2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4 – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 4, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on the weekend of 12–14 December 2014.[1]

Race one was won by Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea, while Nao Kodaira of Japan came second, and Judith Hesse of Germany came third.[2] Angelina Golikova of Russia won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two.

Race two was won by Heather Richardson of the United States, while Brittany Bowe of the United States came second, and Nao Kodaira of Japan came third.[3] Marsha Hudey of Canada won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 12 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:00, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:59.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Lee Sang-hwa		10	i	37.69	100	50
	Nao Kodaira		10	o	37.70	80	40
	Judith Hesse		8	o	37.88	70	35
4	Brittany Bowe		2	o	37.95	60	30
5	Heather Richardson		5	i	38.01	50	25
6	Thijsje Oenema		6	o	38.14	45	—
7	Margot Boer		9	i	38.20	40
8	Bo van der Werff		5	o	38.28	36
9	Karolína Erbanová		7	i	38.29	32
10	Vanessa Bittner		7	o	38.35	28
11	Olga Fatkulina		8	i	38.51	24
12	Maki Tsuji		6	i	38.57	21
13	Miyako Sumiyoshi		4	o	38.62	18
14	Nadezhda Aseyeva		1	i	38.63	16
15	Floor van den Brandt		9	o	38.65	14
16	Park Seung-hi		2	i	38.75	12
17	Anice Das		3	o	38.83	10
18	Li Qishi		3	i	38.89	8
19	Yekaterina Aydova		4	i	38.95	6
20	Jang Mi		1	o	39.27	5

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Angelina Golikova		10	i	38.95	25
2	Arisa Go		10	o	39.15	19
3	Heather McLean		8	o	39.28	15
4	Li Huawei		9	o	39.31	11
5	Alexandra Ianculescu		6	o	39.36	8
6	Zhang Yue		3	o	39.52	6
7	Lee Bo-ra		9	i	39.534	4
8	Sugar Todd		4	o	39.538	2
9	Denise Roth		7	o	39.54	1
10	Marsha Hudey		8	i	39.59	—
11	Yvonne Daldossi		7	i	39.67
12	Sha Yuning		5	i	39.70
13	Hege Bøkko		4	i	39.72
14	Gabriele Hirschbichler		6	i	39.76
15	Elina Risku		2	i	40.14
16	Mio Kuroiwa		5	o	40.18
17	Tamara Oudenaarden		3	i	40.21
18	Yuliya Skokova		1	i	40.35
19	Ksenia Sadovskaya		2	o	41.21

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 14 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 11:31, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:47.[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Heather Richardson		10	o	37.72	100	50
	Brittany Bowe		9	i	38.05	80	40
	Lee Sang-hwa		11	o	38.07	70	35
4	Nao Kodaira		11	i	38.16	60	30
5	Judith Hesse		10	i	38.17	50	25
6	Thijsje Oenema		8	i	38.19	45	—
7	Margot Boer		9	o	38.27	40
8	Karolína Erbanová		8	o	38.33	36
9	Maki Tsuji		6	o	38.39	32
10	Floor van den Brandt		4	i	38.45	28
11	Vanessa Bittner		6	i	38.56	24
12	Olga Fatkulina		7	o	38.60	21
13	Bo van der Werff		7	i	38.736	18
14	Miyako Sumiyoshi		5	i	38.737	16
15	Yekaterina Aydova		2	o	38.77	14
16	Nadezhda Aseyeva		5	o	38.87	12
17	Li Qishi		3	o	38.997	10
18	Anice Das		3	i	38.998	8
19	Park Seung-hi		4	o	39.02	6
20	Angelina Golikova		1	o	39.09	5
21	Jang Mi		2	i	39.21	4

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Marsha Hudey		7	o	39.14	25
2	Yuliya Kozyreva		2	o	39.32	19
3	Heather McLean		7	i	39.36	15
4	Arisa Go		8	i	39.43	11
5	Lee Bo-ra		8	o	39.46	8
6	Li Huawei		6	i	39.490	6
	Sugar Todd		3	i	39.490	6
8	Denise Roth		2	i	39.62	2
9	Yvonne Daldossi		6	o	39.63	1
10	Alexandra Ianculescu		5	i	39.79	—
11	Elina Risku		4	o	40.00
12	Sha Yuning		5	o	40.14
13	Tamara Oudenaarden		3	o	40.19
14	Zhang Yue		4	i	40.30
15	Mio Kuroiwa		1	i	40.87
16	Ksenia Sadovskaya		1	o	41.33

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References

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