Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

The Women's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 13 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Women's 1500 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for short track
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	13 February
Competitors	28 from 17 nations
Winning time	2:31.581
Medalists
Ko Gi-hyun  South Korea Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea Evgeniya Radanova  Bulgaria

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Kim Moon-yung (KOR)	2:21.844	Montreal, Canada	17 January 1999
Olympic record	None	None	None	None

The following new Olympic and World records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
13 February	Heat 1	Yang Yang (S) (CHN)	2:26.943	OR
13 February	Semifinal 2	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:21.069	OR	WR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were five heats, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	2:26.943	Q OR
2	Alanna Kraus	Canada	2:26.968	Q
3	Amy Peterson	United States	2:27.062	Q
4	Jo Williams	Great Britain	2:27.845
5	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	2:29.779
6	Christy Ren	Hong Kong	2:49.666

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	2:26.980	Q
2	Mara Zini	Italy	2:27.553	Q
3	Christin Priebst	Germany	2:27.649	Q
4	Katalin Kristo	Romania	2:28.709
5	Nataliya Dmitriyeva	Russia	2:29.086
6	Eva Farkas	Hungary	2:42.172

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	2:32.821	Q
2	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	2:32.970	Q
3	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	2:35.438	Q
4	Yuka Kamino	Japan	2:52.591
–	Erin Porter	United States	DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	2:29.460	Q
2	Yang Yang (A)	China	2:29.578	Q
3	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	2:29.652	Q
4	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	Bulgaria	2:33.362
5	Marianna Nagy	Hungary	2:39.615

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	2:29.202	Q
2	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	2:30.075	Q
3	Olga Danilov	Israel	2:32.458	Q
4	Yuliya Pavlovich-Yelsakova	Belarus	2:36.058
5	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	3:01.223
6	Katia Zini	Italy	3:19.248

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 13 February. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	2:31.120	QA
2	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	2:31.194	QA
3	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	2:31.570	QB
4	Christin Priebst	Germany	2:32.884	QB
5	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	2:35.085

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	2:21.069	QA WR
2	Yang Yang (A)	China	2:21.690	QA
3	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	2:21.758	QB
4	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	2:21.924	QB
5	Amy Peterson	United States	2:26.118

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	2:32.315	QA
2	Alanna Kraus	Canada	2:32.411	QA
3	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	2:32.759	QB
4	Mara Zini	Italy	2:32.899	QB
5	Olga Danilov	Israel	2:36.114

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ko Gi-hyun	South Korea	2:31.581
	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	2:31.610
	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	2:31.723
4	Yang Yang (A)	China	2:31.791
5	Alanna Kraus	Canada	3:05.002
–	Yang Yang (S)	China	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
6	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	2:31.203
7	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	2:31.479
8	Christin Priebst	Germany	2:32.442
9	Mara Zini	Italy	2:32.513
10	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	2:32.666
11	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	2:32.673