Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start

Women's mass start at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating
Venue	National Speed Skating Oval , Beijing
Date	19 February 2022
Competitors	28 from 17 nations
Winning points	60
Medalists
Irene Schouten   Netherlands Ivanie Blondin   Canada Francesca Lollobrigida   Italy
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The women's mass start competition in speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing. ^[1] Irene Schouten of the Netherlands won the event, her third gold and fourth overall medal at these Olympics. Ivanie Blondin of Canada won her first individual Olympic medal, the silver. Francesca Lollobrigida of Italy won the bronze medal.

The defending champion was Nana Takagi. She entered the competition, fell in her semifinal, and did not qualify to the final. The silver medalist, Kim Bo-reum, and the bronze medalist, Schouten, qualified for the Olympics as well. Marijke Groenewoud was the 2021 World Single Distances champion in mass start, with Blondin and Schouten being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Blondin was leading the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup in mass start with three events completed before the Olympics, followed by Lollobrigida, Guo Dan, and Elizaveta Golubeva.

Qualification

Main article: Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 24 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of two athletes per NOC. All 24 athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. ^[2]

The qualification time for the event (2:10.00 (1500 m)) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. ^[3] Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events. ^[3]

Results

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Laps	Points					Time	Notes
					S1	S2	S3	S4	Total
1	1	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	16	2		3	60	65	8:28.68	Q
2	1	Ayano Sato	Japan	16				40	40	8:28.77	Q
3	1	Li Qishi	China	16	3			20	23	8:29.01	Q
4	1	Mia Kilburg	United States	16				10	10	8:29.93	Q
5	1	Marijke Groenewoud	Netherlands	16		3		6	9	8:30.92	Q
6	1	Magdalena Czyszczoń	Poland	16		2	2		4	8:31.77	Q
7	1	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	16				3	3	8:30.99	Q
8	1	Maryna Zuyeva	Belarus	16		1	1		2	8:31.54	Q
9	1	Elizaveta Golubeva	ROC	16	1				1	8:53.99	ADV
10	1	Nadja Wenger	Switzerland	16					0	8:31.50
11	1	Laura Gómez	Colombia	16					0	8:31.66
12	1	Sofie Karoline Haugen	Norway	16					0	8:33.77
13	1	Park Ji-woo	South Korea	16					0	8:53.64
14	1	María Victoria Rodríguez	Argentina	9					0	5:24.53
1	2	Francesca Lollobrigida	Italy	16	2			60	62	8:34.19	Q
2	2	Kim Bo-reum	South Korea	16				40	40	8:34.23	Q
3	2	Guo Dan	China	16		1		20	21	8:34.39	Q
4	2	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	16	3			10	13	8:34.43	Q
5	2	Karolina Bosiek	Poland	16				6	6	8:34.442	Q
6	2	Giorgia Birkeland	United States	16				3	3	8:34.446	Q
7	2	Valérie Maltais	Canada	16		3			3	8:35.47	Q
8	2	Nadezhda Morozova	Kazakhstan	16			3		3	8:42.23	Q
9	2	Yauheniya Varabyova	Belarus	16			2		2	8:43.65
10	2	Elena Sokhryakova	ROC	16	1		1		2	8:45.00
11	2	Michelle Uhrig	Germany	16		2			2	9:02.52
12	2	Sandrine Tas	Belgium	16					0	8:37.77
13	2	Marit Fjellanger Bøhm	Norway	16					0	8:42.28
14	2	Nana Takagi	Japan	16					0	9:10.03
	2	Nikola Zdráhalová	Czech Republic	Did not start

Final

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Rank	Name	Country	Laps	Points					Time [7]
				S1	S2	S3	S4	Total
	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	16				60	60	8:14.73
	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	16				40	40	8:14.79
	Francesca Lollobrigida	Italy	16				20	20	8:14.98
4	Mia Kilburg	United States	16				10	10	8:16.15
5	Kim Bo-reum	South Korea	16				6	6	8:16.81
6	Valérie Maltais	Canada	16	3	3			6	8:20.46
7	Maryna Zuyeva	Belarus	16	2		2		4	8:20.10
8	Ayano Sato	Japan	16				3	3	8:16.94
9	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	16			3		3	8:25.78
10	Magdalena Czyszczoń	Poland	16	1		1		2	8:21.07
11	Marijke Groenewoud	Netherlands	16		1			1	9:12.86
12	Giorgia Birkeland	United States	16					0	8:18.10
13	Guo Dan	China	16					0	8:18.61
14	Nadezhda Morozova	Kazakhstan	16					0	8:21.05
15	Elizaveta Golubeva	ROC	15					0	7:50.24
	Karolina Bosiek	Poland						Disqualified
	Li Qishi	China			2

References

1. "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
2. "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union . Retrieved 10 February 2022.
3. "Communication No. 2405 Qualifying competitions and qualifying times for Speed Skating events at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
4. Semifinal 1 results
5. Semifinal 2 results
6. Final results
7. Distance analysis