Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
VenueAdler Arena Skating Center
Date13 February 2014
Competitors36 from 13 nations
Medalists
   China
   Netherlands
   Netherlands
Speed skating at the
2014 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10000 m men
Team pursuit men women

The women's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 13 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 1000 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 and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.[2]

Records

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

World record  Brittany Bowe (USA) 1:12.58 Salt Lake City, United States 17 November 2013
Olympic record  Chris Witty (USA) 1:13.83 Salt Lake City, United States 17 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Olga Fatkulina at 1:15.44.[3]

The following record was set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
13 February Pair 7 Zhang Hong China 1:14.02 TR

TR = track record

Results

The race was started at 18:00.[4]

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st 7 I Zhang Hong China 1:14.02 — TR
2nd 17 I Ireen Wüst Netherlands 1:14.69 +0.67
3rd 16 I Margot Boer Netherlands 1:14.90 +0.88
4 16 O Olga Fatkulina Russia 1:15.08 +1.06
5 18 I Lotte van Beek Netherlands 1:15.10 +1.08
6 14 I Marrit Leenstra Netherlands 1:15.15 +1.13
7 15 I Heather Richardson United States 1:15.23 +1.21
8 17 O Brittany Bowe United States 1:15.47 +1.45
9 7 O Christine Nesbitt Canada 1:15.62 +1.60
10 12 O Karolína Erbanová Czech Republic 1:15.74 +1.72
11 10 O Judith Hesse Germany 1:15.84 +1.82
12 18 O Lee Sang-hwa South Korea 1:15.94 +1.92
13 15 O Nao Kodaira Japan 1:16.45 +2.43
14 12 I Wang Beixing China 1:16.59 +2.57
15 10 I Yekaterina Shikhova Russia 1:17.01 +2.99
16 11 O Yuliya Skokova Russia 1:17.02 +3.00
17 1 O Ida Njåtun Norway 1:17.15 +3.13
18 13 O Kaylin Irvine Canada 1:17.24 +3.22
19 14 O Yekaterina Aydova Kazakhstan 1:17.25 +3.23
20 9 I Yekaterina Lobysheva Russia 1:17.31 +3.29
21 3 O Kali Christ Canada 1:17.41 +3.39
22 5 I Miyako Sumiyoshi Japan 1:17.68 +3.66
23 2 I Natalia Czerwonka Poland 1:17.933 +3.91
24 9 O Vanessa Bittner Austria 1:17.937 +3.91
25 3 I Jenny Wolf Germany 1:17.99 +3.97
26 11 I Gabriele Hirschbichler Germany 1:18.00 +3.98
27 1 I Maki Tsuji Japan 1:18.07 +4.05
28 8 O Kim Hyun-Yung South Korea 1:18.10 +4.08
29 8 I Luiza Złotkowska Poland 1:18.38 +4.36
30 6 O Brittany Schussler Canada 1:18.53 +4.51
31 4 O Park Seung-Ju South Korea 1:18.94 +4.92
32 2 O Sugar Todd United States 1:19.13 +5.11
33 4 I Kelly Gunther United States 1:19.43 +5.41
34 5 O Li Dan China 1:20.20 +6.18
35 6 I Lee Bo-ra South Korea 1:57.49 +43.47
13 I Monique Angermüller Germany DQ

TR = track record, DQ = disqualified

References

  1. ↑ "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Ladies' 1000 m". SOOC. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of 9 December 2013
  3. ↑ "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Final Results