The women's 500 metres races of the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 5, arranged in the Sørmarka Arena in Stavanger, Norway, were held on 29 and 30 January 2016.^[1]

Zhang Hong of China won race one, while compatriot Yu Jing came second, and Jorien ter Mors of the Netherlands came third.^[2] Miho Takagi of Japan won the first Division B race.

Yu and Zhang shifted places at the top in race two, while Heather McLean of Canada finished in third place.^[3] Li Qishi of China won the second Division B race.

Race one took place on Friday, 29 January, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 10:30, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:00.^[4]

Division A

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Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Zhang Hong		10	o	37.82	100	50
	Yu Jing		8	i	37.93	80	40
	Jorien ter Mors		4	o	37.99	70	35
4	Vanessa Bittner		9	o	38.00	60	30
5	Heather McLean		8	o	38.06	50	25
6	Brittany Bowe		9	i	38.10	45	—
7	Olga Fatkulina		7	i	38.18	40
8	Nao Kodaira		6	o	38.26	36
9	Margot Boer		3	o	38.30	32
10	Karolína Erbanová		5	i	38.45	28
11	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	i	38.49	24
12	Marsha Hudey		4	i	38.58	21
13	Erina Kamiya		7	o	38.69	18
14	Janine Smit		1	o	38.71	16
15	Yekaterina Aydova		2	o	38.76	14
16	Maki Tsuji		6	i	38.81	12
17	Kim Min-sun		3	i	38.91	10
18	Nadezhda Aseyeva		1	i	38.93	8
19	Sugar Todd		5	o	39.01	6
20	Floor van den Brandt		2	i	39.05	5

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Division B

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Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Miho Takagi		6	o	38.46	25
2	Misaki Oshigiri		5	o	38.59	19
3	Anice Das		4	i	38.65	15
4	Li Qishi		12	i	38.76	11
5	Shannon Rempel		10	i	38.99	8
6	Kim Hyun-yung		13	o	39.06	6
7	Gabriele Hirschbichler		9	i	39.09	4
8	Kaylin Irvine		12	o	39.13	2
9	Yekaterina Shikhova		13	i	39.19	1
10	Hege Bøkko		11	o	39.20	—
11	Park Seung-hi		5	i	39.29
12	Anastasia Bucsis		6	i	39.34
13	Yvonne Daldossi		11	i	39.46
14	Zhan Xue		3	i	39.52
15	Nam Ye-won		3	o	39.59
16	Shi Xiaoxuan		4	o	39.61
17	Martine Ripsrud		8	o	39.64
18	Elina Risku		10	o	39.74
19	Kaja Ziomek		1	o	39.78
20	Ksenia Sadovskaya		8	i	39.88
21	Hanne Haugland		2	i	39.92
22	Ellen Bjertnes		2	o	39.97
23	Paige Schwartzburg		9	o	40.10
24	Tatyana Mikhailova		7	i	40.61
25	Karine Udahl		1	i	40.85
26	Francesca Lollobrigida		7	o	40.88

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Race two took place on Saturday, 30 January, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 08:45, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 14:30.^[4]

Division A

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Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Yu Jing		9	i	37.63	100	50
	Zhang Hong		10	i	37.82	80	40
	Heather McLean		8	i	38.02	70	35
4	Olga Fatkulina		8	o	38.09	60	30
5	Karolína Erbanová		6	o	38.19	50	25
6	Nao Kodaira		6	i	38.25	45	—
7	Vanessa Bittner		9	o	38.32	40
8	Marsha Hudey		5	o	38.45	36
9	Erina Kamiya		7	i	38.51	32
10	Nadezhda Aseyeva		2	o	38.65	28
11	Heather Richardson-Bergsma		10	o	38.73	24
12	Maki Tsuji		7	o	38.77	21
13	Margot Boer		4	i	38.79	18
14	Yekaterina Shikhova		1	i	38.83	16
15	Yekaterina Aydova		3	i	38.88	14
16	Janine Smit		2	i	38.900	12
17	Anice Das		1	o	38.909	10
18	Floor van den Brandt		3	o	38.94	8
19	Sugar Todd		5	i	39.00	6
20	Kim Min-sun		4	o	39.03	5

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Division B

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Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Li Qishi		11	o	38.97	25
2	Shannon Rempel		9	o	39.04	19
3	Hege Bøkko		9	i	39.11	15
4	Kaylin Irvine		10	i	39.14	11
5	Yvonne Daldossi		10	o	39.15	8
6	Kim Hyun-yung		11	i	39.22	6
7	Anastasia Bucsis		6	o	39.32	4
8	Martine Ripsrud		4	o	39.41	2
9	Mayon Kuipers		7	i	39.47	1
10	Zhan Xue		5	i	39.51	—
11	Elina Risku		8	i	39.60
12	Park Seung-hi		6	i	39.70
13	Kaja Ziomek		3	i	39.82
14	Nam Ye-won		5	o	39.84
15	Shi Xiaoxuan		4	i	39.85
16	Hanne Haugland		3	o	39.95
17	Ksenia Sadovskaya		7	o	40.02
18	Paige Schwartzburg		8	o	40.27
19	Tatyana Mikhailova		2	o	40.43
20	Ellen Bjertnes		2	i	40.64
21	Karine Udahl		1	i	41.09

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