Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
# Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 21 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.

## Records

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

| World record | Karin Enke (GDR) | 1:59.30 | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | 22 March 1986 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yvonne van Gennip (NED) | 2:00.68 | Calgary, Canada | 27 February 1988 |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Behind |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 3 | O | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 2:02.19 | - |
| | 9 | O | Svetlana Fedotkina | Russia | 2:02.69 | +0.50 |
| | 1 | I | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | Germany | 2:03.41 | +1.22 |
| 4 | 2 | O | Bonnie Blair | United States | 2:03.44 | +1.25 |
| 5 | 9 | I | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands | 2:03.70 | +1.51 |
| 6 | 1 | O | Svetlana Bazhanova | Russia | 2:03.99 | +1.80 |
| 7 | 5 | I | Nataliya Polozkova | Russia | 2:04.00 | +1.81 |
| 8 | 5 | O | Mihaela Dascălu | Romania | 2:04.02 | +1.83 |
| 9 | 4 | I | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | 2:04.98 | +2.79 |
| 10 | 12 | I | Tonny De Jong | Netherlands | 2:05.18 | +2.99 |
| 11 | 7 | I | Anke Baier | Germany | 2:05.97 | +3.78 |
| 12 | 2 | I | Elena Belci | Italy | 2:05.99 | +3.80 |
| 13 | 3 | I | Shiho Kusunose | Japan | 2:06.20 | +4.01 |
| 14 | 4 | I | Ulrike Adeberg | Germany | 2:06.40 | +4.21 |
| 15 | 6 | I | Hiromi Yamamoto | Japan | 2:06.54 | +4.35 |
| 16 | 14 | O | Maki Tabata | Japan | 2:06.79 | +4.60 |
| 17 | 11 | O | Catriona Le May Doan | Canada | 2:07.19 | +5.00 |
| 18 | 10 | I | Ewa Wasilewska | Poland | 2:07.44 | +5.25 |
| 19 | 7 | O | Emese Dörfler-Antal | Austria | 2:07.72 | +5.53 |
| 20 | 15 | O | Michelle Kline | United States | 2:08.02 | +5.83 |
| 21 | 13 | O | Angela Zuckerman | United States | 2:08.43 | +6.24 |
| 22 | 8 | O | Carla Zijlstra | Netherlands | 2:08.49 | +6.30 |
| 23 | 11 | I | Cerasela Hordobețiu | Romania | 2:08.50 | +6.31 |
| 24 | 13 | I | Michelle Morton | Canada | 2:08.53 | +6.34 |
| 25 | 12 | O | Oksana Ravilova | Russia | 2:08.65 | +6.46 |
| 26 | 15 | I | Heike Warnicke | Germany | 2:09.53 | +7.34 |
| 27 | 6 | O | Chantal Bailey | United States | 2:09.68 | +7.49 |
| 28 | 8 | I | Ingrid Liepa | Canada | 2:09.97 | +7.78 |
| 29 | 10 | O | Elisabetta Pizio | Italy | 2:11.02 | +8.83 |
| 30 | 14 | I | Cheon Hui-ju | South Korea | 2:12.14 | +9.95 |
