The men's Grand World Cup of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was the season overall competition, for which all individual races and distances over the entire season counted, with points awarded to the top five competitors of each race.
Shani Davis of the United States was the defending champion. Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia won the Grand World Cup. Davis ended up in 11th place.
Rules All races and distances that were competed individually, including the mass start, counted.
Points system In order to determine an overall World Cup winner, a special points system was used, awarding points for the top five skaters in each individual event.
+ Points table for Grand World Cup Rank World Cup 1–6 World Cup 7 1 100 150 2 80 120 3 70 106 4 60 90 5 50 76 Note: half points were awarded in distances that were skated twice in the same competition.
Prize money
The Grand World Cup winner was awarded $20000.
Standings Standings as of 22 March 2015 (end of the season). Obihiro Seoul Berlin Heerenveen (1) Hamar Heerenveen (2) Erfurt # Name Nat. Total 500 500 1000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1500 500 500 1000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1500 5000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1000 500 500 1000 1500 5000 Total 1 Pavel Kulizhnikov 985 40 50 100 50 50 100 50 50 50 100 50 50 40 40 75 90 985 2 Bart Swings 806 70 80 60 50 70 60 70 106 90 150 806 3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen 786 100 60 80 80 50 70 120 120 106 786 4 Kjeld Nuis 750 80 100 70 70 80 50 80 50 50 120 750 5 Jorrit Bergsma 710 100 60 80 100 100 150 120 710 6 Denny Morrison 515 60 60 70 25 150 150 515 7 Wouter olde Heuvel 456 80 70 80 80 70 76 456 8 Lee Seung-hoon 450 100 70 100 80 100 450 9 Nico Ihle 436 25 30 25 100 35 35 35 30 45 76 436 10 Patrick Beckert 316 50 50 50 60 106 316 11 Shani Davis 295 50 50 50 50 70 25 295 12 Andrea Giovannini 286 100 50 60 76 286 13 Laurent Dubreuil 280 35 40 35 35 30 45 60 280 Bob de Jong 280 60 100 60 60 280 15 Ruslan Murashov 255 35 30 35 25 25 30 75 255 16 Michel Mulder 240 35 30 30 25 60 60 240 17 Artur Waś 220 50 50 40 40 40 220 18 Thomas Krol 206 70 60 76 206 19 Sven Kramer 200 100 100 200 Hein Otterspeer 200 30 70 70 30 200 Samuel Schwarz 200 70 80 50 200 Jan Szymański 200 100 100 200 23 Mo Tae-bum 170 25 40 40 25 40 170 Marco Weber 170 80 90 170 25 166 60 106 166 26 Aleksey Yesin 158 60 60 38 158 27 Jan Smeekens 155 50 40 30 35 155 28 Aleksandr Rumyantsev 150 80 70 150 Douwe de Vries 150 70 80 150 Denis Yuskov 150 100 50 150 31 Haralds Silovs 130 80 50 130 32 Koen Verweij 120 70 50 120 33 Stefan Groothuis 115 80 35 115 34 103 25 40 38 103 35 Konrad Niedźwiedzki 90 90 90 36 Kim Cheol-min 80 80 80 Arjan Stroetinga 80 80 80 38 Fabio Francolini 70 70 70 39 Ryohei Haga 65 35 30 65 40 Alexej Baumgärtner 60 60 60 Tyler Derraugh 60 60 60 Linus Heidegger 60 60 60 Kai Verbij 60 60 60 44 Gerben Jorritsma 53 53 53 45 Armin Hager 50 50 50 Mika Poutala 50 25 25 50 Bram Smallenbroek 50 50 50 Robert Watson 50 50 50 49 Denis Koval 30 30 30 # Name Nat. Total 500 500 1000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1500 500 500 1000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1500 5000 1500 5000 500 500 1000 1000 500 500 1000 1500 5000 Total Obihiro Seoul Berlin Heerenveen (1) Hamar Heerenveen (2) Erfurt
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