2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 5 – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metres races of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 5, arranged in the Sørmarka Arena in Stavanger, Norway, were held on 29 and 30 January 2016.

Zhang Hong of China won race one, while compatriot Yu Jing came second, and Jorien ter Mors of the Netherlands came third. Miho Takagi of Japan won the first Division B race.

Yu and Zhang shifted places at the top in race two, while Heather McLean of Canada finished in third place. Li Qishi of China won the second Division B race.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 29 January, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 10:30, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:00.

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Zhang Hong		10	o	37.82	100	50
	Yu Jing		8	i	37.93	80	40
	Jorien ter Mors		4	o	37.99	70	35
4	Vanessa Bittner		9	o	38.00	60	30
5	Heather McLean		8	o	38.06	50	25
6	Brittany Bowe		9	i	38.10	45	—
7	Olga Fatkulina		7	i	38.18	40
8	Nao Kodaira		6	o	38.26	36
9	Margot Boer		3	o	38.30	32
10	Karolína Erbanová		5	i	38.45	28
11	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	i	38.49	24
12	Marsha Hudey		4	i	38.58	21
13	Erina Kamiya		7	o	38.69	18
14	Janine Smit		1	o	38.71	16
15	Yekaterina Aydova		2	o	38.76	14
16	Maki Tsuji		6	i	38.81	12
17	Kim Min-sun		3	i	38.91	10
18	Nadezhda Aseyeva		1	i	38.93	8
19	Sugar Todd		5	o	39.01	6
20	Floor van den Brandt		2	i	39.05	5

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Miho Takagi		6	o	38.46	25
2	Misaki Oshigiri		5	o	38.59	19
3	Anice Das		4	i	38.65	15
4	Li Qishi		12	i	38.76	11
5	Shannon Rempel		10	i	38.99	8
6	Kim Hyun-yung		13	o	39.06	6
7	Gabriele Hirschbichler		9	i	39.09	4
8	Kaylin Irvine		12	o	39.13	2
9	Yekaterina Shikhova		13	i	39.19	1
10	Hege Bøkko		11	o	39.20	—
11	Park Seung-hi		5	i	39.29
12	Anastasia Bucsis		6	i	39.34
13	Yvonne Daldossi		11	i	39.46
14	Zhan Xue		3	i	39.52
15	Nam Ye-won		3	o	39.59
16	Shi Xiaoxuan		4	o	39.61
17	Martine Ripsrud		8	o	39.64
18	Elina Risku		10	o	39.74
19	Kaja Ziomek		1	o	39.78
20	Ksenia Sadovskaya		8	i	39.88
21	Hanne Haugland		2	i	39.92
22	Ellen Bjertnes		2	o	39.97
23	Paige Schwartzburg		9	o	40.10
24	Tatyana Mikhailova		7	i	40.61
25	Karine Udahl		1	i	40.85
26	Francesca Lollobrigida		7	o	40.88

Race 2

Race two took place on Saturday, 30 January, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 08:45, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 14:30.

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Yu Jing		9	i	37.63	100	50
	Zhang Hong		10	i	37.82	80	40
	Heather McLean		8	i	38.02	70	35
4	Olga Fatkulina		8	o	38.09	60	30
5	Karolína Erbanová		6	o	38.19	50	25
6	Nao Kodaira		6	i	38.25	45	—
7	Vanessa Bittner		9	o	38.32	40
8	Marsha Hudey		5	o	38.45	36
9	Erina Kamiya		7	i	38.51	32
10	Nadezhda Aseyeva		2	o	38.65	28
11	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	o	38.73	24
12	Maki Tsuji		7	o	38.77	21
13	Margot Boer		4	i	38.79	18
14	Yekaterina Shikhova		1	i	38.83	16
15	Yekaterina Aydova		3	i	38.88	14
16	Janine Smit		2	i	38.900	12
17	Anice Das		1	o	38.909	10
18	Floor van den Brandt		3	o	38.94	8
19	Sugar Todd		5	i	39.00	6
20	Kim Min-sun		4	o	39.03	5

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Li Qishi		11	o	38.97	25
2	Shannon Rempel		9	o	39.04	19
3	Hege Bøkko		9	i	39.11	15
4	Kaylin Irvine		10	i	39.14	11
5	Yvonne Daldossi		10	o	39.15	8
6	Kim Hyun-yung		11	i	39.22	6
7	Anastasia Bucsis		6	o	39.32	4
8	Martine Ripsrud		4	o	39.41	2
9	Mayon Kuipers		7	i	39.47	1
10	Zhan Xue		5	i	39.51	—
11	Elina Risku		8	i	39.60
12	Park Seung-hi		6	i	39.70
13	Kaja Ziomek		3	i	39.82
14	Nam Ye-won		5	o	39.84
15	Shi Xiaoxuan		4	i	39.85
16	Hanne Haugland		3	o	39.95
17	Ksenia Sadovskaya		7	o	40.02
18	Paige Schwartzburg		8	o	40.27
19	Tatyana Mikhailova		2	o	40.43
20	Ellen Bjertnes		2	i	40.64
21	Karine Udahl		1	i	41.09