The Women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
World record holder Catriona Le May Doan retained her Olympic title by beating four-time World Sprint Champion Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
500 meters (1 race)
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR 13 February Race 1 Tomomi Okazaki 37.77 OR 13 February Race 1 Catriona Le May Doan 37.30 OR
Results
Rank Name Country Race 1 Race 2 Total Difference Catriona Le May Doan 37.30 37.45 74.75 - Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt 37.34 37.60 74.94 +0.19 Sabine Völker 37.62 37.57 75.19 +0.44 4 Andrea Nuyt 37.54 37.83 75.37 +0.62 5 Anzhelika Kotyuga 37.73 37.66 75.39 +0.64 6 Tomomi Okazaki 37.77 37.87 75.64 +0.89 7 Svetlana Zhurova 37.55 38.09 75.64 +0.89 8 Marianne Timmer 38.30 37.87 76.17 +1.42 9 Yukari Watanabe 37.98 38.22 76.20 +1.45 10 Svetlana Kaykan 38.05 38.26 76.31 +1.56 11 Eriko Sanimya 38.25 38.12 76.37 +1.62 12 Sayuri Osuga 37.82 38.60 76.42 +1.67 13 Wang Manli 38.20 38.42 76.62 +1.87 14 Chris Witty 38.37 38.36 76.73 +1.98 15 Jenny Wolf 38.36 38.37 76.73 +1.98 16 Chiara Simionato 38.45 38.47 76.92 +2.17 17 Marieke Wijsman 38.31 38.79 77.10 +2.35 18 Choi Seung-yong 38.31 38.83 77.14 +2.39 19 Marion Wohlrab 38.66 38.71 77.37 +2.62 20 Becky Sundstrom 38.89 38.71 77.60 +2.85 21 Susan Auch 38.84 38.76 77.60 +2.85 22 Elli Ochowicz 38.85 38.86 77.71 +2.96 23 Jin Hua 39.06 39.20 78.26 +3.51 24 Yang Chunyuan 39.56 39.07 78.63 +3.88 25 Jo Seon-yeon 39.31 39.48 78.79 +4.04 26 Emese Hunyady 39.38 39.51 78.89 +4.14 27 Krisztina Egyed 39.47 39.81 79.28 +4.53 28 Svetlana Radkevich 39.84 39.61 79.45 +4.70 29 Lee Yong-ju 39.72 40.06 79.78 +5.03 30 Xing Aihua 104.62 39.74 144.36 +69.61 Amy Sannes 38.86 DNF DNF -
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