The 500 meters distance for women in the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 races on six occasions, out of a total of seven World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Obihiro, Japan, on 14–16 November 2014, and the final occasion taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 21–22 March 2015.
The defending champion was Olga Fatkulina of Russia. Nao Kodaira of Japan won the cup. Fatkulina had to settle for 12th place.
Top three PositionAthletePointsPrevious season 1 Nao Kodaira 926 5th 2 Lee Sang-hwa 880 4th 3 Heather Richardson 710 2nd
Race medallists WC # Location Date Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time Report 1 Obihiro, Japan 14 November Lee Sang-hwa 38.07 Nao Kodaira 38.18 Olga Fatkulina 38.50 16 November Lee Sang-hwa 37.92 Nao Kodaira 38.06 Vanessa Bittner 38.33 2 Seoul, 21 November Nao Kodaira 38.05 Lee Sang-hwa 38.18 Judith Hesse 38.95 22 November Lee Sang-hwa 37.99 Nao Kodaira 38.51 Karolína Erbanová 38.83 3 Berlin, Germany 5 December Lee Sang-hwa 37.87 Heather Richardson 38.21 Margot Boer 38.40 7 December Lee Sang-hwa 37.96 Heather Richardson 38.07 Nao Kodaira 38.11 4 Heerenveen, Netherlands 12 December Lee Sang-hwa 37.69 Nao Kodaira 37.70 Judith Hesse 37.88 14 December Heather Richardson 37.72 Brittany Bowe 38.05 Lee Sang-hwa 38.07 6 Heerenveen, Netherlands 7 February Heather Richardson 37.82 Nao Kodaira 38.14 Brittany Bowe 38.21 8 February Judith Hesse 38.19 Lee Sang-hwa 38.21 Thijsje Oenema 38.23 7 Erfurt, Germany 21 March Heather Richardson 37.80 Brittany Bowe 37.93 Yekaterina Aydova 38.15 22 March Heather Richardson 37.77 Brittany Bowe 37.97 Nao Kodaira 38.49
Standings Standings as of 22 March 2015 (end of the season). # Name Nat. OBI1 OBI2 SEO1 SEO2 BER1 BER2 HVN1 HVN2 HVN3 HVN4 ERF1 ERF2 Total 1 80 80 100 80 60 70 80 60 80 40 90 106 926 2 Lee Sang-hwa 100 100 80 100 100 100 100 70 50 80 880 3 80 80 50 100 100 150 150 710 4 60 21 70 24 50 18 70 50 36 100 18 21 538 5 25 60 60 80 70 120 120 535 6 24 24 40 70 40 36 32 36 45 60 40 76 523 7 32 40 36 36 28 10 45 45 32 70 76 36 486 8 50 60 28 16 70 50 40 40 24 45 36 459 9 45 36 60 60 18 45 14 28 28 36 21 45 436 10 40 50 18 16 21 6 14 18 50 106 90 429 11 25 70 14 32 36 40 28 24 60 28 28 40 425 12 70 45 21 50 45 24 24 21 40 18 358 13 12 50 21 45 24 32 21 32 21 32 24 32 346 14 16 28 12 28 32 16 18 16 12 10 32 28 248 15 21 32 32 14 21 28 36 18 16 18 236 16 Li Qishi 36 10 16 40 3 8 10 16 16 45 200 17 8 18 19 25 10 5 16 12 14 6 133 18 28 14 5 5 6 6 19 11 6 5 12 14 131 19 Li Huawei 15 4 6 4 6 11 11 6 11 25 10 16 125 20 14 16 25 21 12 12 10 8 118 21 Park Seung-hi 19 25 24 6 8 8 12 6 5 4 117 22 8 4 19 1 25 21 14 24 116 23 11 19 8 12 14 14 25 5 108 24 8 8 6 11 15 15 19 8 8 98 25 10 8 8 11 6 25 10 12 90 26 2 6 2 8 19 15 15 6 15 88 27 Zhang Hong 18 12 45 10 85 28 Jang Mi 6 15 10 8 25 5 4 73 29 Lee Bo-ra 4 11 15 19 5 4 4 8 1 71 30 15 24 39 31 1 2 6 8 19 36 32 6 6 11 6 2 1 2 34 33 19 14 33 34 5 5 4 2 2 8 26 35 Kim Min-sun 1 15 16 36 2 4 8 14 37 Zhang Xin 2 11 13 38 4 8 12 39 Sha Yuning 4 1 6 11 40 Zhang Yue 6 6 41 4 4 42 2 2 43 1 1 2 44 1 1 1 1
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