2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1 – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres race of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 1, arranged in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval, in Obihiro, Japan, was held on 16 November 2014.^[1]

Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands won, followed by Marrit Leenstra of the Netherlands in second place, and Yuliya Skokova of Russia in third place.^[2] Li Qishi of China won Division B.

Results

The race took place on Sunday, 16 November, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 10:35, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 14:30.^[3]

Division A

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Ireen Wüst	9	o	1:56.93	100	100
	Marrit Leenstra	10	i	1:57.76	80	80
	Yuliya Skokova	8	o	1:58.10	70	70
4	Ida Njåtun	8	i	1:59.06	60	60
5	Marije Joling	9	i	1:59.09	50	50
6	Linda de Vries	5	i	1:59.32	45	—
7	Martina Sáblíková	4	i	1:59.61	40
8	Nana Takagi	1	i	1:59.93	36
9	Nao Kodaira	2	i	2:00.14	32
10	Luiza Złotkowska	7	i	2:00.16	28
11	Olga Graf	10	i	2:00.21	24
12	Ayaka Kikuchi	1	o	2:00.29	21
13	Karolína Erbanová	2	o	2:00.31	18
14	Kali Christ	3	i	2:01.64	16
15	Olga Fatkulina	7	o	2:01.77	14
16	Margarita Ryzhova	3	o	2:02.16	12
17	Gabriele Hirschbichler	5	o	2:02.90	10
18	Katarzyna Woźniak	6	o	2:03.44	8
19	Bente Kraus	6	i	2:04.05	6
20	Aleksandra Goss	4	o	2:27.52	5

^[4]^[5]

Division B

Rank	Name	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Li Qishi	5	o	1:58.95	25
2	Melissa Wijfje	9	o	2:00.26	19
3	Zhao Xin	4	i	2:01.74	15
4	Misaki Oshigiri	6	o	2:03.09	11
5	Jelena Peeters	7	i	2:03.25	8
6	Kim Bo-reum	5	i	2:03.39	6
7	Aleksandra Kachurkina	6	i	2:03.53	4
8	Liu Jing	4	o	2:04.35	2
9	Park Cho-weon	3	o	2:04.60	1
10	Noh Seon-yeong	8	i	2:04.69	—
11	Saori Toi	7	o	2:05.88
12	Kate Hanly	8	o	2:06.11
13	Nikola Zdráhalová	2	o	2:07.92
14	Lauren McGuire	2	i	2:08.42
15	Jun Ye-jin	1	i	2:09.20
16	Josie Spence	9	i	2:24.90
17	Yekaterina Aydova	3	i	DNS