2009–10 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 1500 metres

2009–10 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Events
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3k/5k		women
5k/10k	men
Team pursuit	men	women

The 1500 metres distance for men in the 2009–10 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 6–8 November 2009, and the final occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 12–14 March 2010.^[1]

Shani Davis of the United States successfully defended his title from the previous season, while Håvard Bøkko of Norway came second, improving on his third place from the previous season, and Denny Morrison of Canada came third.

On the fifth competition weekend, in Salt Lake City, Davis set a new world record of 1:41.04.

Top three

Medal	Athlete	Points	Previous season
Gold	Shani Davis	630	1st
Silver	Håvard Bøkko	395	3rd
Bronze	Denny Morrison	338	7th

Race medallists

Occasion #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Berlin, Germany	8 November	Shani Davis  United States	1:44.47	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:45.56	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:45.69	[2]
2	Heerenveen, Netherlands	13 November	Shani Davis  United States	1:44.48	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:45.57	Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:45.74	[3]
3	Hamar, Norway	21 November	Shani Davis  United States	1:44.27	Lucas Makowsky  Canada	1:45.40	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:45.61	[4]
4	Calgary, Canada	4 December	Chad Hedrick  United States	1:42.14	Shani Davis  United States	1:42.19	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:42.74	[5]
5	Salt Lake City, United States	11 December	Shani Davis  United States	1:41.04 WR	Chad Hedrick  United States	1:42.19	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	1:42.85	[6]
7	Heerenveen, Netherlands	12 March	Shani Davis  United States	1:45.20	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:46.12	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:46.61	[7]

Final standings

Standings as of 14 March 2010 (end of the season).^[8][9]

#	Name	Nat.	BER	HVN1	HAM	CAL	SLC	HVN2	Total
1	Shani Davis		100	100	100	80	100	150	630
2	Håvard Bøkko		80	80	70	60	60	45	395
3	Denny Morrison		70	28	–	70	50	120	338
4	Mark Tuitert		50	60	45	45	–	90	290
5	Chad Hedrick		28	0	60	100	80	–	268
6	Stefan Groothuis		60	70	10	50	–	75	265
7	Lucas Makowsky		18	36	80	28	36	32	230
8	Ivan Skobrev		36	45	40	36	40	–	197
9	Rhian Ket		40	50	14	32	–	28	164
10	Kjeld Nuis		–	–	25	18	6	105	154
11	Trevor Marsicano		10	19	28	40	21	36	154
12	Enrico Fabris		21	32	50	5	45	–	153
13	Yevgeny Lalenkov		45	18	–	24	16	18	121
14	Konrad Niedźwiedzki		24	12	21	21	28	12	118
15	Remco olde Heuvel		16	40	36	–	–	24	116
16	Mo Tae-bum		12	8	–	25	70	–	115
17	Mikael Flygind-Larsen		32	21	12	8	14	21	108
18	Mathieu Giroux		14	24	32	14	8	14	106
19	Matteo Anesi		15	16	18	12	24	10	95
20	Denis Kuzin		19	14	8	6	–	40	87
21	Aleksey Yesin		11	10	–	15	10	16	62
22	Brian Hansen		8	1	24	16	12	–	61
23	Robert Lehmann		1	0	11	–	25	8	45
24	Joel Eriksson		0	6	16	4	18	–	44
25	Teruhiro Sugimori		5	0	4	6	19	–	34
26	Erben Wennemars		8	25	–	–	0	–	33
27	Sven Kramer		–	–	–	–	32	–	32
28	Mun Jun		25	6	–	0	–	–	31
29	Steven Elm		4	2	–	8	15	–	29
30	Jonathan Kuck		4	15	5	2	1	–	27
31	Alexis Contin		0	–	15	10	–	–	25
32	Simon Kuipers		–	–	–	19	–	–	19
33	Jeff Kitura		–	–	19	–	–	–	19
34	Zbigniew Bródka		0	–	6	11	0	–	17
	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke		6	11	–	0	0	–	17
36	Jörg Dallmann		2	4	6	0	4	–	16
37	Samuel Schwarz		–	–	–	–	11	–	11
38	Lee Jong-woo		0	8	–	0	2	–	10
39	Johan Röjler		–	–	8	1	–	–	9
40	Haralds Silovs		–	–	–	0	8	–	8
41	Aleksandr Lebedev		2	0	–	0	6	–	8
42	Ha Hong-sun		6	0	–	0	0	–	6
43	Daniel Friberg		3	0	–	0	0	–	3
44	Takaharu Nakajima		0	0	2	0	0	–	2
45	Sverre Haugli		–	0	1	–	–	–	1
	Jan Friesinger		1	–	–	0	–	–	1

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