Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres

at the XI Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for speed skating

Venue

Dates

February 9

Competitors

31 from 12 nations

Winning time

2:20.85

Medalists

Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on February 9, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Stien Kaiser (NED)	2:15.8	Davos, Switzerland	15 January 1971
Olympic record	Kaija Mustonen (FIN)	2:22.4	Grenoble, France	10 February 1968

The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
9 February	Pair 1	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	Netherlands	2:22.05	OR
9 February	Pair 5	Dianne Holum	United States	2:20.85	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
01 !	Dianne Holum	United States	2:20.85	OR
02 !	Stien Kaiser	Netherlands	2:21.05
03 !	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	Netherlands	2:22.05
4	Ellie van den Brom	Netherlands	2:22.27
5	Rosemarie Taupadel	East Germany	2:22.35
6	Nina Statkevich	Soviet Union	2:23.19
7	Connie Carpenter-Phinney	United States	2:23.93
8	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	Norway	2:24.07
9	Kapitolina Seregina	Soviet Union	2:24.29
10	Monika Pflug	West Germany	2:24.69
11	Satomi Koike	Japan	2:25.16
12	Kim Bok-Soon	North Korea	2:25.48
13	Han Pil-Hwa	North Korea	2:25.64
14	Lyudmila Savrulina	Soviet Union	2:25.85
15	Paula Dufter	West Germany	2:26.00
16	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	2:27.09
17	Emiko Taguchi	Japan	2:28.19
18	Kaname Ide	Japan	2:28.34
19	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	Norway	2:28.36
20	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	2:29.38
21	Sylvia Burka	Canada	2:29.60
22	Choi Jung-Hui	South Korea	2:29.79
23	Kirsti Biermann	Norway	2:29.94
24	Leah Poulos	United States	2:31.29
25	Ylva Hedlund	Sweden	2:31.31
26	Ann-Sofie Järnström	Sweden	2:31.53
27	Gayle Gordon	Canada	2:31.86
28	Jeon Seon-Ok	South Korea	2:32.06
29	Kim Myung-Ja	North Korea	2:32.55
30	Jennifer Jackson	Canada	2:35.22
31	Monika Stützle	West Germany	2:37.15

1 2 "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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