The women's 3000 metres race of the 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held on March 22 at 16:30 local time.[1]
Results
edit| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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12 | o | Martina Sáblíková |  Czech Republic |
4:01.88 | ||
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11 | o | Stephanie Beckert |  Germany |
4:04.09 | +2.21 | |
 |
10 | i | Ireen Wüst |  Netherlands |
4:04.87 | +2.99 | |
| 4 | 11 | i | Claudia Pechstein | Germany |
4:04.99 | +3.11 | |
| 5 | 10 | o | Linda de Vries | Netherlands |
4:06.33 | +4.45 | |
| 6 | 9 | i | Cindy Klassen |  Canada |
4:07.14 | +5.26 | |
| 7 | 8 | o | Yevgeniya Dmitriyeva |  Russia |
4:09.51 | +7.63 | |
| 8 | 8 | i | Brittany Schussler | Canada |
4:09.53 | +7.65 | |
| 8 | 12 | i | Diane Valkenburg | Netherlands |
4:09.53 | +7.65 | |
| 10 | 7 | i | Olga Graf | Russia |
4:09.90 | +8.02 | |
| 11 | 5 | o | Kim Bo-reum |  South Korea |
4:11.09 | +9.21 | |
| 12 | 6 | o | Park Do-yeong | South Korea |
4:11.13 | +9.25 | |
| 13 | 3 | i | Natalia Czerwonka |  Poland |
4:11.27 | +9.39 | |
| 14 | 5 | i | Jilleanne Rookard |  United States |
4:11.93 | +10.05 | |
| 15 | 9 | o | Masako Hozumi |  Japan |
4:13.07 | +11.19 | |
| 16 | 7 | o | Eriko Ishino | Japan |
4:13.42 | +11.54 | |
| 17 | 4 | i | Isabell Ost | Germany |
4:15.05 | +13.17 | |
| 18 | 2 | i | Mari Hemmer |  Norway |
4:16.23 | +14.35 | |
| 19 | 2 | o | Anna Rokita |  Austria |
4:17.16 | +15.28 | |
| 20 | 6 | i | Shiho Ishizawa | Japan |
4:17.84 | +15.96 | |
| 21 | 4 | o | Hege Bøkko | Norway |
4:18.24 | +16.36 | |
| 22 | 3 | o | Nicole Garrido | Canada |
4:20.13 | +18.25 | |
| 23 | 1 | i | Katarzyna Woźniak | Poland |
4:22.42 | +20.54 | |
| 24 | 1 | o | Maria Lamb | United States |
4:26.44 | +24.56 |