Speed Skating 2022/Women's 500 metre

Women's 500 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	13 February 2022
Competitors	30 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Nao Kodaira
Silver	Lee Sang-hwa
Bronze	Karolina Erbanova
Conditions
Length	500 metres
Medalists
	Erin Jackson
	Miho Takagi
	Angelina Golikova

The women's 500 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 30 athletes competing, the event was won by Erin Jackson from United States, with Miho Takagi from Japan taking the silver medal and Angelina Golikova from ROC taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of fifteen head-to-head races of 500 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Thirty athletes qualified for the event with Erin Jackson as the breakthrough of the season. The American had dominated the start of the World Cup season by winning the first three races, and continued by finishing the the top 3 in three of the following five events. Defending Olympic champion Nao Kodaira, Andzelika Wojcik, Olga Fatkulina, and reigning world champion Angelina Golikova divided the remaining events, though there were still a lot of other medal contenders in the field. Femke Kok won silver at the most recent world championships and dominated the 2021 World Cup after winning all events, Kaja Ziomek finished in the top 3 of three World Cup events, Jutta Leerdam had previously won the world championships sprint, and Tian Ruining had been one of the most consistent speed skaters throughout the season.

Femke Kok was the youngest athlete in the field at the age of 21, and was six months younger than Julie Nistad Samsonsen, as the only two athletes to have been born after 1 January 2000, followed by Hanna Nifantava, Michelle de Jong, and Kim Min-sun. Defending Olympic champion Nao Kodaira was one of the veterans of the field at the age of 35, and was over a year older than Arisa Go, Brittany Bowe, and Huang Yu-ting. Kodaira was also a four-time Olympian, together with Yekaterina Aidova, followed by six athletes with three. In a field of thirty athletes, fifteen made or had made their Olympic debuts in Beijing.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	16 November 2013		Lee Sang-hwa	36.36
OR	18 February 2018		Nao Kodaira	36.94
TR	7 April 2021		Tian Ruining	38.38

Results

Erin Jackson became the first African-American woman to win a title at the Olympic Winter Games, was the first gold medal for the United States in speed skating since Shani Davis won gold in the 1000 metres in 2010, and the first gold medal for an American woman in speed skating since Chris Witty won gold in the 1000 metres in 2002. Miho Takagi recorded a new personal record to win her fifth Olympic medal, and her first medal in the shortest distance, while Angelina Golikova won her first Olympic medal after finishing 18th and 7th in 2014 and 2018. Vanessa Herzog missed the podium by seven-hundredth of a second, after also having finished fourth in 2018, while Dutch debutantes Jutta Leerdam and Femke Kok finished fifth and sixth.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Erin Jackson	United States	37.04
	Miho Takagi	Japan	37.12	PR
	Angelina Golikova	ROC	37.21
4	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	37.28
5	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	37.34
6	Femke Kok	Netherlands	37.39
7	Kim Min-sun	South Korea	37.60
8	Daria Kachanova	ROC	37.65
9	Kaja Ziomek	Poland	37.70
10	Olga Fatkulina	ROC	37.76
11	Andzelika Wojcik	Poland	37.78
12	Jin Jingzhu	China	37.88
13	Michelle de Jong	Netherlands	37.97
14	Tian Ruining	China	37.982
15	Arisa Go	Japan	37.983
16	Brittany Bowe	United States	38.04
17	Nao Kodaira	Japan	38.09
18	Kimi Goetz	United States	38.25
19	Hanna Nifantava	Belarus	38.30
20	Yekaterina Aidova	Kazakhstan	38.54
21	Marsha Hudey	Canada	38.79
22	Brooklyn McDougall	Canada	38.84
23	Martine Ripsrud	Norway	38.95
24	Julie Nistad Samsonen	Norway	39.02
25	Nikola Zdrahalova	Czech Republic	39.18
26	Huang Yu-ting	Chinese Taipei	39.23
27	Heather McLean	Canada	39.31
28	Sandrine Tas	Belgium	39.37	NR
29	Mihaela Hogas	Romania	39.45
30	Maria Victoria Rodriguez Lopez	Argentina	39.70