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

Women's 1500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 1500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval, Kearns, Utah
Dates	February 20
Competitors	39 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:54.02 WR
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

The women's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.^[1]

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.

World record	Anni Friesinger (GER)	1:54.38	Calgary, Canada	4 March 2001	^[2]
Olympic record	Marianne Timmer (NED)	1:57.58	Nagano, Japan	16 February 1998	^[2]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date^[2]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 9	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	1:56.44	OR
20 February	Pair 10	Chris Witty	United States	1:55.71	OR
20 February	Pair 17	Anni Friesinger	Germany	1:54.02	OR	WR

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	17	Anni Friesinger	Germany	1:54.02	-	WR
	19	Sabine Völker	Germany	1:54.97	+0.95
	20	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	1:55.32	+1.30
4	10	Cindy Klassen	Canada	1:55.59	+1.57
5	18	Chris Witty	United States	1:55.71	+1.69
6	15	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1:55.93	+1.91
7	13	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	1:56.02	+2.00
8	19	Amy Sannes	United States	1:56.29	+2.27
9	9	Maki Tabata	Japan	1:56.35	+2.33
10	9	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	1:56.44	+2.42
11	18	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	1:56.45	+2.43
12	9	Emese Hunyady	Austria	1:56.51	+2.49
13	14	Becky Sundstrom	United States	1:57.33	+3.31
14	17	Aki Tonoike	Japan	1:57.97	+3.95
15	15	Song Li	China	1:58.31	+4.29
16	13	Chiara Simionato	Italy	1:58.52	+4.50
17	14	Tatyana Trapeznikova	Russia	1:59.00	+4.98
18	5	Valentina Yakshina	Russia	1:59.28	+5.26
19	3	Gao Yang	China	1:59.51	+5.49
20	10	Kristina Groves	Canada	1:59.54	+5.52
21	11	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1:59.60	+5.58
22	16	Marion Wohlrab	Germany	1:59.67	+5.65
23	6	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	1:59.86	+5.84
24	12	Yayoi Nagaoka	Japan	1:59.93	+5.91
25	12	Cindy Overland	Canada	2:00.02	+6.00
26	2	Katarzyna Wójcicka	Poland	2:00.59	+6.57
27	4	Nicola Mayr	Italy	2:00.73	+6.71
28	2	Zhang Xiaolei	China	2:01.23	+7.21
29	8	Yuri Obara	Japan	2:01.39	+7.37
29	11	Choi Yun-suk	South Korea	2:01.39	+7.37
31	7	Andrea Jakab	Romania	2:02.23	+8.21
32	6	Anzhelika Gavrilova	Kazakhstan	2:03.22	+9.20
33	8	Baek Eun-bi	South Korea	2:03.87	+9.85
34	1	Svetlana Chepelnikova	Belarus	2:04.06	+10.04
35	4	Ilonda Luse	Latvia	2:04.25	+10.23
36	3	Daniela Oltean	Romania	2:04.48	+10.46
37	7	Marina Pupina	Kazakhstan	2:05.13	+11.11
38	5	Yelena Myagkikh	Ukraine	2:05.32	+11.30
-	16	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	DNF	-