The women's 1500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 11 March at the Sheffield Arena.

Results

Quarterfinals

Top 2 athletes from each heat and the next 2 fastest riders qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Li Jianrou 2:26.832 Q 2Park Seung-Hi 2:26.940 Q 3 2:27.338 q 4Vera Antanenka 2:30.404 5Yesl Jung 2:30.454

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Fan Kexin 2:33.760 Q 2Olga Belyakova 2:34.489 Q 3Wang Xinyue 2:34.797 4Ainara Equisoain 2:45.064 5Ottilia Sillo 2:50.436 –Martina Valcepina PEN

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Yang Shin-young 2:30.598 Q 2Bernadett Heidum 2:30.911 Q 3 2:32.279 4Alex Whelbourne 2:33.002 5Olena Pashchenko 2:41.118

Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Marie-Ève Drolet 2:33.542 Q 2Nina Yevteyeva 2:33.593 Q 3 2:33.694 4Yui Sakai 2:34.074 5Safiya Vlasova 2:39.008 6Chung Hsiao-Ying 2:41.946

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Arianna Fontana 2:29.488 Q 2 2:29.603 Q 3Lana Gehring 2:29.713 4Bianca Walter 2:34.606 5Tuende Balázs 2:35.190 6Garazi Ganuza 2:56.905

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Liu Qiuhong 2:31.316 Q 2Annita van Doorn 2:31.395 Q 3Szandra Lajtos 2:31.546 4 2:32.240 5Tatiana Bodova 2:37.402

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Cho Ha-Ri 2:31.750 Q 2 2:31.819 Q 3Biba Sakurai 2:31.976 4Julia Riedel 2:33.661 5Raya Zaharieva 2:36.481

Heat 8 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Katherine Reutter 2:24.195 Q 2Elise Christie 2:24.702 Q 3Jorien ter Mors 2:26.807 q 4 2:30.619 5Volha Talayeva 2:31.183

Semifinals

Top 2 athletes from each heat qualified for the final.

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Yang Shin-young 2:33.297 Q 2Arianna Fontana 2:33.402 Q 3Nina Yevteyeva 2:33.762 4Fan Kexin 2:33.974 5Kateřina Novotná 2:34.080 6 2:34.206

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 2:26.656 Q 2Park Seung-Hi 2:26.719 Q 3Marie-Ève Drolet 2:26.880 4Annita van Doorn 2:26.952 5Liu Qiuhong 2:27.155 6Olga Belyakova 2:28.644

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1Cho Ha-Ri 2:29.349 Q 2Li Jianrou 2:29.435 Q 3Elise Christie 2:29.521 4Jessica Hewitt 2:29.738 5 2:32.129 6Jorien ter Mors 2:32.129

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time NotesKatherine Reutter 2:33.978 Park Seung-Hi 2:34.218 Cho Ha-Ri 2:34.336 4Arianna Fontana 2:34.424 5Li Jianrou 2:34.486 6Yang Shin-young 2:35.418

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