Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Dates	February 21
Competitors	30 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:02.19
Medalists
Emese Hunyady   Austria   Svetlana Fedotkina   Russia   Gunda Niemann-Kleemann   Germany

Speed skating at the 1994 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 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 21 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Karin Enke (GDR)	1:59.30	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	22 March 1987
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	2:00.68	Calgary, Canada	27 February 1988

Results

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Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Behind
	3	Emese Hunyady	Austria	2:02.19	-
	9	Svetlana Fedotkina	Russia	2:02.69	+0.50
	1	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann	Germany	2:03.41	+1.22
4	2	Bonnie Blair	United States	2:03.44	+1.25
5	9	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	2:03.70	+1.51
6	1	Svetlana Bazhanova	Russia	2:03.99	+1.80
7	5	Nataliya Polozkova	Russia	2:04.00	+1.81
8	5	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	2:04.02	+1.83
9	4	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	2:04.98	+2.79
10	12	Tonny De Jong	Netherlands	2:05.18	+2.99
11	7	Anke Baier	Germany	2:05.97	+3.78
12	2	Elena Belci	Italy	2:05.99	+3.80
13	3	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	2:06.20	+4.01
14	4	Ulrike Adeberg	Germany	2:06.40	+4.21
15	6	Hiromi Yamamoto	Japan	2:06.54	+4.35
16	14	Maki Tabata	Japan	2:06.79	+4.60
17	1	Catriona Le May Doan	Canada	2:07.19	+5.00
18	10	Ewa Wasilewska	Poland	2:07.44	+5.25
19	7	Emese Dörfler-Antal	Austria	2:07.72	+5.53
20	15	Michelle Kline	United States	2:08.02	+5.83
21	13	Angela Zuckerman	United States	2:08.43	+6.24
22	8	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	2:08.49	+6.30
23	11	Cerasela Hordobeţiu	Romania	2:08.50	+6.31
24	13	Michelle Morton	Canada	2:08.53	+6.34
25	2	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	2:08.65	+6.46
26	15	Heike Warnicke	Germany	2:09.53	+7.34
27	6	Chantal Bailey	United States	2:09.68	+7.49
28	8	Ingrid Liepa	Canada	2:09.97	+7.78
29	10	Elisabetta Pizio	Italy	2:11.02	+8.83
30	14	Cheon Hui-Ju	South Korea	2:12.14	+9.95

References

1. "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "1500m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
3. "1500m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

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