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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
Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands Ireen Wüst  Netherlands Lotte van Beek  Netherlands
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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Qualification
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
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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[edit]

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[edit]

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

World record	Cindy Klassen (CAN)	1:51.79	Salt Lake City, United States	20 November 2005
Olympic record	Anni Friesinger (GER)	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
16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results[edit]

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

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

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	9	I	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	—	OR, TR
	15	I	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1:54.09	+0.58
	18	O	Lotte van Beek	Netherlands	1:54.54	+1.03
4	13	I	Marrit Leenstra	Netherlands	1:56.40	+2.89
5	16	O	Yuliya Skokova	Russia	1:56.45	+2.94
6	16	I	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1:57.18	+3.67
7	14	I	Heather Richardson	United States	1:57.60	+4.09
8	17	O	Yekaterina Lobysheva	Russia	1:57.70	+4.19
DSQ	5	O	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	1:57.88	+4.37
10	11	I	Yekaterina Shikhova	Russia	1:58.09	+4.58
11	11	O	Luiza Złotkowska	Poland	1:58.18	+4.67
12	15	O	Ida Njåtun	Norway	1:58.21	+4.70
13	12	O	Karolína Erbanová	Czech Republic	1:58.23	+4.72
14	17	I	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:58.31	+4.80
15	10	O	Natalia Czerwonka	Poland	1:58.46	+4.95
16	7	I	Kali Christ	Canada	1:58.63	+5.12
17	8	I	Christine Nesbitt	Canada	1:58.67	+5.16
18	8	O	Jilleanne Rookard	United States	1:59.15	+5.64
19	18	I	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1:59.47	+5.96
20	2	I	Jelena Peeters	Belgium	1:59.73	+6.22
21	2	O	Kim Bo-reum	South Korea	1:59.78	+6.27
22	6	O	Misaki Oshigiri	Japan	2:00.03	+6.52
23	3	O	Zhao Xin	China	2:00.27	+6.76
24	14	O	Monique Angermüller	Germany	2:00.32	+6.81
25	13	O	Maki Tabata	Japan	2:00.64	+7.13
26	12	I	Brittany Schussler	Canada	2:00.65	+7.14
27	6	I	Li Qishi	China	2:00.89	+7.38
28	1	I	Yekaterina Aydova	Kazakhstan	2:00.93	+7.42
29	3	I	Noh Seon-yeong	South Korea	2:01.07	+7.56
30	7	O	Gabriele Hirschbichler	Germany	2:01.18	+7.67
31	9	O	Ayaka Kikuchi	Japan	2:01.29	+7.78
32	10	I	Nana Takagi	Japan	2:02.16	+8.65
33	5	I	Hege Bøkko	Norway	2:02.53	+9.02
34	1	O	Vanessa Bittner	Austria	2:02.84	+9.33
35	4	O	Brianne Tutt	Canada	2:03.69	+10.18
36	4	I	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	2:04.13	+10.62

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

References[edit]