Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 1000 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	20–23 February
Competitors	28 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:36.391
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

The women's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place from 20 to 23 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]

World record	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	1:31.191	Calgary, Canada	3 February 2002
Olympic record	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	1:31.991	Nagano, Japan	21 February 1998

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
23 February	Quarterfinal 1	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	1:31.235	OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	1:40.632	Q
2	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	1:40.646	Q
3	Christy Ren	Hong Kong	1:50.094

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	1:49.496	Q
2	Christin Priebst	Germany	1:49.569	Q
3	Nataliya Dmitriyeva	Russia	1:50.132

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jo Williams	Great Britain	1:39.672	Q
2	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	1:46.673	Q
3	Cordia Tsoi	Hong Kong	1:48.445
4	Erin Porter	United States	1:56.409

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	1:37.609	Q
2	Caroline Hallisey	United States	1:37.716	Q
3	Anna Krasteva	Bulgaria	1:39.195
–	Katia Zini	Italy	DQ

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	China	1:37.039	Q
2	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	1:37.684	Q
3	Szandra Lajtos	Hungary	1:40.688

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	1:42.093	Q
2	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	1:42.157	Q
3	Katalin Kristo	Romania	1:42.276
4	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	1:42.495

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Alanna Kraus	Canada	1:33.622	Q
2	Mara Zini	Italy	1:33.697	Q
3	Ikue Teshigawara	Japan	1:33.855
4	Marianna Nagy	Hungary	1:39.648

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	1:42.332	Q
2	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	1:42.389	Q
3	Olga Danilov	Israel	1:42.767

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were held on 23 February. The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[2]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	China	1:31.235	Q OR
2	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	1:31.349	Q
3	Caroline Hallisey	United States	1:33.007
4	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	1:36.519

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Alanna Kraus	Canada	1:36.683	Q
2	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	1:36.727	Q
3	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	1:36.753
4	Christin Priebst	Germany	1:36.848

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	1:34.842	Q
2	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	1:34.960	Q
3	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	1:35.409
4	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	1:35.830

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	1:33.561	Q
2	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	1:33.578	Q
3	Mara Zini	Italy	1:33.880
4	Jo Williams	Great Britain	1:34.373

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 23 February. The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	1:37.916	QA
2	Yang Yang (A)	China	1:38.037	QA
3	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	1:38.269	QB
4	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	1:38.523	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	1:35.072	QA
2	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	1:35.172	QA
3	Alanna Kraus	Canada	1:35.510	QB
4	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	1:35.607	QB

Finals

The five qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while two other raced for 6th place in Final B.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Yang Yang (A)	China	1:36.391
	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	1:36.427
	Yang Yang (S)	China	1:37.008
4	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	1:37.563

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
5	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	1:34.702
6	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	1:34.808
7	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	1:35.125
8	Alanna Kraus	Canada	1:35.642

References

^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.

[SR-1] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.

[OfficialReport-2] "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.

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v t e Olympic champions in women's 1000 m short-track speed skating
As exhibition sport	1988: Li Yan (CHN)
As official sport	1994: Chun Lee-kyung (KOR) 1998: Chun Lee-kyung (KOR) 2002: Yang Yang (CHN) 2006: Jin Sun-yu (KOR) 2010: Wang Meng (CHN) 2014: Park Seung-hi (KOR) 2018: Suzanne Schulting (NED) 2022: Suzanne Schulting (NED)

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