# Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung on 14 February 2018.

## Summary

Jorien ter Mors became the Olympic champion, continuing the trend that all 2018 Olympic gold medals in speed skating up to this event were won by Dutch skaters. Nao Kodaira became second, and Miho Takagi was third, two days after her silver medal in the 1500m event.
The defending champion was Zhang Hong, and the 2014 silver medalist, Ireen Wüst, was also competing. Wüst took an early lead in 4th pair, and stayed on top until in 12th pair Jorien ter Mors skated an olympic record, and the time of Brittany Bowe in the same pair was still better than that of Wüst. In 14th pair, Miho Takagi posted the time between these of ter Mors and Bowe, shifting Bowe to the bronze medal position. In 15th pair Nao Kodaira, the world record holder at this distance, had a time behind than of ten Mors but below the former Olympic record of Chris Witty, shifting Takagi to the bronze medal position. There was one pair to go, but Marrit Leenstra only finished sixth, not changing the order of medals.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Nao Kodaira (JPN) | 1:12.09 | Salt Lake City, United States | 10 December 2017 |
| Olympic record | Chris Witty (USA) | 1:13.83 | Salt Lake City, United States | 17 February 2002 |
| Track record | Heather Bergsma (USA) | 1:13.94 | | 11 February 2017 |
The following records were set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
| 14 February | Pair 12 | Jorien ter Mors | Netherlands | 1:13.56 | OR WB (sea level), TR |
OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

## Results

The competition started at 19:00.
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 12 | I | Jorien ter Mors | Netherlands | 1:13.56 | — | OR, TR |
| | 15 | O | Nao Kodaira | Japan | 1:13.82 | +0.26 | |
| | 14 | I | Miho Takagi | Japan | 1:13.98 | +0.42 | |
| 4 | 12 | O | Brittany Bowe | United States | 1:14.36 | +0.80 | |
| 5 | 15 | I | Vanessa Herzog | Austria | 1:14.47 | +0.91 | |
| 6 | 16 | I | Marrit Leenstra | Netherlands | 1:14.85 | +1.29 | |
| 7 | 14 | O | Karolína Erbanová | Czech Republic | 1:14.95 | +1.39 | |
| 8 | 16 | O | Heather Bergsma | United States | 1:15.15 | +1.59 | |
| 9 | 4 | I | Ireen Wüst | Netherlands | 1:15.32 | +1.76 | |
| 10 | 7 | O | Ida Njåtun | Norway | 1:15.43 | +1.87 | |
| 11 | 11 | O | Zhang Hong | China | 1:15.67 | +2.11 | |
| 12 | 11 | I | Natalia Czerwonka | Poland | 1:15.77 | +2.21 | |
| 13 | 10 | I | Arisa Go | Japan | 1:15.84 | +2.28 | |
| 14 | 13 | I | Hege Bøkko | Norway | 1:15.98 | +2.42 | |
| 15 | 9 | I | Gabriele Hirschbichler | Germany | 1:16.03 | +2.47 | |
| 16 | 9 | O | Park Seung-hi | South Korea | 1:16.11 | +2.55 | |
| 17 | 5 | I | Yu Jing | China | 1:16.361 | +2.80 | |
| 18 | 7 | I | Kim Hyun-yung | South Korea | 1:16.366 | +2.80 | |
| 19 | 2 | O | Nikola Zdráhalová | Czech Republic | 1:16.43 | +2.87 | |
| 20 | 13 | O | Huang Yu-ting | Chinese Taipei | 1:16.44 | +2.88 | |
| 21 | 6 | I | Tian Ruining | China | 1:16.69 | +3.13 | |
| 22 | 8 | O | Angelina Golikova | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 1:16.85 | +3.29 | |
| 23 | 8 | I | Kaylin Irvine | Canada | 1:16.90 | +3.34 | |
| 24 | 6 | O | Yekaterina Aydova | Kazakhstan | 1:17.09 | +3.53 | |
| 25 | 10 | O | Heather McLean | Canada | 1:17.25 | +3.69 | |
| 26 | 5 | O | Judith Dannhauer | Germany | 1:17.41 | +3.85 | |
| 27 | 3 | O | Francesca Bettrone | Italy | 1:17.83 | +4.27 | |
| 28 | 3 | I | Jerica Tandiman | United States | 1:18.02 | +4.46 | |
| 29 | 2 | I | Karolina Bosiek | Poland | 1:18.53 | +4.97 | |
| 30 | 4 | O | Yvonne Daldossi | Italy | 1:19.33 | +5.77 | |
| 31 | 1 | I | Michelle Uhrig | Germany | 1:20.81 | +7.25 | |