2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 12 March at the Sheffield Arena.

Results

Heats

Top two athletes from each heat and the next four fastest thirds qualified for heats.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fan Kexin	China	44.948	Q
2	Yui Sakai	Japan	45.033	Q
3	Szandra Lajtos	Hungary	46.268	q
4	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	46.858

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katherine Reutter	United States	45.152	Q
2	Martina Valcepina	Italy	45.925	Q
3	Annita van Doorn	Netherlands	1:02.485
4	Bernadett Heidum	Hungary	1:30.943

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	45.425	Q
2	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	45.448	Q
3	Lana Gehring	United States	1:19.514
4	Patrycja Maliszewska	Poland	1:21.624

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jessica Hewitt	Canada	45.549	Q
2	Li Jianrou	China	45.579	Q
3	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	45.722	q
4	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	Bulgaria	45.970

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liu Qiuhong	China	45.157	Q
2	Cho Ha-Ri	South Korea	45.573	Q
3	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	45.779	q
4	Vera Antanenka	Belarus	47.183

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	45.408	Q
2	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	45.527	Q
3	Bianca Walter	Germany	46.777	q
4	Olga Belyakova	Russia	47.213

Quarterfinals

Top two athletes from each heat qualified for semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liu Qiuhong	China	44.776	Q
2	Katherine Reutter	United States	44.858	Q
3	Martina Valcepina	Italy	44.893
4	Jessica Hewitt	Canada	45.091

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	45.488	Q
2	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	45.589	Q
3	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	46.101
4	Bianca Walter	Germany	46.686

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fan Kexin	China	44.765	Q
2	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	45.057	Q
3	Yui Sakai	Japan	45.183
4	Cho Ha-Ri	South Korea	49.036

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	45.347	Q
2	Li Jianrou	China	45.463	Q
3	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	45.612
4	Szandra Lajtos	Hungary	45.873

Semifinals

Top two athletes from each heat qualified for final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liu Qiuhong	China	45.076	Q
2	Li Jianrou	China	45.174	Q
3	Katherine Reutter	United States	45.181
4	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	45.473

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fan Kexin	China	44.975	Q
2	Arianna Fontana	Italy	45.082	Q
3	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	45.190
4	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	1:13.133

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Fan Kexin	China	44.620
	Arianna Fontana	Italy	44.687
	Liu Qiuhong	China	44.784
4	Li Jianrou	China	44.879