2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 6 – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 6, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on the weekend of 7–8 February 2015. ^[1]

Race one was won by Heather Richardson of the United States, while Nao Kodaira of Japan came second, and Brittany Bowe of the United States came third. ^[2] Yvonne Daldossi of Italy 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 Judith Hesse of Germany, while Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea came second, and Thijsje Oenema of the Netherlands came third. ^[3] Li Huawei of China won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Saturday, 7 February, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 10:45, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:30. ^[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Heather Richardson		8	i	37.82	100	50
	Nao Kodaira		10	o	38.14	80	40
	Brittany Bowe		5	o	38.21	70	35
4	Vanessa Bittner		6	o	38.26	60	30
5	Lee Sang-hwa		10	i	38.29	50	25
6	Karolína Erbanová		7	i	38.34	45	—
7	Olga Fatkulina		7	o	38.45	40
8	Judith Hesse		9	i	38.48	36
9	Thijsje Oenema		6	i	38.49	32
10	Floor van den Brandt		8	o	38.54	28
11	Margot Boer		9	o	38.64	24
12	Maki Tsuji		5	i	38.82	21
13	Yekaterina Aydova		4	o	38.88	18
14	Li Qishi		3	i	38.98	16
15	Nadezhda Aseyeva		3	o	38.99	14
16	Miyako Sumiyoshi		4	i	39.27	12
17	Marsha Hudey		1	o	39.46	10
18	Yuliya Kozyreva		1	i	39.67	8
19	Arisa Go		2	o	39.75	6
20	Park Seung-hi		2	i	39.81	5

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Yvonne Daldossi		11	i	39.06	25
2	Janine Smit		4	i	39.12	19
3	Laurine van Riessen		5	i	39.23	15
4	Li Huawei		11	i	39.47	11
5	Sugar Todd		9	i	39.67	8
6	Heather McLean		12	o	39.73	6
7	Jessica Gregg		5	o	39.79	4
8	Zhang Xin		7	o	39.80	2
9	Sha Yuning		9	o	39.86	1
10	Lee Bo-ra		12	i	40.06	—
11	Elina Risku		7	i	40.14
12	Alexandra Ianculescu		10	o	40.16
13	Ksenia Sadovskaya		6	o	40.30
14	Gabriele Hirschbichler		10	i	40.37
15	Hege Bøkko		8	i	40.38
16	Kelly Gunther		4	o	40.46
17	Zhao Xin		2	i	40.48
18	Irina Arshinova		3	o	40.56
19	Luiza Złotkowska		2	o	40.62
20	Tatyana Mikhailova		6	i	40.65
21	Ida Njåtun		3	i	40.71
22	Tamara Oudenaarden		8	o	41.12
23	Linda Bortolotti		1	i	41.19

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Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 8 February, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 10:21, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:00. ^[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Judith Hesse		9	o	38.19	100	50
	Lee Sang-hwa		11	o	38.21	80	40
	Thijsje Oenema		8	o	38.23	70	35
4	Karolína Erbanová		10	o	38.24	60	30
5	Yekaterina Aydova		6	i	38.53	50	25
6	Margot Boer		7	i	38.54	45	—
7	Nao Kodaira		11	i	38.56	40
8	Floor van den Brandt		8	i	38.57	36
9	Maki Tsuji		7	o	38.67	32
10	Vanessa Bittner		10	i	38.74	28
11	Laurine van Riessen		3	o	38.83	24
12	Yvonne Daldossi		5	o	38.93	21
13	Olga Fatkulina		9	i	38.96	18
14	Li Qishi		6	o	38.99	16
15	Janine Smit		4	o	39.12	14
16	Marsha Hudey		4	i	39.19	12
17	Miyako Sumiyoshi		2	o	39.43	10
18	Yuliya Kozyreva		2	i	39.56	8
19	Nadezhda Aseyeva		5	i	39.65	6
20	Arisa Go		3	i	39.79	5
21	Park Seung-hi		1	o	40.52	4

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Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Li Huawei		9	o	39.47	25
2	Sugar Todd		8	o	39.64	19
3	Heather McLean		9	i	39.77	15
4	Zhang Xin		7	i	39.79	11
5	Jessica Gregg		8	i	39.87	8
6	Sha Yuning		6	i	39.89	6
7	Kali Christ		1	i	39.92	4
8	Elina Risku		6	o	39.97	2
9	Lee Bo-ra		7	o	39.98	1
10	Irina Arshinova		3	i	40.09	—
11	Tamara Oudenaarden		2	i	40.18
12	Zhao Xin		3	o	40.23
13	Gabriele Hirschbichler		5	o	40.25
14	Hege Bøkko		4	o	40.35
15	Kelly Gunther		4	i	40.38
16	Ksenia Sadovskaya		5	i	40.45
17	Tatyana Mikhailova		2	o	40.72
18	Linda Bortolotti		2	o	41.49

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References

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