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1,000 metres, Women

Date	20 – 23 February 2002
Status	Olympic
Location	Salt Lake Ice Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Participants	28 from 16 countries
Format	Placements 1-8 based on final and B final. Deeper placements based on points earned in earlier rounds, and time in final round skated.
Olympic Record	1:31.991 WR / Yang Yang (A) CHN / 21 February 1998

Only one woman was supposed to win this competition: Yang Yang (A) of China. She had won the last five world titles in the event, and the season’s World Cup. To boot, she also owned the world record, and had won the 500 m gold earlier in the Olymics. She would face tough competition, from the season’s winners in World Cup races: namesake and teammate Yang Yang (S), and South Koreans Go Gi-Hyun and Choi Eun-Gyeong, who had placed 1-2 in the 1,500 m.

The race was pretty much a copy of the 500 m. Again, Yang (A) led from start to finish, holding off a competitor (Go) and a teammate (Yang (S)) for the title. Her victory marked the first time a short track skater won two individual gold medals at the Olympics

Pos	Nr	Skater	NOC	Points	Best Time
1	122	Yang Yang (A)	CHN	–	–	Gold
2	174	Go Gi-Hyeon	KOR	–	–	Silver
3	123	Yang Yang (S)	CHN	–	–	Bronze
4	110	Marie-Ève Drolet	CAN	–	–
5	105	Evgeniya Radanova	BUL	–	–
6	170	Choi Eun-Gyeong	KOR	–	–
7	167	Chikage Tanaka	JPN	–	–
8	112	Alanna Kraus	CAN	–	–
9	128	Jo Williams	GBR	42	1:34.373
10	182	Caroline Hallisey	USA	34	1:33.007
11	163	Mara Zini	ITA	34	1:33.697
12	125	Stéphanie Bouvier	FRA	34	1:35.409
13	126	Sarah Lindsay	GBR	34	1:36.753
14	131	Yvonne Kunze	GER	29	1:35.830
15	178	Nina Yevteyeva	RUS	29	1:36.519
16	134	Christin Priebst	GER	29	1:36.848
17	168	Ikue Teshigawara	JPN	13	1:33.855
18	104	Anna Krasteva	BUL	13	1:39.195
19	146	Szandra Lajtos	HUN	13	1:40.688
20	176	Katalin Kristo	ROU	13	1:42.276
21	157	Olga Danilov	ISR	13	1:42.767
22	141	Cordia Tsoi	HKG	13	1:48.445
23	140	Christy Ren	HKG	13	1:50.094
24	177	Nataliya Dmitriyeva	RUS	13	1:50.132
25	149	Marianna Nagy	HUN	8	1:39.648
26	124	Kateřina Novotná	CZE	8	1:42.495
27	184	Erin Porter	USA	8	1:56.409
DQ	162	Katia Zini	ITA	–	–

Round One (20 February 2002 — 18:50)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to quarter-finals.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Yang Yang (S)	CHN	1:40.632	34	Q
2	1	Marie-Ève Drolet	CAN	1:40.646	21	Q
3	3	Christy Ren	HKG	1:50.094	13

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	3	Evgeniya Radanova	BUL	1:49.496	34	Q
2	1	Christin Priebst	GER	1:49.569	21	Q
3	2	Nataliya Dmitriyeva	RUS	1:50.132	13

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Jo Williams	GBR	1:39.672	34	Q
2	3	Nina Yevteyeva	RUS	1:46.673	21	Q
3	4	Cordia Tsoi	HKG	1:48.445	13
4	1	Erin Porter	USA	1:56.409	8

Heat Four

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	3	Choi Eun-Gyeong	KOR	1:37.609	34	Q
2	4	Caroline Hallisey	USA	1:37.716	21	Q
3	1	Anna Krasteva	BUL	1:39.195	13
DQ	2	Katia Zini	ITA	–	–

Heat Five

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Yang Yang (A)	CHN	1:37.039	34	Q
2	1	Stéphanie Bouvier	FRA	1:37.684	21	Q
3	3	Szandra Lajtos	HUN	1:40.688	13

Heat Six

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	1	Go Gi-Hyeon	KOR	1:42.903	34	Q
2	2	Sarah Lindsay	GBR	1:42.157	21	Q
3	3	Katalin Kristo	ROU	1:42.276	13
4	4	Kateřina Novotná	CZE	1:42.495	8

Heat Seven

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Alanna Kraus	CAN	1:33.622	34	Q
2	3	Mara Zini	ITA	1:33.697	21	Q
3	4	Ikue Teshigawara	JPN	1:33.855	13
4	1	Marianna Nagy	HUN	1:39.648	8

Heat Eight

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	1	Chikage Tanaka	JPN	1:42.332	34	Q
2	3	Yvonne Kunze	GER	1:42.389	21	Q
3	2	Olga Danilov	ISR	1:42.767	13

Quarter-Finals (23 February 2002 — 18:39)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to semi-finals.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	1	Yang Yang (A)	CHN	1:31.235	34	QOR
2	2	Go Gi-Hyeon	KOR	1:31.349	21	Q
3	4	Caroline Hallisey	USA	1:33.007	13
4	3	Nina Yevteyeva	RUS	1:36.519	8

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	1	Alanna Kraus	CAN	1:36.683	34	Q
2	3	Evgeniya Radanova	BUL	1:36.727	21	Q
3	2	Sarah Lindsay	GBR	1:36.753	13
4	4	Christin Priebst	GER	1:36.848	8

Heat Three

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	4	Choi Eun-Gyeong	KOR	1:34.842	34	Q
2	3	Chikage Tanaka	JPN	1:34.960	21	Q
3	2	Stéphanie Bouvier	FRA	1:35.409	13
4	1	Yvonne Kunze	GER	1:35.830	8

Heat Four

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Yang Yang (S)	CHN	1:33.561	34	Q
2	4	Marie-Ève Drolet	CAN	1:33.578	21	Q
3	3	Mara Zini	ITA	1:33.880	13
4	1	Jo Williams	GBR	1:34.373	8

Semi-Finals (23 February 2002 — 19:27)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to final.

Heat One

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	2	Marie-Ève Drolet	CAN	1:37.916	34	Q
2	1	Yang Yang (A)	CHN	1:38.037	21	Q
3	3	Chikage Tanaka	JPN	1:38.269	13
4	4	Choi Eun-Gyeong	KOR	1:38.523	8

Heat Two

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time	Points
1	3	Yang Yang (S)	CHN	1:35.072	34	Q
2	4	Go Gi-Hyeon	KOR	1:35.172	21	Q
3	1	Alanna Kraus	CAN	1:35.510	13
4	2	Evgeniya Radanova	BUL	1:35.607	8

Final Round (23 February 2002 — 19:58)

B Final

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time
1	1	Evgeniya Radanova	BUL	1:34.702
2	3	Choi Eun-Gyeong	KOR	1:34.808
3	2	Chikage Tanaka	JPN	1:35.125
4	4	Alanna Kraus	CAN	1:35.642

A Final (19:58)

Pos	Lane	Skater	NOC	Time
1	4	Yang Yang (A)	CHN	1:36.391
2	2	Go Gi-Hyeon	KOR	1:36.427
3	1	Yang Yang (S)	CHN	1:37.008
4	3	Marie-Ève Drolet	CAN	1:37.563