# 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 3

The third competition weekend of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Alau Ice Palace in Astana, Kazakhstan, from Friday, 29 November, until Sunday, 1 December 2013. It was previously announced to be in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
There were no new world records this weekend, but Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea set a new low-altitude record on the women's 500 metres on Friday, as she skated the fastest time recorded on any rink outside Calgary and Salt Lake City, continuing her winning streak from the start of the season through Saturday's race. Shani Davis of the United States and Sven Kramer of the Netherlands also continued their unbeaten streaks, on the men's 1000 metres and 5000/10000 meters, respectively.

## Schedule

The detailed schedule of events:
| Date | Session | Events | Comment |
| Friday, 29 November | Afternoon | 13:30: 500 m women (1)  13:52: 5000 m women  15:48: 1500 m men | Division B |
| Friday, 29 November | Evening | 18:00: 500 m women (1)  18:38: 5000 m women  19:46: 1500 m men | Division A |
| Saturday, 30 November | Afternoon | 13:30: 500 m women (2)  13:50: 500 m men (1)  14:38: 1500 m women  15:40: 1000 m men | Division B |
| Saturday, 30 November | Evening | 17:30: 500 m women (2)  17:55: 500 m men (1)  18:35: 1500 m women  19:27: 1000 m men | Division A |
| Sunday, 1 December | Morning | 09:30: 500 m men (2)  09:54: 1000 m women  10:49: 10000 m men | Division B |
| Sunday, 1 December | Afternoon | 15:00: 500 m men (2)  15:25: 1000 m women  16:10: 10000 m men | Division A |
All times are BTT (UTC+6).

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 500 m | 1 | Artyom Kuznetsov Russia | 34.85 | Dmitry Lobkov Russia | 34.86 | Ronald Mulder Netherlands | 34.87 |
| 500 m | 2 | Keiichiro Nagashima Japan | 34.69 | Mo Tae-bum South Korea | 34.87 | Artyom Kuznetsov Russia | 34.92 |
| 1000 m | | Shani Davis United States | 1:08.66 | Mirko Giacomo Nenzi Italy | 1:08.90 | Michel Mulder Netherlands | 1:09.02 |
| 1500 m | | Denis Yuskov Russia | 1:45.06 | Koen Verweij Netherlands | 1:45.23 | Zbigniew Bródka Poland | 1:45.78 |
| 10000 m | | Sven Kramer Netherlands | 13:02.38 | Alexis Contin France | 13:14.64 | Patrick Beckert Germany | 13:18.73 |

### Women's events

| Event | Race # | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 500 m | 1 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.27 | Jenny Wolf Germany | 37.70 | Nao Kodaira Japan | 37.72 |
| 500 m | 2 | Lee Sang-hwa South Korea | 37.32 | Jenny Wolf Germany | 37.66 | Olga Fatkulina Russia | 37.81 |
| 1000 m | | Heather Richardson United States | 1:14.22 | Brittany Bowe United States | 1:14.78 | Olga Fatkulina Russia | 1:15.18 |
| 1500 m | | Brittany Bowe United States | 1.57.28 | Yuliya Skokova Russia | 1.57.70 | Brittany Schussler Canada | 1.57.78 |
| 5000 m | | Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic | 6:59.88 | Claudia Pechstein Germany | 7:01.10 | Yvonne Nauta Netherlands | 7:04.64 |

## Standings

The top ten standings in the contested cups after the weekend.

### Men's cups
#### 500 m

| # | Name | CAL1 | CAL2 | SLC1 | SLC2 | AST1 | AST2 | Total |
| 1 | Ronald Mulder | 100 | 70 | 24 | 80 | 70 | 32 | 376 |
| 2 | Mo Tae-bum | 80 | 80 | 5 | 70 | 32 | 80 | 347 |
| 3 | Michel Mulder | 60 | 32 | 70 | 60 | 21 | 45 | 288 |
| 4 | Keiichiro Nagashima | 19 | 4 | 16 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 284 |
| 5 | Artyom Kuznetsov | 50 | 14 | 36 | 14 | 100 | 70 | 284 |
| 6 | Joji Kato | 10 | 40 | 100 | 21 | 50 | 60 | 281 |
| 7 | Tucker Fredricks | 25 | 100 | 50 | 8 | 45 | 50 | 278 |
| 8 | Jamie Gregg | 70 | 70 | 40 | 50 | | | 230 |
| 9 | Mitchell Whitmore | 36 | 50 | 60 | 40 | 28 | 14 | 228 |
| 10 | Jan Smeekens | 40 | 40 | 45 | 12 | 60 | 28 | 225 |

#### 1000 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Shani Davis | 100 | 100 | 100 | 300 |
| 2 | Kjeld Nuis | 80 | 80 | | 160 |
| 3 | Michel Mulder | 32 | 50 | 70 | 152 |
| 4 | Denny Morrison | 24 | 60 | 60 | 144 |
| 5 | Denis Kuzin | 60 | 36 | 45 | 141 |
| 6 | Brian Hansen | 70 | 70 | | 140 |
| 7 | Koen Verweij | 50 | 32 | 36 | 118 |
| 8 | Mirko Giacomo Nenzi | 19 | 14 | 80 | 113 |
| 9 | Jamie Gregg | 40 | 40 | | 80 |
| 10 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 1 | 25 | 50 | 76 |

#### 1500 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Koen Verweij | 100 | 70 | 80 | 250 |
| 2 | Shani Davis | 80 | 100 | 50 | 230 |
| 3 | Denis Yuskov | 14 | 60 | 100 | 174 |
| 4 | Zbigniew Bródka | 36 | 45 | 70 | 151 |
| 5 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 45 | 28 | 60 | 133 |
| 6 | Kjeld Nuis | 70 | 40 | | 110 |
| 7 | Brian Hansen | 25 | 80 | | 105 |
| 8 | Alexis Contin | 50 | 16 | 36 | 102 |
| 9 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 40 | 32 | 28 | 100 |
| 10 | Denny Morrison | 24 | 50 | 24 | 98 |

#### 5000/10000 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Sven Kramer | 100 | 100 | 100 | 300 |
| 2 | Lee Seung-hoon | 70 | 40 | 50 | 160 |
| 3 | Jorrit Bergsma | 80 | 70 | | 150 |
| 4 | Bob de Jong | 60 | 80 | | 140 |
| 5 | Alexis Contin | 27 | 30 | 80 | 137 |
| 6 | Jonathan Kuck | 32 | 50 | 45 | 127 |
| 7 | Patrick Beckert | 30 | 21 | 70 | 121 |
| 8 | Bart Swings | 25 | 25 | 60 | 110 |
| 9 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | 35 | 45 | 25 | 105 |
| 10 | Moritz Geisreiter | 40 | 16 | 35 | 91 |

#### Grand World Cup

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Shani Davis | 18 | 20 | 15 | 53 |
| 2 | Koen Verweij | 20 | 7 | 8 | 35 |
| 3 | Sven Kramer | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| 4 | Kjeld Nuis | 15 | 8 | | 23 |
| 5 | Brian Hansen | 7 | 15 | | 22 |
| 6 | Michel Mulder | 6.5 | 8 | 7 | 21.5 |
| 7 | Denny Morrison | | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 8 | Ronald Mulder | 8.5 | 4 | 3.5 | 16 |
| 8 | Denis Yuskov | | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 10 | Mo Tae-bum | 8 | 3.5 | 4 | 15.5 |

### Women's cups
#### 500 m

| # | Name | CAL1 | CAL2 | SLC1 | SLC2 | AST1 | AST2 | Total |
| 1 | Lee Sang-hwa | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 600 |
| 2 | Jenny Wolf | 80 | 80 | 60 | 28 | 80 | 80 | 408 |
| 3 | Heather Richardson | 50 | 50 | 70 | 80 | 60 | 50 | 360 |
| 4 | Olga Fatkulina | 45 | 45 | 50 | 70 | 50 | 70 | 330 |
| 5 | Wang Beixing | 70 | 70 | 80 | 60 | | | 280 |
| 6 | Nao Kodaira | 60 | 36 | 40 | 21 | 70 | | 227 |
| 7 | Margot Boer | 40 | 60 | 45 | 45 | | | 190 |
| 8 | Brittany Bowe | 32 | 28 | 36 | 32 | 28 | 24 | 180 |
| 9 | Thijsje Oenema | 10 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 45 | 60 | 163 |
| 10 | Maki Tsuji | 28 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 32 | 45 | 153 |

#### 1000 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Heather Richardson | 100 | 80 | 100 | 280 |
| 2 | Brittany Bowe | 70 | 100 | 80 | 250 |
| 3 | Olga Fatkulina | 50 | 60 | 70 | 180 |
| 4 | Lotte van Beek | 80 | 32 | | 112 |
| 5 | Ireen Wüst | 40 | 70 | | 110 |
| 6 | Lee Sang-hwa | 60 | | 50 | 110 |
| 7 | Margot Boer | 45 | 50 | | 95 |
| 8 | Nao Kodaira | 24 | 40 | 28 | 92 |
| 9 | Yuliya Skokova | 15 | 8 | 60 | 83 |
| 10 | Karolína Erbanová | 16 | 18 | 40 | 74 |

#### 1500 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Brittany Bowe | 19 | 80 | 100 | 199 |
| 2 | Ireen Wüst | 80 | 100 | | 180 |
| 3 | Yuliya Skokova | 32 | 50 | 80 | 162 |
| 4 | Lotte van Beek | 100 | 60 | | 160 |
| 5 | Ida Njåtun | 45 | 36 | 32 | 113 |
| 6 | Claudia Pechstein | 36 | 24 | 45 | 105 |
| 7 | Brittany Schussler | 8 | 19 | 70 | 97 |
| 8 | Heather Richardson | 25 | 70 | | 95 |
| 9 | Monique Angermüller | 21 | 32 | 40 | 93 |
| 10 | Yekaterina Lobysheva | 50 | 40 | | 90 |

#### 3000/5000 m

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Martina Sáblíková | 80 | 100 | 100 | 280 |
| 2 | Claudia Pechstein | 100 | 80 | 80 | 260 |
| 3 | Yvonne Nauta | 45 | 21 | 70 | 136 |
| 4 | Antoinette de Jong | 60 | 70 | | 130 |
| 5 | Ida Njåtun | 40 | 45 | 30 | 115 |
| 6 | Shiho Ishizawa | 27 | 25 | 60 | 112 |
| 7 | Jorien Voorhuis | 50 | 60 | | 110 |
| 8 | Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś | 35 | 40 | 35 | 110 |
| 9 | Masako Hozumi | 23 | 35 | 45 | 103 |
| 10 | Nana Takagi | 25 | 16 | 50 | 91 |

#### Grand World Cup

| # | Name | CAL | SLC | AST | Total |
| 1 | Heather Richardson | 15 | 22.5 | 15.5 | 53 |
| 2 | Brittany Bowe | 7 | 18 | 18 | 43 |
| 3 | Lee Sang-hwa | 16 | 10 | 15 | 41 |
| 4 | Martina Sáblíková | 15 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 5 | Ireen Wüst | 15 | 17 | | 32 |
| 6 | Olga Fatkulina | 5 | 12 | 13 | 30 |
| 7 | Claudia Pechstein | 10 | 8 | 8 | 26 |
| 8 | Lotte van Beek | 18 | 6 | | 24 |
| 9 | Yuliya Skokova | | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| 9 | Jenny Wolf | 8 | 3 | 8 | 19 |