Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 8
Competitors	26 from 12 nations
Winning time	4:45.19
Medalists
Tatyana Averina  Soviet Union Andrea Mitscherlich  East Germany Lisbeth Korsmo  Norway

Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1][2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3][4]

World record	Tamara Kuznetsova (URS)	4:44.69	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	12 January 1975
Olympic record	Stien Kaiser (NED)	4:52.14	Sapporo, Japan	12 February 1972

The following new Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 1	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67	OR
8 February	Pair 6	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	OR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	6	i	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	–	OR
	10	i	Andrea Mitscherlich	East Germany	4:45.23	+0.04
	9	o	Lisbeth Korsmo	Norway	4:45.24	+0.05
4	13	o	Karin Kessow	East Germany	4:45.60	+0.41
5	1	i	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67	+1.48
6	10	o	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	4:48.15	+2.96
7	2	i	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	4:48.46	+3.17
8	7	i	Sylvia Burka	Canada	4:49.04	+3.85
9	8	i	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	4:50.86	+5.67
10	9	i	Erwina Ryś	Poland	4:50.95	+5.76
11	5	o	Beth Heiden	United States	4:51.67	+6.48
12	6	o	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	4:51.71	+6.52
13	13	i	Nina Statkevich	Soviet Union	4:53.94	+8.75
14	4	i	Tetiana Shelekhova	Soviet Union	4:54.03	+8.84
15	3	o	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	4:56.75	+11,56
16	11	i	Janina Korowicka	Poland	4:57.48	+12.29
17	11	o	Cindy Seikkula	United States	4:57.57	+12.38
18	12	o	Liz Appleby	Canada	4:58.68	+13.49
19	7	o	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	4:58.92	+13.73
20	12	i	Christa Jaarsma	Netherlands	5:00.08	+14.89
21	1	o	Chieko Ito	Japan	5:02.57	+17.38
22	4	o	Paula-Irmeli Halonen	Finland	5:03.08	+17.89
23	3	i	Gayle Gordon	Canada	5:07.09	+21.90
24	8	o	Lee Nam-Sun	South Korea	5:08.34	+23.15
25	2	o	Ewa Malewicka	Poland	5:08.79	+23.60
26	5	i	Linda Rombouts	Belgium	5:10.35	+25.16

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