Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres explained

Event:	Women's 1500 metres
Games:	2002 Winter
Venue:	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates:	13 February
Competitors:	28
Nations:	17
Win Value:	2:31.581
Gold:	Ko Gi-hyun
Goldnoc:	KOR
Silver:	Choi Eun-kyung
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Evgeniya Radanova
Bronzenoc:	BUL
Next:	2006

The Women's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 13 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]

The following new Olympic and World records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
13 February	Heat 1		2:26.943	OR
13 February	Semifinal 2		2:21.069	OR	WR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were five heats, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:26.943	Q
2	align=left	align=left	2:26.968	Q
3	align=left	align=left	2:27.062	Q
4	align=left	align=left	2:27.845
5	align=left	align=left	2:29.779
6	align=left	align=left	2:49.666

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:26.980	Q
2	align=left	align=left	2:27.553	Q
3	align=left	align=left	2:27.649	Q
4	align=left	align=left	2:28.709
5	align=left	align=left	2:29.086
6	align=left	align=left	2:42.172

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:32.821	Q
2	align=left	align=left	2:32.970	Q
3	align=left	align=left	2:35.438	Q
4	align=left	align=left	2:52.591
–	align=left	align=left	DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:29.460	Q
2	align=left	align=left	2:29.578	Q
3	align=left	align=left	2:29.652	Q
4	align=left	align=left	2:33.362
5	align=left	align=left	2:39.615

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:29.202	Q
2	align=left	align=left	2:30.075	Q
3	align=left	align=left	2:32.458	Q
4	align=left	align=left	2:36.058
5	align=left	align=left	3:01.223
6	align=left	align=left	3:19.248

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 13 February. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:31.120	QA
2	align=left	align=left	2:31.194	QA
3	align=left	align=left	2:31.570	QB
4	align=left	align=left	2:32.884	QB
5	align=left	align=left	2:35.085

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:21.069	QA
2	align=left	align=left	2:21.690	QA
3	align=left	align=left	2:21.758	QB
4	align=left	align=left	2:21.924	QB
5	align=left	align=left	2:26.118

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	align=left	align=left	2:32.315	QA
2	align=left	align=left	2:32.411	QA
3	align=left	align=left	2:32.759	QB
4	align=left	align=left	2:32.899	QB
5	align=left	align=left	2:36.114

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Time
	align=left	align=left	2:31.581
	align=left	align=left	2:31.610
	align=left	align=left	2:31.723
4	align=left	align=left	2:31.791
5	align=left	align=left	3:05.002
–	align=left	align=left	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Time
6	align=left	align=left	2:31.203
7	align=left	align=left	2:31.479
8	align=left	align=left	2:32.442
9	align=left	align=left	2:32.513
10	align=left	align=left	2:32.666
11	align=left	align=left	2:32.673

Notes and References

Web site: Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 1,500 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224730/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/2002/STK/womens-1500-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 13 November 2019.
Web site: Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3 . LA84 Foundation . Salt Lake Organizing Committee . 2002 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220084643/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2002/SLC2002Results3.pdf . 20 February 2012 .