The Women's 500 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

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 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah

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, United States

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. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

World record holder Catriona Le May Doan retained her Olympic title by beating four-time World Sprint Champion

World Sprint Speed Skating Championships

The World Sprint Speed Skating Championships are annual speed skating championships. The championships are held over a two day period, with the skaters racing one 500 m and one 1,000 m each day...

 Monique Garbrecht

Monique Garbrecht

Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt . Is a former German ice speed skater. By the pass of her 15 year career she became Sprint World champion. Five times in , and in addition she won four gold medals in the World Single Distance Championships two on the 500 and two on the 1000 m...

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Records

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

500 meters (1 race)
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
14 February	Race 1	Tomomi Okazaki Tomomi Okazaki Tomomi Okazaki is a Japanese speed skater who has competed in five Olympic Games. She won a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Okazaki was the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics...		37.77	OR
14 February	Race 1	Catriona Le May Doan		37.30	OR

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Difference
	Catriona Le May Doan		37.30	37.45	74.75	-
	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt		37.34	37.60	74.94	+0.19
	Sabine Völker Sabine Völker Sabine Völker is a German former speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics, after winning three individual medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....		37.62	37.57	75.19	+0.44
4	Andrea Nuyt		37.54	37.83	75.37	+0.62
5	Anzhelika Kotyuga		37.73	37.66	75.39	+0.64
6	Tomomi Okazaki Tomomi Okazaki Tomomi Okazaki is a Japanese speed skater who has competed in five Olympic Games. She won a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Okazaki was the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics...		37.77	37.87	75.64	+0.89
7	Svetlana Zhurova Svetlana Zhurova Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova is a speed skater from Russia.Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989, took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after mothering a child. She also became...		37.55	38.09	75.64	+0.89
8	Marianne Timmer Marianne Timmer Maria Aaltje Timmer is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the middle distances . At the 1998 Winter Olympics Timmer won a gold medal in both these events.- Personal life :...		38.30	37.87	76.17	+1.42
9	Yukari Watanabe		37.98	38.22	76.20	+1.45
10	Yukari Watanabe		37.98	38.26	76.31	+1.56
11	Eriko Sanimya		38.25	38.12	76.37	+1.62
12	Sayuri Osuga Sayuri Osuga Sayuri Osuga |Shibetsu, Hokkaido]], Japan) is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games . Until 2006, she was a member of the professional Sankyoseiki speedskating team...		37.82	38.60	76.42	+1.67
13	Wang Manli Wang Manli Wang Manli is a Chinese ice speed skater who won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-References:*...		38.20	38.42	76.62	+1.87
14	Chris Witty Chris Witty Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....		38.37	38.36	76.73	+1.98
15	Jenny Wolf Jenny Wolf Jenny Wolf is a German ice speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 37.00 seconds, for the women's 500 m and, 74.42 seconds for women's 500 m x 2 in long track speed skating...		38.36	38.37	76.73	+1.98
16	Chiara Simionato Chiara Simionato Chiara Simionato is an Italian long-track speed skater who competed in 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is set compete for Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the women's 500m, 1000m, and 1500m....		38.45	38.47	76.92	+2.17
17	Marieke Wijsman Marieke Wijsman Anne Marie Louise Wijsman is a former Dutch speed skater who represented her country at two Winter Olympics and who was the first female speed skater to compete internationally on clap skates....		38.31	38.79	77.10	+2.35
18	Choi Seung-Yong Choi Seung-Yong Choi Seung-Yong is a South Korean female speed skater. She competed at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 edition of Winter Olympics. She qualified for the Olympic in 1998, in which she placed both 24th in 500 m and 1000 m. She again qualified for the Olympics in 2002, and placed 18th in the 500 m and 32nd...		38.31	38.83	77.14	+2.39
19	Marion Wohlrab		38.66	38.71	77.37	+2.62
20	Becky Sundstrom		38.89	38.71	77.60	+2.85
21	Susan Auch Susan Auch Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan...		38.84	38.76	77.60	+2.85
22	Elli Ochowicz Elli Ochowicz Elli Ochowicz is an Olympic speed skater who has competed in the three Winter Olympics.Ochowicz was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to Jim Ochowicz and Sheila Young. After beginning her training in the Milwaukee area, she moved to Salt Lake City to continue training...		38.85	38.86	77.71	+2.96
23	Jin Hua		39.06	39.20	78.26	+3.51
24	Yang Chunyuan		39.56	39.07	78.63	+3.88
25	Cho Seon-Yeon		39.31	39.48	78.79	+4.04
26	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...		39.38	39.51	78.89	+4.14
27	Krisztina Egyed		39.47	39.81	79.28	+4.53
28	Svetlana Radkevich		39.84	39.61	79.45	+4.70
29	Lee Yong-Joo		39.72	40.06	79.78	+5.03
30	Xing Aihua Xing Aihua Xing Aihua is Chinese long-track speed-skater. She is set to represent China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Women's 500m and 1000m.-References:...		104.62	39.74	144.36	+69.61
	Amy Sannes Amy Sannes Amy Sannes is an Olympic speed skater who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics.She graduated in 2004 from the University of Utah with a degree in exercise physiology....		38.86	DNF	DNF	-