Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Podium
Venue	Adler Arena Skating Center
Date	16 February 2014
Competitors	36 from 13 nations
Winning time	1:53.51
Medalists
Jorien ter Mors   Netherlands   Ireen Wüst   Netherlands   Lotte van Beek   Netherlands

Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
Team pursuit		men		women

The women's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 16 February 2014.^[1]

Qualification

A total of thirty-six speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 16 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup. A reserve list was also made.^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Cindy Klassen (CAN)	1:51.79	Salt Lake City, United States	20 November 2005
Olympic record	Anni Friesinger (GER)	1:54.02	Salt Lake City, United States	20 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Ireen Wüst at 1:55.38.^[3]

The following records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

The races were started at 18:00.^[4]

Jorien ter Mors happy after winning gold

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
01 !	9	I	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	+0 !—	OR, TR
02 !	15	I	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1:54.09	+00.58 !+0.58
03 !	18	O	Lotte van Beek	Netherlands	1:54.54	+01.03 !+1.03
04 !4	13	I	Marrit Leenstra	Netherlands	1:56.40	+02.89 !+2.89
05 !5	16	O	Yuliya Skokova	Russia	1:56.45	+02.94 !+2.94
06 !6	16	I	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1:57.18	+03.67 !+3.67
07 !7	14	I	Heather Richardson	United States	1:57.60	+04.09 !+4.09
08 !8	17	O	Yekaterina Lobysheva	Russia	1:57.70	+04.19 !+4.19
09 !9	5	O	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	1:57.88	+04.37 !+4.37
10	11	I	Yekaterina Shikhova	Russia	1:58.09	+04.58 !+4.58
11	11	O	Luiza Złotkowska	Poland	1:58.18	+04.67 !+4.67
12	15	O	Ida Njåtun	Norway	1:58.21	+04.70 !+4.70
13	12	O	Karolína Erbanová	Czech Republic	1:58.23	+04.72 !+4.72
14	17	I	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:58.31	+04.80 !+4.80
15	10	O	Natalia Czerwonka	Poland	1:58.46	+04.95 !+4.95
16	7	I	Kali Christ	Canada	1:58.63	+05.12 !+5.12
17	8	I	Christine Nesbitt	Canada	1:58.67	+05.16 !+5.16
18	8	O	Jilleanne Rookard	United States	1:59.15	+05.64 !+5.64
19	18	I	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1:59.47	+05.96 !+5.96
20	2	I	Jelena Peeters	Belgium	1:59.73	+06.22 !+6.22
21	2	O	Kim Bo-reum	South Korea	1:59.78	+06.27 !+6.27
22	6	O	Misaki Oshigiri	Japan	2:00.03	+06.52 !+6.52
23	3	O	Zhao Xin	China	2:00.27	+06.76 !+6.76
24	14	O	Monique Angermüller	Germany	2:00.32	+06.81 !+6.81
25	13	O	Maki Tabata	Japan	2:00.64	+07.13 !+7.13
26	12	I	Brittany Schussler	Canada	2:00.65	+07.14 !+7.14
27	6	I	Li Qishi	China	2:00.89	+07.38 !+7.38
28	1	I	Yekaterina Aydova	Kazakhstan	2:00.93	+07.42 !+7.42
29	3	I	Noh Seon-yeong	South Korea	2:01.07	+07.56 !+7.56
30	7	O	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	2:01.18	+07.67 !+7.67
31	9	O	Ayaka Kikuchi	Japan	2:01.29	+07.78 !+7.78
32	10	I	Nana Takagi	Japan	2:02.16	+08.65 !+8.65
33	5	I	Hege Bøkko	Norway	2:02.53	+09.02 !+9.02
34	1	O	Vanessa Bittner	Austria	2:02.84	+09.33 !+9.33
35	4	O	Brianne Tutt	Canada	2:03.69	+10.18
36	4	I	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	2:04.13	+10.62

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

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