Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	January 31
Competitors	30 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:22.6
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on January 31, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Inga Artamonova (URS)	2:19.0	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	27 January 1962
Olympic record	Lidia Skoblikova (URS)	2:25.2	Squaw Valley, United States	21 February 1960

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
31 January	Lidia Skoblikova (URS)	2:22.6	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lidiya Skoblikova	Soviet Union	2:22.6	OR
	Kaija Mustonen	Finland	2:25.5
	Berta Kolokoltseva	Soviet Union	2:27.1
4	Kim Song-Soon	23x15px North Korea	2:27.7
5	Helga Haase	United Team of Germany	2:28.6
6	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	Sweden	2:29.4
7	Valentina Stenina	Soviet Union	2:29.9
8	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	Finland	2:30.0
9	Han Pil-Hwa	23x15px North Korea	2:30.1
10	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	Japan	2:30.9
11	Gunilla Jacobsson	Sweden	2:31.9
12	Inger Eriksson	Sweden	2:32.0
13	Doreen McCannell	23x15px Canada	2:32.7
14	Yasuko Takano	Japan	2:33.1
15	Judy Morstein	United States	2:33.3
16	Willy de Beer	Netherlands	2:34.0
16	Doreen Ryan	23x15px Canada	2:34.0
18	Kaneko Takahashi	Japan	2:34.6
19	Mary Lawler	United States	2:34.9
20	Kornélia Ihász	Hungary	2:35.1
21	Inge Lieckfeldt	United Team of Germany	2:36.2
22	Françoise Lucas	France	2:36.4
22	Adelajda Mroske	Poland	2:36.4
24	Jan Smith	United States	2:37.8
25	Helena Pilejczyk	Poland	2:38.3
26	Elwira Seroczyńska	Poland	2:39.3
27	Kim Gwi-Jin	23x15px South Korea	2:39.7
28	Erika Heinicke	United Team of Germany	2:40.4
29	Jarmila Šťastná	Czechoslovakia	2:42.9
30	An Sen-Za	23x15px North Korea	2:44.7