Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 8
Competitors	26 from 12 nations
Winning time	4:45.19
Medalists
Tatyana Averina   Soviet Union   Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich   East Germany   Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg   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 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tamara Kuznetsova (URS)	4:44.69	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	12 January 1975
Olympic record	Stien Kaiser (NED)	4:52.14	Sapporo, Japan	12 February 1972

The following new Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 1	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67	OR
8 February	Pair 6	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	OR

Results

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Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	OR
	Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich	East Germany	4:45.23
	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	Norway	4:45.24
4	Karin Kessow	East Germany	4:45.60
5	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67
6	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	4:48.15
7	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	4:48.46
8	Sylvia Burka	Canada	4:49.04
9	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	4:50.86
10	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	4:50.95
11	Beth Heiden	United States	4:51.67
12	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	4:51.71
13	Nina Statkevich	Soviet Union	4:53.94
14	Tetiana Shelekhova	Soviet Union	4:54.03
15	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	4:56.75
16	Janina Korowicka	Poland	4:57.48
17	Cindy Seikkula	United States	4:57.57
18	Liz Appleby	Canada	4:58.68
19	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	4:58.92
20	Christa Jaarsma	Netherlands	5:00.08
21	Chieko Ito	Japan	5:02.57
22	Paula-Irmeli Halonen	Finland	5:03.08
23	Gayle Gordon	Canada	5:07.09
24	Lee Nam-Sun	South Korea	5:08.34
25	Ewa Malewicka	Poland	5:08.79
26	Linda Rombouts	Belgium	5:10.35

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 3000 metres