Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
Appearance
Women's 500 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Utah Olympic Oval | ||||||||||||
Dates | February 13 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 31 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 74.75 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics | ||
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500 m | men | women |
1000 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m | women | |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | |
The Women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
World record holder Catriona Le May Doan retained her Olympic title by beating four-time World Sprint Champion Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
500 meters (1 race)
World record | Catriona Le May Doan (CAN) | 37.22 | Calgary, Canada | 9 December 2001 | [1] |
Olympic record | Catriona Le May Doan (CAN) | 38.21 | Nagano, Japan | 14 February 1998 | [1] |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date[1] | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
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14 February | Race 1 | Tomomi Okazaki | Japan | 37.77 | OR | |
14 February | Race 1 | Catriona Le May Doan | Canada | 37.30 | OR |
Results
Rank | Name | Country | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Difference |
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Catriona Le May Doan | Canada | 37.30 OR | 37.45 | 74.75 | - | |
Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt | Germany | 37.34 | 37.60 | 74.94 | +0.19 | |
Sabine Völker | Germany | 37.62 | 37.57 | 75.19 | +0.44 | |
4 | Andrea Nuyt | Netherlands | 37.54 | 37.83 | 75.37 | +0.62 |
5 | Anzhelika Kotyuga | Belarus | 37.73 | 37.66 | 75.39 | +0.64 |
6 | Tomomi Okazaki | Japan | 37.77 | 37.87 | 75.64 | +0.89 |
7 | Svetlana Zhurova | Russia | 37.55 | 38.09 | 75.64 | +0.89 |
8 | Marianne Timmer | Netherlands | 38.30 | 37.87 | 76.17 | +1.42 |
9 | Yukari Watanabe | Japan | 37.98 | 38.22 | 76.20 | +1.45 |
10 | Svetlana Kaykan | Russia | 38.05 | 38.26 | 76.31 | +1.56 |
11 | Eriko Sanimya | Japan | 38.25 | 38.12 | 76.37 | +1.62 |
12 | Sayuri Osuga | Japan | 37.82 | 38.60 | 76.42 | +1.67 |
13 | Wang Manli | China | 38.20 | 38.42 | 76.62 | +1.87 |
14 | Chris Witty | United States | 38.37 | 38.36 | 76.73 | +1.98 |
15 | Jenny Wolf | Germany | 38.36 | 38.37 | 76.73 | +1.98 |
16 | Chiara Simionato | Italy | 38.45 | 38.47 | 76.92 | +2.17 |
17 | Marieke Wijsman | Netherlands | 38.31 | 38.79 | 77.10 | +2.35 |
18 | Choi Seung-Yong | South Korea | 38.31 | 38.83 | 77.14 | +2.39 |
19 | Marion Wohlrab | Germany | 38.66 | 38.71 | 77.37 | +2.62 |
20 | Becky Sundstrom | United States | 38.89 | 38.71 | 77.60 | +2.85 |
21 | Susan Auch | Canada | 38.84 | 38.76 | 77.60 | +2.85 |
22 | Elli Ochowicz | United States | 38.85 | 38.86 | 77.71 | +2.96 |
23 | Jin Hua | China | 39.06 | 39.20 | 78.26 | +3.51 |
24 | Yang Chunyuan | China | 39.56 | 39.07 | 78.63 | +3.88 |
25 | Cho Seon-Yeon | South Korea | 39.31 | 39.48 | 78.79 | +4.04 |
26 | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 39.38 | 39.51 | 78.89 | +4.14 |
27 | Krisztina Egyed | Hungary | 39.47 | 39.81 | 79.28 | +4.53 |
28 | Svetlana Radkevich | Belarus | 39.84 | 39.61 | 79.45 | +4.70 |
29 | Lee Yong-Joo | South Korea | 39.72 | 40.06 | 79.78 | +5.03 |
30 | Xing Aihua | China | 104.62 | 39.74 | 144.36 | +69.61 |
- | Amy Sannes | United States | 38.86 | DNF | DNF | - |
References
- ^ a b c "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.