Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres; at the X Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'Anneau de Vitesse
Dates	February 9
Competitors	28 from 11 nations
Winning time	46.1
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 500 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 9 February, 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	Tatyana Sidorova (URS)	42.5	Davos, Switzerland	3 February 1968
Olympic record	Lidia Skoblikova (URS)	45.0	Innsbruck, Austria	30 January 1964

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Lyudmila Titova	Soviet Union	46.1
	Jenny Fish	United States	46.3
	Dianne Holum	United States	46.3
	Mary Meyers	United States	46.3
5	Ellie van den Brom	Netherlands	46.6
6	Kaija Mustonen	Finland	46.7
6	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	Norway	46.7
8	Kirsti Biermann	Norway	46.8
9	Irina Yegorova	Soviet Union	46.9
9	Tatyana Sidorova	Soviet Union	46.9
11	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	Norway	47.0
12	Arja Kantola	Finland	47.4
12	Evi Sappl	West Germany	47.4
14	Stien Kaiser	Netherlands	47.6
15	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	Sweden	47.7
16	Wil Burgmeijer	Netherlands	47.8
16	Ruth Schleiermacher	East Germany	47.8
18	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	Finland	48.1
19	Marie-Louise Perrenoud	France	48.2
19	Wendy Thompson	Canada	48.2
21	Hildegard Sellhuber	West Germany	48.4
22	Martine Ivangine	France	48.5
23	Marcia Parsons	Canada	48.8
24	Doreen McCannell	Canada	49.0
25	Misae Takeda	Japan	49.4
26	Ylva Hedlund	Sweden	49.9
27	Kaname Ide	Japan	50.0
-	Sachiko Saito	Japan	DNF