70 | 80 | – | – | – | 28 | 370 |
| 6 | Keiichiro Nagashima | 40 | 50 | 16 | – | 60 | 36 | 60 | – | 8 | 45 | 315 |
| 7 | Mark Tuitert | 32 | 24 | 60 | 50 | – | – | 28 | 70 | 10 | 12 | 286 |
| 8 | Yevgeny Lalenkov | 60 | 10 | – | – | – | – | 70 | 45 | – | 75 | 260 |
| 9 | Lee Jong-woo | 25 | 14 | 50 | 28 | 36 | 60 | – | – | – | 32 | 245 |
| 10 | Mo Tae-bum | 21 | 36 | 36 | 45 | 40 | 50 | – | – | – | 16 | 244 |
| 11 | Trevor Marsicano | 15 | 32 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 60 | 120 | 227 |
| 12 | Jan Bos | 10 | 25 | – | – | – | – | 45 | 36 | 70 | 36 | 222 |
| 13 | Tadashi Obara | 0 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 32 | 32 | 50 | 40 | 24 | 5 | 213 |
| 14 | François-Olivier Roberge | 8 | 19 | 32 | 36 | 50 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 212 |
| 15 | Mika Poutala | 18 | 28 | 8 | 24 | 21 | 28 | 32 | 32 | – | 21 | 212 |
| 16 | Pekka Koskela | 50 | 80 | – | – | 24 | 45 | – | – | – | – | 199 |
| 17 | Samuel Schwarz | 16 | 16 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 24 | 0 | 28 | 36 | 24 | 190 |
| 18 | Sjoerd de Vries | – | – | 25 | 25 | 28 | 10 | 24 | 24 | 14 | 14 | 164 |
| 19 | Kyle Parrott | – | – | 15 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 40 | 18 | 40 | 6 | 154 |
| 20 | Nick Pearson | 12 | 12 | – | – | 19 | 25 | 21 | 12 | 32 | 10 | 143 |
| 21 | Aleksandr Lebedev | 2 | 0 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 127 |
| 22 | Remco olde Heuvel | – | – | 19 | 15 | 45 | 40 | – | – | – | – | 119 |
| 23 | Frank Steiner | 0 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 28 | 2 | 117 |
| 24 | Dmitry Lobkov | 28 | 8 | 28 | 32 | 5 | – | 8 | – | – | 3 | 112 |
| 25 | Erben Wennemars | 36 | 60 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 96 |
| 26 | Christopher Needham | – | – | – | – | 25 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 12 | – | 86 |
| 27 | Muncef Ouardi | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 10 | – | – | 83 |
| 28 | Jamie Gregg | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25 | 40 | 65 |
| 29 | Ermanno Ioriatti | – | – | – | – | – | 25 | 19 | 21 | – | – | 65 |
| 30 | Philippe Riopel | 2 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 56 |
| 31 | Tuomas Nieminen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 5 | – | 49 |
| 32 | Lee Ki-ho | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 15 | – | – | – | – | 46 |
| 33 | Håvard Bøkko | 24 | 21 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 45 |
| 34 | Aleksey Yesin | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 8 | 25 | 6 | – | 43 |
| 35 | Mun Jun | – | – | 6 | 21 | 8 | 6 | – | – | – | – | 41 |
| 36 | Nico Ihle | 0 | – | 8 | – | 15 | 11 | – | – | 0 | – | 34 |
| 37 | Timofey Skopin | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | – | 4 | 11 | – | – | 32 |
| 38 | Yu Fengtong | 11 | 6 | 5 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 30 |
| 39 | Brent Aussprung | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 4 | 19 | 6 | – | – | 29 |
| 40 | Christoffer Fagerli Rukke | 6 | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | – | 28 |
| 41 | Mikael Flygind-Larsen | 19 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 |
| 42 | Sergey Chadayev | – | – | 2 | 8 | 4 | – | – | 8 | 0 | – | 22 |
| 43 | Steven Elm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 19 | – | 19 |
| 44 | Takaharu Nakajima | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | 0 | 4 | – | 19 |
| 45 | Jan Friesinger | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | – | 15 |
| 45 | Chad Hedrick | – | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 |
| 47 | Joel Eriksson | 1 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | – | 13 |
| 48 | Yuya Oikawa | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | – | 6 | – | 12 |
| 49 | Zhang Yaolin | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 11 |
| 50 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 8 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| 51 | Zhang Zhongqi | – | – | 0 | 6 | – | – | 2 | 0 | – | – | 8 |
| 52 | Liu Fangyi | – | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 |
| 53 | Teruhiro Sugimori | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| 54 | Lee Kang-seok | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| 55 | Eric Rauschenbach | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 5 |
| 56 | Pasi Koskela | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 |
| 57 | Maciej Ustynowicz | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 2 | – | 2 |
| 57 | Vladimir Sherstyuk | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| 59 | Roman Krech | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 59 | Aleksandr Komar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 |