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| # | skater | laps led | laps raced | % led | races |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor An RUS | 243 | 696 | 34.9% | 70 |
| 2 | Charles Hamelin CAN | 195 | 424 | 46.0% | 59 |
| 3 | Wang Meng CHN | 189 | 596 | 31.7% | 67 |
| 4 | Apolo Anton Ohno USA | 180 | 805 | 22.4% | 89 |
| 5 | Mathieu Turcotte CAN | 171 | 523 | 32.7% | 62 |
| 6 | Marta Capurso ITA | 170 | 576 | 29.5% | 64 |
| 7 | Evgenia Radanova BUL | 162 | 604 | 26.8% | 68 |
| 8 | Jin Sun-Yu KOR | 153 | 486 | 31.5% | 50 |
| 9 | Sebastian Praus GER | 150 | 428 | 35.0% | 49 |
| 10 | Amanda Overland CAN | 146 | 401 | 36.4% | 41 |
| 11 | Choi Eun-Kyung KOR | 142 | 564 | 25.2% | 58 |
| 12 | Li Jiajun CHN | 131 | 657 | 19.9% | 70 |
| 13 | Bao Ku Sui CHN | 128 | 506 | 25.3% | 57 |
| 14 | Kang Yun-Mi KOR | 124 | 346 | 35.8% | 37 |
| 15 | Nina Evteeva RUS | 119 | 229 | 52.0% | 26 |
| 16 | Yang A Yang CHN | 118 | 447 | 26.4% | 51 |
| 17 | Yeo Soo-Yeon KOR | 118 | 262 | 45.0% | 20 |
| 18 | Hyo-Jung Kim USA | 112 | 441 | 25.4% | 52 |
| 19 | Francois-Louis Tremblay CAN | 111 | 296 | 37.5% | 36 |
| 20 | Allison Baver USA | 107 | 426 | 25.1% | 41 |
| 21 | Jon Eley GBR | 107 | 319 | 33.5% | 45 |
| 22 | Nicola Franceschina ITA | 102 | 488 | 20.9% | 53 |
| 23 | Pieter Gysel BEL | 97 | 343 | 28.3% | 40 |
| 24 | Arian Nachbar GER | 92 | 350 | 26.3% | 51 |
| 25 | Steve Robillard CAN | 92 | 267 | 34.5% | 29 |
| 26 | Fu Tian Yu CHN | 92 | 202 | 45.5% | 37 |
| 27 | Stephanie Bouvier FRA | 89 | 338 | 26.3% | 40 |
| 28 | Song Kyung-Taek KOR | 89 | 215 | 41.4% | 25 |
| 29 | Takafumi Nishitani JPN | 88 | 254 | 34.6% | 41 |
| 30 | Wang Wei CHN | 85 | 383 | 22.2% | 33 |
| 31 | Satoru Terao JPN | 80 | 232 | 34.5% | 31 |
| 32 | Song Suk-Woo KOR | 79 | 183 | 43.2% | 22 |
| 33 | Wim de Deyne BEL | 78 | 273 | 28.6% | 36 |
| 34 | Si-Bak Sung KOR | 78 | 189 | 41.3% | 17 |
| 35 | Yeo Jun-Hyung KOR | 75 | 205 | 36.6% | 15 |
| 36 | Nicola Rodigari ITA | 74 | 286 | 25.9% | 35 |
| 37 | Li Ye CHN | 70 | 375 | 18.7% | 42 |
| 38 | Alanna Kraus CAN | 70 | 299 | 23.4% | 43 |
| 39 | Fabio Carta ITA | 68 | 343 | 19.8% | 37 |
| 40 | Cees Juffermans NED | 67 | 234 | 28.6% | 26 |
| 41 | Annita van Doorn NED | 66 | 182 | 36.3% | 17 |
| 42 | Mara Zini ITA | 65 | 281 | 23.1% | 38 |
| 43 | Li Haonan CHN | 64 | 236 | 27.1% | 31 |
| 44 | Lee Seung-Jae KOR | 64 | 230 | 27.8% | 28 |
| 45 | Katerina Novotna CZE | 63 | 327 | 19.3% | 33 |
| 46 | Kalyna Roberge CAN | 63 | 163 | 38.7% | 24 |
| 47 | Alexander Gertsikov RUS | 62 | 191 | 32.5% | 24 |
| 48 | Kim Hyun-Kon KOR | 61 | 96 | 63.5% | 10 |
| 49 | Yvonne Kunze GER | 60 | 375 | 16.0% | 48 |
| 50 | Rusty Smith USA | 59 | 275 | 21.5% | 34 |
| 51 | Shani Davis USA | 59 | 264 | 22.3% | 27 |
| 52 | Tatiana Borodulina RUS | 59 | 242 | 24.4% | 29 |
| 53 | Mathieu Giroux CAN | 57 | 89 | 64.0% | 9 |
| 54 | Volodymyr Grygoriev UKR | 55 | 439 | 12.5% | 47 |
| 55 | Jean Charles Mattei FRA | 55 | 240 | 22.9% | 29 |
| 56 | Jonathan Guilmette CAN | 55 | 156 | 35.3% | 18 |
| 57 | Haralds Silovs LAT | 54 | 228 | 23.7% | 29 |
| 58 | Denis Bellotti ITA | 49 | 141 | 34.8% | 16 |
| 59 | Aika Klein GER | 48 | 327 | 14.7% | 32 |
| 60 | Zhu Mi Lei CHN | 48 | 117 | 41.0% | 15 |
| 61 | David Grossenbacher SUI | 46 | 162 | 28.4% | 19 |
| 62 | Ha-Ri Cho KOR | 46 | 122 | 37.7% | 9 |
| 63 | Eun-Ju Jung KOR | 46 | 92 | 50.0% | 11 |
| 64 | Mika Ozawa JPN | 45 | 259 | 17.4% | 29 |
| 65 | Ho-Suk Lee KOR | 45 | 104 | 43.3% | 13 |
| 66 | Matthieu de Boisset FRA | 43 | 175 | 24.6% | 21 |
| 67 | Peter Darazs HUN | 43 | 174 | 24.7% | 23 |
| 68 | Erika Huszar HUN | 42 | 220 | 19.1% | 27 |
| 69 | Seo Ho-Jin KOR | 42 | 123 | 34.1% | 11 |
| 70 | Katia Zini ITA | 41 | 270 | 15.2% | 35 |
| 71 | Joanna Williams GBR | 40 | 288 | 13.9% | 34 |
| 72 | Yuka Kamino JPN | 40 | 164 | 24.4% | 17 |
| 73 | Anouk Leblanc-Boucher CAN | 40 | 99 | 40.4% | 14 |
| 74 | Park Sun-Young KOR | 39 | 75 | 52.0% | 10 |
| 75 | Mark McNEE AUS | 38 | 237 | 16.0% | 30 |
| 76 | Yevgen Yakovlev UKR | 37 | 238 | 15.5% | 27 |
| 77 | Volodymyr Chernega UKR | 37 | 223 | 16.6% | 29 |
| 78 | Andre Hartwig GER | 37 | 211 | 17.5% | 26 |
| 79 | Junji Ito JPN | 37 | 87 | 42.5% | 10 |
| 80 | Guillaume Bastille CAN | 37 | 83 | 44.6% | 10 |
| 81 | Jeon Ji-Soo KOR | 36 | 80 | 45.0% | 9 |
| 82 | Liesbeth Mau Asam NED | 35 | 180 | 19.4% | 26 |
| 83 | Guillaume Mathieu FRA | 35 | 172 | 20.3% | 16 |
| 84 | Celine Lecompere FRA | 35 | 138 | 25.4% | 14 |
| 85 | Veronika Windisch AUT | 34 | 252 | 13.5% | 26 |
| 86 | Zhao Qinyu CHN | 34 | 117 | 29.1% | 14 |
| 87 | Cui Liang CHN | 33 | 91 | 36.3% | 12 |
| 88 | Tania Vicent CAN | 32 | 160 | 20.0% | 18 |
| 89 | Yao Yao CHN | 32 | 87 | 36.8% | 11 |
| 90 | Ruslan Zakharov RUS | 32 | 84 | 38.1% | 9 |
| 91 | Jakub Jaworski POL | 31 | 100 | 31.0% | 13 |
| 92 | Roberto Serra ITA | 31 | 68 | 45.6% | 15 |
| 93 | Evita Krievane LAT | 30 | 202 | 14.9% | 28 |
| 94 | Sarah Lindsay GBR | 30 | 194 | 15.5% | 25 |
| 95 | Maxime Chataignier FRA | 30 | 193 | 15.5% | 21 |
| 96 | Sascha Lauber SUI | 29 | 236 | 12.3% | 30 |
| 97 | Thibaut Fauconnet FRA | 29 | 117 | 24.8% | 14 |
| 98 | Alexander Sekisov RUS | 28 | 141 | 19.9% | 17 |
| 99 | Tina Grassow GER | 28 | 125 | 22.4% | 18 |
| 100 | Min-Jung Kim KOR | 28 | 94 | 29.8% | 8 |
| 101 | Tom Iveson GBR | 27 | 229 | 11.8% | 27 |
| 102 | Paul Herrmann GER | 27 | 106 | 25.5% | 11 |
| 103 | Yoshiharu Arino JPN | 27 | 105 | 25.7% | 12 |
| 104 | Jessica Gregg CAN | 27 | 49 | 55.1% | 8 |
| 105 | Mikhail Rajine RUS | 26 | 229 | 11.4% | 29 |
| 106 | Yuri Confortola ITA | 26 | 116 | 22.4% | 13 |
| 107 | Yoon-Gy Kwak KOR | 26 | 100 | 26.0% | 12 |
| 108 | Catia Borrello ITA | 26 | 93 | 28.0% | 9 |
| 109 | Niels Kerstholt NED | 25 | 169 | 14.8% | 22 |
| 110 | Min-Kyung Choi FRA | 24 | 170 | 14.1% | 22 |
| 111 | Liu Cuijia CHN | 24 | 157 | 15.3% | 12 |
| 112 | Oliver Horsepool GBR | 24 | 150 | 16.0% | 17 |
| 113 | Matus Uzak SVK | 24 | 114 | 21.1% | 11 |
| 114 | Karolina Regucka POL | 24 | 104 | 23.1% | 13 |
| 115 | Christin Priebst GER | 23 | 190 | 12.1% | 26 |
| 116 | Hayato Sueyoshi JPN | 23 | 124 | 18.5% | 10 |
| 117 | Melanie de Lange NED | 23 | 93 | 24.7% | 15 |
| 118 | Andre Pulec AUT | 22 | 117 | 18.8% | 14 |
| 119 | Zbigniew Brodka POL | 22 | 108 | 20.4% | 15 |
| 120 | Ivanie Blondin CAN | 22 | 59 | 37.3% | 7 |
| 121 | Thomas Bauer GER | 21 | 177 | 11.9% | 20 |
| 122 | Sergey Prankevich RUS | 21 | 104 | 20.2% | 13 |
| 123 | J P Kepka USA | 21 | 90 | 23.3% | 14 |
| 124 | Krystian Zdrojkowski POL | 21 | 53 | 39.6% | 8 |
| 125 | Takahiro Fujimoto JPN | 20 | 156 | 12.8% | 16 |
| 126 | Yu Miura JPN | 20 | 67 | 29.9% | 8 |
| 127 | Jean-Francois Monette CAN | 20 | 54 | 37.0% | 8 |
| 128 | Katalin Kristo ROU | 19 | 108 | 17.6% | 13 |
| 129 | Maria Garcia USA | 19 | 87 | 21.8% | 11 |
| 130 | Liu Xiao Ying CHN | 19 | 45 | 42.2% | 6 |
| 131 | Elizaveta Ivljeva RUS | 18 | 213 | 8.5% | 23 |
| 132 | Dries Celis BEL | 18 | 171 | 10.5% | 24 |
| 133 | Tomas Greschner SVK | 18 | 101 | 17.8% | 11 |
| 134 | Gabor Galambos HUN | 18 | 100 | 18.0% | 13 |
| 135 | Chikage Tanaka JPN | 18 | 89 | 20.2% | 15 |
| 136 | Eitoku Ike JPN | 18 | 71 | 25.4% | 7 |
| 137 | Feng Xue CHN | 18 | 67 | 26.9% | 8 |
| 138 | Blake Skjellerup NZL | 17 | 243 | 7.0% | 27 |
| 139 | Marina Georgieva-Nikolova BUL | 17 | 204 | 8.3% | 26 |
| 140 | Miyuki Ozawa JPN | 17 | 149 | 11.4% | 12 |
| 141 | Liu Xiao Liang CHN | 17 | 144 | 11.8% | 11 |
| 142 | Ykurginyan Vyaceslav RUS | 17 | 58 | 29.3% | 7 |
| 143 | Seung-Hoon Lee KOR | 17 | 57 | 29.8% | 8 |
| 144 | Eric Bedard CAN | 17 | 53 | 32.1% | 8 |
| 145 | Selina Muxel GER | 17 | 50 | 34.0% | 6 |
| 146 | Rozsa Darazs HUN | 16 | 150 | 10.7% | 17 |
| 147 | Jarmil Hruza CZE | 16 | 137 | 11.7% | 18 |
| 148 | Zsolt Istvan Pataki ROU | 16 | 126 | 12.7% | 13 |
| 149 | Tatiana Zimova SVK | 16 | 94 | 17.0% | 13 |
| 150 | LinLin Sun CHN | 16 | 64 | 25.0% | 6 |
| 151 | Jeon da-Hye KOR | 16 | 62 | 25.8% | 9 |
| 152 | Brigid Farrell USA | 16 | 54 | 29.6% | 7 |
| 153 | Mike Kooreman USA | 16 | 50 | 32.0% | 5 |
| 154 | Geng Li CHN | 16 | 41 | 39.0% | 6 |
| 155 | Myrtille Gollin FRA | 15 | 147 | 10.2% | 17 |
| 156 | Yuko Koya JPN | 15 | 104 | 14.4% | 11 |
| 157 | Jade Wheeler USA | 15 | 84 | 17.9% | 10 |
| 158 | Alex Izykowski USA | 15 | 69 | 21.7% | 10 |
| 159 | Ayuko Ito JPN | 15 | 55 | 27.3% | 6 |
| 160 | Assen Pandov BUL | 14 | 198 | 7.1% | 27 |
| 161 | Robbert-Kees Boer NED | 14 | 159 | 8.8% | 18 |
| 162 | Laszlo Vrencean | 14 | 142 | 9.9% | 15 |
| 163 | Szandra Lajtos HUN | 14 | 75 | 18.7% | 10 |
| 164 | Yang Zhanyu CHN | 14 | 59 | 23.7% | 6 |
| 165 | Kristen Biondo USA | 14 | 46 | 30.4% | 5 |
| 166 | Francois Hamelin CAN | 14 | 46 | 30.4% | 6 |
| 167 | Viacheslav Kurginian RUS | 13 | 100 | 13.0% | 11 |
| 168 | Natalia Dmitrieva RUS | 13 | 74 | 17.6% | 11 |
| 169 | Arianna Fontana ITA | 13 | 50 | 26.0% | 6 |
| 170 | Olga Maskaikina RUS | 13 | 46 | 28.3% | 5 |
| 171 | Milos Vigas SVK | 13 | 38 | 34.2% | 4 |
| 172 | Carly Wilson USA | 13 | 33 | 39.4% | 5 |
| 173 | Balazs Knoch HUN | 12 | 105 | 11.4% | 12 |
| 174 | Ekaterina Stukanov ISR | 12 | 105 | 11.4% | 12 |
| 175 | Aliaksandr Antanenka BLR | 12 | 93 | 12.9% | 9 |
| 176 | Paul Stanley GBR | 12 | 72 | 16.7% | 12 |
| 177 | Olga Lopatkina KAZ | 12 | 71 | 16.9% | 8 |
| 178 | Biro Kristina HUN | 12 | 66 | 18.2% | 9 |
| 179 | Shinichi Tagami JPN | 12 | 60 | 20.0% | 4 |
| 180 | Dariusz Kulesza POL | 12 | 58 | 20.7% | 8 |
| 181 | Arlt Christian GER | 12 | 51 | 23.5% | 4 |
| 182 | Didier Olichon-Perreault FRA | 12 | 45 | 26.7% | 7 |
| 183 | Bobby Joe Lindsey USA | 12 | 42 | 28.6% | 5 |
| 184 | Patrycja Maliszewska POL | 12 | 41 | 29.3% | 6 |
| 185 | Elena Pribysh ISR | 11 | 71 | 15.5% | 8 |
| 186 | Vera Antanenka BLR | 11 | 67 | 16.4% | 8 |
| 187 | Jordan Malone USA | 11 | 59 | 18.6% | 6 |
| 188 | Karol Bobowicz POL | 11 | 58 | 19.0% | 9 |
| 189 | Christoph Milz GER | 11 | 42 | 26.2% | 5 |
| 190 | Stephen Lee AUS | 10 | 130 | 7.7% | 14 |
| 191 | Benjamin Koch AUT | 10 | 79 | 12.7% | 10 |
| 192 | Jumpei Yoshizawa JPN | 10 | 72 | 13.9% | 6 |
| 193 | Vitaly Mikheenkov RUS | 10 | 60 | 16.7% | 4 |
| 194 | Ivan Bialou BLR | 10 | 46 | 21.7% | 4 |
| 195 | Yuma Sakurai JPN | 10 | 42 | 23.8% | 5 |
| 196 | Daisuke Uemura JPN | 10 | 37 | 27.0% | 5 |
| 197 | Valeriya Reznik RUS | 9 | 98 | 9.2% | 13 |
| 198 | Denise Altmann AUT | 9 | 54 | 16.7% | 6 |
| 199 | Nikolay Fedorenko KAZ | 9 | 54 | 16.7% | 7 |
| 200 | Sanne van Kerkhof NED | 9 | 53 | 17.0% | 7 |
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.