The 500 meters distance for women in the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 races on six occasions, out of a total of six World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 8–10 November 2013, and the final occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 14–16 March 2014.
The defending champion was Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea.
On 9 November, in the second race in Calgary, Lee improved her own world record with a time of 36.74 seconds. Six days later, in the first race in Salt Lake City, she improved the record a further 17/100, to 36.57 seconds. Amazingly, the next day, for the third time within a week, she again broke the world record, this time with a time of 36.36 seconds.
Lee won the first seven races, but did not to participate in the rest of the races. This allowed for three other skaters to pass her in aggregate points. Instead, Olga Fatkulina of Russia won the cup, while Heather Richardson of the United States came second, and Jenny Wolf of Germany came third. Lee ended up in fourth place.
Top three PositionAthletePointsPrevious season 1 Olga Fatkulina 960 4th 2 Heather Richardson 915 5th 3 Jenny Wolf 803 2nd
Race medallists Occasion # Location Date Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report 1 Calgary, Alberta, Canada 8 November Lee Sang-hwa 36.91 Jenny Wolf 37.14 Wang Beixing 37.40 9 November Lee Sang-hwa 36.74WR Jenny Wolf 37.18 Wang Beixing 37.30 2 , 15 November Lee Sang-hwa 36.57WR Wang Beixing 36.85 Heather Richardson 36.97 16 November Lee Sang-hwa 36.36WR Heather Richardson 36.90 Olga Fatkulina 37.13 3 Astana, Kazakhstan 29 November Lee Sang-hwa 37.27 Jenny Wolf 37.70 Nao Kodaira 37.72 30 November Lee Sang-hwa 37.32 Jenny Wolf 37.66 Olga Fatkulina 37.81 4 Berlin, Germany 6 December Lee Sang-hwa 37.36 Olga Fatkulina 37.71 Wang Beixing 37.79 7 December Olga Fatkulina 37.92 Wang Beixing 37.96 Heather Richardson 38.00 5 Inzell, Germany 7 March Heather Richardson 37.85 Judith Hesse 37.86 Olga Fatkulina 37.89 8 March Heather Richardson 37.70 Olga Fatkulina 37.84 Jenny Wolf 37.89 6 Heerenveen, Netherlands 15 March Olga Fatkulina 37.67 Heather Richardson 37.79 Nao Kodaira 37.95 16 March Olga Fatkulina 37.86 Jenny Wolf 38.00 Heather Richardson 38.04
Standings Standings as of 16 March 2014 (end of the season). # Name Nat. CAL1 CAL2 SLC1 SLC2 AST1 AST2 BER1 BER2 INZ1 INZ2 HVN1 HVN2 Total 1 45 45 50 70 50 70 80 100 70 80 150 150 960 2 50 50 70 80 60 50 60 70 100 100 120 105 915 3 80 80 60 28 80 80 5 60 50 70 90 120 803 4 Lee Sang-hwa 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 700 5 60 36 40 21 70 50 45 60 60 105 90 637 6 40 60 45 45 36 36 45 36 75 75 493 7 Wang Beixing 70 70 80 60 70 80 430 8 10 18 14 16 45 60 45 50 32 50 21 40 401 9 36 32 32 40 8 32 80 40 36 24 360 10 21 21 24 14 14 28 24 40 24 28 40 36 314 11 32 28 36 32 28 24 40 36 28 28 312 12 12 12 11 15 40 32 40 45 45 45 297 13 28 24 12 12 32 45 28 28 21 24 18 21 293 14 8 5 8 19 18 10 10 16 28 32 32 32 218 15 11 25 10 6 8 12 32 18 18 21 24 10 195 16 16 16 16 24 16 18 21 14 3 6 14 14 178 17 14 14 18 5 36 40 14 21 162 18 Yu Jing 24 40 28 50 142 19 19 11 21 18 21 21 18 6 135 20 19 8 10 10 8 19 25 12 18 129 21 4 15 25 6 6 15 19 5 8 10 12 125 22 19 19 12 8 14 18 16 16 122 23 2 19 11 24 36 92 24 Lee Bo-ra 6 6 25 14 16 24 91 25 15 15 5 4 12 16 6 12 85 26 2 1 4 8 11 15 16 12 69 27 Zhang Hong 5 25 36 66 28 25 10 6 8 5 5 1 60 29 25 10 16 51 30 11 11 6 6 14 48 31 2 25 10 37 32 Kim Hyun-yung 6 8 1 6 15 36 33 8 15 12 35 34 18 8 4 30 35 6 6 8 4 2 26 36 6 8 8 22 37 6 11 17 38 4 10 14 39 8 6 14 40 Zhang Shuang 2 2 8 12 41 Qi Shuai 1 1 1 4 7 42 2 4 6 4 2 6 Park Seung-ju 1 1 4 6 45 5 5 46 4 4 47 1 3 4 48 2 2 2 2
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