Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	February 12
Competitors	33 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:05.87
Medalists
Jacqueline Börner   Germany   Gunda Niemann-Kleemann   Germany   Seiko Hashimoto   Japan

Speed skating at the 1992 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 1992 Winter Olympics took place on February 12, 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	Karin Enke (GDR)	1:59.30	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	22 March 1986
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	2:00.68	Calgary, Canada	27 February 1988

Results

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Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind
	1	Jacqueline Börner	Germany	2:05.87	-
	6	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann	Germany	2:05.92	+0.05
	3	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	2:06.88	+1.01
4	1	Nataliya Polozkova	Unified Team	2:07.12	+1.25
5	2	Monique Garbrecht	Germany	2:07.24	+1.37
6	3	Svetlana Bazhanova	Unified Team	2:07.81	+1.94
7	5	Emese Hunyady	Austria	2:08.29	+2.42
8	16	Heike Warnicke	Germany	2:08.52	+2.65
9	12	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	2:08.54	+2.67
10	1	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Unified Team	2:08.71	+2.84
11	10	Mie Uehara	Japan	2:09.33	+3.46
12	4	Else Ragni Yttredal	Norway	2:09.38	+3.51
13	12	Jasmin Krohn	Sweden	2:09.62	+3.75
14	9	Ewa Wasilewska	Poland	2:09.64	+3.77
15	8	Mary Docter	United States	2:09.66	+3.78
16	4	Lia van Schie	Netherlands	2:09.70	+3.83
17	2	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	2:09.87	+4.00
18	6	Sandra Voetelink	Netherlands	2:10.31	+4.44
19	11	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	2:10.75	+4.88
19	9	Yumi Kaeriyama	Japan	2:10.75	+4.88
21	7	Bonnie Blair	United States	2:10.89	+5.02
22	7	Chong Chang-Suk	North Korea	2:11.06	+5.19
23	10	Zhang Qing	China	2:11.26	+5.39
24	8	Liu Junhong	China	2:11.61	+5.74
25	13	Yelena Lapuga	Unified Team	2:11.72	+5.85
26	7	Angela Zuckerman	United States	2:13.21	+7.34
27	14	Tara Laszlo	United States	2:13.35	+7.48
28	13	Cerasela Hordobeţiu	Romania	2:14.69	+8.82
29	16	Kim Chun-Wol	North Korea	2:14.87	+9.00
30	15	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	2:14.93	+9.06
31	17	Song Hwa-Son	North Korea	2:15.87	+10.00
32	15	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	2:21.11	+15.24
-	5	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	DNF

References

1. "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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