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Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Dates	February 19
Competitors	34 from 12 nations
Winning time	39.25
Medalists
Bonnie Blair  United States Susan Auch  Canada Franziska Schenk  Germany
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Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
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1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
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5000 m	men	women
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The women's 500 metresinspeed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 19 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.^[1][2]

Records[edit]

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

World record	Bonnie Blair (USA)	39.10	Calgary, Canada	22 February 1988
Olympic record	Bonnie Blair (USA)	39.10	Calgary, Canada	22 February 1988

Results[edit]

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Difference
	3	I	Bonnie Blair	United States	39.25	-
	6	I	Susan Auch	Canada	39.61	+0.36
	2	I	Franziska Schenk	Germany	39.70	+0.45
4	1	O	Xue Ruihong	China	39.71	+0.46
5	5	I	Yoo Seon-Hee	South Korea	39.92	+0.67
6	3	O	Monique Garbrecht	Germany	39.95	+0.70
7	8	I	Svetlana Zhurova	Russia	40.17	+0.92
8	10	I	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	40.20	+0.95
9	14	I	Jin Hua	China	40.23	+0.98
10	5	O	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	40.26	+1.01
11	7	I	Yang Chunyuan	China	40.37	+1.12
12	1	I	Angela Stahnke	Germany	40.38	+1.13
13	6	O	Ye Qiaobo	China	40.42	+1.17
14	11	I	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	40.55	+1.31
15	4	I	Anke Baier	Germany	40.59	+1.34
16	14	O	Michelle Morton	Canada	40.71	+1.46
17	9	O	Oksana Ravilova	Russia	40.72	+1.47
18	4	O	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	40.94	+1.69
19	12	I	Christine Aaftink	Netherlands	41.01	+1.76
20	15	O	Kristen Talbot	United States	41.05	+1.80
	16	I	Svetlana Fedotkina	Russia	41.05	+1.80
22	17	O	Nataliya Polozkova	Russia	41.06	+1.81
23	9	I	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	41.13	+1.88
	11	O	Peggy Clasen	United States	41.13	+1.88
25	8	I	Mayumi Yamamoto	Japan	41.20	+1.95
26	17	I	Linda Johnson-Blair	Canada	41.42	+2.17
27	7	O	Emese Dörfler-Antal	Austria	41.59	+2.34
28	16	O	Gang Mi-yeong	South Korea	41.96	+2.71
29	10	O	Cerasela Hordobețiu	Romania	42.15	+2.90
30	15	I	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	42.29	+3.04
31	13	I	Jeong Bae-yeong	South Korea	42.63	+3.38
32	12	O	Cheon Hui-ju	South Korea	43.05	+3.80
33	2	O	Catriona Le May Doan	Canada	59.75	+20.50
-	13	O	Michelle Kline	United States	DQ

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