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
1st, gold medalist(s) Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ireen Wüst  Netherlands
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Lotte van Beek  Netherlands

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)1:51.79Salt Lake City, United States20 November 2005
Olympic record Anni Friesinger (GER)1:54.02Salt Lake City, United States20 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.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
16 FebruaryPair 9Jorien ter Mors Netherlands1:53.51OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

On 24 November 2017, Russian athlete Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping offence.[4]

The races were started at 18:00.[5]

Jorien ter Mors happy after winning gold
RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)9IJorien ter Mors Netherlands1:53.51—OR, TR
2nd, silver medalist(s)15IIreen Wüst Netherlands1:54.09+0.58
3rd, bronze medalist(s)18OLotte van Beek Netherlands1:54.54+1.03
413IMarrit Leenstra Netherlands1:56.40+2.89
516OYuliya Skokova Russia1:56.45+2.94
616IKatarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Poland1:57.18+3.67
714IHeather Richardson United States1:57.60+4.09
817OYekaterina Lobysheva Russia1:57.70+4.19
DSQ5OOlga Fatkulina Russia1:57.88+4.37
1011IYekaterina Shikhova Russia1:58.09+4.58
1111OLuiza Złotkowska Poland1:58.18+4.67
1215OIda Njåtun Norway1:58.21+4.70
1312OKarolína Erbanová Czech Republic1:58.23+4.72
1417IBrittany Bowe United States1:58.31+4.80
1510ONatalia Czerwonka Poland1:58.46+4.95
167IKali Christ Canada1:58.63+5.12
178IChristine Nesbitt Canada1:58.67+5.16
188OJilleanne Rookard United States1:59.15+5.64
1918IClaudia Pechstein Germany1:59.47+5.96
202IJelena Peeters Belgium1:59.73+6.22
212OKim Bo-reum South Korea1:59.78+6.27
226OMisaki Oshigiri Japan2:00.03+6.52
233OZhao Xin China2:00.27+6.76
2414OMonique Angermüller Germany2:00.32+6.81
2513OMaki Tabata Japan2:00.64+7.13
2612IBrittany Schussler Canada2:00.65+7.14
276ILi Qishi China2:00.89+7.38
281IYekaterina Aydova Kazakhstan2:00.93+7.42
293INoh Seon-yeong South Korea2:01.07+7.56
307OGabriele Hirschbichler Germany2:01.18+7.67
319OAyaka Kikuchi Japan2:01.29+7.78
3210INana Takagi Japan2:02.16+8.65
335IHege Bøkko Norway2:02.53+9.02
341OVanessa Bittner Austria2:02.84+9.33
354OBrianne Tutt Canada2:03.69+10.18
364IYang Shin-young South Korea2:04.13+10.62

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

References

  1. ↑ "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Ladies' 1500 m". SOOC. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of December 9, 2013 Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  4. ↑ https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-russian-athletes-as-part-of-oswald-commission-findings-2017-11-24
  5. ↑ Final Results
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