ISU World Cup Heerenveen Day 1

Written by T Dobbin

Last night was the first evening of events at the Heerenveen World Cup. There was an upset in the men's 1500 meter final with USA's Shani Davis taking out the victory and the hometown favourite Sven Kramer only finishing 11th. See below for full results

Ladies 500 meter Final 1
1st Jenny Wolf (Germany) 37.60
2nd Beixing Wang (China) 37.63
3rd Sang-Hwa Lee (Korea) 38.22

Men's 500 meter Final 1
1st Pekka Koskela (Finland) 34.88
2nd Dmitry Lobkov (Russia) 35.16
3rd Fengtong Yu (China) 35.18

Ladies 3000 meter Final
1st Renate Groenewold (Netherlands) 4:04.85
2nd Marina Sablikova (CZE) 4:05.54
3rd Diane Valkenburg (Netherlands) 4:05.70

Men's 1500 meter Final
1st Shani Davis (USA) 1:45.23
2nd Stefan Groothuis (Netherlands) 1:45.84
3rd Mark Tuiter (Netherlands) 1:45.90

For full results go to http://www.isuresults.eu/2008-2009/worldcup/heerenveen-1/index.html

For more photos go to http://www.fotos.desg.de/

ISU World Cup Heerenveen Annoucement

Written by T Dobbin

Today is the start of the second ISU World Cup for 2008 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. There will be no starts for New Zealand in Heerenveen due to no availablity for setting a qualifing time prior to this World Cup. The events start later on this afternoon with the program for this weekend as follows:

Friday 14th November 2008
Ladies 500 meter Final 1
Men's 500 meter Final 1
Ladies 3000 meter Final
Men's 1500 meter Final

Saturday 15th Novemebr 2008
Ladies 500 meter Final 2
Men's 500 meter Final 2
Ladies 1500 meter Final
Men's 5000 meter Final

Sunday 16th November 2008
Ladies 1000 meter Final
Men's 1000 meter Final
Ladies Team Pursuit
Men's Team Pursuit.

Keep posted for results from this weekends ISU World Cup in Heerenveen.

ISU World Cup Berlin Day 3

Written by T Dobbin

Results from the final day of the ISU World Cup in Berlin.

Ladies 1000 meter Final
1st Christine Nesbitt (Canada) 1:16.86
2nd Shannon Rempel (Canada) 1:17.11
3rd Laurine van Riessen (Netherlands) 1:17.21

Mens 1000 meter Final
1st Stefan Groothuis (Netherlands) 1:09.13
2nd Shani Davis (USA) 1:09.15
3rd Simon Kuipers (Netherlands) 1:09.30

Ladies Team Pursuit Final
1st Netherlands 3:04.34
2nd Germany 3:03.51
3rd USA 3:05.68

Mens Team Pursuit Final
1st Canada 3:47.29
2nd Germany 3:47.37
3rd Japan 3:48.02

For full results go to http://www.isuresults.eu/2008-2009/worldcup/berlin/

For more photos go to http://www.fotos.desg.de/