The 500 meters distance for women in the

2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup The 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ''Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2013–2014'', was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 8 November 2013 in Calgary, Al ...

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. The defending champion was

Lee Sang-hwa Lee Sang-hwa (Korean: 이상화, Hanja: 李相花, ; born 25 February 1989) is a South Korean retired speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances. She is a two-time Olympic champion in 500 metres (2010 and 2014) and the 2010 World Sp ...

of South Korea. On 9 November, in the second race in Calgary, Lee improved her own

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with a time of 36.74 seconds. Six days later, in the first race in Salt Lake City, she improved the record a further 17/100, to 36.57 seconds. 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. 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 Olga Aleksandrovna Fatkulina (russian: Ольга Александровна Фаткулина; born 23 January 1990) is a Russian long-track speed skater. She competed for Russia at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics in the women's 500 m and 1 ...

of Russia won the cup, while

Heather Richardson Heather Bergsma (''née'' Richardson; born March 20, 1989) is an American former speed skater who competed between 2006 and 2020. Career Bergsma is a native of North Carolina. She represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vanc ...

of the United States came second, and

Jenny Wolf Jenny Wolf (born 31 January 1979) is a former German speed skater. On 10 March 2007 at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, she broke the world record for the women's 500 m in her second race. ...

of Germany came third. Lee ended up in fourth place.

Top three

Race medallists

Standings

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

References

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