Top 50 most World Cup participations individual distances Women
| # | name | total | first race | last race | |
| 1 | Tomomi Okazaki | JPN | 303 | 5 Dec 1992 | 20 Jan 2013 |
| 2 | Claudia Pechstein | GER | 300 | 23 Nov 1991 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 3 | Edel Therese Høiseth | NOR | 288 | 30 Nov 1985 | 10 Mar 2002 |
| 4 | Marianne Timmer | NED | 282 | 6 Mar 1993 | 5 Dec 2010 |
| 5 | Chiara Simionato | ITA | 278 | 24 Nov 1995 | 6 Mar 2011 |
| 6 | Chris Witty | USA | 245 | 21 Jan 1994 | 2 Mar 2007 |
| 7 | Emese Hunyady | AUT | 243 | 30 Nov 1985 | 16 Nov 2003 |
| 8 | Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt | GER | 242 | 27 Nov 1988 | 20 Nov 2005 |
| 9 | Nao Kodaira | JPN | 238 | 10 Nov 2006 | 8 Mar 2020 |
| 10 | Shannon Rempel | CAN | 226 | 2 Feb 2001 | 9 Dec 2017 |
| 11 | Catriona Le May Doan | CAN | 224 | 12 Feb 1989 | 9 Mar 2003 |
| 12 | Heather Richardson | USA | 217 | 11 Nov 2007 | 3 Dec 2017 |
| 13 | Maki Tabata | JPN | 213 | 27 Nov 1993 | 29 Jan 2017 |
| 14 | Jenny Wolf | GER | 212 | 26 Jan 1999 | 16 Mar 2014 |
| 15 | Margot Boer | NED | 208 | 4 Dec 2004 | 13 Mar 2016 |
| Martina Sáblíková | CZE | 208 | 16 Nov 2002 | 24 Jan 2021 | |
| 17 | Svetlana Kaykan | RUS | 207 | 12 Dec 1998 | 3 Mar 2012 |
| 18 | Svetlana Zhurova | RUS | 204 | 25 Nov 1989 | 5 Mar 2006 |
| 19 | Lee Sang-hwa | KOR | 196 | 4 Dec 2004 | 9 Dec 2017 |
| 20 | Judith Dannhauer | GER | 195 | 2 Mar 2003 | 20 Jan 2018 |
| 21 | Sabine Völker | GER | 194 | 24 Nov 1990 | 9 Dec 2005 |
| 22 | Olga Fatkulina | RUS | 187 | 7 Nov 2009 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| Svetlana Radkevich | BLR | 187 | 4 Dec 1999 | 20 Jan 2013 | |
| 24 | Elli Ochowicz | USA | 183 | 4 Dec 1999 | 8 Dec 2013 |
| 25 | Gabriele Hirschbichler | GER | 182 | 17 Dec 2005 | 2 Feb 2019 |
| 26 | Anzhelika Kotyuga | BLR | 178 | 28 Jan 1995 | 13 Dec 2009 |
| Sayuri Osuga | JPN | 178 | 12 Dec 1998 | 12 Dec 2009 | |
| 28 | Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś | POL | 175 | 14 Nov 1998 | 21 Jan 2018 |
| 29 | Yekaterina Aydova | KAZ | 173 | 7 Nov 2008 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 30 | Brittany Schussler | CAN | 172 | 10 Jan 2003 | 7 Dec 2013 |
| 31 | Monique Angermüller | GER | 170 | 4 Dec 2004 | 16 Mar 2014 |
| Maki Tsuji | JPN | 170 | 4 Dec 2004 | 8 Mar 2020 | |
| 33 | Susan Auch | CAN | 169 | 24 Jan 1987 | 9 Mar 2002 |
| Becky Sundstrom | USA | 169 | 3 Dec 1994 | 9 Mar 2003 | |
| 35 | Emese Dörfler-Antal | AUT | 167 | 22 Nov 1991 | 18 Dec 2005 |
| Ireen Wüst | NED | 167 | 29 Jan 2005 | 24 Jan 2021 | |
| 37 | Karolína Erbanová | CZE | 166 | 7 Nov 2008 | 18 Mar 2018 |
| 38 | Anni Friesinger-Postma | GER | 164 | 28 Nov 1993 | 13 Mar 2010 |
| 39 | Bonnie Blair | USA | 162 | 4 Jan 1986 | 12 Mar 1995 |
| 40 | Kristina Groves | CAN | 160 | 1 Mar 1996 | 21 Nov 2010 |
| Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | GER | 160 | 22 Nov 1987 | 29 Feb 2004 | |
| 42 | Brittany Bowe | USA | 159 | 18 Nov 2011 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 43 | Andrea Nuyt | NED | 157 | 25 Nov 1995 | 29 Feb 2004 |
| 44 | Ida Njåtun | NOR | 156 | 16 Nov 2008 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| Jennifer Rodriguez | USA | 156 | 18 Jan 1997 | 14 Mar 2010 | |
| 46 | Christine Aaftink | NED | 155 | 29 Nov 1986 | 3 Mar 1996 |
| 47 | Cindy Klassen | CAN | 154 | 29 Jan 2000 | 10 Mar 2013 |
| Yekaterina Shikhova | RUS | 154 | 7 Dec 2002 | 8 Mar 2020 | |
| 49 | Christine Nesbitt | CAN | 153 | 14 Jan 2005 | 17 Nov 2013 |
| 50 | Natalia Czerwonka | POL | 151 | 9 Nov 2007 | 24 Jan 2021 |
