Speed Skating 2022/Women's 1000 metre

Women's 1000 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	17 February 2022
Competitors	30 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Jorien ter Mors
Silver	Nao Kodaira
Bronze	Miho Takagi
Conditions
Length	1000 metres
Medalists
	Miho Takagi
	Jutta Leerdam
	Brittany Bowe

The women's 1000 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 30 athletes competing, the event was won by Miho Takagi from Japan, with Jutta Leerdam from Netherlands taking the silver medal and Brittany Bowe from United States taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of fifteen head-to-head races of 1000 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Thirty athletes qualified for the event with Brittany Bowe as the leader of the world rankings after winning two World Cup events, but the gap was small to Miho Takagi, who had finished in the top 2 in every event she had competed in, and Nao Kodaira, who won the last race. Jutta Leerdam won the world championships in 2020, ahead of Olga Fatkulina, who were also the only other two athletes to have finished on the podium in the World Cup. Potential medal contenders and outsiders also included Angelina Golikova, Daria Kachanova, Li Qishi, and Kimi Goetz.

Alexa Scott was the youngest competitor in the field and would make her Olympic debut at the age of 20. She was about a year younger than Ragne Wiklund and two-time Olympian Karolina Bosiek, as the three athletes born after 1 January 2000. Thirteen-time medalist Ireen Wust and three-time medalist Nao Kodaira were the oldest in the field aged 35, just two years older than Huang Yu-ting and Brittany Bowe, and the two were also the most experienced, with Wust having competed at the Olympic Games in 2006, and Kodaira one of two athletes to have been competing in every edition of the Olympic Games since 2010, together with Yekaterina Aidova. Defending champion Jorien ter Mors failed to qualify through the national trials, though the defending silver and bronze medalists Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi were once again some of the big medal contenders in the field.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	9 March 2019		Brittany Bowe	1:11.61
OR	14 February 2018		Jorien ter Mors	1:13.56
TR	9 October 2021		Isabel Grevelt	1:17.89

Results

Miho Takagi won her seventh Olympic medal in three Olympic appearances, after also winning the bronze medal in 2018, and she won her second Olympic title after the team pursuit in 2018. Jutta Leerdam won the silver medal after having made her Olympic debut only a week prior in the 500 metres, while Brittany Bowe finally took her first individual medal, after having finished in the top 5 of every individual event she had competed in in 2018, and took her second bronze medal after the team pursuit in 2018. Angelina Golikova just missed out on her second medal in Beijing by only a tenth of a second after she won bronze in the 500 metres, Antoinette de Jong and Ireen Wust were not quite able to add to their quite decorated medal collection, and Kimi Goetz became the second-best debutante by completing the top 7.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Miho Takagi	Japan	1:13.19	OR
	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	1:13.83
	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:14.61
4	Angelina Golikova	ROC	1:14.71
5	Antoinette de Jong	Netherlands	1:14.92
6	Ireen Wust	Netherlands	1:15.11
7	Kimi Goetz	United States	1:15.40
8	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	1:15.644
9	Daria Kachanova	ROC	1:15.649
10	Nao Kodaira	Japan	1:15.65
11	Nadezhda Morozova	Kazakhstan	1:15.69
12	Alexa Scott	Canada	1:15.79
13	Olga Fatkulina	ROC	1:15.87
14	Li Qishi	China	1:15.99
15	Yin Qi	China	1:16.00
16	Kim Min-sun	South Korea	1:16.49
17	Karolina Bosiek	Poland	1:16.54
18	Ragne Wiklund	Norway	1:16.59
19	Yekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	1:16.70
20	Andzelika Wojcik	Poland	1:16.79
21	Ekaterina Sloeva	Belarus	1:16.83
22	Jin Jingzhu	China	1:16.90
23	Ellia Smeding	Great Britain	1:17.17
24	Huang Yu-ting	Chinese Taipei	1:17.35
25	Kim Hyun-yung	South Korea	1:17.50
26	Maddison Pearman	Canada	1:17.66
27	Nikola Zdrahalova	Czech Republic	1:18.75
28	Sandrine Tas	Belgium	1:18.79
29	Mihaela Hogas	Romania	1:19.33
30	Park Ji-woo	South Korea	1:19.39
-	Hanna Nifantava	Belarus	DNS