The women's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 10–13 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

The qualifying heats was held on 10 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final were held on 13 February.

The defending Olympic Champion and World Champion is Wang Meng of China. Meng qualified to compete at the Games but broke her ankle in a collision with a teammate while practicing for the games in January 2014.

Qualification Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event. For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 15 nations qualified to compete.

Results The final results:

Preliminaries

Heats Q – qualified for Quarterfinals ADV — advanced PEN — penalty YC — yellow card

Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Liu Qiuhong 43.542 Q 2 1 Kim A-lang 43.919 Q 3 1 Lara van Ruijven 44.023 – 1 Tatiana Borodulina PEN 1 2 Elise Christie 44.775 Q 2 2 Sofia Prosvirnova 44.940 Q 3 2 Yui Sakai 45.051 4 2 Andrea Keszler 45.215 1 3 Jorien ter Mors 44.262 Q 2 3 Charlotte Gilmartin 44.440 Q 3 3 Martina Valcepina 44.493 4 3 Biba Sakurai 44.628 1 4 Park Seung-hi 44.180 Q 2 4 Emily Scott 45.210 Q 3 4 Agnė Sereikaitė 45.356 4 4 Véronique Pierron 1:12.278 1 5 Marianne St-Gelais 43.729 Q 2 5 Yara van Kerkhof 44.044 Q 3 5 Ayuko Ito 44.174 4 5 Inna Simonova 44.387 1 6 Arianna Fontana 43.568 Q 2 6 Li Jianrou 43.633 Q 3 6 Patrycja Maliszewska 44.154 – 6 Alyson Dudek PEN 1 7 Fan Kexin 43.356 Q 2 7 Jessica Hewitt 43.447 Q 3 7 Valeriya Reznik 45.349 4 7 Jessica Smith 1:13.344 1 8 Valérie Maltais 44.093 Q 2 8 Shim Suk-hee 44.197 Q 3 8 Veronika Windisch 44.586 4 8 Elena Viviani 44.623

Quarterfinal Q – qualified for the semifinals ADV – advanced PEN – penalty YC – yellow card

Rank Quarterfinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Park Seung-hi 43.392 Q 2 1 Marianne St-Gelais 43.595 Q 3 1 Yara van Kerkhof 43.888 4 1 Charlotte Gilmartin 44.279 1 2 Fan Kexin 43.288 Q 2 2 Elise Christie 43.402 Q 3 2 Emily Scott 44.709 4 2 Jessica Hewitt 1:00.971 1 3 Liu Qiuhong 43.478 Q 2 3 Jorien ter Mors 43.572 Q 3 3 Kim A-lang 43.673 4 3 Sofia Prosvirnova 43.862 1 4 Arianna Fontana 43.405 Q 2 4 Li Jianrou 43.486 Q 3 4 Valérie Maltais 43.550 4 4 Shim Suk-Hee 43.572

Semifinals QA – qualified for Final A QB – qualified for Final B ADV – advanced PEN – penalty YC – yellow card

Rank Semifinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Park Seung-hi 43.611 QA 2 1 Arianna Fontana 43.624 QA 3 1 Marianne St-Gelais 44.069 QB 4 1 Jorien ter Mors 44.242 QB 1 2 Elise Christie 43.837 QA 2 2 Li Jianrou 43.841 QA 3 2 Liu Qiuhong 43.916 QB 4 2 Fan Kexin 1:24.431 QB

Finals

Final B (classification round) Rank Name Country Time Notes 4 Liu Qiuhong 44.188 5 Fan Kexin 44.297 6 Jorien ter Mors 44.311 7 Marianne St-Gelais 44.359

Final A (medal round) Rank Name Country Time Notes Li Jianrou 45.263 Arianna Fontana 51.250 Park Seung-hi 54.207 – Elise Christie PEN

Final standings The final overall standings were:

Rank Name Country Li Jianrou Arianna Fontana Park Seung-hi Liu Qiuhong Fan Kexin Jorien ter Mors Marianne St-Gelais Elise Christie Valérie Maltais 10 Kim A-lang 11 Yara van Kerkhof 12 Emily Scott 13 Jessica Hewitt 14 Shim Suk-hee 15 Sofia Prosvirnova 16 Charlotte Gilmartin 17 Lara van Ruijven 18 Patrycja Maliszewska 19 Ayuko Ito 20 Martina Valcepina 21 Veronika Windisch 22 Yui Sakai 23 Valeriya Reznik 24 Agnė Sereikaitė 25 Inna Simonova 26 Elena Viviani 27 Biba Sakurai 28 Andrea Keszler 29 Véronique Pierron 30 Jessica Smith – Tatiana Borodulina – Alyson Dudek

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