2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
World Cup 3 – Berlin
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
Mass start	men	women
Team pursuit	men	women

2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Men's 500 metres
	Obihiro Seoul Berlin
	Heerenveen (1) Heerenveen (2)
	Erfurt

The men's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 3, arranged in Sportforum Hohenschönhausen, in Berlin, Germany, were held on the weekend of 5–7 December 2014.^[1]

Race one was won by Artur Waś of Poland, while Laurent Dubreuil of Canada came second, and Michel Mulder of the Netherlands came third.^[2] Mirko Giacomo Nenzi of Italy won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two. Christian Oberbichler of Switzerland set a new national record with a time of 36.15.^[3]

In race two, Waś won again, while Espen Aarnes Hvammen of Norway came second, and Dubreuil had to settle for third.^[4] Xie Jiaxuan of China won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 5 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 13:37, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 17:29.^[5]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Artur Waś		1	o	35.01	100	50
	Laurent Dubreuil		8	i	35.09	80	40
	Michel Mulder		1	i	35.12	70	35
4	Ryohei Haga		6	i	35.13	60	30
5	Nico Ihle		8	o	35.17	50	25
6	Artyom Kuznetsov		4	o	35.23	45	—
7	Mo Tae-bum		9	o	35.26	40
8	Gilmore Junio		6	o	35.28	36
9	Kim Jun-ho		5	o	35.32	32
10	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		7	i	35.34	28
11	Denis Koval		5	i	35.40	24
12	Aleksey Yesin		3	o	35.43	21
13	Hein Otterspeer		7	o	35.45	18
14	Jan Smeekens		10	o	35.50	16
15	Denny Ihle		2	o	35.52	14
16	Pim Schipper		2	i	35.58	12
17	Ruslan Murashov		9	i	35.63	10
18	Yūya Oikawa		3	i	35.65	8
19	Keiichiro Nagashima		4	i	35.98	6
20	Pavel Kulizhnikov		10	i	DQ

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		16	o	35.40	25
2	Samuel Schwarz		12	o	35.44	19
3	Mika Poutala		6	o	35.49	15
4	Lee Kang-seok		17	o	35.56	11
5	Mitchell Whitmore		7	o	35.63	8
6	Mu Zhongsheng		15	i	35.64	6
7	Gerbena Jorritsma		17	i	35.68	4
8	Artur Nogal		14	o	35.75	2
9	Richard Maclennan		15	o	35.76	1
10	Xie Jiaxuan		12	i	35.77	—
11	Wang Nan		13	o	35.81
12	Tsubasa Hasegawa		14	i	35.879
	Piotr Michalski		10	i	35.879
14	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen		10	o	35.882
15	William Dutton		16	i	35.887
16	David Bosa		11	o	35.91
17	Tyler Derraugh		5	i	35.96
18	Jonathan Garcia		4	i	36.07
19	Shani Davis		11	i	36.10
20	Denis Dressel		9	i	36.11
21	Pekka Koskela		6	i	36.13
22	Christian Oberbichler		2	i	36.15 NR
23	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke		5	o	36.17
24	Daichi Yamanaka		13	i	36.22
25	Kimani Griffin		4	o	36.27
26	Luca Zanghellini		8	i	36.42
27	Aleksandr Zhigin		8	o	36.58
28	Juho Vaittinen		1	i	36.60
29	Denis Kuzin		9	o	36.611
30	Joel Dufter		2	o	36.615
31	Yevgeny Kazimirenko		3	i	36.83
32	David Andersson		3	o	37.00
33	Benjamin Macé		7	i	37.01

Notes: NR = national record.

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 7 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 09:18, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 14:59.^[5]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Artur Waś		10	i	35.04	100	50
	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		7	o	35.06	80	40
	Laurent Dubreuil		10	o	35.09	70	35
4	Denis Koval		6	o	35.10	60	30
5	Mo Tae-bum		7	i	35.12	50	25
6	Jan Smeekens		2	o	35.13	45	—
7	Michel Mulder		9	o	35.21	40
8	Nico Ihle		9	i	35.22	36
9	Kim Jun-ho		5	i	35.23	32
10	Hein Otterspeer		2	i	35.27	28
11	Aleksey Yesin		3	i	35.29	24
12	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		4	i	35.35	21
13	Keiichiro Nagashima		3	o	35.38	18
14	Gilmore Junio		6	i	35.39	16
15	Ryohei Haga		8	o	35.41	14
16	Artyom Kuznetsov		8	i	35.42	12
17	Pim Schipper		5	o	35.44	10
18	Yūya Oikawa		4	o	35.60	8
19	Denny Ihle		1	i	35.83	6

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Xie Jiaxuan		12	o	35.55	25
2	Gerben Jorritsma		13	o	35.58	19
3	Mu Zhongsheng		14	o	35.64	15
4	Mika Poutala		14	i	35.66	11
5	Wang Nan		9	i	35.69	8
6	Richard Maclennan		10	i	35.70	6
7	David Bosa		8	i	35.83	4
8	Mitchell Whitmore		12	i	35.84	2
9	Artur Nogal		11	i	35.85	1
10	Lee Kang-seok		13	i	35.88	—
11	William Dutton		9	o	35.97
12	Daichi Yamanaka		3	o	36.11
13	Tyler Derraugh		8	o	36.16
14	Jonathan Garcia		7	o	36.19
15	Piotr Michalski		11	o	36.26
16	Denis Dressel		6	o	36.31
17	Sebastian Richter		2	i	36.320
18	Christian Oberbichler		4	o	36.326
19	Kimani Griffin		6	i	36.35
20	Luca Zanghellini		2	o	36.39
21	Joel Dufter		5	i	36.56
22	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke		7	i	36.58
23	Pekka Koskela		5	o	36.69
24	David Andersson		4	i	36.83
25	Tommi Pulli		3	i	37.14
26	Yevgeny Kazimirenko		1	o	37.24
27	Benjamin Macé		1	i	37.28
28	Tsubasa Hasegawa		10	o	53.51

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