Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres


The women's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Anni Friesinger came to terms with the pressure of being the favorite by skating a world record and winning the gold medal. Sabine Völker and Jennifer Rodriguez repeated their successes from the 1000 m.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeORWR
20 FebruaryPair 9Varvara Barysheva1:56.44OR
20 FebruaryPair 10Chris Witty1:55.71OR
20 FebruaryPair 17Anni Friesinger1:54.02ORWR

Results

RankPairNameCountryTimeBehindNotes
17Anni Friesinger1:54.02-WR
19Sabine Völker1:54.97+0.95
20Jennifer Rodriguez1:55.32+1.30
410Cindy Klassen1:55.59+1.57
518Chris Witty1:55.71+1.69
615Claudia Pechstein1:55.93+1.91
713Tonny de Jong1:56.02+2.00
819Amy Sannes1:56.29+2.27
99Maki Tabata1:56.35+2.33
109Varvara Barysheva1:56.44+2.42
1118Annamarie Thomas1:56.45+2.43
129Emese Hunyady1:56.51+2.49
1314Becky Sundstrom1:57.33+3.31
1417Aki Tonoike1:57.97+3.95
1515Song Li1:58.31+4.29
1613Chiara Simionato1:58.52+4.50
1714Tatyana Trapeznikova1:59.00+4.98
185Valentina Yakshina1:59.28+5.26
193Gao Yang1:59.51+5.49
2010Kristina Groves1:59.54+5.52
2111Marianne Timmer1:59.60+5.58
2216Marion Wohlrab1:59.67+5.65
236Krisztina Egyed1:59.86+5.84
2412Yayoi Nagaoka1:59.93+5.91
2512Cindy Overland2:00.02+6.00
262Katarzyna Wójcicka2:00.59+6.57
274Nicola Mayr2:00.73+6.71
282Zhang Xiaolei2:01.23+7.21
298Yuri Obara2:01.39+7.37
2911Choi Yun-suk2:01.39+7.37
317Andrea Jakab2:02.23+8.21
326Anzhelika Gavrilova2:03.22+9.20
338Baek Eun-bi2:03.87+9.85
341Svetlana Chepelnikova2:04.06+10.04
354Ilonda Luse2:04.25+10.23
363Daniela Oltean2:04.48+10.46
377Marina Pupina2:05.13+11.11
385Yelena Myagkikh2:05.32+11.30
16Renate GroenewoldDNF-