The women's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Anni Friesinger came to terms with the pressure of being the favorite by skating a world record and winning the gold medal. Sabine Völker and Jennifer Rodriguez repeated their successes from the 1000 m.

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 20 February Pair 9 Varvara Barysheva 1:56.44 OR 20 February Pair 10 Chris Witty 1:55.71 OR 20 February Pair 17 Anni Friesinger 1:54.02 OR WR

Results

Rank Pair Name Country Time Behind Notes 17 Anni Friesinger 1:54.02 - WR 19 Sabine Völker 1:54.97 +0.95 20 Jennifer Rodriguez 1:55.32 +1.30 4 10 Cindy Klassen 1:55.59 +1.57 5 18 Chris Witty 1:55.71 +1.69 6 15 Claudia Pechstein 1:55.93 +1.91 7 13 Tonny de Jong 1:56.02 +2.00 8 19 Amy Sannes 1:56.29 +2.27 9 9 Maki Tabata 1:56.35 +2.33 10 9 Varvara Barysheva 1:56.44 +2.42 11 18 Annamarie Thomas 1:56.45 +2.43 12 9 Emese Hunyady 1:56.51 +2.49 13 14 Becky Sundstrom 1:57.33 +3.31 14 17 Aki Tonoike 1:57.97 +3.95 15 15 Song Li 1:58.31 +4.29 16 13 Chiara Simionato 1:58.52 +4.50 17 14 Tatyana Trapeznikova 1:59.00 +4.98 18 5 Valentina Yakshina 1:59.28 +5.26 19 3 Gao Yang 1:59.51 +5.49 20 10 Kristina Groves 1:59.54 +5.52 21 11 Marianne Timmer 1:59.60 +5.58 22 16 Marion Wohlrab 1:59.67 +5.65 23 6 Krisztina Egyed 1:59.86 +5.84 24 12 Yayoi Nagaoka 1:59.93 +5.91 25 12 Cindy Overland 2:00.02 +6.00 26 2 Katarzyna Wójcicka 2:00.59 +6.57 27 4 Nicola Mayr 2:00.73 +6.71 28 2 Zhang Xiaolei 2:01.23 +7.21 29 8 Yuri Obara 2:01.39 +7.37 29 11 Choi Yun-suk 2:01.39 +7.37 31 7 Andrea Jakab 2:02.23 +8.21 32 6 Anzhelika Gavrilova 2:03.22 +9.20 33 8 Baek Eun-bi 2:03.87 +9.85 34 1 Svetlana Chepelnikova 2:04.06 +10.04 35 4 Ilonda Luse 2:04.25 +10.23 36 3 Daniela Oltean 2:04.48 +10.46 37 7 Marina Pupina 2:05.13 +11.11 38 5 Yelena Myagkikh 2:05.32 +11.30 16 Renate Groenewold DNF -

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