Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres explained

Event:	Women’s 1500 metres
Games:	2018 Winter
Venue:	Gangneung Ice Arena Gangneung, South Korea
Dates:	17 February
Competitors:	36
Nations:	17
Gold:	Choi Min-jeong
Goldnoc:	KOR
Win Value:	2:24.948
Silver:	Li Jinyu
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Kim Boutin
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2022

The Women’s 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.^[1]

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Uğur Erdener, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Jan Dijkema, President of the International Skating Union.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

No new records were established during the competition.

Results

Heats

Q – qualified for the semifinals^[2]

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	align=left		align=left		2:28.494	Q
2	1	align=left		align=left		2:28.587	Q
3	1	align=left		align=left		2:29.665	Q
4	1	align=left		align=left		2:29.875
5	1	align=left		align=left		2:39.984
	1	align=left		align=left			PEN
1	2	align=left			2:31.158	Q
2	2	align=left			2:31.274	Q
3	2	align=left			2:31.370	Q
4	2	align=left			2:32.891
5	2	align=left			2:56.976	ADV
	2	align=left				PEN
1	3	align=left			2:27.730	Q
2	3	align=left			2:28.996	Q
3	3	align=left			2:29.005	Q
4	3	align=left			2:30.012
5	3	align=left			2:36.971
	3	align=left				PEN
1	4	align=left			2:20.891	Q
2	4	align=left			2:21.149	Q
3	4	align=left			2:22.119	Q
4	4	align=left			2:23.693
	4	align=left	Anastassiya Krestova			PEN
	4	align=left				PEN
1	5	align=left			2:29.316	Q
2	5	align=left			2:29.587	Q
3	5	align=left			2:29.877	Q
4	5	align=left			2:29.996
5	5	align=left			2:30.819
6	5	align=left			2:31.819
1	6	align=left			2:24.595	Q
2	6	align=left			2:25.022	Q
3	6	align=left			2:25.034	Q
4	6	align=left			2:25.553
5	6	align=left			2:27.336
6	6	align=left			2:28.719

Semifinals

QA – qualified for Final A^[3]

QB – qualified for Final B

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

Rank	Semifinal	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	align=left		2:22.691	QA
2	1	align=left		2:22.799	QA
3	1	align=left		2:22.826	QB
4	1	align=left		2:24.171	QB
5	1	align=left		2:28.023
6	1	align=left		3:00.658
	1	align=left			PEN
1	2	align=left	align=left		2:34.385	QA
2	2	align=left	align=left		2:34.489	QA
3	2	align=left	align=left		2:34.526	QB
4	2	align=left		2:34.632	QB
5	2	align=left		3:00.691
6	2	align=left		3:01.928
1	3	align=left		2:22.295	QA
2	3	align=left		2:23.210	QA
3	3	align=left		2:23.485	QB
4	3	align=left		2:33.005	ADV
	3	align=left			PEN
	3	align=left			PEN

Final B

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
8	align=left		2:35.241
9	align=left		2:36.548
10	align=left		2:37.163
11	align=left	align=left		2:54.450
12	align=left			PEN

Final A

The final was held at 21:09.^[4]

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
	align=left		2:24.948
	align=left		2:25.703
	align=left		2:25.834
4	align=left		2:25.941
5	align=left	align=left		2:25.955
6	align=left		2:26.138
7	align=left	align=left		2:27.475

Notes and References

Web site: Schedule. POCOG. 13 January 2018. 5 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171105010048/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/schedule. dead.
Web site: Heats results . 2018-02-17 . 2018-03-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180320023553/http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000056&gen=w&ref=18706&view=rou . dead .
Web site: Semifinals results . 2018-02-17 . 2018-03-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180323124723/http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000056&gen=w&ref=18708&view=rou . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2018-02-17 . 2019-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216234109/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dw%26ref%3D18710%26view%3Drou . dead .