Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 7
Competitors	27 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:28.43
Medalists
Tatyana Averina   Soviet Union   Leah Poulos   United States   Sheila Young   United States

Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10000 m		men

The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 7 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tatyana Averina (URS)	1:23.46	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	29 March 1975
Olympic record	Monika Pflug (GDR)	1:31.40	Sapporo, Japan	11 February 1972

The following new world and olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
7 February	Pair 1	Monika Holzner-Pflug	West Germany	1:29.54	OR
7 February	Pair 5	Leah Poulos	United States	1:28.57	OR
7 February	Pair 6	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	1:28.43	OR

Results

^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	1:28.43	OR
	Leah Poulos	United States	1:28.57
	Sheila Young	United States	1:29.14
4	Sylvia Burka	Canada	1:29.47
5	Monika Pflug	West Germany	1:29.54
6	Cathy Priestner	Canada	1:29.66
7	Lyudmila Titova	Soviet Union	1:30.06
8	Heike Lange	East Germany	1:30.55
9	Makiko Nagaya	Japan	1:31.23
10	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	1:31.59
11	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	1:31.66
12	Monika Zernicek	East Germany	1:31.68
13	Paula-Irmeli Halonen	Finland	1:31.72
14	Ann-Sofie Järnström	Sweden	1:32.06
15	Tetiana Shelekhova	Soviet Union	1:32.08
16	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	1:32.50
17	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	1:32.94
18	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	Norway	1:33.05
19	Ewa Malewicka	Poland	1:33.89
20	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	1:33.99
21	Ute Dix	East Germany	1:34.14
22	Liz Appleby	Canada	1:34.27
23	Christa Jaarsma	Netherlands	1:34.63
24	Keiko Hasegawa	Japan	1:35.42
25	Lee Nam-Sun	South Korea	1:35.58
26	Janina Korowicka	Poland	1:35.81
-	Peggy Crowe	United States	DQ

References

1. "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

Sports-Reference - 1976 - Women's 1000 metres