Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
# Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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:

| World record | Catriona LeMay Doan (CAN) | 1:57.87 | Calgary, Canada | 29 November 1997 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yvonne van Gennip (NED) | 2:00.68 | Calgary, Canada | 27 February 1988 |

The following new world record was set during this competition.

| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 16 February | Pair 12 | Marianne Timmer | Netherlands | 1:57.58 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Behind | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 12 | I | Marianne Timmer | Netherlands | 1:57.58 | - | WR |
| | 18 | I | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | Germany | 1:58.66 | +1.08 | |
| | 15 | O | Chris Witty | United States | 1:58.97 | +1.39 | |
| 4 | 16 | I | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 1:59.19 | +1.61 | |
| 5 | 14 | O | Anni Friesinger | Germany | 1:59.20 | +1.62 | |
| 6 | 15 | I | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands | 1:59.29 | +1.71 | |
| 7 | 17 | O | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 1:59.46 | +1.88 | |
| 8 | 17 | I | Jennifer Rodriguez | United States | 2:00.97 | +3.39 | |
| 9 | 11 | I | Svetlana Bazhanova | Russia | 2:01.54 | +3.96 | |
| 10 | 12 | O | Nataliya Polozkova | Russia | 2:01.56 | +3.98 | |
| 11 | 6 | I | Lyudmila Prokasheva | Kazakhstan | 2:01.65 | +4.07 | |
| 12 | 7 | I | Becky Sundstrom | United States | 2:01.81 | +4.23 | |
| 13 | 16 | O | Catriona LeMay Doan | Canada | 2:02.19 | +4.61 |
| 14 | 4 | I | Moira D'Andrea | United States | 2:02.47 | +4.89 | |
| 15 | 10 | O | Chiharu Nozaki | Japan | 2:02.78 | +5.20 | |
| 16 | 8 | O | Aki Tonoike | Japan | 2:02.84 | +5.26 | |
| 17 | 7 | O | Anette Tønsberg | Norway | 2:03.03 | +5.45 | |
| 18 | 11 | I | Tonny de Jong | Netherlands | 2:03.19 | +5.61 | |
| 19 | 10 | I | Tatyana Trapeznikova | Russia | 2:03.25 | +5.67 | |
| 20 | 8 | I | Varvara Barysheva | Russia | 2:03.34 | +5.76 | |
| 21 | 13 | I | Mie Uehara | Japan | 2:03.37 | +5.79 | |
| 22 | 9 | O | Barbara de Loor | Netherlands | 2:04.05 | +6.47 | |
| 23 | 9 | I | Shiho Kusunose | Japan | 2:04.38 | +6.80 | |
| 24 | 14 | I | Ingrid Liepa | Canada | 2:04.60 | +7.02 | |
| 25 | 3 | O | Baeg Eun-bi | South Korea | 2:05.23 | +7.65 | |
| 26 | 4 | O | Lee Gyeong-nam | South Korea | 2:05.59 | +8.01 | |
| 27 | 3 | I | Krisztina Egyed | Hungary | 2:05.79 | +8.21 | |
| 28 | 5 | I | Song Li | China | 2:05.98 | +8.40 | |
| 29 | 13 | O | Isabelle Doucet | Canada | 2:06.45 | +8.87 | |
| 30 | 1 | I | Emese Dörfler-Antal | Austria | 2:07.57 | +9.99 | |
| 31 | 6 | O | Li Xuesong | China | 2:08.05 | +10.47 | |
| 32 | 2 | I | Ilonda Lūse | Latvia | 2:08.71 | +11.13 | |
| 33 | 2 | O | Svitlana Konstantynova | Ukraine | 2:08.76 | +11.18 | |
| 34 | 5 | O | Mihaela Dascălu | Romania | 2:08.77 | +11.19 | |
