Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres
# Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 9 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.

## 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | O | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | Germany | 4:19.90 | - |
| | 1 | O | Heike Warnicke | Germany | 4:22.88 | +2.98 |
| | 1 | I | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 4:24.64 | +4.74 |
| 4 | 3 | I | Carla Zijlstra | Netherlands | 4:27.18 | +7.28 |
| 5 | 6 | I | Svetlana Boyko | Unified Team | 4:28.00 | +8.10 |
| 6 | 5 | O | Yvonne van Gennip | Netherlands | 4:28.10 | +8.20 |
| 7 | 4 | I | Svetlana Bazhanova | Unified Team | 4:28.19 | +8.29 |
| 8 | 5 | I | Jacqueline Börner | Germany | 4:28.52 | +8.62 |
| 9 | 2 | I | Lia van Schie | Netherlands | 4:30.57 | +10.67 |
| 10 | 11 | I | Lyudmila Prokasheva | Unified Team | 4:30.76 | +10.86 |
| 11 | 8 | O | Jasmin Krohn | Sweden | 4:31.98 | +12.08 |
| 12 | 9 | O | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | 4:32.12 | +12.22 |
| 13 | 7 | I | Yumi Kaeriyama | Japan | 4:33.53 | +13.63 |
| 14 | 8 | I | Elena Belci | Italy | 4:34.28 | +14.38 |
| 15 | 11 | O | Mary Docter | United States | 4:34.51 | +14.61 |
| 16 | 12 | I | Else Ragni Yttredal | Norway | 4:36.98 | +17.08 |
| 17 | 10 | O | Mie Uehara | Japan | 4:37.54 | +17.61 |
| 18 | 13 | I | Cerasela Hordobețiu | Romania | 4:38.08 | +18.18 |
| 19 | 3 | O | Mihaela Dascălu | Romania | 4:38.39 | +18.48 |
| 20 | 2 | O | Anette Tønsberg | Norway | 4:38.66 | +18.76 |
| 21 | 9 | I | Zhang Qing | China | 4:39.46 | +19.56 |
| 22 | 7 | O | Angela Zuckerman | United States | 4:41.88 | +21.98 |
| 23 | 4 | O | Elke Felicetti | Italy | 4:44.14 | +24.24 |
| 24 | 10 | I | Ewa Wasilewska | Poland | 4:44.56 | +24.66 |
| 25 | 12 | O | Michelle Kline | United States | 4:45.65 | +25.75 |
| 26 | 13 | O | Liu Junhong | China | 4:49.13 | +29.23 |
