Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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Women's 1500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates13 February
Competitors28 from 17 nations
Winning time2:31.581
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ko Gi-hyun  South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Evgeniya Radanova
 Bulgaria
2006 →

The Women's 1500 metres in

Salt Lake Ice Center.[1]

Records

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

World record  Kim Moon-yung (KOR) 2:21.844 Montreal, Canada 17 January 1999
Olympic record None None None None

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

Date Round Team Time OR WR
13 February Heat 1  
Yang Yang (S) (CHN
)
2:26.943 OR
13 February Semifinal 2  Choi Eun-kyung (KOR) 2:21.069 OR WR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were five heats, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.[2]

Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1
Yang Yang (S)
 China 2:26.943 Q OR
2 Alanna Kraus  Canada 2:26.968 Q
3 Amy Peterson  United States 2:27.062 Q
4 Jo Williams  Great Britain 2:27.845
5 Yvonne Kunze  Germany 2:29.779
6 Christy Ren  Hong Kong 2:49.666
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ko Gi-hyun  South Korea 2:26.980 Q
2 Mara Zini  Italy 2:27.553 Q
3 Christin Priebst  Germany 2:27.649 Q
4
Katalin Kristo
 Romania 2:28.709
5 Nataliya Dmitriyeva  Russia 2:29.086
6 Eva Farkas  Hungary 2:42.172
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1
Evgeniya Radanova
 Bulgaria 2:32.821 Q
2 Nina Yevteyeva  Russia 2:32.970 Q
3 Kateřina Novotná  Czech Republic 2:35.438 Q
4 Yuka Kamino  Japan 2:52.591
Erin Porter  United States DQ
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea 2:29.460 Q
2
Yang Yang (A)
 China 2:29.578 Q
3 Marie-Ève Drolet  Canada 2:29.652 Q
4 Marina Georgieva-Nikolova  Bulgaria 2:33.362
5 Marianna Nagy  Hungary 2:39.615
Heat 5
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Chikage Tanaka  Japan 2:29.202 Q
2 Stéphanie Bouvier  France 2:30.075 Q
3 Olga Danilov  Israel 2:32.458 Q
4 Yuliya Pavlovich-Yelsakova  Belarus 2:36.058
5 Sarah Lindsay  Great Britain 3:01.223
6 Katia Zini  Italy 3:19.248

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 13 February. The top two finishers in each of the three 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 Ko Gi-hyun  South Korea 2:31.120 QA
2
Evgeniya Radanova
 Bulgaria 2:31.194 QA
3 Stéphanie Bouvier  France 2:31.570 QB
4 Christin Priebst  Germany 2:32.884 QB
5 Kateřina Novotná  Czech Republic 2:35.085
Semifinal 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea 2:21.069 QA WR
2
Yang Yang (A)
 China 2:21.690 QA
3 Marie-Ève Drolet  Canada 2:21.758 QB
4 Chikage Tanaka  Japan 2:21.924 QB
5 Amy Peterson  United States 2:26.118
Semifinal 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1
Yang Yang (S)
 China 2:32.315 QA
2 Alanna Kraus  Canada 2:32.411 QA
3 Nina Yevteyeva  Russia 2:32.759 QB
4 Mara Zini  Italy 2:32.899 QB
5 Olga Danilov  Israel 2:36.114

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.[2]

Final A
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ko Gi-hyun  South Korea 2:31.581
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea 2:31.610
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Evgeniya Radanova
 Bulgaria 2:31.723
4
Yang Yang (A)
 China 2:31.791
5 Alanna Kraus  Canada 3:05.002
Yang Yang (S)
 China DQ
Final B
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
6 Marie-Ève Drolet  Canada 2:31.203
7 Chikage Tanaka  Japan 2:31.479
8 Christin Priebst  Germany 2:32.442
9 Mara Zini  Italy 2:32.513
10 Nina Yevteyeva  Russia 2:32.666
11 Stéphanie Bouvier  France 2:32.673

References

  1. ^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 1,500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "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.