Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 500 metres; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	14 February
Competitors	30 from 10 nations
Winning time	76.57
Medalists
	← 2002 2010 →

The women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.^[1]

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	^[2]
Olympic record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	37.30	Salt Lake City, United States	13 February 2002	^[2]

500 meters x 2 (2 races)

World record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	74.72	Salt Lake City, United States	9 March 2001	^[2]
Olympic record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	74.75	Salt Lake City, United States	14 February 2002	^[2]

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

The race was held on 14 February 2006. 34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother and completed in her fourth Olympics after returning to the sport in 2004, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Skaters from Asia occupied seven of the top nine places.

Place	Athlete	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total Time	Difference
	Svetlana Zhurova	Russia	38.23 (1)	38.34 (2)	76.57	--
	Wang Manli	China	38.31 (2)	38.47 (5)	76.78	+0.21
	Ren Hui	China	38.60 (4)	38.27 (1)	76.87	+0.30
4	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	38.46 (3)	38.46 (4)	76.92	+0.35
5	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	38.69 (6)	38.35 (3)	77.04	+0.47
6	Jenny Wolf	Germany	38.70 (7)	38.55 (6)	77.25	+0.68
7	Wang Beixing	China	38.71 (8)	38.56 (7)	77.27	+0.70
8	Sayuri Osuga	Japan	38.74 (9)	38.65 (8)	77.39	+0.82
9	Sayuri Yoshii	Japan	38.68 (5)	38.75 (11)	77.43	+0.86
10	Chiara Simionato	Italy	39.02 (11)	38.66 (9)	77.68	+1.11
11	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	38.97 (10)	38.73 (10)	77.70	+1.13
12	Annette Gerritsen	Netherlands	39.12 (12)	38.97 (12)	78.09	+1.52
13	Xing Aihua	China	39.20 (13)	39.15 (13)	78.35	+1.78
14	Sanne van der Star	Netherlands	39.26 (14)	39.33 (15)	78.59	+2.02
15	Yukari Watanabe	Japan	39.46 (17)	39.19 (14)	78.65	+2.08
16	Shannon Rempel	Canada	39.42 (=15)	39.43 (19)	78.85	+2.28
17	Amy Sannes	United States	39.42 (=15)	39.47 (20)	78.89	+2.32
18	Choi Seung-Yong	South Korea	39.65 (21)	39.37 (16)	79.02	+2.45
19	Judith Hesse	Germany	39.64 (20)	39.39 (17)	79.03	+2.46
20	Kim You-Lim	South Korea	39.57 (18)	39.68 (24)	79.25	+2.68
21	Kerry Simpson	Canada	39.69 (22)	39.65 (=22)	79.34	+2.77
22	Krisy Myers	Canada	39.83 (=23)	39.60 (21)	79.43	+2.86
23	Elli Ochowicz	United States	39.83 (=23)	39.65 (=22)	79.48	+2.91
24	Pamela Zoellner	Germany	40.16 (27)	39.40 (18)	79.56	+2.99
25	Lee Bo-ra	South Korea	40.01 (=25)	39.72 (25)	79.73	+3.16
26	Kim Weger	Canada	40.01 (=25)	39.98 (27)	79.99	+3.42
27	Svetlana Radkevich	Belarus	40.45 (29)	39.91 (26)	80.36	+3.79
28	Chris Witty	United States	40.23 (28)	40.46 (28)	80.69	+4.12
29	Yulia Nemaya	Russia	39.63 (19)	72.76 (29)	112.39	+35.82
30	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	DQ		DQ