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Speed Skating — 3,000 metres, Women

Times held 17
Total participants 287
Total countries 33

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1960 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 20 10
1964 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 28 13
1968 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 26 12
1972 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 22 10
1976 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 26 12
1980 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 29 14
1984 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 26 14
1988 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 29 16
1992 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 26 12
1994 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 27 14
1998 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 31 16
2002 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 32 16
2006 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 28 15
2010 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 28 13
2014 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 28 13
2018 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 24 13
2022 3,000 metres, Women Olympic 20 12

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1960 Lidiya SkoblikovaURS Valentina SteninaURS Eevi HuttunenFIN
1964 Lidiya SkoblikovaURS Han Pil-Hwa
Valentina Stenina		PRK
URS		 ——
1968 Ans SchutNED Kaija MustonenFIN Stien KaiserNED
1972 Stien Baas-KaiserNED Dianne HolumUSA Atje Keulen-DeelstraNED
1976 Tatyana AverinaURS Andrea MitscherlichGDR Lisbeth KorsmoNOR
1980 Bjørg Eva JensenNOR Sabine BeckerGDR Beth HeidenUSA
1984 Andrea SchöneGDR Karin EnkeGDR Gabi SchönbrunnGDR
1988 Yvonne van GennipNED Andrea EhrigGDR Gabi ZangeGDR
1992 Gunda NiemannGER Heike WarnickeGER Emese HunyadyAUT
1994 Svetlana BazhanovaRUS Emese HunyadyAUT Claudia PechsteinGER
1998 Gunda Niemann-StirnemannGER Claudia PechsteinGER Anni FriesingerGER
2002 Claudia PechsteinGER Renate GroenewoldNED Cindy KlassenCAN
2006 Ireen WüstNED Renate GroenewoldNED Cindy KlassenCAN
2010 Martina SáblíkováCZE Stephanie BeckertGER Kristina GrovesCAN
2014 Ireen WüstNED Martina SáblíkováCZE Olga GrafRUS
2018 Carlijn AchtereekteNED Ireen WüstNED Antoinette de JongNED
2022 Irene SchoutenNED Francesca LollobrigidaITA Isabelle WeidemannCAN

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Netherlands NED 7 3 3 13
Germany GER 3 3 2 8
Soviet Union URS 3 2 0 5
East Germany GDR 1 4 2 7
Czechia CZE 1 1 0 2
Norway NOR 1 0 1 2
Russian Federation RUS 1 0 1 2
Austria AUT 0 1 1 2
Finland FIN 0 1 1 2
United States USA 0 1 1 2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 0 1 0 1
Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
Canada CAN 0 0 4 4

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Ireen Wüst NED 2 1 0 3
Gunda Kleemann-Niemann-Stirnemann GDR
GER		 2 0 0 2
Lidiya Skoblikova RUS
URS		 2 0 0 2
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich GDR 1 2 0 3
Claudia Pechstein GER 1 1 1 3