# Short-track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics began on 13 February, with the final held on 17 February, at the Pacific Coliseum.

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Katherine Reutter | United States | 44.187 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Cho Ha-ri | South Korea | 44.313 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Stéphanie Bouvier | France | 44.376 | |
| 4 | 1 | Aika Klein | Germany | 45.186 | |
| 1 | 2 | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 44.708 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Sarah Lindsay | Great Britain | 44.716 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Tatiana Borodulina | Australia | 44.901 | |
| 4 | 2 | Valeriya Potemkina | Russia | 44.952 | |
| 1 | 3 | Wang Meng | China | 43.926 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 3 | Kateřina Novotná | Czech Republic | 44.614 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Cecilia Maffei | Italy | 44.948 | |
| 4 | 3 | Patrycja Maliszewska | Poland | 58.649 | |
| 1 | 4 | Lee Eun-byul | South Korea | 44.000 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jessica Gregg | Canada | 44.009 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Jorien ter Mors | Netherlands | 45.120 | |
| 4 | 4 | Martina Valcepina | Italy | 1:08.173 | |
| 1 | 5 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 44.482 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Alyson Dudek | United States | 44.560 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Annita van Doorn | Netherlands | 44.751 | |
| 4 | 5 | Biba Sakurai | Japan | 45.146 | |
| 1 | 6 | Zhou Yang | China | 44.115 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Kalyna Roberge | Canada | 44.254 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Yui Sakai | Japan | 44.341 | |
| 4 | 6 | Liesbeth Mau Asam | Netherlands | 45.135 | |
| 1 | 7 | Park Seung-hi | South Korea | 44.221 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Elise Christie | Great Britain | 44.374 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Erika Huszar | Hungary | 44.537 | |
| – | 7 | Marina Georgieva-Nikolova | Bulgaria | | DSQ |
| 1 | 8 | Evgenia Radanova | Bulgaria | 45.125 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Veronique Pierron | France | 45.218 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Han Yueshuang | Hong Kong | 48.625 | |
| 4 | 8 | Zhao Nannan | China | 1:02.132 | |

### Quarterfinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Katherine Reutter | United States | 43.834 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 1 | Kalyna Roberge | Canada | 44.143 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Kateřina Novotná | Czech Republic | 44.438 | |
| – | 1 | Park Seung-hi | South Korea | | DSQ |
| 1 | 2 | Wang Meng | China | 43.284 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 2 | Jessica Gregg | Canada | 43.956 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Evgenia Radanova | Bulgaria | 44.047 | |
| – | 2 | Sarah Lindsay | Great Britain | | DSQ |
| 1 | 3 | Zhou Yang | China | 44.106 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 44.257 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Cho Ha-ri | South Korea | 44.306 | |
| 4 | 3 | Alyson Dudek | United States | 44.588 | |
| 1 | 4 | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 44.316 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Lee Eun-byul | South Korea | 44.582 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Elise Christie | Great Britain | 44.821 | |
| 4 | 4 | Veronique Pierron | France | 1:10.899 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Jessica Gregg | Canada | 43.854 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 43.991 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Zhou Yang | China | 43.992 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Katherine Reutter | United States | 44.145 | QB |
| 1 | 2 | Wang Meng | China | 42.985 | QA, OR |
| 2 | 2 | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 43.241 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Kalyna Roberge | Canada | 43.633 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Lee Eun-byul | South Korea | 43.899 | QB |

### Finals
#### Final B (Classification Round)

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 5 | Zhou Yang | China | 44.725 |
| 6 | Kalyna Roberge | Canada | 44.824 |
| 7 | Katherine Reutter | United States | 44.846 |
| 8 | Lee Eun-byul | South Korea | 44.860 |

#### Final A (Medal Round)

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Wang Meng | China | 43.048 |
| | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 43.707 |
| | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 43.804 |
| 4 | Jessica Gregg | Canada | 44.204 |