The Women's 3000 m speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah

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, United States

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Claudia Pechstein

Claudia Pechstein

Claudia Pechstein is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time...

 won the gold medal at the distance after winning two bronzes and a silver medal in previous Olympics. Favorite Anni Friesinger

Anni Friesinger

Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...

 finishes fourth, while all medalists break the former world record.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
10 February	Pair 6	Emese Hunyady Emese Hunyady Emese Hunyady is a former speed skater.At age 10, Hunyady participated at the 1977 Hungarian Sprint Championships for Juniors, finishing sixth. Representing Hungary, she had her first international competition in 1979 and in the following years, although still a junior, she entered several senior...		4:06.55	OR
10 February	Pair 10	Kristina Groves Kristina Groves Kristina Groves is a Canadian speedskater. She is Canada’s most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: She won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit....		4:06.44	OR
10 February	Pair 13	Anni Friesinger Anni Friesinger Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...		3:59.39	OR
10 February	Pair 15	Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time...		3:57.70	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time Behind	Notes
	15	Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time...		3:57.70	-
	16	Renate Groenewold Renate Groenewold Renate Groenewold is a Dutch long track speed skater and road bicycle racer.Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships....		3:58.94	+1.24
	15	Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen, OM is a Canadian long track speed skater. Klassen is a six-time medalist at the Winter Olympics. She is tied with Clara Hughes for Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian with 6 medals each...		3:58.97	+1.27
4	13	Anni Friesinger Anni Friesinger Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...		3:59.39	+1.69
5	14	Tonny de Jong Tonny de Jong Tonny de Jong is a former speed skater who was raised in Heerenveen and now lives in Calgary with Canadian speed skater Mark Knoll, whom she married in 2003....		4:00.49	+2.79
6	14	Maki Tabata Maki Tabata Maki Tabata is a speed skater.Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year , she won silver on the 1,500 m and bronze on the 5,000 m...		4:03.63	+5.93
7	13	Jennifer Rodriguez Jennifer Rodriguez Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993...		4:04.99	+7.29
8	10	Kristina Groves Kristina Groves Kristina Groves is a Canadian speedskater. She is Canada’s most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: She won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit....		4:06.44	+8.74
9	6	Emese Hunyady Emese Hunyady Emese Hunyady is a former speed skater.At age 10, Hunyady participated at the 1977 Hungarian Sprint Championships for Juniors, finishing sixth. Representing Hungary, she had her first international competition in 1979 and in the following years, although still a junior, she entered several senior...		4:06.55	+8.85
10	7	Clara Hughes Clara Hughes Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics...		4:06.57	+8.87
11	10	Gretha Smit Gretha Smit Gretha Smit is a Dutch speed skater.Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein...		4:07.41	+9.71
12	7	Daniela Anschütz		4:07.55	+9.85
13	8	Catherine Raney Catherine Raney Catherine Raney-Norman is an Olympic speed skater from Elm Grove, Wisconsin who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics. She has won the U.S. Allround Championship three times in 1999, 2002 and 2003. Raney also made the US team for the 2010 Winter...		4:07.59	+9.89
14	9	Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva Varvara Barysheva is a Russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-References:*...		4:08.02	+10.32
15	16	Tatyana Trapeznikova		4:08.49	+10.79
16	5	Lyudmila Prokasheva Lyudmila Prokasheva Lyudmila Prokasheva is a former speed skater. Representing Kazakhstan, she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 1998 5000 metres. In 1995, she won a silver medal in the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women.-External links:*...		4:09.74	+12.04
17	12	Valentina Yakshina		4:11.48	+13.78
18	11	Nami Nemoto		4:11.92	+14.22
19	12	Eriko Seo		4:12.33	+14.63
20	9	Gao Yang		4:12.39	+14.69
21	13	Annie Driscoll		4:15.61	+17.91
22	13	Nicola Mayr		4:15.79	+18.09
23	13	Zhang Xiaolei		4:16.53	+18.83
24	13	Andrea Jakab		4:17.03	+19.33
25	13	Bak Eun-Bi		4:18.15	+20.45
26	13	Katarzyna Wojcicka		4:19.10	+21.40
27	13	Marina Pupina		4:20.04	+22.34
28	13	Anzhelika Gavrilova		4:20.36	+22.66
29	13	Daniela Oltean Daniela Oltean Daniela Oltean is a Romanian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.-Personal records:-Career highlights:Olympic Winter Games...		4:21.73	+24.03
30	13	Ilonda Luse		4:23.13	+25.43
31	13	Yelena Myagkikh Yelena Myagkikh Olena Vasylivna Myahkikh is a Ukrainian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.-Personal records:-Career highlights:Olympic Winter Games...		4:24.64	+26.94
32	13	Svetlana Chepelnikova		4:24.96	+27.26