Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	16 February
Competitors	29 from 17 nations
Winning time	44.187
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

The women's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Evgeniya Radanova (BUL)	43.671	Calgary, Canada	19 October 2001
Olympic record	Isabelle Charest (CAN)	44.991	Nagano, Japan	19 February 1998

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
16 February	Heat 3	Wang Chunlu (CHN)	44.723	OR
16 February	Semifinal 1	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	44.118	OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 16 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	China	45.042	Q
2	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	Bulgaria	45.916	Q
3	Katalin Kristo	Romania	46.956

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Joo Min-jin	South Korea	45.547	Q
2	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	45.717	Q
3	Cordia Tsoi	Hong Kong	52.496

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Chunlu	China	44.723	Q OR
2	Isabelle Charest	Canada	44.964	Q
3	Nataliya Dmitriyeva	Russia	46.574
4	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	47.122

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marta Capurso	Italy	46.313	Q
2	Olga Danilov	Israel	46.422	Q
3	Jo Williams	Great Britain	46.631
4	Marianna Nagy	Hungary	46.980

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Alanna Kraus	Canada	45.101	Q
2	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	45.195	Q
3	Susanne Rudolph	Germany	45.288

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	45.193	Q
2	Amy Peterson	United States	45.448	Q
3	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	46.180
4	Szandra Lajtos	Hungary	48.488

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	45.461	Q
2	Mara Zini	Italy	45.556	Q
3	Yuliya Pavlovich-Yelsakova	Belarus	47.273
4	Christy Ren	Hong Kong	55.423

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	45.395	Q
2	Caroline Hallisey	United States	45.535	Q
3	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	45.723
4	Yuka Kamino	Japan	45.933

Quarterfinals

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[2] Canada's Isabelle Charest was advanced to the semifinals, with Japan's Chikage Tanaka disqualified.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Chunlu	China	44.739	Q
2	Caroline Hallisey	United States	44.826	Q
3	Marta Capurso	Italy	45.137
4	Olga Danilov	Israel	46.695

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	China	44.810	Q
2	Joo Min-jin	South Korea	44.992	Q
3	Amy Peterson	United States	46.120
4	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	Bulgaria	46.422

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	44.780	Q
2	Alanna Kraus	Canada	44.863	Q
3	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	44.912
4	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	46.465

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	44.846	Q
2	Mara Zini	Italy	44.876	Q
3	Isabelle Charest	Canada	45.011	ADV
–	Chikage Tanaka	Japan	DSQ

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[2] In the first semifinal, a dead heat for second place, between Canada's Isabelle Charest and Caroline Hallisey of the United States, meant that both advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A)	China	44.118	QA OR
2	Isabelle Charest	Canada	44.307	QA
2	Caroline Hallisey	United States	44.307	QA
4	Mara Zini	Italy	44.531	QB
5	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	44.647	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	44.686	QA
2	Wang Chunlu	China	44.734	QA
3	Alanna Kraus	Canada	44.776	QB
4	Joo Min-jin	South Korea	68.184	QB

Finals

The five qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four other raced for 6th place in Final B.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Yang Yang (A)	China	44.187
	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	44.252
	Wang Chunlu	China	44.272
4	Isabelle Charest	Canada	44.662
5	Caroline Hallisey	United States	44.679

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
6	Alanna Kraus	Canada	44.930
7	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	45.383
8	Mara Zini	Italy	45.494
9	Joo Min-jin	South Korea	46.893

References

^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.

[SR-1] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.

[OfficialReport-2] "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.

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