The Women's 1000 m speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympics

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 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah

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, United States

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After suffering from mononucleosis, Chris Witty

Chris Witty

Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....

 skated a new World Record to win by surprise. Jennifer Rodriguez

Jennifer Rodriguez

Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993...

 became the first US Hispanic woman to win an Olympic speed skating medal.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
17 February	Pair 6	Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva is a Russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-References:*...		1:16.49	OR
17 February	Pair 7	Anzhelika Kotyuga		1:15.03	OR
17 February	Pair 11	Marianne Timmer Marianne Timmer Maria Aaltje Timmer is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the middle distances . At the 1998 Winter Olympics Timmer won a gold medal in both these events.- Personal life :...		1:14.45	OR
17 February	Pair 15	Chris Witty Chris Witty Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....		1:13.83	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time Behind	Notes
	15	Chris Witty Chris Witty Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....		1:13.83	-
	17	Sabine Völker Sabine Völker Sabine Völker is a German former speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics, after winning three individual medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....		1:13.96	+0.13
	16	Jennifer Rodriguez Jennifer Rodriguez Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993...		1:14.24	+0.41
4	11	Marianne Timmer Marianne Timmer Maria Aaltje Timmer is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the middle distances . At the 1998 Winter Olympics Timmer won a gold medal in both these events.- Personal life :...		1:14.45	+0.62
5	16	Anni Friesinger Anni Friesinger Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...		1:14.47	+0.64
6	18	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt		1:14.60	+0.77
7	17	Aki Tonoike		1:14.64	+0.81
8	13	Andrea Nuyt		1:14.65	+0.82
9	15	Catriona Le May Doan		1:14.72	+0.89
10	12	Chiara Simionato Chiara Simionato Chiara Simionato is an Italian long-track speed skater who competed in 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is set compete for Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the women's 500m, 1000m, and 1500m....		1:14.86	+0.89
11	18	Svetlana Zhurova Svetlana Zhurova Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova is a speed skater from Russia.Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989, took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after mothering a child. She also became...		1:15.02	+0.89
12	7	Anzhelika Kotyuga		1:15.03	+0.89
13	14	Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen, OM is a Canadian long track speed skater. Klassen is a six-time medalist at the Winter Olympics. She is tied with Clara Hughes for Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian with 6 medals each...		1:15.08	+0.89
14	11	Amy Sannes Amy Sannes Amy Sannes is an Olympic speed skater who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics.She graduated in 2004 from the University of Utah with a degree in exercise physiology....		1:15.09	+0.89
15	12	Annamarie Thomas Annamarie Thomas Annamarie Thomas is a former Dutch speed skater.-Biography:Thomas was an allround speed skater, but favored the shorter distances. The years 1995 and 1996 found her at her peak: in both those years she was Dutch allround champion as well as Dutch sprint champion and came in second at the European...		1:15.20	+1.37
16	9	Becky Sundstrom		1:15.88	+2.05
17	13	Eriko Sanmiya		1:16.26	+2.43
18	8	Marieke Wijsman Marieke Wijsman Anne Marie Louise Wijsman is a former Dutch speed skater who represented her country at two Winter Olympics and who was the first female speed skater to compete internationally on clap skates....		1:16.48	+2.65
18	8	Sayuri Osuga Sayuri Osuga Sayuri Osuga |Shibetsu, Hokkaido]], Japan) is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games . Until 2006, she was a member of the professional Sankyoseiki speedskating team...		1:16.48	+2.65
20	6	Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva is a Russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-References:*...		1:16.49	+2.66
21	9	Marion Wohlrab		1:16.51	+2.68
22	3	Song Li		1:16.71	+2.88
23	10	Svetlana Kaykan Svetlana Kaykan Svetlana Mikhaylovna Kaykan is a Russian speed skater who specialises in sprint.-References:*...		1:16.93	+3.10
24	4	Krisztina Egyed		1:17.11	+3.28
25	7	Jin Hua		1:17.35	+3.52
26	10	Wang Manli Wang Manli Wang Manli is a Chinese ice speed skater who won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-References:*...		1:17.37	+3.54
27	6	Susan Auch Susan Auch Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan...		1:17.89	+4.06
28	1	Lyudmila Prokasheva Lyudmila Prokasheva Lyudmila Prokasheva is a former speed skater. Representing Kazakhstan, she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 1998 5000 metres. In 1995, she won a silver medal in the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women.-External links:*...		1:18.19	+4.36
29	5	Cho Seon-Yeon		1:18.36	+4.53
30	2	You Yanchun		1:18.74	+4.91
31	2	Lee Yong-Joo		1:18.79	+4.96
32	1	Choi Seung-Yong Choi Seung-Yong Choi Seung-Yong is a South Korean female speed skater. She competed at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 edition of Winter Olympics. She qualified for the Olympic in 1998, in which she placed both 24th in 500 m and 1000 m. She again qualified for the Olympics in 2002, and placed 18th in the 500 m and 32nd...		1:18.88	+5.05
33	3	Svetlana Radkevich		1:18.93	+5.10
34	5	Andrea Jakab		1:19.60	+5.77
35	4	Yelena Myagkikh Yelena Myagkikh Olena Vasylivna Myahkikh is a Ukrainian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.-Personal records:-Career highlights:Olympic Winter Games...		1:20.13	+6.30
	14	Maki Tabata Maki Tabata Maki Tabata is a speed skater.Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year , she won silver on the 1,500 m and bronze on the 5,000 m...		DQ	-