Speed Skating 2022/Women's 1500 metre

Women's 1500 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	7 February 2022
Competitors	30 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Ireen Wust
Silver	Miho Takagi
Bronze	Marrit Leenstra
Conditions
Length	1500 metres
Medalists
	Ireen Wust
	Miho Takagi
	Antoinette de Jong

The women's 1500 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 30 athletes competing, the event was won by Ireen Wust from Netherlands, with Miho Takagi from Japan taking the silver medal and Antoinette de Jong from Netherlands taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of fifteen head-to-head races of 1500 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Thirty athletes qualified for the event with Miho Takagi as the woman to beat. The Japanese speed skater had won all races over 1500 metres she had competed in, though she skipped the last race of the World Cup to prepare for the Olympic Games. The last race was won by Brittany Bowe, who edged out World Cup leader Ayano Sato for the win. Defending Olympic champion Ireen Wust finished in the top 4 in all three World Cup events and would once again be a contender for the medals, but contention was high from Elizaveta Golubeva, Francesca Lollobrigida, Ragne Wiklund, and Antoinette de Jong.

Ragne Wiklund was the youngest competitor in the field at the age of 21, just ahead of Adake Ahenaer, Ekaterina Sloeva, and Marijke Groenewoud, who were all around a year older than the Norwegian. Five-time Olympian and defending champion Ireen Wust was the oldest competitor at the age of 35, two years older than three-time Olympian Brittany Bowe, two-time Olympian Huang Yu-ting, and four-time Olympian Natalia Czerwonka. Yekaterina Aidova also competed at the Olympic Games for the fourth time, with six athletes following with three appearances. Thirteen athletes made their Olympic debuts in Beijing.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	10 March 2019		Miho Takagi	1:49.83
OR	16 February 2014		Jorien ter Mors	1:53.51
TR	10 April 2021		Yin Qi	2:00.43

Results

Ireen Wust won the 1500 metres for the third time, after she also won the event in 2010 and in 2018, while she won silver in 2014 and bronze in 2006. She equalled the record number of gold medals by a speed skater at the Olympic Games with 6 gold medals, just as Lydia Skoblikova had done in 1960 and 1964. Miho Takagi won her fifth Olympic medal and second medal in Beijing, after winning silver in the 500 metres, while Antoinette de Jong won her third Olympic medal, after winning bronze in the 3000 metres in 2018 and silver in the team pursuit in 2018. Ayano Sato recorded her best individual result yet, after a eighth place in the 3000 metres in 2018, while Marijke Groenewoud finished in the top 5 at her very first Olympic race. Three-time Olympian Francesca Lollobrigida and debutante Elizaveta Golubeva completed the top 7.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Ireen Wust	Netherlands	1:53.28	OR
	Miho Takagi	Japan	1:53.72
	Antoinette de Jong	Netherlands	1:54.82
4	Ayano Sato	Japan	1:54.92
5	Marijke Groenewoud	Netherlands	1:54.97
6	Francesca Lollobrigida	Italy	1:55.20
7	Elizaveta Golubeva	ROC	1:55.30
8	Nana Takagi	Japan	1:55.34
9	Evgeniia Lalenkova	ROC	1:55.74
10	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:55.81
11	Han Mei	China	1:56.08
12	Ragne Wiklund	Norway	1:56.46
13	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	1:56.49
14	Nadezhda Morozova	Kazakhstan	1:56.85
15	Yin Qi	China	1:57.00
16	Ekaterina Sloeva	Belarus	1:58.41
17	Adake Ahenaer	China	1:58.59
18	Yekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	1:59.01
19	Natalia Czerwonka	Poland	1:59.03
20	Mia Kilburg	United States	1:59.11
21	Nikola Zdrahalova	Czech Republic	1:59.54
22	Elena Sokhryakova	ROC	1:59.58
23	Maryna Zuyeva	Belarus	1:59.82
24	Maddison Pearman	Canada	1:59.89
25	Michelle Uhrig	Germany	2:00.20
26	Huang Yu-ting	Chinese Taipei	2:00.78
27	Ellia Smeding	Great Britain	2:01.09
28	Sofie Karoline Haugen	Norway	2:01.57
29	Sandrine Tas	Belgium	2:03.39
30	Magdalena Czyszczon	Poland	2:05.64