Short-track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Women's 500 metres; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	La halle de glace Olympique
Dates	18–22 February 1992
Competitors	27 from 14 nations
Winning time	47.04
Medalists
	1994 →

Last updated January 03, 2025

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 18 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim So-hui	South Korea	50.99	Q
2	Joëlle van Koetsveld van Ankeren	Netherlands	60.29	Q
–	Zhang Yanmei	China	DQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Turner	United States	47.69	Q
2	Chun Lee-kyung	South Korea	48.18	Q
3	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	48.50

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Xiulan	China	47.49	Q
2	Annie Perreault	Canada	48.41	Q
3	Felicity Campbell	Australia	50.11
4	Debbie Palmer	Great Britain	52.24

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Yan	China	48.33	Q
2	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	48.41	Q
3	Nataliya Isakova	Unified Team	48.49
4	Tamara Kaszala	Hungary	52.38

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nobuko Yamada	Japan	48.79	Q
2	Bea Pintens	Belgium	48.98	Q
3	Cristina Sciolla	Italy	52.53

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Hwang Ok-sil	North Korea	48.70	Q
2	Karine Rubini	France	49.25	Q
3	Amy Peterson	United States	51.05
4	Simone Velzeboer	Netherlands	55.43

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marinella Canclini	Italy	47.00	Q OR
2	Marina Pylayeva	Unified Team	47.48	Q
–	Karen Gardiner-Kah	Australia	DQ

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	48.09	Q
2	Yuliya Vlasova	Unified Team	48.29	Q
3	Kim Chun-hwa	North Korea	49.10

Quarterfinals

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Turner	United States	48.51	Q
2	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	51.04	Q
3	Nobuko Yamada	Japan	57.69
4	Karine Rubini	France	68.41

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Yan	China	48.33	Q
2	Yuliya Vlasova	Unified Team	48.63	Q
3	Joëlle van Koetsveld van Ankeren	Netherlands	67.23
4	Marinella Canclini	Italy	87.18

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Xiulan	China	47.56	Q
2	Hwang Ok-sil	North Korea	47.95	Q
3	Chun Lee-kyung	South Korea	48.25
4	Bea Pintens	Belgium	48.49

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marina Pylayeva	Unified Team	47.95	Q
2	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	53.46	Q
3	Kim So-hui	South Korea	54.90
–	Annie Perreault	Canada	DQ

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Hwang Ok-sil	North Korea	47.74	QA
2	Li Yan	China	48.33	QA
3	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	61.90	QB
4	Marina Pylayeva	Unified Team	67.56	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Turner	United States	47.41	QA
2	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	47.52	QA
3	Wang Xiulan	China	48.04	QB
4	Yuliya Vlasova	Unified Team	68.90	QB

Finals

The four qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four others raced for 5th place in Final B.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Cathy Turner	United States	47.04
	Li Yan	China	47.08
	Hwang Ok-sil	North Korea	47.23
4	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	47.28

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
5	Marina Pylayeva	Unified Team	48.42
6	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	48.50
7	Yuliya Vlasova	Unified Team	48.70
8	Wang Xiulan	China	94.12

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References

1 2 3 4 5 "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Women's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

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[OfficialReport-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2014.

[SR-2] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Women's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

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v t e Olympic champions in women's 500 m short track speed skating
As exhibition sport	1988: Monique Velzeboer (NED)
As official sport	1992: Cathy Turner (USA) 1994: Cathy Turner (USA) 1998: Annie Perreault (CAN) 2002: Yang Yang (CHN) 2006: Wang Meng (CHN) 2010: Wang Meng (CHN) 2014: Li Jianrou (CHN) 2018: Arianna Fontana (ITA) 2022: Arianna Fontana (ITA)