2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 4 – Women's 500 metres

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
World Cup 4 – Heerenveen
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2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
Women's 500 metres
	Calgary Salt Lake City Inzell Heerenveen (1) Stavanger Heerenveen (2)

The women's 500 metres races of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 4, arranged in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, were held on 11 and 13 December 2015.^[1]

Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea won race one, while Americans Brittany Bowe and Heather Richardson-Bergsma came second and third.^[2] Yekaterina Shikhova of Russia won the first Division B race.

Yu Jing of China won race two, with Richardson-Bergsma in second place, and Yu's compatriot Zhang Hong in third.^[3] Li Huawei, also of China, won the second Division B race.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 11 December, with Division B scheduled in the afternoon session, at 13:40, and Division A scheduled in the evening session, at 16:59.^[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Lee Sang-hwa		10	i	37.59	100	50
	Brittany Bowe		9	o	37.86	80	40
	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	o	37.93	70	35
4	Zhang Hong		9	i	38.016	60	30
5	Olga Fatkulina		6	o	38.018	50	25
6	Vanessa Bittner		8	i	38.02	45	—
7	Karolína Erbanová		4	i	38.28	40
8	Yu Jing		6	i	38.30	36
9	Heather McLean		8	o	38.37	32
10	Margot Boer		2	i	38.45	28
11	Jorien ter Mors		2	o	38.46	24
12	Erina Kamiya		7	i	38.474	21
13	Nao Kodaira		5	i	38.479	18
14	Maki Tsuji		7	o	38.51	16
15	Sugar Todd		5	o	38.66	14
16	Marsha Hudey		4	o	38.79	12
17	Kim Min-sun		3	i	38.83	10
18	Floor van den Brandt		3	o	38.93	8
19	Kim Hyun-yung		1	i	39.01	6
20	Yvonne Daldossi		1	o	39.29	5

^[5][6][7]

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Yekaterina Shikhova		5	o	38.74	25
2	Yekaterina Aydova		8	i	38.91	19
3	Arisa Go		7	o	38.98	15
4	Li Qishi		6	o	39.10	11
5	Marrit Leenstra		6	i	39.11	8
6	Nadezhda Aseyeva		8	o	39.15	6
7	Janine Smit		7	i	39.24	4
8	Kaylin Irvine		5	i	39.28	2
9	Li Huawei		4	o	39.30	1
10	Park Soo-jin		3	o	39.52	—
11	Elina Risku		3	i	39.64
12	Zhang Xin		4	i	39.79
13	Yuliya Kozyreva		2	o	39.83
14	Paige Schwartzburg		2	i	40.14
15	Martine Ripsrud		1	o	40.29
16	Tatyana Mikhailova		1	i	40.93

^[8][9]

Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 13 December, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 11:54, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 15:47.^[4]

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Yu Jing		7	o	37.84	100	50
	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	o	37.87	80	40
	Zhang Hong		9	i	37.90	70	35
4	Lee Sang-hwa		10	i	37.985	60	30
5	Jorien ter Mors		2	i	37.989	50	25
6	Olga Fatkulina		7	i	38.19	45	—
7	Vanessa Bittner		9	o	38.20	40
8	Nao Kodaira		5	i	38.26	36
9	Karolína Erbanová		6	o	38.29	32
10	Heather McLean		8	i	38.30	28
11	Maki Tsuji		6	i	38.43	24
12	Sugar Todd		5	o	38.49	21
13	Erina Kamiya		8	o	38.50	18
14	Kim Min-sun		4	o	38.51	16
15	Margot Boer		3	i	38.69	14
16	Marsha Hudey		4	i	38.73	12
17	Yekaterina Aydova		2	o	38.75	10
18	Yekaterina Shikhova		1	o	38.80	8
19	Arisa Go		1	i	38.94	6
20	Floor van den Brandt		3	o	38.97	5

^[10][11][7]

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Li Huawei		2	i	39.23	25
2	Janine Smit		5	i	39.248	19
3	Nadezhda Aseyeva		6	i	39.249	15
4	Kim Hyun-yung		5	o	39.25	11
5	Kaylin Irvine		4	i	39.36	8
6	Yuliya Kozyreva		6	o	39.44	6
7	Hege Bøkko		3	o	39.481	4
8	Elina Risku		2	o	39.482	2
9	Yvonne Daldossi		4	o	39.58	1
10	Zhang Xin		3	i	39.68	—
11	Park Soo-jin		1	i	39.81
12	Ksenia Sadovskaya		1	o	40.13
13	Marrit Leenstra		—	—	WDR
	Li Qishi		—	—	WDR

^[12][13]

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