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.

The defending champion is Nao Kodaira of Japan.

Top three PositionAthletePointsPrevious season

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

Standings Standings as of 30 January 2016. # 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 60 70 70 60 70 80 70 80 24 24 608 4 Yu Jing 45 50 50 50 — — 36 100 80 100 511 5 70 60 80 70 80 — 80 — 45 — 485 6 50 36 45 21 50 50 45 40 60 40 437 7 19 28 16 45 60 70 32 28 50 70 418 8 28 21 32 40 45 18 50 45 40 60 379 9 36 40 21 28 36 60 21 18 18 32 310 10 24 24 40 12 40 12 18 36 36 45 287 11 21 18 24 10 32 28 40 32 28 50 283 12 40 32 28 36 24 36 16 24 12 21 269 13 32 45 — — — — 24 50 70 — 221 14 25 10 14 18 18 45 12 12 21 36 211 15 11 14 36 32 21 32 14 21 6 6 193 16 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 8 25 10 5 12 14 19 10 14 14 131 19 12 16 5 25 6 5 6 15 8 28 126 20 10 19 6 24 14 21 8 5 5 8 120 21 6 15 8 0 25 10 4 19 16 12 115 22 Li Qishi 15 6 15 — 5 — 11 — 11 25 88 23 1 1 6 11 19 — 25 8 1 16 88 24 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 — — 19 8 11 24 8 — — — 70 27 4 0 1 19 10 6 2 8 2 11 63 28 0 0 4 6 4 19 5 1 0 8 47 29 Li Huawei — — — — 8 8 1 25 — — 42 30 4 11 — — — — — — 8 19 42 31 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 — — — — — — — — 25 — 25 35 — — — — — — — — 15 10 25 36 16 5 0 0 0 — — — — — 21 37 — — — — — — — — 19 — 19 38 — — — — 15 — — — — — 15 39 5 — 2 — — — — — 4 — 11 40 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 2 0 0 9 41 — — — — 0 0 0 6 — — 6 42 — — — — — — — — 0 4 4 43 Park Soo-jin 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 — — 4 44 — — — — — — — 0 0 2 2 45 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 — 0 0 2 46 — — — — — — — — — 1 1 47 — — — — 1 — — — — — 1

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