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| # | skater | laps led | laps raced | % led | races |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arianna Fontana ITA | 208 | 447 | 46.5% | 61 |
| 2 | Marianne St-Gelais CAN | 187 | 286 | 65.4% | 49 |
| 3 | Katherine Reutter-Adamek USA | 186 | 492 | 37.8% | 50 |
| 4 | Qiuhong Liu CHN | 182 | 380 | 47.9% | 64 |
| 5 | Nannan Zhao CHN | 176 | 269 | 65.4% | 42 |
| 6 | Yui Sakai JPN | 163 | 333 | 48.9% | 52 |
| 7 | Olga Belyakova RUS | 153 | 455 | 33.6% | 45 |
| 8 | Marie-Eve Drolet CAN | 148 | 491 | 30.1% | 54 |
| 9 | Elise Christie GBR | 134 | 346 | 38.7% | 39 |
| 10 | Meng Lin CHN | 128 | 381 | 33.6% | 37 |
| 11 | Jessica Hewitt CAN | 122 | 345 | 35.4% | 39 |
| 12 | Jorien ter Mors NED | 117 | 416 | 28.1% | 48 |
| 13 | Bernadett Heidum HUN | 114 | 493 | 23.1% | 48 |
| 14 | Kexin Fan CHN | 113 | 327 | 34.6% | 54 |
| 15 | Lana Gehring USA | 112 | 354 | 31.6% | 45 |
| 16 | Yang Zhou CHN | 102 | 315 | 32.4% | 30 |
| 17 | Yasuko Sakashita JPN | 98 | 384 | 25.5% | 37 |
| 18 | Annita van Doorn NED | 96 | 460 | 20.9% | 52 |
| 19 | Martina Valcepina ITA | 92 | 481 | 19.1% | 70 |
| 20 | Shin-Young Yang KOR | 89 | 331 | 26.9% | 40 |
| 21 | Ha-Ri Cho KOR | 84 | 326 | 25.8% | 36 |
| 22 | Hitomi Saito JPN | 70 | 359 | 19.5% | 34 |
| 23 | Hwang Hyun Sun KOR | 70 | 234 | 29.9% | 27 |
| 24 | Marie-Andree Mendes-Campeau CAN | 70 | 232 | 30.2% | 22 |
| 25 | Biba Sakurai JPN | 69 | 426 | 16.2% | 45 |
| 26 | Szandra Lajtos HUN | 69 | 189 | 36.5% | 30 |
| 27 | Erika Huszar HUN | 68 | 337 | 20.2% | 48 |
| 28 | Nina Evteeva RUS | 67 | 187 | 35.8% | 21 |
| 29 | Elena Viviani ITA | 64 | 418 | 15.3% | 59 |
| 30 | Ekaterina Baranok RUS | 64 | 374 | 17.1% | 41 |
| 31 | Katerina Novotna CZE | 64 | 294 | 21.8% | 33 |
| 32 | Seung-Hi Park KOR | 63 | 251 | 25.1% | 30 |
| 33 | Ayuko Ito JPN | 62 | 220 | 28.2% | 40 |
| 34 | Alyson Dudek USA | 59 | 148 | 39.9% | 23 |
| 35 | Lia Stepanova RUS | 57 | 300 | 19.0% | 37 |
| 36 | Julia Riedel GER | 54 | 387 | 14.0% | 37 |
| 37 | Patrycja Maliszewska POL | 51 | 328 | 15.5% | 49 |
| 38 | Hee Jung Cheon KOR | 51 | 109 | 46.8% | 12 |
| 39 | Veronika Windisch AUT | 50 | 439 | 11.4% | 39 |
| 40 | Dam-Min Kim KOR | 50 | 274 | 18.2% | 29 |
| 41 | Han Xiao CHN | 49 | 108 | 45.4% | 13 |
| 42 | Valerie Lambert CAN | 44 | 96 | 45.8% | 16 |
| 43 | Laurie Marceau CAN | 43 | 172 | 25.0% | 19 |
| 44 | Cecilia Maffei ITA | 42 | 323 | 13.0% | 31 |
| 45 | Emily Scott USA | 42 | 303 | 13.9% | 35 |
| 46 | Marina Georgieva-Nikolova BUL | 42 | 280 | 15.0% | 46 |
| 47 | Valerie Maltais CAN | 42 | 154 | 27.3% | 17 |
| 48 | Rozsa Darazs HUN | 39 | 325 | 12.0% | 35 |
| 49 | Yara van Kerkhof NED | 39 | 246 | 15.9% | 36 |
| 50 | Jianrou Li CHN | 39 | 233 | 16.7% | 28 |
| 51 | Bianca Walter GER | 38 | 357 | 10.6% | 50 |
| 52 | Sayuri Shimizu JPN | 38 | 244 | 15.6% | 43 |
| 53 | Jessica Kooreman USA | 38 | 240 | 15.8% | 33 |
| 54 | Se Jung Ahn KOR | 36 | 117 | 30.8% | 13 |
| 55 | Vera Antanenka BLR | 34 | 145 | 23.4% | 19 |
| 56 | Christin Priebst GER | 33 | 308 | 10.7% | 30 |
| 57 | Agne Sereikaite LTU | 33 | 121 | 27.3% | 15 |
| 58 | Caroline Truchon CAN | 33 | 88 | 37.5% | 19 |
| 59 | Jessica Gregg CAN | 29 | 102 | 28.4% | 16 |
| 60 | Yulia Kichapova RUS | 26 | 155 | 16.8% | 23 |
| 61 | Morgan Izykowski USA | 25 | 150 | 16.7% | 20 |
| 62 | Valeriya Reznik RUS | 24 | 218 | 11.0% | 35 |
| 63 | Sanne van Kerkhof NED | 24 | 156 | 15.4% | 30 |
| 64 | Noh Do Hee KOR | 24 | 104 | 23.1% | 12 |
| 65 | Jin Jingzhu CHN | 23 | 54 | 42.6% | 6 |
| 66 | Rachel Stewart USA | 22 | 51 | 43.1% | 5 |
| 67 | Charlotte Gilmartin GBR | 21 | 184 | 11.4% | 20 |
| 68 | Gabrielle Williamson-Derraugh CAN | 21 | 141 | 14.9% | 17 |
| 69 | Deanna Lockett AUS | 21 | 71 | 29.6% | 8 |
| 70 | Josephine Meschnik GER | 20 | 233 | 8.6% | 36 |
| 71 | Jessica Ausma NED | 19 | 160 | 11.9% | 22 |
| 72 | Olena Korinchuk UKR | 19 | 127 | 15.0% | 19 |
| 73 | Veronika Denes HUN | 19 | 125 | 15.2% | 16 |
| 74 | Safiya Vlasova UKR | 16 | 149 | 10.7% | 18 |
| 75 | Xinyue Wang HKG | 16 | 113 | 14.2% | 18 |
| 76 | Inna Simonova KAZ | 13 | 140 | 9.3% | 23 |
| 77 | Volha Talayeva BLR | 13 | 94 | 13.8% | 15 |
| 78 | Tatiana Bodova SVK | 13 | 94 | 13.8% | 13 |
| 79 | Andrea Keszler HUN | 13 | 80 | 16.3% | 13 |
| 80 | Ann Veronique Michaud CAN | 13 | 71 | 18.3% | 8 |
| 81 | Paula Bzura POL | 12 | 352 | 3.4% | 33 |
| 82 | Xeniya Motova KAZ | 12 | 117 | 10.3% | 13 |
| 83 | Anne-Sophie Davreux BEL | 11 | 179 | 6.1% | 16 |
| 84 | Agnieszka Olechnicka POL | 11 | 89 | 12.4% | 9 |
| 85 | Elisa Lenke GER | 10 | 122 | 8.2% | 19 |
| 86 | Lexi Burkholder USA | 10 | 38 | 26.3% | 4 |
| 87 | Efi Papakonstanti GER | 8 | 118 | 6.8% | 12 |
| 88 | Natalia Plugina RUS | 8 | 108 | 7.4% | 15 |
| 89 | Arianna Valcepina ITA | 7 | 155 | 4.5% | 17 |
| 90 | Julie Jung AUS | 7 | 99 | 7.1% | 14 |
| 91 | Evgeniya Zakharova RUS | 7 | 71 | 9.9% | 8 |
| 92 | Karyna Hryschanka BLR | 7 | 67 | 10.4% | 7 |
| 93 | Cynthia Mascitto CAN | 7 | 67 | 10.4% | 8 |
| 94 | Izumi Nishii JPN | 7 | 46 | 15.2% | 5 |
| 95 | Alex Stanley GBR | 6 | 212 | 2.8% | 26 |
| 96 | Dariya Volokitina KAZ | 6 | 130 | 4.6% | 16 |
| 97 | Agnieszka Tawrel POL | 6 | 63 | 9.5% | 7 |
| 98 | Veronique Pierron FRA | 6 | 60 | 10.0% | 9 |
| 99 | Moemi Kikuchi JPN | 6 | 20 | 30.0% | 4 |
| 100 | Patricia Toth HUN | 5 | 75 | 6.7% | 9 |
| 101 | Andrea Do-Duc CAN | 5 | 56 | 8.9% | 10 |
| 102 | Katherine Ralston USA | 5 | 54 | 9.3% | 7 |
| 103 | Lucia Ana Ilijic CRO | 5 | 25 | 20.0% | 3 |
| 104 | Anna Samarina KAZ | 4 | 89 | 4.5% | 9 |
| 105 | Gergana Patsova BUL | 4 | 79 | 5.1% | 11 |
| 106 | Zsofia Konya HUN | 4 | 67 | 6.0% | 7 |
| 107 | Ranya Ezzi SWE | 4 | 55 | 7.3% | 5 |
| 108 | Sinead Fogarty AUS | 4 | 25 | 16.0% | 3 |
| 109 | Magdalena Szwajlik POL | 3 | 77 | 3.9% | 12 |
| 110 | Lara van Ruijven NED | 2 | 96 | 2.1% | 13 |
| 111 | Hsiao-Ying Chung TPE | 2 | 67 | 3.0% | 8 |
| 112 | Marta Wojcik POL | 2 | 46 | 4.3% | 5 |
| 113 | Rumiana Dimitrova BUL | 2 | 25 | 8.0% | 3 |
| 114 | Raya Zaharieva BUL | 1 | 91 | 1.1% | 11 |
| 115 | Catherine Alexander BEL | 1 | 63 | 1.6% | 7 |
| 116 | Lucia Peretti ITA | 1 | 50 | 2.0% | 5 |
| 117 | Sarah Chen USA | 1 | 34 | 2.9% | 4 |
| 118 | Fumi Kitabuki JPN | 1 | 20 | 5.0% | 3 |
| 119 | Anastassiya Kuznetsova KAZ | 0 | 76 | 0.0% | 8 |
| 120 | Natallia Tsaulika BLR | 0 | 67 | 0.0% | 7 |
| 121 | Duygu Kan TUR | 0 | 67 | 0.0% | 7 |
| 122 | Ottilia Sillo ROU | 0 | 67 | 0.0% | 8 |
| 123 | Tünde Balázs ROU | 0 | 66 | 0.0% | 9 |
| 124 | Garazi Ganuza ESP | 0 | 50 | 0.0% | 6 |
| 125 | Ainara Equisoain ESP | 0 | 50 | 0.0% | 6 |
| 126 | Liudmila Tsarykava BLR | 0 | 42 | 0.0% | 4 |
| 127 | Monika Heller GER | 0 | 42 | 0.0% | 5 |
| 128 | Anastassiya Krestova KAZ | 0 | 38 | 0.0% | 4 |
| 129 | Lilia Dzhustrova BUL | 0 | 38 | 0.0% | 4 |
| 130 | Anna Romanowicz POL | 0 | 32 | 0.0% | 5 |
| 131 | Evita Krievane LAT | 0 | 29 | 0.0% | 4 |
| 132 | Kristina Vuteva BUL | 0 | 29 | 0.0% | 4 |
| 133 | Zornica Pencheva BUL | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 134 | Maria Schulze GER | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 135 | Aarathy Kasturiraj IND | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 136 | Sara Blekic CRO | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 137 | Josipa Tadic CRO | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 138 | Ieva Haino LAT | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
| 139 | Elvira Bayazitova RUS | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 3 |
every competition in the archive that stores a position for each lap — 253 of them, 2003 onwards. Positions are not stored everywhere: 2007 carries none at all and 2006 very few, so a season is only as complete as its source. Individual races only — relays carry no lap positions. Skaters with fewer than 20 laps in the season are left out.