Having won the 1,000m World Cup yesterday, Nuis clocked an unrivalled time of 1min 45sec to ensure he beat Russia’s Denis Yuskov to the men's crown by 25 points. 

Yuskov came home in 1:46.63 to end up fourth and drop to second place in the standings. 

Dutchman Patrick Roest grabbed today’s silver in 1:46.28 to secure third place in the rankings, while home favourite Sverre Lunde Pedersen won bronze in 1:46.61.

Bergsma, meanwhile, knew that a gold medal today would seal the women’s 1,500m World Cup and she achieved just that with a time of 1:54.92.

The Netherlands’ Marrit Leenstra led the rankings without having won a single race throughout the season before today, but she finished fourth in 1:56.63 and ultimately had to settle for second. 

Japan’s Miho Takagi took the World Cup bronze with a second-place finish in 1:55.50, while Czech Republic’s Martina Sáblíková came third today in 1:56.62.

Success for Nuis and Bergsma saw them top the overall standings, which are also known as the Grand World Cup.

Nuis scored a total of 930 points across the campaign, while Bergsma amassed 1,217.

Today also saw the final 500m races of the season contested as The Netherlands’ Dai Dai Ntab set the fastest time in the men’s field to clinch the World Cup.

Ntab followed up his victory yesterday by clocking 34.72 to beat Russia’s Ruslan Murashov in the final pair.

Murashov was well positioned to win the World Cup, but blew his chances with an eighth-place finish in 34.99 and had to settle for silver.

Dutchman Ronald Mulder took the bronze having finished second today in 34.77.

Like yesterday, the top four in the men’s 500m were Dutch, but this time Jan Smeekens took the bronze in 34.81 and Kai Verbij came fourth in 34.83.

In the women’s event, Japan’s Nao Kodaira again left the rest of the field far behind after already securing the World Cup yesterday.

A time of 37.24 meant the world champion was almost half-a-second faster than Czech Republic’s Karolina Erbanova, who came second in 37.72.

Fellow Japanese Erina Kamiya took the bronze in 38.06 and climbed to third place in the World Cup classification.

Japan swept the World Cup podium with the unbeaten Kodaira on top and Maki Tsuji, who came seventh today in 38.25, in second place.

The men’s mass start event was won by South Korea’s Lee Seung-Hoon, who outsprinted The Netherlands’ Jorrit Bergsma and Belgium’s Bart Swings on the final straight to seal the World Cup win in 8:07.74.

Bergsma managed to stay in front of Swings in the battle for silver and thus climbed to third place in the final ranking behind Italy’s Andrea Giovannini, today's fourth-place finisher.

In the women’s mass start event, South Korea’s Kim Bo-Reum secured the World Cup despite finishing second to The Netherlands’ Irene Schouten on the day.

Kim was 0.06 seconds shy of Schouten's 8:45.69, but her runners-up spot was enough to hold off Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida. 

Lollobrigida finished second in the rankings after taking home today’s bronze in 8:45.78, while Canada’s Ivanie Blondin, today’s eighth-place finisher, came third.

Today’s team sprint events were both won by The Netherlands, but neither victory was enough to secure World Cup gold.

The Dutch clocked a time of 1:20.55 in the men’s competition to beat Canada, second in 1:20.91, and Germany, third in 1:21.06.

They came third in the rankings though behind winners Canada and second-placed Germany. 

In the women’s competition, The Netherlands finished in 1:27.44 with Japan 0.47 seconds behind and Norway a further 0.25 seconds back.

Japan won the World Cup in front of the Dutch and Russia, who crashed out of today’s race.