List of Olympic medalists in speed skating
500 metres
Table:
Games

Gold

Silver

Bronze

1960 Squaw Valley
details

Helga Haase
United Team of Germany

Natalya Donchenko
Soviet Union

Jeanne Ashworth
United States

1964 Innsbruck
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Lidiya Skoblikova
Soviet Union

Irina Yegorova
Soviet Union

Tatyana Sidorova
Soviet Union

1968 Grenoble
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Lyudmila Titova
Soviet Union

Jenny Fish
United States

None awarded

Dianne Holum
United States

Mary Meyers
United States

1972 Sapporo
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Anne Henning
United States

Vera Krasnova
Soviet Union

Lyudmila Titova
Soviet Union

1976 Innsbruck
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Sheila Young
United States

Cathy Priestner
Canada

Tatyana Averina
Soviet Union

1980 Lake Placid
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Karin Enke
East Germany

Leah Poulos-Mueller
United States

Natalya Petrusyova
Soviet Union

1984 Sarajevo
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Christa Rothenburger
East Germany

Karin Enke
East Germany

Natalya Shive
Soviet Union

1988 Calgary
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Bonnie Blair
United States

Christa Rothenburger
East Germany

Karin Enke
East Germany

1992 Albertville
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Bonnie Blair
United States

Ye Qiaobo
China

Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Germany

1994 Lillehammer
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Bonnie Blair
United States

Susan Auch
Canada

Franziska Schenk
Germany

1998 Nagano
details

Catriona Le May Doan
Canada

Susan Auch
Canada

Tomomi Okazaki
Japan

2002 Salt Lake City
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Catriona Le May Doan
Canada

Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
Germany

Sabine Völker
Germany

2006 Turin
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Svetlana Zhurova
Russia

Wang Manli
China

Ren Hui
China

2010 Vancouver
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Lee Sang-hwa
South Korea

Jenny Wolf
Germany

Wang Beixing
China

2014 Sochi
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Lee Sang-hwa
South Korea

Olga Fatkulina
Russia

Margot Boer
Netherlands

2018 PyeongChang
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Nao Kodaira
Japan

Lee Sang-hwa
South Korea

Karolína Erbanová
Czech Republic

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