2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1000 metres
# 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres race of the 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held on 24 March at 12:00 local time.

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 12 | o | Christine Nesbitt | Canada | 1:15.16 | |
| | 9 | i | Yu Jing | China | 1:15.98 | +0.82 |
| | 12 | i | Margot Boer | Netherlands | 1:16.16 | +1.00 |
| 4 | 11 | i | Heather Richardson | United States | 1:16.30 | +1.14 |
| 5 | 11 | o | Ireen Wüst | Netherlands | 1:16.33 | +1.17 |
| 6 | 10 | i | Yekaterina Shikhova | Russia | 1:16.50 | +1.34 |
| 7 | 9 | o | Zhang Hong | China | 1:16.50 | +1.34 |
| 8 | 8 | o | Brittany Bowe | United States | 1:17.12 | +1.96 |
| 9 | 4 | i | Kali Christ | Canada | 1:17.15 | +1.99 |
| 10 | 3 | o | Yekaterina Aydova | Kazakhstan | 1:17.35 | +2.19 |
| 11 | 10 | o | Laurine van Riessen | Netherlands | 1:17.47 | +2.31 |
| 12 | 7 | i | Nao Kodaira | Japan | 1:17.54 | +2.38 |
| 13 | 6 | o | Jin Peiyu | China | 1:17.65 | +2.49 |
| 14 | 7 | o | Olga Fatkulina | Russia | 1:17.74 | +2.58 |
| 15 | 5 | o | Karolína Erbanová | Czech Republic | 1:17.97 | +2.81 |
| 16 | 5 | i | Miho Takagi | Japan | 1:18.05 | +2.89 |
| 17 | 3 | i | Kaylin Irvine | Canada | 1:18.19 | +3.03 |
| 18 | 1 | o | Ida Njåtun | Norway | 1:18.30 | +3.14 |
| 19 | 8 | i | Maki Tsuji | Japan | 1:18.63 | +3.47 |
| 20 | 6 | i | Judith Hesse | Germany | 1:18.73 | +3.57 |
| 21 | 2 | i | Gabriele Hirschbichler | Germany | 1:19.09 | +3.93 |
| 22 | 4 | o | Heike Hartmann | Germany | 1:19.34 | +4.18 |
| 23 | 1 | i | Svetlana Radkevich | Belarus | 1:20.09 | +4.93 |
| 24 | 2 | o | Lauren Cholewinski | United States | 1:22.04 | +6.88 |
