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

The defending champion was Olga Fatkulina of Russia. Nao Kodaira of Japan won the cup. Fatkulina had to settle for 12th place.

Top three

Position	Athlete	Points	Previous season
1	Nao Kodaira	926	5th
2	Lee Sang-hwa	880	4th
3	Heather Richardson	710	2nd

Race medallists

WC #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Obihiro , Japan	14 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.07	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.18	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	38.50	[2]
		16 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.92	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.06	Vanessa Bittner  Austria	38.33	[3]
2	Seoul, South Korea	21 November	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.05	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.18	Judith Hesse  Germany	38.95	[4]
		22 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.99	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.51	Karolína Erbanová  Czech Republic	38.83	[5]
3	Berlin, Germany	5 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.87	Heather Richardson  United States	38.21	Margot Boer  Netherlands	38.40	[6]
		7 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.96	Heather Richardson  United States	38.07	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.11	[7]
4	Heerenveen, Netherlands	12 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.69	Nao Kodaira  Japan	37.70	Judith Hesse  Germany	37.88	[8]
		14 December	Heather Richardson  United States	37.72	Brittany Bowe  United States	38.05	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.07	[9]
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	7 February	Heather Richardson  United States	37.82	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.14	Brittany Bowe  United States	38.21	[10]
		8 February	Judith Hesse  Germany	38.19	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	38.21	Thijsje Oenema  Netherlands	38.23	[11]
7	Erfurt, Germany	21 March	Heather Richardson  United States	37.80	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.93	Yekaterina Aydova  Kazakhstan	38.15	[12]
		22 March	Heather Richardson  United States	37.77	Brittany Bowe  United States	37.97	Nao Kodaira  Japan	38.49	[13]

Standings

Standings as of 22 March 2015 (end of the season).^[14]

#	Name	Nat.	OBI1	OBI2	SEO1	SEO2	BER1	BER2	HVN1	HVN2	HVN3	HVN4	ERF1	ERF2	Total
1	Nao Kodaira		80	80	100	80	60	70	80	60	80	40	90	106	926
2	Lee Sang-hwa		100	100	80	100	100	100	100	70	50	80			880
3	Heather Richardson						80	80	50	100	100		150	150	710
4	Judith Hesse		60	21	70	24	50	18	70	50	36	100	18	21	538
5	Brittany Bowe						25	60	60	80	70		120	120	535
6	Karolína Erbanová		24	24	40	70	40	36	32	36	45	60	40	76	523
7	Thijsje Oenema		32	40	36	36	28	10	45	45	32	70	76	36	486
8	Margot Boer		50	60	28	16	70	50	40	40	24	45	36		459
9	Floor van den Brandt		45	36	60	60	18	45	14	28	28	36	21	45	436
10	Yekaterina Aydova		40		50	18	16	21	6	14	18	50	106	90	429
11	Vanessa Bittner		25	70	14	32	36	40	28	24	60	28	28	40	425
12	Olga Fatkulina		70	45	21	50	45	24	24	21	40	18			358
13	Maki Tsuji		12	50	21	45	24	32	21	32	21	32	24	32	346
14	Miyako Sumiyoshi		16	28	12	28	32	16	18	16	12	10	32	28	248
15	Bo van der Werff		21	32	32	14	21	28	36	18			16	18	236
16	Li Qishi		36	10	16	40	3		8	10	16	16	45		200
17	Nadezhda Aseyeva		8	18	19	25	10	5	16	12	14	6			133
18	Arisa Go		28	14	5	5	6	6	19	11	6	5	12	14	131
19	Li Huawei		15	4	6	4	6	11	11	6	11	25	10	16	125
20	Anice Das		14	16	25	21	12	12	10	8					118
21	Park Seung-hi		19	25	24	6	8	8	12	6	5	4			117
22	Yvonne Daldossi				8	4	19			1	25	21	14	24	116
23	Angelina Golikova		11	19	8	12	14	14	25	5					108
24	Yuliya Kozyreva		8	8	6	11	15	15		19	8	8			98
25	Marsha Hudey		10	8		8	11	6		25	10	12			90
26	Heather McLean		2	6	2		8	19	15	15	6	15			88
27	Zhang Hong		18	12	45	10									85
28	Jang Mi		6	15	10	8		25	5	4					73
29	Lee Bo-ra		4	11	15	19	5	4	4	8		1			71
30	Laurine van Riessen										15	24			39
31	Sugar Todd						1		2	6	8	19			36
32	Denise Roth		6	6	11	6		2	1	2					34
33	Janine Smit										19	14			33
34	Gabriele Hirschbichler		5	5	4	2	2	8							26
35	Kim Min-sun				1	15									16
36	Alexandra Ianculescu			2			4		8						14
37	Zhang Xin										2	11			13
38	Jessica Gregg										4	8			12
39	Sha Yuning							4			1	6			11
40	Zhang Yue								6						6
41	Kali Christ											4			4
42	Elina Risku											2			2
43	Mio Kuroiwa		1	1											2
44	Hege Bøkko							1							1
	Tamara Oudenaarden					1									1

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