# Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 13 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 1000 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 and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Brittany Bowe (USA) | 1:12.58 | Salt Lake City, United States | 17 November 2013 |
| Olympic record | Chris Witty (USA) | 1:13.83 | Salt Lake City, United States | 17 February 2002 |
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Olga Fatkulina at 1:15.44.
The following record was set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
| 13 February | Pair 7 | Zhang Hong | China | 1:14.02 | TR |
TR = track record

## Results

The race was started at 18:00.
On 24 November 2017, Russian athlete Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping offence. In January 2018, she successfully appealed against the disqualification at the court of arbitration for sport.
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 7 | I | Zhang Hong | China | 1:14.02 | — | TR |
| | 17 | I | Ireen Wüst | Netherlands | 1:14.69 | +0.67 | |
| | 16 | I | Margot Boer | Netherlands | 1:14.90 | +0.88 | |
| 4 | 16 | O | Olga Fatkulina | Russia | 1:15.08 | +1.06 | |
| 5 | 18 | I | Lotte van Beek | Netherlands | 1:15.10 | +1.08 | |
| 6 | 14 | I | Marrit Leenstra | Netherlands | 1:15.15 | +1.13 | |
| 7 | 15 | I | Heather Richardson | United States | 1:15.23 | +1.21 | |
| 8 | 17 | O | Brittany Bowe | United States | 1:15.47 | +1.45 | |
| 9 | 7 | O | Christine Nesbitt | Canada | 1:15.62 | +1.60 | |
| 10 | 12 | O | Karolína Erbanová | Czech Republic | 1:15.74 | +1.72 | |
| 11 | 10 | O | Judith Hesse | Germany | 1:15.84 | +1.82 | |
| 12 | 18 | O | Lee Sang-hwa | South Korea | 1:15.94 | +1.92 | |
| 13 | 15 | O | Nao Kodaira | Japan | 1:16.45 | +2.43 | |
| 14 | 12 | I | Wang Beixing | China | 1:16.59 | +2.57 | |
| 15 | 10 | I | Yekaterina Shikhova | Russia | 1:17.01 | +2.99 | |
| 16 | 11 | O | Yuliya Skokova | Russia | 1:17.02 | +3.00 | |
| 17 | 1 | O | Ida Njåtun | Norway | 1:17.15 | +3.13 | |
| 18 | 13 | O | Kaylin Irvine | Canada | 1:17.24 | +3.22 | |
| 19 | 14 | O | Yekaterina Aydova | Kazakhstan | 1:17.25 | +3.23 | |
| 20 | 9 | I | Yekaterina Lobysheva | Russia | 1:17.31 | +3.29 | |
| 21 | 3 | O | Kali Christ | Canada | 1:17.41 | +3.39 | |
| 22 | 5 | I | Miyako Sumiyoshi | Japan | 1:17.68 | +3.66 | |
| 23 | 2 | I | Natalia Czerwonka | Poland | 1:17.933 | +3.91 | |
| 24 | 9 | O | Vanessa Bittner | Austria | 1:17.937 | +3.91 | |
| 25 | 3 | I | Jenny Wolf | Germany | 1:17.99 | +3.97 | |
| 26 | 11 | I | Gabriele Hirschbichler | Germany | 1:18.00 | +3.98 | |
| 27 | 1 | I | Maki Tsuji | Japan | 1:18.07 | +4.05 | |
| 28 | 8 | O | Kim Hyun-Yung | South Korea | 1:18.10 | +4.08 | |
| 29 | 8 | I | Luiza Złotkowska | Poland | 1:18.38 | +4.36 | |
| 30 | 6 | O | Brittany Schussler | Canada | 1:18.53 | +4.51 | |
| 31 | 4 | O | Park Seung-Ju | South Korea | 1:18.94 | +4.92 | |
| 32 | 2 | O | Sugar Todd | United States | 1:19.13 | +5.11 | |
| 33 | 4 | I | Kelly Gunther | United States | 1:19.43 | +5.41 | |
| 34 | 5 | O | Li Dan | China | 1:20.20 | +6.18 | |
| 35 | 6 | I | Lee Bo-ra | South Korea | 1:57.49 | +43.47 | |
| | 13 | I | Monique Angermüller | Germany | DQ | | |
TR = track record, DQ = disqualified