2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's mass start

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Events
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
Team Sprint	men	women
Sprint combination	men	women
Allround combination	men	women
Grand world cup	men	women
World Cup weekends
Calgary • Salt Lake City • Inzell Heerenveen (1) • Stavanger • Heerenveen (2)

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Women's mass start
	Calgary Salt Lake City Inzell Heerenveen (1) Heerenveen (2)

The women's mass start in the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup will be contested over five races on six occasions, out of a total of World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 13–15 November 2015, and the final occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 11–13 March 2016.^[1]

The defending champion is Ivanie Blondin of Canada. Blondin finished podium in all five races, but failed to win one. Irene Schouten of the Netherlands won three races and the final classification.

Top three

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Race points	Silver	Race points	Bronze	Race points	Report
1	Calgary, Canada	15 November	Kim Bo-reum  South Korea	60	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	41	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	23	[2]
2	Salt Lake City, United States	22 November	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40	Misaki Oshigiri  Japan	20	[3]
3	Inzell, Germany	6 December	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40	Park Do-yeong  South Korea	20	[4]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	13 December	Misaki Oshigiri  Japan	65	Carien Kleibeuker  Netherlands	43	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	20	[5]
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	13 March	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40	Miho Takagi  Japan	20	[6]

Note: in mass start, race points are accumulated during the race. The skater with most race points is the winner. The races are over 16 laps.

Standings

#	Name	Nat.	CGY	SLC	INZ	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Irene Schouten		80	100	100	36	150	466
2	Ivanie Blondin		70	80	80	70	120	420
3	Misaki Oshigiri		25	70	—	100	76	271
4	Miho Takagi		36	16	28	45	104	229
5	Hao Jiachen		21	36	24	32	90	203
6	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		50	28	45	24	36	183
7	Luiza Złotkowska		11	50	32	40	32	165
8	Liu Jing		14	40	50	12	45	161
9	Janneke Ensing		32	60	40	19	—	151
10	Park Do-yeong		40	19	70	21	—	150
11	Francesca Bettrone		15	18	18	50	40	141
12	Carien Kleibeuker		—	11	25	80	14	130
13	Martina Sáblíková		60	—	60	5	—	125
14	Francesca Lollobrigida		24	24	36	14	21	119
15	Kim Bo-Reum		100	5	—	—	—	105
16	Vanessa Bittner		6	—	19	69	12	97
17	Josie Spence		10	45	5	28	—	88
18	Marina Zueva		18	12	16	16	24	86
19	Claudia Pechstein		16	32	12	8	16	84
20	Jelena Peeters		8	14	16	18	28	84
21	Nana Takagi		28	25	21	0	—	74
22	Nikola Zdráhalová		45	10	10	6	—	71
23	Noh Seon-Yeong		19	21	8	0	—	48
24	Aleksandra Goss		8	8	6	11	18	43
25	Paige Schwartzburg		6	15	6	15	—	42
26	Katarzyna Wozniak		—	6	11	8	—	25
27	Park Ji-woo		—	—	15	10	—	25
28	Bente Kraus		12	—	4	6	—	22
29	Erin Bartlett		0	0	0	15	—	15
30	Saskia Alusalu		—	6	2	4	—	12
31	Isabelle Weidemann		0	8	1	0	—	9
32	Tatyana Mikhailova		4	4	0	1	—	9
33	Sofie Karoline Haugen		—	—	8	0	—	8
34	Natalie Kerschbaummayr		2	1	0	—	—	3
35	Natalya Voronina		0	—	—	2	—	2
36	Katerina Novotná		—	2	—	—	—	2
37	Lisa van der Geest		1	—	—	—	—	1

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