2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres

The 500 meters distance for women in the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup will be contested over 12 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 Nao Kodaira of Japan.

Top three

Position	Athlete	Points	Previous season

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Calgary, Canada	13 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.96	Zhang Hong  China	37.18	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.22	[2]
		15 November	Zhang Hong  China	36.94	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.99	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.06	[3]
2	Salt Lake City, United States	20 November	Zhang Hong  China	36.56	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.03	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.13	[4]
		21 November	Zhang Hong  China	36.82	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.83	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.08	[5]
3	Inzell, Germany	4 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.33	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.70	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	38.00	[6]
		6 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.36	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.84	Heather McLean  Canada	38.02	[7]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	11 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.59	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.86	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.93	[8]
		13 December	Yu Jing  China	37.84	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.87	Zhang Hong  China	37.90	[9]
5	Stavanger, Norway	29 January	Zhang Hong  China	37.82	Yu Jing  China	37.93	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	37.99	[10]
		30 January	Yu Jing  China	37.63	Zhang Hong  China	37.82	Heather McLean  Canada	38.02	[11]
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	11 March	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.84	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	38.02	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	38.20	[12]
		12 March	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.64	Heather Richardson-Bergsma  United States	37.88	Heather McLean  Canada	38.07	[13]

Standings

Standings as of 30 January 2016.[14]

#	Name	Nat.	CGY1	CGY2	SLC1	SLC2	INZ1	INZ2	HVN1	HVN2	STA1	STA2	HVN3	HVN4	Total
1	Zhang Hong		80	100	100	100	—	—	60	70	100	80			690
2	Lee Sang-hwa		100	80	60	80	100	100	100	60	—	—			680
3	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		60	70	70	60	70	80	70	80	24	24			608
4	Yu Jing		45	50	50	50	—	—	36	100	80	100			511
5	Brittany Bowe		70	60	80	70	80	—	80	—	45	—			485
6	Vanessa Bittner		50	36	45	21	50	50	45	40	60	40			437
7	Heather McLean		19	28	16	45	60	70	32	28	50	70			418
8	Olga Fatkulina		28	21	32	40	45	18	50	45	40	60			379
9	Erina Kamiya		36	40	21	28	36	60	21	18	18	32			310
10	Nao Kodaira		24	24	40	12	40	12	18	36	36	45			287
11	Karolína Erbanová		21	18	24	10	32	28	40	32	28	50			283
12	Maki Tsuji		40	32	28	36	24	36	16	24	12	21			269
13	Jorien ter Mors		32	45	—	—	—	—	24	50	70	—			221
14	Marsha Hudey		25	10	14	18	18	45	12	12	21	36			211
15	Sugar Todd		11	14	36	32	21	32	14	21	6	6			193
16	Margot Boer		14	8	18	16	16	16	28	14	32	18			180
17	Kim Min-sun		8	6	25	14	28	40	10	16	10	5			162
18	Yekaterina Aydova		8	25	10	5	12	14	19	10	14	14			131
19	Nadezhda Aseyeva		12	16	5	25	6	5	6	15	8	28			126
20	Floor van den Brandt		10	19	6	24	14	21	8	5	5	8			120
21	Janine Smit		6	15	8	0	25	10	4	19	16	12			115
22	Li Qishi		15	6	15	—	5	—	11	—	11	25			88
23	Yekaterina Shikhova		1	1	6	11	19	—	25	8	1	16			88
24	Arisa Go		18	12	12	6	8	8	15	6	—	—			85
25	Kim Hyun-yung		6	8	0	2	6	25	6	11	6	6			76
26	Marrit Leenstra		—	—	19	8	11	24	8	—	—	—			70
27	Kaylin Irvine		4	0	1	19	10	6	2	8	2	11			63
28	Yvonne Daldossi		0	0	4	6	4	19	5	1	0	8			47
29	Li Huawei		—	—	—	—	8	8	1	25	—	—			42
30	Shannon Rempel		4	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	8	19			42
31	Hege Bøkko		0	2	8	1	0	11	—	4	0	15			41
32	Jang Mi		0	4	11	15	—	—	—	—	—	—			30
33	Zhang Xin		0	0	0	8	6	15	0	0	—	—			29
34	Miho Takagi		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	25	—			25
35	Anice Das		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	15	10			25
36	Bo van der Werff		16	5	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—			21
37	Misaki Oshigiri		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	19	—			19
38	Letitia de Jong		—	—	—	—	15	—	—	—	—	—			15
39	Gabriele Hirschbichler		5	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	4	—			11
40	Elina Risku		0	0	0	4	2	1	0	2	0	0			9
41	Yuliya Kozyreva		—	—	—	—	0	0	0	6	—	—			6
42	Anastasia Bucsis		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	4			4
43	Park Soo-jin		0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	—	—			4
44	Martine Ripsrud		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	2			2
45	Paige Schwartzburg		0	0	0	0	0	2	0	—	0	0			2
46	Mayon Kuipers		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1			1
47	Kali Christ		—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—			1

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