Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	February 16
Competitors	35 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:57.58
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the M-Wave.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Catriona LeMay Doan (CAN)	1:57.87	Calgary, Canada	29 November 1997
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	2:00.68	Calgary, Canada	27 February 1988

The following new world record was set during this competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
16 February	Pair 12	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1:57.58	OR	WR

Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	12	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1:57.58	-	WR
	16	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	1:58.66	+1.08
	15	Chris Witty	United States	1:58.97	+1.39
4	16	Emese Hunyady	Austria	1:59.19	+1.61
5	14	Anni Friesinger	Germany	1:59.20	+1.62
6	15	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	1:59.29	+1.71
7	17	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1:59.46	+1.88
8	17	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	2:00.97	+3.39
9	11	Svetlana Bazhanova	Russia	2:01.54	+3.96
10	12	Nataliya Polozkova	Russia	2:01.56	+3.98
11	6	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	2:01.65	+4.07
12	7	Becky Sundstrom	United States	2:01.81	+4.23
13	16	Catriona LeMay Doan	Canada	2:02.19	+4.61
14	4	Moira D'Andrea	United States	2:02.47	+4.89
15	10	Chiharu Nozaki	Japan	2:02.78	+5.20
16	8	Aki Tonoike	Japan	2:02.84	+5.26
17	7	Anette Tønsberg	Norway	2:03.03	+5.45
18	11	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	2:03.19	+5.61
19	10	Tatyana Trapeznikova	Russia	2:03.25	+5.67
20	8	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	2:03.34	+5.76
21	13	Mie Uehara	Japan	2:03.37	+5.79
22	9	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	2:04.05	+5.79
23	9	Shiho Kusunose	Japan	2:04.38	+6.80
24	14	Ingrid Liepa	Canada	2:04.60	+7.02
25	3	Baeg Eun-Bi	23x15px South Korea	2:05.23	+7.65
26	4	Lee Gyeong-Nam	23x15px South Korea	2:05.59	+8.01
27	3	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	2:05.79	+8.21
28	5	Song Li	China	2:05.98	+8.40
29	13	Isabelle Doucet	Canada	2:06.45	+8.87
30	1	Emese Dörfler-Antal	Austria	2:07.57	+9.99
31	6	Li Xuesong	China	2:08.05	+10.47
32	2	Ilonda Lūse	Latvia	2:08.71	+11.13
33	5	Svitlana Konstantynova	Ukraine	2:08.76	+11.18
34	5	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	2:08.77	+11.19