# Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Tatyana Averina-Barabash (URS) | 1:23.46 | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | 29 March 1975 |
| Olympic record | Tatyana Averina-Barabash (URS) | 1:28.43 | Innsbruck, Austria | 7 February 1976 |
The following new world and olympic record was set during the competition.
| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| 17 February | Pair 1 | Sylvia Filipsson | Sweden | 1:28.18 | OR | |
| 17 February | Pair 2 | Natalya Petrusyova | Soviet Union | 1:24.10 | OR | |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Athlete | Country | Time | Behind | Notes |
| | 2 | i | Nataliya Petrusyova | Soviet Union | 1:24.10 | – | OR |
| | 2 | o | Leah Poulos-Mueller | United States | 1:25.41 | +1.31 | |
| | 3 | o | Sylvia Albrecht | East Germany | 1:26.46 | +2.36 | |
| 4 | 6 | o | Karin Enke | East Germany | 1:26.66 | +2.56 | |
| 5 | 9 | i | Beth Heiden | United States | 1:27.01 | +2.91 | |
| 6 | 17 | o | Annie Borckink | Netherlands | 1:27.24 | +3.14 | |
| 7 | 4 | i | Sylvia Burka | Canada | 1:27.50 | +3.40 | |
| 8 | 5 | o | Ann-Sofie Järnström | Sweden | 1:28.10 | +4.00 | |
| 9 | 1 | o | Sylvia Filipsson | Sweden | 1:28.18 | +4.08 | |
| 10 | 15 | o | Annette Karlsson | Sweden | 1:28.25 | +4.15 | |
| 11 | 7 | o | Valentina Lalenkova | Soviet Union | 1:28.27 | +4.17 | |
| 12 | 7 | i | Bjørg Eva Jensen | Norway | 1:28.55 | +4.45 | |
| 13 | 15 | i | Sijtje van der Lende | Netherlands | 1:28.72 | +4.62 | |
| 14 | 5 | i | Sarah Docter | United States | 1:28.80 | +4.70 | |
| 14 | 10 | o | Haitske Valentijn-Pijlman | Netherlands | 1:28.80 | +4.70 | |
| 16 | 16 | i | Erwina Ryś-Ferens | Poland | 1:28.82 | +4.72 | |
| 17 | 10 | i | Miyoshi Kato | Japan | 1:28.97 | +4.87 | |
| 18 | 4 | o | Christa Rothenburger | East Germany | 1:29.69 | +5.59 | |
| 19 | 9 | o | Brenda Webster | Canada | 1:29.84 | +5.74 | |
| 20 | 1 | o | Irina Kovrova | Soviet Union | 1:29.94 | +5.84 | |
| 21 | 8 | o | Monika Pflug | West Germany | 1:30.13 | +6.03 | |
| 22 | 1 | o | Makiko Nagaya | Japan | 1:30.27 | +6.17 | |
| 23 | 12 | i | Sigrid Smuda | West Germany | 1:30.29 | +6.19 | |
| 24 | 8 | o | Kathy Vogt | Canada | 1:30.33 | +6.23 | |
| 25 | 9 | i | Yuko Yaegashi-Ota | Japan | 1:30.72 | +6.62 | |
| 26 | 14 | i | Lee Nam-Sun | South Korea | 1:31.30 | +7.20 | |
| 27 | 18 | i | Cao Guifeng | China | 1:31.74 | +7.64 | |
| 28 | 14 | o | Anneli Repola | Finland | 1:31.76 | +7.66 | |
| 29 | 11 | i | Silvia Brunner | Switzerland | 1:31.79 | +7.69 | |
| 30 | 12 | o | Lee Seong-ae | South Korea | 1:32.04 | +7.94 | |
| 31 | 19 | i | Zhang Li | China | 1:32.20 | +8.10 | |
| 32 | 17 | i | Shen Zhenshu | China | 1:32.49 | +8.39 | |
| 33 | 13 | i | Brigitte Flierl | West Germany | 1:33.61 | +9.51 | |
| 34 | 16 | o | Kim Yeong-hui | South Korea | 1:34.17 | +10.07 | |
| 35 | 18 | o | Kim Ferran | Great Britain | 1:34.19 | +10.09 | |
| 36 | 11 | o | Marzia Peretti | Italy | 1:35.66 | +11.56 | |
| 37 | 13 | o | Mandy Horsepool | Great Britain | 1:36.31 | +12.21 | |