Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

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Women's 1000 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Gangneung Oval
Date14 February 2018
Competitors31 from 15 nations
Winning time1:13.56 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Jorien ter Mors Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Silver medal icon.svg Nao Kodaira Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg Miho Takagi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
  2014
2022  

The women's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung [1] on 14 February 2018. [2] [3]

Summary

Jorien ter Mors became the Olympic champion, continuing the trend that all 2018 Olympic gold medals in speed skating up to this event were won by Dutch skaters. Nao Kodaira became second, and Miho Takagi was third, two days after her silver medal in the 1500m event.

The defending champion was Zhang Hong, and the 2014 silver medalist, Ireen Wüst, was also competing. Wüst took an early lead in 4th pair, and stayed on top until in 12th pair Jorien ter Mors skated an olympic record, and the time of Brittany Bowe in the same pair was still better than that of Wüst. In 14th pair, Miho Takagi posted the time between these of ter Mors and Bowe, shifting Bowe to the bronze medal position. In 15th pair Nao Kodaira, the world record holder at this distance, had a time behind than of ten Mors but below the former Olympic record of Chris Witty, shifting Takagi to the bronze medal position. There was one pair to go, but Marrit Leenstra only finished sixth, not changing the order of medals. [4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of Japan.svg  Nao Kodaira  (JPN)1:12.09 Salt Lake City, United States 10 December 2017
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Chris Witty  (USA)1:13.83 Salt Lake City, United States 17 February 2002
Track recordFlag of the United States.svg  Heather Bergsma  (USA)1:13.9411 February 2017

The following records were set during this competition.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
14 FebruaryPair 12 Jorien ter Mors Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:13.56 OR
WB (sea level), TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

The competition started at 19:00. [4]

RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
Gold medal icon.svg12I Jorien ter Mors Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:13.56 OR , TR
Silver medal icon.svg15O Nao Kodaira Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:13.82+0.26
Bronze medal icon.svg14I Miho Takagi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:13.98+0.42
412O Brittany Bowe Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:14.36+0.80
515I Vanessa Herzog Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:14.47+0.91
616I Marrit Leenstra Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:14.85+1.29
714O Karolína Erbanová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:14.95+1.39
816O Heather Bergsma Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:15.15+1.59
94I Ireen Wüst Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:15.32+1.76
107O Ida Njåtun Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:15.43+1.87
1111O Zhang Hong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:15.67+2.11
1211I Natalia Czerwonka Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:15.77+2.21
1310I Arisa Go Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:15.84+2.28
1413I Hege Bøkko Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:15.98+2.42
159I Gabriele Hirschbichler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:16.03+2.47
169O Park Seung-hi Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:16.11+2.55
175I Yu Jing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:16.361+2.80
187I Kim Hyun-yung Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:16.366+2.80
192O Nikola Zdráhalová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:16.43+2.87
2013O Huang Yu-ting Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:16.44+2.88
216I Tian Ruining Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:16.69+3.13
228O Angelina Golikova Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 1:16.85+3.29
238I Kaylin Irvine Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:16.90+3.34
246O Yekaterina Aydova Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1:17.09+3.53
2510O Heather McLean Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:17.25+3.69
265O Judith Dannhauer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:17.41+3.85
273O Francesca Bettrone Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:17.83+4.27
283I Jerica Tandiman Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:18.02+4.46
292I Karolina Bosiek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:18.53+4.97
304O Yvonne Daldossi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:19.33+5.77
311I Michelle Uhrig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:20.81+7.25

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