Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres
# Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall. 27 competitors from 14 nations participated in competition.

## Records

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

| World record | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann (GER) | 4:10.80 | Calgary, Canada | 9 December 1990 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yvonne van Gennip (NED) | 4:11.94 | Calgary, Canada | 23 February 1988 |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Behind |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 7 | I | Svetlana Bazhanova | Russia | 4:17.43 | - |
| | 4 | I | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 4:18.14 | +0.71 |
| | 1 | I | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 4:18.34 | +0.91 |
| 4 | 6 | I | Lyudmila Prokasheva | Kazakhstan | 4:19.33 | +1.90 |
| 5 | 9 | I | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands | 4:19.82 | +2.39 |
| 6 | 14 | O | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | 4:21.07 | +3.64 |
| 7 | 5 | I | Hiromi Yamamoto | Japan | 4:22.37 | +4.94 |
| 8 | 2 | I | Mihaela Dascălu | Romania | 4:22.42 | +4.99 |
| 9 | 1 | O | Carla Zijlstra | Netherlands | 4:23.42 | +5.99 |
| 10 | 4 | O | Miki Ogasawara | Japan | 4:25.27 | +7.84 |
| 11 | 7 | O | Tonny de Jong | Netherlands | 4:25.88 | +8.45 |
| 12 | 8 | O | Tatyana Trapeznikova | Russia | 4:27.82 | +10.39 |
| 13 | 9 | O | Emese Dörfler-Antal | Austria | 4:27.91 | +10.48 |
| 14 | 5 | O | Ingrid Liepa | Canada | 4:28.28 | +10.85 |
| 15 | 2 | O | Heike Warnicke | Germany | 4:28.43 | +11.00 |
| 16 | 8 | I | Ewa Wasilewska | Poland | 4:28.86 | +11.43 |
| 17 | 10 | O | Cerasela Hordobețiu | Romania | 4:29.31 | +11.88 |
| 18 | 13 | I | Elisabetta Pizio | Italy | 4:32.34 | +14.91 |
| 19 | 13 | O | Angela Zuckerman | United States | 4:33.08 | +15.65 |
| 20 | 11 | I | Jasmin Krohn | Sweden | 4:33.34 | +15.91 |
| 21 | 11 | O | Chris Scheels | United States | 4:34.14 | +16.71 |
| 22 | 10 | I | Chantal Bailey | United States | 4:34.64 | +17.21 |
| 23 | 12 | O | Baeg Eun-bi | South Korea | 4:34.86 | +17.43 |
| 24 | 14 | I | Kenzhesh Sarsekenova-Orynbayeva | Kazakhstan | 4:45.56 | +28.13 |
| 25 | 12 | I | Ilonda Lūse | Latvia | 4:47.75 | +30.32 |
| - | 3 | O | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | Germany | DQ | |
| - | 6 | I | Elena Belci | Italy | DQ | |
