The women's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 10 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Difference 5 I Bonnie Blair 40.33 - 2 O Ye Qiaobo 40.51 +0.18 4 I Christa Luding-Rothenburger 40.57 +0.24 4 3 I Monique Garbrecht 40.63 +0.30 5 1 O Christine Aaftink 40.66 +0.33 6 6 O Susan Auch 40.83 +0.50 7 4 O Kyoko Shimazaki 40.98 +0.65 8 5 O Angela Stahnke 41.10 +0.77 9 1 I Yoo Seon-Hee 41.28 +0.95 10 14 O Anke Baier 41.30 +0.97 11 7 I Herma Meijer 41.31 +0.98 12 6 I Seiko Hashimoto 41.32 +0.99 13 17 I Xue Ruihong 41.47 +1.14 14 8 I Catriona Le May Doan 41.59 +1.26 15 8 O Nataliya Polozkova 41.61 +1.28 16 15 I Oksana Ravilova 41.73 +1.40 17 12 I Kristen Talbot 41.77 +1.44 18 9 I Shelley Rhead-Skarvan 41.83 +1.50 19 13 I Liu Yuexi 41.85 +1.52 20 10 I Edel Therese Høiseth 41.89 +1.56 21 10 O Mihaela Dascălu 41.90 +1.57 22 9 O Peggy Clasen 41.95 +1.62 23 16 O Noriko Toda 41.97 +1.64 24 17 O Yoko Fukazawa 42.18 + 1.85 25 13 O Song Hwa-son 42.23 +1.90 26 15 O Michelle Kline 42.41 +2.08 27 16 I Chong Chang-suk 42.45 +2.12 28 11 O Kim Chun-wol 42.47 +2.14 29 2 I Yelena Tyushnyakova 42.65 +2.32 30 14 I Cerasela Hordobețiu 42.68 +2.35 31 7 O Lyudmila Prokasheva 43.19 +2.86 32 11 I Krisztina Egyed 43.39 +3.06 - 3 O Sandra Voetelink DNF - 12 Wang Xiuli DNF
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