2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 500 metres

The 500 meters distance for women in the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 races on six occasions, out of a total of six World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 8–10 November 2013, and the final occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 14–16 March 2014.[1]

The defending champion was Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea.

On 9 November, in the second race in Calgary, Lee improved her own world record with a time of 36.74 seconds.[2] Six days later, in the first race in Salt Lake City, she improved the record a further 17/100, to 36.57 seconds.[3] Amazingly, the next day, for the third time within a week, she again broke the world record, this time with a time of 36.36 seconds.[4]

Lee won the first seven races, but did not to participate in the rest of the races. This allowed for three other skaters to pass her in aggregate points. Instead, Olga Fatkulina of Russia won the cup, while Heather Richardson of the United States came second, and Jenny Wolf of Germany came third. Lee ended up in fourth place.

Top three

Position	Athlete	Points	Previous season
1	Olga Fatkulina	960	4th
2	Heather Richardson	915	5th
3	Jenny Wolf	803	2nd

Race medallists

Occasion #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	8 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.91	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.14	Wang Beixing  China	37.40	[5]
		9 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.74 WR	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.18	Wang Beixing  China	37.30	[6]
2	Salt Lake City, United States	15 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.57 WR	Wang Beixing  China	36.85	Heather Richardson  United States	36.97	[7]
		16 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	36.36 WR	Heather Richardson  United States	36.90	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.13	[8]
3	Astana, Kazakhstan	29 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.27	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.70	Nao Kodaira  Japan	37.72	[9]
		30 November	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.32	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.66	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.81	[10]
4	Berlin, Germany	6 December	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.36	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.71	Wang Beixing  China	37.79	[11]
		7 December	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.92	Wang Beixing  China	37.96	Heather Richardson  United States	38.00	[12]
5	Inzell, Germany	7 March	Heather Richardson  United States	37.85	Judith Hesse  Germany	37.86	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.89	[13]
		8 March	Heather Richardson  United States	37.70	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.84	Jenny Wolf  Germany	37.89	[14]
6	Heerenveen, Netherlands	15 March	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.67	Heather Richardson  United States	37.79	Nao Kodaira  Japan	37.95	[15]
		16 March	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	37.86	Jenny Wolf  Germany	38.00	Heather Richardson  United States	38.04	[16]

Standings

Standings as of 16 March 2014 (end of the season).[17]

#	Name	Nat.	CAL1	CAL2	SLC1	SLC2	AST1	AST2	BER1	BER2	INZ1	INZ2	HVN1	HVN2	Total
1	Olga Fatkulina		45	45	50	70	50	70	80	100	70	80	150	150	960
2	Heather Richardson		50	50	70	80	60	50	60	70	100	100	120	105	915
3	Jenny Wolf		80	80	60	28	80	80	5	60	50	70	90	120	803
4	Lee Sang-hwa		100	100	100	100	100	100	100						700
5	Nao Kodaira		60	36	40	21	70		50	45	60	60	105	90	637
6	Margot Boer		40	60	45	45			36	36	45	36	75	75	493
7	Wang Beixing		70	70	80	60			70	80					430
8	Thijsje Oenema		10	18	14	16	45	60	45	50	32	50	21	40	401
9	Judith Hesse		36	32	32	40			8	32	80	40	36	24	360
10	Miyako Sumiyoshi		21	21	24	14	14	28	24	40	24	28	40	36	314
11	Brittany Bowe		32	28	36	32	28	24	40		36		28	28	312
12	Laurine van Riessen		12	12	11	15	40	32			40	45	45	45	297
13	Maki Tsuji		28	24	12	12	32	45	28	28	21	24	18	21	293
14	Karolína Erbanová		8	5	8	19	18	10	10	16	28	32	32	32	218
15	Anice Das		11	25	10	6	8	12	32	18	18	21	24	10	195
16	Erina Kamiya		16	16	16	24	16	18	21	14	3	6	14	14	178
17	Yekaterina Aydova		14	14	18	5	36	40	14	21					162
18	Yu Jing		24	40	28	50									142
19	Lauren Cholewinski		19	11	21	18	21	21	18	6					135
20	Mayon Kuipers			19	8	10	10	8	19	25			12	18	129
21	Jennifer Plate			4	15	25	6	6	15	19	5	8	10	12	125
22	Kaylin Irvine						19	19	12	8	14	18	16	16	122
23	Yekaterina Malysheva		2		19	11	24	36							92
24	Lee Bo-ra			6	6		25	14	16	24					91
25	Elli Ochowicz		15	15	5	4	12	16	6	12					85
26	Denise Roth			2		1	4	8	11	15	16	12			69
27	Zhang Hong		5		25	36									66
28	Yuliya Liteykina		25	10	6	8	5	5		1					60
29	Annette Gerritsen							25			10	16			51
30	Sugar Todd						11	11		6	6	14			48
31	Vanessa Bittner					2			25	10					37
32	Kim Hyun-yung		6	8	1	6		15							36
33	Yekaterina Shikhova		8				15				12				35
34	Christine Nesbitt		18	8	4										30
35	Marsha Hudey		6	6		8			4	2					26
36	Yuliya Skokova						6		8		8				22
37	Marrit Leenstra								6	11					17
38	Angelina Golikova										4	10			14
39	Reika Shimizu						8	6							14
40	Zhang Shuang						2	2		8					12
41	Qi Shuai		1					1	1	4					7
42	Elina Risku										2	4			6
	Yekaterina Lobysheva		4						2						6
	Park Seung-ju			1			1	4							6
45	Kelly Gunther											5			5
46	Shannon Rempel					4									4
47	Yvonne Daldossi										1	3			4
48	Katja Frantzen											2			2
	Danielle Wotherspoon-Gregg				2										2

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