Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres
at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Women's 3000 metres; at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	February 15
Competitors	26 from 14 nations
Winning time	4:24.79
Medalists
	← 1980 1988 →

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Gabi Zange (GDR)	4:21.70	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	28 March 1981
Olympic record	Bjørg Eva Jensen (NOR)	4:32.13	Lake Placid, United States	20 February 1980

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
15 February	Andrea Schöne (GDR)	4:24.79	OR

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	1	i	Andrea Schöne	East Germany	4:24.79	–	OR
	3	i	Karin Enke	East Germany	4:26.33	+1.54
	4	o	Gabi Schönbrunn	East Germany	4:33.13	+8.34
4	2	i	Olga Pleshkova	Soviet Union	4:34.42	+9.63
5	5	i	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	4:34.80	+10.09
6	9	i	Mary Docter	United States	4:36.25	+11.46
7	6	i	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Norway	4:36.28	+11.49
8	5	o	Valentina Lalenkova	Soviet Union	4:37.36	+12.57
9	7	o	Natalya Petrusyova	Soviet Union	4:39.36	+14.57
10	3	o	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	4:40.10	+15.31
11	1	o	Annette Carlén	Sweden	4:40.36	+15.57
12	7	i	Jane Goldman	United States	4:42.49	+17.70
13	12	o	Thea Limbach	Netherlands	4:42.84	+18.05
14	3	i	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	4:42.90	+18.11
15	8	o	Natalie Grenier	Canada	4:48.60	+23.81
16	10	i	Pak Gum-hyon	North Korea	4:49.26	+24.47
17	11	i	Han Chun-ok	North Korea	4:51.91	+27.12
18	8	i	Sigrid Smuda	West Germany	4:53.22	+28.43
19	6	o	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	4:53.38	+28.59
20	13	i	Kim Chang-hae	North Korea	4:58.41	+33.62
21	10	o	Wang Guifang	China	4:59.32	+34.53
22	12	o	Wang Xiuli	China	5:00.15	+35.36
23	9	o	Kong Meiyu	China	5:03.43	+38.64
24	11	o	Lee Kyung-ja	South Korea	5:07.12	+42.33
25	4	i	Ria Visser	Netherlands	5:14.80	+50.01
26	13	o	Bibija Kerla	Yugoslavia	5:37.67	+1:12.47

^ ^a ^b "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
^ "Speed Skating at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
^ "3000m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
^ "3000m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.

Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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