Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 17
Competitors	35 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:13.83
Medalists
Chris Witty  United States Sabine Völker  Germany Jennifer Rodriguez  United States

Speed skating at the 2002 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

The women's 1000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.^[1]

After suffering from mononucleosis, Chris Witty skated a new world record to a surprise win. Jennifer Rodriguez became the first US Hispanic woman to win an Olympic speed skating medal.

Records

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

World record	Sabine Völker (GER)	1:14.06	Salt Lake City, United States	1 December 2001
Olympic record	Marianne Timmer (NED)	1:16.51	Nagano, Japan	19 February 1998

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date[2]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
17 February	Pair 6	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	1:16.49	OR
17 February	Pair 7	Anzhelika Kotyuga	Belarus	1:15.03	OR
17 February	Pair 11	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1:14.45	OR
17 February	Pair 15	Chris Witty	United States	1:13.83	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	15	Chris Witty	United States	1:13.83	-	WR
	17	Sabine Völker	Germany	1:13.96	+0.13
	16	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	1:14.24	+0.41
4	11	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1:14.45	+0.62
5	16	Anni Friesinger	Germany	1:14.47	+0.64
6	18	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	1:14.60	+0.77
7	17	Aki Tonoike	Japan	1:14.64	+0.81
8	13	Andrea Nuyt	Netherlands	1:14.65	+0.82
9	15	Catriona Le May Doan	Canada	1:14.72	+0.89
10	12	Chiara Simionato	Italy	1:14.86	+0.89
11	18	Svetlana Zhurova	Russia	1:15.02	+0.89
12	7	Anzhelika Kotyuga	Belarus	1:15.03	+0.89
13	14	Cindy Klassen	Canada	1:15.08	+0.89
14	11	Amy Sannes	United States	1:15.09	+0.89
15	12	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	1:15.20	+1.37
16	9	Becky Sundstrom	United States	1:15.88	+2.05
17	13	Eriko Sanmiya	Japan	1:16.26	+2.43
18	8	Marieke Wijsman	Netherlands	1:16.48	+2.65
18	8	Sayuri Osuga	Japan	1:16.48	+2.65
20	6	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	1:16.49	+2.66
21	9	Marion Wohlrab	Germany	1:16.51	+2.68
22	3	Song Li	China	1:16.71	+2.88
23	10	Svetlana Kaykan	Russia	1:16.93	+3.10
24	4	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	1:17.11	+3.28
25	7	Jin Hua	China	1:17.35	+3.52
26	10	Wang Manli	China	1:17.37	+3.54
27	6	Susan Auch	Canada	1:17.89	+4.06
28	1	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	1:18.19	+4.36
29	5	Cho Seon-yeon	South Korea	1:18.36	+4.53
30	2	You Yanchun	China	1:18.74	+4.91
31	2	Lee Yong-joo	South Korea	1:18.79	+4.96
32	1	Choi Seung-yong	South Korea	1:18.88	+5.05
33	3	Svetlana Radkevich	Belarus	1:18.93	+5.10
34	5	Andrea Jakab	Romania	1:19.60	+5.77
35	4	Yelena Myagkikh	Ukraine	1:20.13	+6.30
-	14	Maki Tabata	Japan	DQ	-

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