title: 2016 European Speed Skating Championships
text: # 2016 European Speed Skating Championships
  
  The 2016 European Speed Skating Championships were held in Minsk, Belarus, from 9 to 10 January 2016. Skaters from 17 countries participated.
  
  Sven Kramer and Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands were the defending champions. Kramer successfully defended his title, winning a record 8th title overall, and Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic won her 5th title.
  
  ## Schedule
  
  The schedule of events:
  
  | Date | Events |
  | - | - |
  | Saturday, 9 January  15:00h | 500 m women  500 m men  3000 m women  5000 m men |
  | Sunday, 10 January  15:00h | 1500 m women  1500 m men  5000 m women  10,000 m men |
  
  All times are FET (UTC+3).
  
  ## Men's championships
  
  DNS = did not start, WDR = withdrew, DQ = disqualified
  
  ### Final ranking
  
  | Rank | Skater | 500 m | 5000 m | 1500 m | 10,000 m | Points | Behind |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Sven Kramer | 36.56 (4) | 6:19.17 (1) | 1:48.08 (5) | 13:11.98 (1) | 150.102 | |
  | | Bart Swings | 36.73 (9) | 6:24.91 (3) | 1:46.41 (2) | 13:15.47 (2) | 150.464 | +0.37 |
  | | Jan Blokhuijsen | 36.57 (5) | 6:22.36 (2) | 1:48.79 (9) | 13:22.14 (3) | 151.176 | +1.08 |
  | 4 | Håvard Bøkko | 36.63 (6) | 6:31.62 (4) | 1:48.87 (10) | 13:35.21 (4) | 152.842 | +2.74 |
  | 5 | Andrea Giovannini | 36.87 (11) | 6:32.22 (5) | 1:48.97 (12) | 13:41.39 (5) | 153.484 | +3.39 |
  | 6 | Haralds Silovs | 36.70 (7) | 6:33.83 (6) | 1:48.46 (6) | 13:53.25 (6) | 153.898 | +3.80 |
  | 7 | Jan Szymański | 37.21 (16) | 6:34.43 (7) | 1:47.48 (3) | 13:57.27 (7) | 154.342 | +4.24 |
  | 8 | Sindre Henriksen | 36.71 (8) | 6:38.23 (10) | 1:48.56 (7) | 14:16.64 (8) | 155.551 | +5.45 |
  | 9 | Denis Yuskov | 36.23 (1) | 6:35.81 (8) | 1:45.18 (1) | | 110.871 | |
  | 10 | Zbigniew Bródka | 36.46 (2) | 6:42.80 (15) | 1:48.05 (4) | | 112.756 | |
  | 11 | Sergey Gryaztsov | 37.02 (14) | 6:39.18 (12) | 1:48.70 (8) | | 113.171 | |
  | 12 | Vitaly Mikhailov | 36.88 (12) | 6:38.56 (11) | 1:49.98 (14) | | 113.396 | |
  | 13 | Sergey Trofimov | 36.97 (13) | 6:41.84 (14) | 1:48.92 (11) | | 113.460 | |
  | 14 | Nicola Tumolero | 37.19 (15) | 6:36.40 (9) | 1:50.48 (15) | | 113.656 | |
  | 15 | Linus Heidegger | 37.23 (17) | 6:43.13 (16) | 1:50.49 (16) | | 114.373 | |
  | 16 | Konrád Nagy | 36.48 (3) | 6:58.03 (20) | 1:49.03 (13) | | 114.626 | |
  | 17 | Livio Wenger | 37.38 (18) | 6:44.78 (17) | 1:51.13 (17) | | 114.901 | |
  | 18 | Felix Maly | 38.76 (23) | 6:46.08 (18) | 1:55.24 (19) | | 117.781 | |
  | 19 | Iñigo Vidondo | 38.25 (20) | 6:58.59 (21) | 1:53.62 (18) | | 117.982 | |
  | 20 | Tuomas Rahnasto | 38.50 (22) | 7:02.48 (22) | 1:56.24 (20) | | 119.494 | |
  | 21 | Piotr Puszkarski | 36.76 (10) | 6:51.77 (19) | DQ (21) | | – | |
  | 22 | Douwe de Vries | 37.75 (19) | 6:41.56 (13) | WDR (22) | | – | |
  | 23 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | WDR (24) | WDR (24) | | | – | |
  | 24 | Jonas Pflug | 38.37 (21) | DNS (23) | | | – | |
  
  ## Women's championships
  
  ### Final ranking
  
  | Rank | Skater | 500 m | 3000 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | Points | Behind |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Martina Sáblíková | 39.98 (4) | 4:03.79 (1) | 1:57.00 (1) | 6:58.44 (1) | 161.455 | |
  | | Ireen Wüst | 39.90 (3) | 4:07.32 (3) | 1:57.01 (2) | 7:10.65 (4) | 163.188 | +1.74 |
  | | Antoinette de Jong | 39.76 (2) | 4:09.00 (4) | 1:58.80 (4) | 7:11.83 (5) | 164.043 | +2.59 |
  | 4 | Marije Joling | 40.33 (6) | 4:07.14 (2) | 1:58.90 (5) | 7:10.10 (2) | 164.163 | +2.71 |
  | 5 | Natalya Voronina | 40.46 (8) | 4:09.61 (5) | 2:01.46 (10) | 7:10.19 (3) | 165.566 | +4.12 |
  | 6 | Ida Njåtun | 39.74 (1) | 4:10.69 (6) | 1:58.51 (3) | 7:25.92 (7) | 165.616 | +4.17 |
  | 7 | Olga Graf | 40.57 (11) | 4:16.06 (8) | 1:59.00 (6) | 7:23.33 (6) | 167.245 | +5.79 |
  | 8 | Francesca Lollobrigida | 40.57 (11) | 4:15.40 (7) | 2:01.90 (11) | 7:38.11 (8) | 169.580 | +8.13 |
  | 9 | Elizaveta Kazelina | 40.18 (5) | 4:16.13 (9) | 2:00.02 (9) | | 122.874 | |
  | 10 | Luiza Złotkowska | 40.47 (9) | 4:16.68 (10) | 1:59.40 (7) | | 123.050 | |
  | 11 | Natalia Czerwonka | 40.36 (7) | 4:18.20 (12) | 1:59.57 (8) | | 123.249 | |
  | 12 | Marina Zueva | 40.54 (10) | 4:17.80 (11) | 2:03.89 (14) | | 124.802 | |
  | 13 | Nikola Zdráhalová | 40.89 (14) | 4:19.54 (13) | 2:03.15 (12) | | 125.196 | |
  | 14 | Sofie-Karoline Haugen | 41.07 (15) | 4:22.40 (14) | 2:03.50 (13) | | 125.969 | |
  | 15 | Tatyana Mikhailova | 40.63 (13) | 4:29.60 (17) | 2:04.10 (15) | | 126.929 | |
  | 16 | Leia Behlau | 42.30 (16) | 4:27.12 (16) | 2:06.46 (16) | | 128.973 | |
  | 17 | Saskia Alusalu | 43.09 (17) | 4:24.31 (15) | 2:07.49 (17) | | 129.637 | |
  