Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres
at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Women's 1500 metres; at the XV Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	February 27
Competitors	28 from 13 nations
Winning time	2:00.68
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on February 27, at the Olympic Oval.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3]^[4]

World record	Karin Kania (GDR)	1:59.30	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	22 March 1986
Olympic record	Karin Kania (GDR)	2:03.42	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia	9 February 1984

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

Date	Athlete	Country	Time	OR
27 February	Andrea Ehrig	East Germany	2:01.49	OR
27 February	Karin Kania	East Germany	2:00.82	OR
27 February	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	2:00.68	OR

Constanze Moser-Scandolo was about to start for the East German team when she had to pull out due to injury; she won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in the following year.^[5]

The following are the results of the competitors:^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	2:00.68	–	OR
	Karin Kania	East Germany	2:00.82	+0.14
	Andrea Ehrig	East Germany	2:01.49	+0.81
4	Bonnie Blair	United States	2:04.02	+3.34
5	Yelena Lapuga	Soviet Union	2:04.24	+3.56
6	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	2:04.38	+3.70
7	Gunda Kleeman	East Germany	2:04.68	+4.00
7	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	2:04.68	+4.00
9	Song Hwa-son	North Korea	2:05.25	+4.57
10	Leslie Bader	United States	2:05.53	+4.85
11	Natalie Grenier	Canada	2:06.80	+6.12
12	Marieke Stam	Netherlands	2:07.00	+6.32
13	Katie Class	United States	2:07.30	+6.95
14	Ariane Loignon	Canada	2:07.63	+7.03
15	Yelena Tumanova	Soviet Union	2:07.71	+7.03
16	Anja Mischke	West Germany	2:08.52	+7.84
17	Zofia Tokarczyk	Poland	2:08.54	+7.86
18	Jane Goldman	United States	2:08.72	+8.04
19	Natsue Seki	Japan	2:08.89	+8.21
20	Edel Therese Høiseth	Norway	2:09.34	+8.66
21	Chantal Côté	Canada	2:09.62	+8.94
22	Han Chun-ok	North Korea	2:09.66	+8.98
23	Caroline Maheux	Canada	2:10.83	+10.15
24	Kim Young-ok	South Korea	2:11.95	+11.27
25	Minna Nystedt	Norway	2:12.40	+11.72
26	Choi Hye-sook	South Korea	2:12.96	+12.28
27	Stéphanie Dumont	France	2:13.01	+12.33
28	Bibija Kerla	Yugoslavia	2:21.69	+21.01

^ ^a ^b "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
^ "Speed Skating at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games: Women's 1,500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
^ "1500m Speed Skating Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
^ "1500m Speed Skating Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
^ Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. pp. 393f. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.