Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres; at the X Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'Anneau de Vitesse
Dates	February 10
Competitors	30 from 12 nations
Winning time	2:22.4
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

Speed skating at the 1968 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 1968 Winter Olympics took place on February 10, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.^[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)	2:22.6	Innsbruck, Austria	31 January 1964

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
10 February	Kaija Mustonen (FIN)	2:22.4	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kaija Mustonen	Finland	2:22.4	OR
	Carry Geijssen	Netherlands	2:22.7
	Stien Kaiser	Netherlands	2:24.5
4	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	Norway	2:25.2
5	Lāsma Kauniste	Soviet Union	2:25.4
6	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	Finland	2:25.8
7	Lyudmila Titova	Soviet Union	2:26.8
8	Ruth Schleiermacher	East Germany	2:27.1
9	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	Sweden	2:27.5
9	Hildegard Sellhuber	West Germany	2:27.5
11	Lidiya Skoblikova	Soviet Union	2:27.6
12	Ans Schut	Netherlands	2:28.3
13	Dianne Holum	United States	2:28.5
14	Martine Ivangine	France	2:29.9
14	Kari Kåring	Norway	2:29.9
16	Jeanne Ashworth	United States	2:30.3
17	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	Norway	2:30.7
18	Christina Karlsson	Sweden	2:31.4
18	Sachiko Saito	Japan	2:31.4
20	Ylva Hedlund	Sweden	2:31.5
21	Doreen McCannell	Canada	2:32.2
22	Arja Kantola	Finland	2:33.2
23	Kaname Ide	Japan	2:34.2
24	Marcia Parsons	Canada	2:34.4
25	Jeanne Omelenchuk	United States	2:35.5
26	Jitsuko Saito	Japan	2:36.6
27	Kim Gwi-Jin	23x15px South Korea	2:36.7
28	Marie-Louise Perrenoud	France	2:39.2
29	Patricia Demartini	France	2:40.6
30	Paula Dufter	West Germany	2:45.2