The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the M-Wave.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new world record was set during this competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 16 February Pair 12 Marianne Timmer 1:57.58 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Behind Notes 12 I Marianne Timmer 1:57.58 - 18 I Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann 1:58.66 +1.08 15 O Chris Witty 1:58.97 +1.39 4 16 I Emese Hunyady 1:59.19 +1.61 5 14 O Anni Friesinger 1:59.20 +1.62 6 15 I Annamarie Thomas 1:59.29 +1.71 7 17 O Claudia Pechstein 1:59.46 +1.88 8 17 I Jennifer Rodriguez 2:00.97 +3.39 9 11 I Svetlana Bazhanova 2:01.54 +3.96 10 12 O Nataliya Polozkova 2:01.56 +3.98 11 6 I Lyudmila Prokasheva 2:01.65 +4.07 12 7 I Becky Sundstrom 2:01.81 +4.23 13 16 O Catriona LeMay Doan 2:02.19 +4.61 14 4 I Moira D'Andrea 2:02.47 +4.89 15 10 O Chiharu Nozaki 2:02.78 +5.20 16 8 O Aki Tonoike 2:02.84 +5.26 17 7 O Anette Tønsberg 2:03.03 +5.45 18 11 I Tonny de Jong 2:03.19 +5.61 19 10 I Tatyana Trapeznikova 2:03.25 +5.67 20 8 I Varvara Barysheva 2:03.34 +5.76 21 13 I Mie Uehara 2:03.37 +5.79 22 9 O Barbara de Loor 2:04.05 +6.47 23 9 I Shiho Kusunose 2:04.38 +6.80 24 14 I Ingrid Liepa 2:04.60 +7.02 25 3 O Baeg Eun-bi 2:05.23 +7.65 26 4 O Lee Gyeong-nam 2:05.59 +8.01 27 3 I Krisztina Egyed 2:05.79 +8.21 28 5 I Song Li 2:05.98 +8.40 29 13 O Isabelle Doucet 2:06.45 +8.87 30 1 I Emese Dörfler-Antal 2:07.57 +9.99 31 6 O Li Xuesong 2:08.05 +10.47 32 2 I Ilonda Lūse 2:08.71 +11.13 33 2 O Svitlana Konstantynova 2:08.76 +11.18 34 5 O Mihaela Dascălu 2:08.77 +11.19
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