# 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1 – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 1, arranged in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval, in Obihiro, Japan, were held on the weekend of 14–16 November 2014.
Race one was won by Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea, while Nao Kodaira of Japan came second, and Olga Fatkulina of Russia came third. Vanessa Bittner of Austria won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two.
In race two, the top two were the same as in race one, Lee and Kodaira, while Bittner took the bronze with a new Austrian record on both senior and junior level. Park Seung-hi of South Korea won Division B of race two.

## Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 14 November, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 11:54, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:22.

### Division A

| Rank | Name | Pair | Lane | Time | WC points | GWC points |
| | Lee Sang-hwa | 10 | i | 38.07 | 100 | 50 |
| | Nao Kodaira | 5 | o | 38.18 | 80 | 40 |
| | Olga Fatkulina | 10 | o | 38.50 | 70 | 35 |
| 4 | Judith Hesse | 9 | o | 38.736 | 60 | 30 |
| 5 | Margot Boer | 7 | i | 38.738 | 50 | 25 |
| 6 | Floor van den Brandt | 4 | o | 38.78 | 45 | — |
| 7 | Yekaterina Aydova | 3 | i | 38.80 | 40 | |
| 8 | Li Qishi | 3 | o | 38.83 | 36 | |
| 9 | Thijsje Oenema | 8 | o | 38.90 | 32 | |
| 10 | Arisa Go | 4 | i | 39.00 | 28 | |
| 11 | Karolína Erbanová | 6 | o | 39.02 | 24 | |
| 12 | Bo van der Werff | 1 | o | 39.03 | 21 | |
| 13 | Zhang Hong | 8 | i | 39.05 | 18 | |
| 14 | Miyako Sumiyoshi | 6 | i | 39.12 | 16 | |
| 15 | Anice Das | 5 | i | 39.16 | 14 | |
| 16 | Maki Tsuji | 9 | i | 39.25 | 12 | |
| 17 | Marsha Hudey | 1 | i | 39.34 | 10 | |
| 18 | Nadezhda Aseyeva | 2 | o | 39.36 | 8 | |
| 19 | Denise Roth | 7 | o | 39.60 | 6 | |
| 20 | Gabriele Hirschbichler | 2 | i | 39.77 | 5 | |

### Division B

| Rank | Name | Pair | Lane | Time | WC points |
| 1 | Vanessa Bittner | 6 | i | 38.50 | 25 |
| 2 | Park Seung-hi | 2 | i | 39.330 | 19 |
| 3 | Huawei Li | 3 | i | 39.334 | 15 |
| 4 | Angelina Golikova | 7 | i | 39.34 | 11 |
| 5 | Yuliya Kozyreva | 5 | o | 39.40 | 8 |
| 6 | Jang Mi | 7 | o | 39.41 | 6 |
| 7 | Lee Bo-ra | 4 | i | 39.64 | 4 |
| 8 | Heather McLean | 5 | i | 39.69 | 2 |
| 9 | Mio Kuroiwa | 3 | o | 39.79 | 1 |
| 10 | Zhang Yue | 6 | o | 39.99 | — |
| 11 | Alexandra Ianculescu | 4 | i | 40.05 | |
| 12 | Yvonne Daldossi | 1 | i | 40.31 | |
| 13 | Tamara Oudenaarden | 2 | o | 40.39 | |
| 14 | Ágota Lykovcán | 1 | o | 40.70 | |

## Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 16 November, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:30, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:13.

### Division A

| Rank | Name | Pair | Lane | Time | WC points | GWC points |
| | Lee Sang-hwa | 10 | o | 37.92 | 100 | 50 |
| | Nao Kodaira | 10 | i | 38.06 | 80 | 40 |
| | Vanessa Bittner | 9 | o | 38.33 NR | 70 | 35 |
| 4 | Margot Boer | 8 | o | 38.447 | 60 | 30 |
| 5 | Maki Tsuji | 2 | o | 38.449 | 50 | 25 |
| 6 | Olga Fatkulina | 9 | i | 38.49 | 45 | — |
| 7 | Thijsje Oenema | 5 | i | 38.62 | 40 | |
| 8 | Floor van den Brandt | 7 | i | 38.82 | 36 | |
| 9 | Bo van der Werff | 3 | i | 38.84 | 32 | |
| 10 | Miyako Sumiyoshi | 4 | o | 38.85 | 28 | |
| 11 | Karolína Erbanová | 4 | i | 38.87 | 24 | |
| 12 | Judith Hesse | 8 | i | 38.93 | 21 | |
| 13 | Nadezhda Aseyeva | 2 | i | 38.95 | 18 | |
| 14 | Anice Das | 3 | o | 39.05 | 16 | |
| 15 | Arisa Go | 6 | o | 39.09 | 14 | |
| 16 | Zhang Hong | 5 | o | 39.19 | 12 | |
| 17 | Li Qishi | 6 | i | 39.21 | 10 | |
| 18 | Marsha Hudey | 1 | o | 39.44 | 8 | |
| 19 | Denise Roth | 1 | i | 39.63 | 6 | |
| 20 | Gabriele Hirschbichler | 7 | o | 39.82 | 5 | |
    Notes: NR = national record.

### Division B

| Rank | Name | Pair | Lane | Time | WC points |
| 1 | Park Seung-hi | 6 | o | 39.05 | 25 |
| 2 | Angelina Golikova | 4 | o | 39.19 | 19 |
| 3 | Jang Mi | 5 | i | 39.29 | 15 |
| 4 | Lee Bo-ra | 3 | o | 39.32 | 11 |
| 5 | Yuliya Kozyreva | 6 | i | 39.35 | 8 |
| 6 | Heather McLean | 2 | o | 39.51 | 6 |
| 7 | Li Huawei | 5 | o | 39.71 | 4 |
| 8 | Alexandra Ianculescu | 2 | i | 39.73 | 2 |
| 9 | Mio Kuroiwa | 4 | i | 39.94 | 1 |
| 10 | Yvonne Daldossi | 1 | o | 39.95 | — |
| 11 | Zhang Yue | 3 | i | 39.96 | |
| 12 | Tamara Oudenaarden | 1 | i | 40.38 | |