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

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.

Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea won race one, while Americans Brittany Bowe and Heather Richardson-Bergsma came second and third. 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. 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.

### Division A

| Rank | Name | 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 | |

### Division B

| Rank | Name | 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 | |

## 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.

### Division A

| Rank | Name | 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 | |

### Division B

| Rank | Name | 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 | |
| 13 | Li Qishi | — | — | WDR | |
