Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
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]
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| Venue | Adler Arena Skating Center | ||||||||||||
| Date | 16 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:53.51 | ||||||||||||
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| Qualification
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| 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 |
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 | .svg.png){kind=small} | 1:51.79 | Salt Lake City, United States | 20 November 2005 |
| Olympic record |  | 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 |
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| 16 February | Pair 9 | Jorien ter Mors |  | 1:53.51 | OR, 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]
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OR = Olympic record, TR = track record
References
- "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Ladies' 1500 m". SOOC. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- 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
- "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-russian-athletes-as-part-of-oswald-commission-findings-2017-11-24
- Final Results