# Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 16 February 2014.

## Qualification

A total of thirty-six speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1500 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 16 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup. A reserve list was also made.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Cindy Klassen (CAN) | 1:51.79 | Salt Lake City, United States | 20 November 2005 |
| Olympic record | Anni Friesinger (GER) | 1:54.02 | Salt Lake City, United States | 20 February 2002 |
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Ireen Wüst at 1:55.38.
The following records were set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
| 16 February | Pair 9 | Jorien ter Mors | Netherlands | 1:53.51 | OR, TR |
OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

## Results

On 24 November 2017, Russian athlete Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping offence.
The races were started at 18:00.
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 9 | I | Jorien ter Mors | Netherlands | 1:53.51 | — | OR, TR |
| | 15 | I | Ireen Wüst | Netherlands | 1:54.09 | +0.58 | |
| | 18 | O | Lotte van Beek | Netherlands | 1:54.54 | +1.03 | |
| 4 | 13 | I | Marrit Leenstra | Netherlands | 1:56.40 | +2.89 | |
| 5 | 16 | O | Yuliya Skokova | Russia | 1:56.45 | +2.94 | |
| 6 | 16 | I | Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś | Poland | 1:57.18 | +3.67 | |
| 7 | 14 | I | Heather Richardson | United States | 1:57.60 | +4.09 | |
| 8 | 17 | O | Yekaterina Lobysheva | Russia | 1:57.70 | +4.19 | |
| DSQ | 5 | O | Olga Fatkulina | Russia | 1:57.88 | +4.37 | |
| 10 | 11 | I | Yekaterina Shikhova | Russia | 1:58.09 | +4.58 | |
| 11 | 11 | O | Luiza Złotkowska | Poland | 1:58.18 | +4.67 | |
| 12 | 15 | O | Ida Njåtun | Norway | 1:58.21 | +4.70 | |
| 13 | 12 | O | Karolína Erbanová | Czech Republic | 1:58.23 | +4.72 | |
| 14 | 17 | I | Brittany Bowe | United States | 1:58.31 | +4.80 | |
| 15 | 10 | O | Natalia Czerwonka | Poland | 1:58.46 | +4.95 | |
| 16 | 7 | I | Kali Christ | Canada | 1:58.63 | +5.12 | |
| 17 | 8 | I | Christine Nesbitt | Canada | 1:58.67 | +5.16 | |
| 18 | 8 | O | Jilleanne Rookard | United States | 1:59.15 | +5.64 | |
| 19 | 18 | I | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 1:59.47 | +5.96 | |
| 20 | 2 | I | Jelena Peeters | Belgium | 1:59.73 | +6.22 | |
| 21 | 2 | O | Kim Bo-reum | South Korea | 1:59.78 | +6.27 | |
| 22 | 6 | O | Misaki Oshigiri | Japan | 2:00.03 | +6.52 | |
| 23 | 3 | O | Zhao Xin | China | 2:00.27 | +6.76 | |
| 24 | 14 | O | Monique Angermüller | Germany | 2:00.32 | +6.81 | |
| 25 | 13 | O | Maki Tabata | Japan | 2:00.64 | +7.13 | |
| 26 | 12 | I | Brittany Schussler | Canada | 2:00.65 | +7.14 | |
| 27 | 6 | I | Li Qishi | China | 2:00.89 | +7.38 | |
| 28 | 1 | I | Yekaterina Aydova | Kazakhstan | 2:00.93 | +7.42 | |
| 29 | 3 | I | Noh Seon-yeong | South Korea | 2:01.07 | +7.56 | |
| 30 | 7 | O | Gabriele Hirschbichler | Germany | 2:01.18 | +7.67 | |
| 31 | 9 | O | Ayaka Kikuchi | Japan | 2:01.29 | +7.78 | |
| 32 | 10 | I | Nana Takagi | Japan | 2:02.16 | +8.65 | |
| 33 | 5 | I | Hege Bøkko | Norway | 2:02.53 | +9.02 | |
| 34 | 1 | O | Vanessa Bittner | Austria | 2:02.84 | +9.33 | |
| 35 | 4 | O | Brianne Tutt | Canada | 2:03.69 | +10.18 | |
| 36 | 4 | I | Yang Shin-young | South Korea | 2:04.13 | +10.62 | |
OR = Olympic record, TR = track record