Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
# Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The Women's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 20 and 22 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.

## Records

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

| World record | Shim Suk-hee (KOR) | 1:26.661 | Calgary, Canada | 21 October 2012 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Valérie Maltais (CAN) | 1:28.771 | Sochi, Russia | 18 February 2014 |

No new records were established during the competition.

## Results

### Heats

    Q – qualified for the quarterfinals
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty
    YC – yellow card

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Shim Suk-hee | South Korea | 1:34.940 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Véronique Pierron | France | 1:35.299 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Bianca Walter | Germany | 1:36.128 | ADV |
| | 1 | Han Yutong | China | | PEN |
| 1 | 2 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:31.190 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Qu Chunyu | China | 1:31.279 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Anastassiya Krestova | Kazakhstan | 1:31.557 | |
| | 2 | Deanna Lockett | Australia | | PEN |
| 1 | 3 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:29.519 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ekaterina Efremenkova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 1:29.598 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Kim Iong-a | Kazakhstan | 1:29.703 | |
| 4 | 3 | Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 1:29.838 | |
| 1 | 4 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:30.676 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Valérie Maltais | Canada | 1:30.773 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Jessica Kooreman | United States | 1:31.657 | |
| 4 | 4 | Kathryn Thomson | Great Britain | 1:32.150 | |
| 1 | 5 | Lara van Ruijven | Netherlands | 1:30.896 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Magdalena Warakomska | Poland | 1:31.259 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Andrea Keszler | Hungary | 1:31.446 | ADV |
| | 5 | Elise Christie | Great Britain | | YC |
| 1 | 6 | Li Jinyu | China | 1:32.335 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Yara van Kerkhof | Netherlands | 1:43.364 | Q |
| | 6 | Sofia Prosvirnova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | | PEN |
| | 6 | Anna Seidel | Germany | | PEN |
| 1 | 7 | Kim A-lang | South Korea | 1:30.459 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 1:30.512 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Sumire Kikuchi | Japan | 1:30.970 | |
| | 7 | Lana Gehring | United States | | PEN |
| 1 | 8 | Kim Boutin | Canada | 1:32.402 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Hitomi Saito | Japan | 1:32.457 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Charlotte Gilmartin | Great Britain | 1:32.899 | |
| 4 | 8 | Cynthia Mascitto | Italy | 1:32.926 | |

### Quarterfinals

    Q – qualified for Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Kim Boutin | Canada | 1:30.013 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Kim A-lang | South Korea | 1:30.137 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 1:30.180 | |
| 4 | 1 | Véronique Pierron | France | 1:30.323 | |
| 5 | 1 | Bianca Walter | Germany | 1:31.085 | |
| 1 | 2 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:30.074 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Valérie Maltais | Canada | 1:30.131 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Li Jinyu | China | 1:30.175 | |
| 4 | 2 | Hitomi Saito | Japan | 1:30.804 | |
| 1 | 3 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:30.940 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Qu Chunyu | China | 1:31.284 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Magdalena Warakomska | Poland | 1:31.698 | |
| 4 | 3 | Lara van Ruijven | Netherlands | 1:31.754 | |
| 1 | 4 | Shim Suk-hee | South Korea | 1:29.159 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:29.377 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Ekaterina Efremenkova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 1:29.466 | |
| 4 | 4 | Yara van Kerkhof | Netherlands | 1:29.670 | |
| 5 | 4 | Andrea Keszler | Hungary | 1:30.642 | |

### Semifinals

    QA – qualified for Final A
    QB – qualified for Final B
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Kim Boutin | Canada | 1:29.065 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:29.156 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Kim A-lang | South Korea | 1:29.212 | QB |
| | 1 | Valérie Maltais | Canada | | PEN |
| 1 | 2 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:30.949 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Shim Suk-hee | South Korea | 1:30.974 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:31.131 | ADV |
| | 2 | Qu Chunyu | China | | PEN |

### Final

Final B was scratched as Kim A-lang (5th overall) was the only athlete who qualified for it. The final was held on 22 February 2018 at 20:29.

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:29.778 | |
| | Kim Boutin | Canada | 1:29.956 | |
| | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:30.656 | |
| 4 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:42.434 | |
| 6 | Shim Suk-hee | South Korea | | PEN |
