# Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Anni Friesinger came to terms with the pressure of being the favorite by skating a world record and winning the gold medal. Sabine Völker and Jennifer Rodriguez repeated their successes from the 1000 m.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Anni Friesinger (GER) | 1:54.38 | Calgary, Canada | 4 March 2001 |
| Olympic record | Marianne Timmer (NED) | 1:57.58 | Nagano, Japan | 16 February 1998 |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| 20 February | Pair 9 | Varvara Barysheva | Russia | 1:56.44 | OR | |
| 20 February | Pair 10 | Chris Witty | United States | 1:55.71 | OR | |
| 20 February | Pair 17 | Anni Friesinger | Germany | 1:54.02 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Behind | Notes |
| | 17 | Anni Friesinger | Germany | 1:54.02 | - | WR |
| | 19 | Sabine Völker | Germany | 1:54.97 | +0.95 | |
| | 20 | Jennifer Rodriguez | United States | 1:55.32 | +1.30 | |
| 4 | 10 | Cindy Klassen | Canada | 1:55.59 | +1.57 | |
| 5 | 18 | Chris Witty | United States | 1:55.71 | +1.69 | |
| 6 | 15 | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 1:55.93 | +1.91 | |
| 7 | 13 | Tonny de Jong | Netherlands | 1:56.02 | +2.00 | |
| 8 | 19 | Amy Sannes | United States | 1:56.29 | +2.27 | |
| 9 | 9 | Maki Tabata | Japan | 1:56.35 | +2.33 | |
| 10 | 9 | Varvara Barysheva | Russia | 1:56.44 | +2.42 | |
| 11 | 18 | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands | 1:56.45 | +2.43 | |
| 12 | 9 | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 1:56.51 | +2.49 | |
| 13 | 14 | Becky Sundstrom | United States | 1:57.33 | +3.31 | |
| 14 | 17 | Aki Tonoike | Japan | 1:57.97 | +3.95 | |
| 15 | 15 | Song Li | China | 1:58.31 | +4.29 | |
| 16 | 13 | Chiara Simionato | Italy | 1:58.52 | +4.50 | |
| 17 | 14 | Tatyana Trapeznikova | Russia | 1:59.00 | +4.98 | |
| 18 | 5 | Valentina Yakshina | Russia | 1:59.28 | +5.26 | |
| 19 | 3 | Gao Yang | China | 1:59.51 | +5.49 | |
| 20 | 10 | Kristina Groves | Canada | 1:59.54 | +5.52 | |
| 21 | 11 | Marianne Timmer | Netherlands | 1:59.60 | +5.58 | |
| 22 | 16 | Marion Wohlrab | Germany | 1:59.67 | +5.65 | |
| 23 | 6 | Krisztina Egyed | Hungary | 1:59.86 | +5.84 | |
| 24 | 12 | Yayoi Nagaoka | Japan | 1:59.93 | +5.91 | |
| 25 | 12 | Cindy Overland | Canada | 2:00.02 | +6.00 | |
| 26 | 2 | Katarzyna Wójcicka | Poland | 2:00.59 | +6.57 | |
| 27 | 4 | Nicola Mayr | Italy | 2:00.73 | +6.71 | |
| 28 | 2 | Zhang Xiaolei | China | 2:01.23 | +7.21 | |
| 29 | 8 | Yuri Obara | Japan | 2:01.39 | +7.37 | |
| 29 | 11 | Choi Yun-suk | South Korea | 2:01.39 | +7.37 | |
| 31 | 7 | Andrea Jakab | Romania | 2:02.23 | +8.21 | |
| 32 | 6 | Anzhelika Gavrilova | Kazakhstan | 2:03.22 | +9.20 | |
| 33 | 8 | Baek Eun-bi | South Korea | 2:03.87 | +9.85 | |
| 34 | 1 | Svetlana Chepelnikova | Belarus | 2:04.06 | +10.04 | |
| 35 | 4 | Ilonda Luse | Latvia | 2:04.25 | +10.23 | |
| 36 | 3 | Daniela Oltean | Romania | 2:04.48 | +10.46 | |
| 37 | 7 | Marina Pupina | Kazakhstan | 2:05.13 | +11.11 | |
| 38 | 5 | Yelena Myagkikh | Ukraine | 2:05.32 | +11.30 | |
| - | 16 | Renate Groenewold | Netherlands | DNF | - | |