The women's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 18 and 21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

The qualifying heats was held on 18 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final on 21 February.

The defending Olympic Champion and World Champion is Wang Meng of China. Meng qualified to compete at the Games but broke her ankle in a collision with a teammate while practicing for the games in January 2014.

Qualification Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event. For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 18 nations qualified to compete.

Results The event was started at 20:44.

Preliminaries

Heats Q – qualified for Quarterfinals ADV – advanced PEN – penalty

Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Li Jianrou 1:31.187 Q 2 1 Jessica Smith 1:31.359 Q 3 1 Tatiana Borodulina 1:31.559 4 1 Sayuri Shimizu 1:31.879 1 2 Park Seung-hi 1:31.883 Q 2 2 Emily Scott 1:32.585 Q 3 2 Inna Simonova 1:32.599 – 2 Kateřina Novotná PEN 1 3 Valérie Maltais 1:28.771 Q, OR 2 3 Yui Sakai 1:29.824 Q 3 3 Yara van Kerkhof 1:29.980 4 3 Sofiya Vlasova 1:32.495 1 4 Shim Suk-hee 1:31.046 Q 2 4 Marie-Ève Drolet 1:31.273 Q 3 4 Martina Valcepina 1:34.226 ADV – 4 Liu Qiuhong PEN 1 5 Kim A-lang 1:31.640 Q 2 5 Fan Kexin 1:31.713 Q 3 5 Olga Belyakova 1:32.034 – 5 Agnė Sereikaitė PEN 1 6 Arianna Fontana 1:32.983 Q 2 6 Véronique Pierron 1:33.022 Q 3 6 Sofia Prosvirnova 1:36.521 – 6 Bernadett Heidum PEN 1 7 Elise Christie 1:30.588 Q 2 7 Patrycja Maliszewska 1:32.975 Q 3 7 Ayuko Ito 1:33.188 4 7 Elena Viviani 1:33.352 1 8 Deanna Lockett 1:34.845 Q 2 8 Veronika Windisch 1:36.018 Q 3 8 Jorien ter Mors 1:46.661 ADV 4 8 Marianne St-Gelais 2:05.206

Quarterfinal Q – qualified for Semifinals ADV – advanced PEN – penalty

Rank Quarterfinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Elise Christie 1:30.606 Q 2 1 Park Seung-hi 1:30.801 Q 3 1 Marie-Ève Drolet 1:31.668 – 1 Veronique Pierron PEN 1 2 Valérie Maltais 1:29.037 Q 2 2 Jorien ter Mors 1:29.119 Q 3 2 Deanna Lockett 1:29.256 4 2 Yui Sakai 1:29.328 5 2 Veronika Windisch 1:30.017 1 3 Shim Suk-hee 1:29.356 Q 2 3 Fan Kexin 1:29.380 Q 3 3 Emily Scott 1:30.324 – 3 Arianna Fontana PEN 1 4 Jessica Smith 1:32.088 Q 2 4 Li Jianrou 1:32.129 Q 3 4 Kim A-lang 1:32.154 4 4 Patrycja Maliszewska 1:32.376

Semifinals Rank Semifinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Park Seung-hi 1:30:202 QA 2 1 Jessica Smith 1:30:409 QA 3 1 Jorien ter Mors 1:30:481 QB 4 1 Valérie Maltais 1:56:511 QB 1 2 Shim Suk-hee 1:31.237 QA 2 2 Fan Kexin 1:32.618 QA – 2 Li Jianrou PEN – 2 Elise Christie PEN

Finals

Final B (classification round) Rank Name Country Time Notes 5 Jorien ter Mors 1:36.835 6 Valérie Maltais 1:36.863

Final A (medal round)

Rank Name Country Time Notes Park Seung-hi 1:30.761 Fan Kexin 1:30.811 Shim Suk-hee 1:31.027 4 Jessica Smith 1:31.301

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