2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's mass start

2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Mass start	men	women
Team pursuit	men	women
World Cup weekends
Chelyabinsk  • Astana Heerenveen (1) • Salt Lake City Hamar  • Heerenveen (2)  • Berlin

The men's mass start in the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over three races on three occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion involving the event taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 25–27 November 2011, and the final occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 9–11 March 2012.^[1]

Alexis Contin of France won the cup, while Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands came second, and Jonathan Kuck of the United States came third.

The mass start was a new event for the season.

Top three

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Alexis Contin	250
Silver	Jorrit Bergsma	212
Bronze	Jonathan Kuck	196

Race medallists

Occasion #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
2	Astana, Kazakhstan	27 November	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	9:40.51	Jonathan Kuck  United States	9:40.67	Joo Hyong-jun  South Korea	9:40.81
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	4 March	Jonathan Kuck  United States	10:09.89	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	10:10.25	Alexis Contin  France	10:10.31
7	Berlin, Germany	11 March	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	10:39.27	Alexis Contin  France	10:43.14	Arjan Stroetinga  Netherlands	10:43.82

Standings

Standings as of 11 March 2012 (end of the season).^[2]

#	Name	Nat.	AST	HVN2	BER	Total
1	Alexis Contin		60	70	120	250
2	Jorrit Bergsma		50	12	150	212
3	Jonathan Kuck		80	100	16	196
4	Arjan Stroetinga		–	80	105	185
5	Lee Seung-hoon		100	–	75	175
6	Marco Weber		–	18	90	108
7	Alexej Baumgartner		28	50	28	106
8	Joo Hyong-jun		70	–	24	94
9	Jan Szymański		12	32	45	89
10	Dmitry Babenko		10	60	18	88
11	Patrick Beckert		32	36	–	68
12	Shane Dobbin		–	24	40	64
13	Bart Swings		24	40	–	64
14	Philippe Riopel		6	16	32	54
15	Jordan Belchos		16	–	36	52
16	Crispijn Ariens		–	28	21	49
17	Brian Hansen		21	14	14	49
18	Kristian Reistad Frederiksen		45	–	–	45
	Ivan Skobrev		–	45	–	45
20	Douwe de Vries		40	–	–	40
21	Trevor Marsicano		36	–	–	36
22	Fredrik van der Horst		–	21	–	21
23	Haralds Silovs		18	–	–	18
24	Bob de Jong		14	–	–	14
25	Sun Longjiang		–	10	–	10
26	Tyler Derraugh		–	8	–	8
27	Zdeněk Haselberger		8	–	–	8
28	Ferre Spruyt		4	3	–	7
29	Scott Bickerton		–	6	–	6
30	Benjamin Macé		0	5	–	5
31	Moritz Geisreiter		5	–	–	5
32	Aleksandr Rumyantsev		–	4	–	4
33	Martin Hänggi		3	–	–	3
34	Bram Smallenbroek		–	2	–	2
35	Joshua Lose		2	–	–	2
36	Joshua Wood		–	1	–	1
37	Milan Sáblík		1	–	–	1

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