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	Nat.	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	Nat.	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	Nat.	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	Nat.	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