# Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February (heats) and 11 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands won the gold medal and thereby successfully defended her 2018 title. In the semifinal, Schulting set the new world record. Choi Min-jeong won the silver medal, and Hanne Desmet of Belgium the bronze. Desmet's medal was the first ever Belgian medal in short track speed skating and only the seventh Belgian medal at the Winter Olympics.
The 2018 silver medalist, Kim Boutin, and the bronze medalist, Arianna Fontana, qualified as well. Schulting was the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at all distances, including 1500 m. Desmet and Courtney Sarault were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Schulting was also leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 1000 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Kristen Santos and Choi Min-jeong.

## Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, with the top 32 athletes (maximum of three per country qualifying quotas. If a NOC declined a quota spot, it was distributed to the next available athlete, only if the maximum quota of 56 athletes per gender was not surpassed.

## 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 |
The following records were set during the competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record | Ref |
| 9 February | Heat 2 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:27.292 | OR | |
| 11 February | Quarterfinal 1 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:26.514 | WR, OR | |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:28.053 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Selma Poutsma | Netherlands | 1:28.115 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Anna Vostrikova | ROC | 1:28.290 | q |
| 4 | 1 | Kathryn Thomson | Great Britain | 1:30.037 | |
| 1 | 2 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:27.292 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 2 | Han Yutong | China | 1:27.401 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Corinne Stoddard | United States | 1:27.528 | q |
| 4 | 2 | Shione Kaminaga | Japan | 1:28.465 | |
| 1 | 3 | Qu Chunyu | China | 1:30.342 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Xandra Velzeboer | Netherlands | 1:30.454 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Gwendoline Daudet | France | 1:31.734 | |
| 4 | 3 | Zsófia Kónya | Hungary | No time | |
| 1 | 4 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:30.066 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Sumire Kikuchi | Japan | 1:30.154 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Olga Tikhonova | Kazakhstan | 1:56.438 | |
| | 4 | Sofia Prosvirnova | ROC | | PEN |
| 1 | 5 | Maame Biney | United States | 1:27.859 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Lee Yu-bin | South Korea | 1:27.862 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Zhang Chutong | China | 1:27.910 | q |
| 4 | 5 | Kim Boutin | Canada | No time | |
| 1 | 6 | Courtney Sarault | Canada | 1:27.798 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Hanne Desmet | Belgium | 1:27.836 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Kim A-lang | South Korea | 1:28.680 | |
| 4 | 6 | Yuki Kikuchi | Japan | 1:28.764 | |
| 1 | 7 | Natalia Maliszewska | Poland | 1:29.610 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Ekaterina Efremenkova | ROC | 1:29.734 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Alyson Charles | Canada | 1:29.863 | ADV |
| | 7 | Tifany Huot-Marchand | France | | PEN |
| 1 | 8 | Kristen Santos | United States | 1:28.237 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 1:28.392 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Cynthia Mascitto | Italy | 1:28.471 | |
| 4 | 8 | Kamila Stormowska | Poland | 1:28.567 | |

### Quarterfinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:26.514 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 1 | Xandra Velzeboer | Netherlands | 1:26.592 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Corinne Stoddard | United States | 1:27.912 | q |
| 4 | 1 | Qu Chunyu | China | 1:28.355 | |
| 5 | 1 | Han Yutong | China | 1:31.638 | |
| 1 | 2 | Lee Yu-bin | South Korea | 1:29.120 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Maame Biney | United States | 1:29.225 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Ekaterina Efremenkova | ROC | 1:29.434 | |
| 4 | 2 | Anna Vostrikova | ROC | 1:30.021 | |
| 5 | 2 | Natalia Maliszewska | Poland | 1:48.908 | |
| 1 | 3 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:29.324 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Hanne Desmet | Belgium | 1:29.388 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Courtney Sarault | Canada | 1:29.450 | |
| 4 | 3 | Zhang Chutong | China | 1:29.755 | |
| 5 | 3 | Sumire Kikuchi | Japan | 1:37.170 | |
| 1 | 4 | Kristen Santos | United States | 1:28.393 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:28.722 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 1:28.786 | q |
| 4 | 4 | Selma Poutsma | Netherlands | 1:29.077 | |
| 5 | 4 | Alyson Charles | Canada | 1:30.161 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:28.108 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Hanne Desmet | Belgium | 1:28.166 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Lee Yu-bin | South Korea | 1:28.170 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Maame Biney | United States | 1:28.806 | QB |
| 5 | 1 | Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 1:28.827 | QB |
| 1 | 2 | Kristen Santos | United States | 1:26.783 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 1:26.811 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:26.850 | QA |
| 4 | 2 | Corinne Stoddard | United States | 1:27.626 | QB |
| 5 | 2 | Xandra Velzeboer | Netherlands | 1:27.777 | QB |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 5 | Xandra Velzeboer | Netherlands | 1:29.668 |
| 6 | Lee Yu-bin | South Korea | 1:29.739 |
| 7 | Corinne Stoddard | United States | 1:29.845 |
| 8 | Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 1:30.249 |
| 9 | Maame Biney | United States | 1:30.736 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:28.391 | |
| | Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 1:28.443 | |
| | Hanne Desmet | Belgium | 1:28.928 | |
| 4 | Kristen Santos | United States | 1:42.745 | |
| | Arianna Fontana | Italy | | PEN |