The women's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 19 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Difference 3 I Bonnie Blair 39.25 - 6 I Susan Auch 39.61 +0.36 2 I Franziska Schenk 39.70 +0.45 4 1 O Xue Ruihong 39.71 +0.46 5 5 I Yoo Seon-Hee 39.92 +0.67 6 3 O Monique Garbrecht 39.95 +0.70 7 8 I Svetlana Zhurova 40.17 +0.92 8 10 I Edel Therese Høiseth 40.20 +0.95 9 14 I Jin Hua 40.23 +0.98 10 5 O Kyoko Shimazaki 40.26 +1.01 11 7 I Yang Chunyuan 40.37 +1.12 12 1 I Angela Stahnke 40.38 +1.13 13 6 O Ye Qiaobo 40.42 +1.17 14 11 I Tomomi Okazaki 40.55 +1.31 15 4 I Anke Baier 40.59 +1.34 16 14 O Michelle Morton 40.71 +1.46 17 9 O Oksana Ravilova 40.72 +1.47 18 4 O Shiho Kusunose 40.94 +1.69 19 12 I Christine Aaftink 41.01 +1.7620 15 O Kristen Talbot 41.05 +1.80 16 I Svetlana Fedotkina 41.05 +1.80 22 17 O Nataliya Polozkova 41.06 +1.8123 9 I Mihaela Dascălu 41.13 +1.88 11 O Peggy Clasen 41.13 +1.88 25 8 I Mayumi Yamamoto 41.20 +1.95 26 17 I Linda Johnson-Blair 41.42 +2.17 27 7 O Emese Dörfler-Antal 41.59 +2.34 28 16 O Gang Mi-yeong 41.96 +2.71 29 10 O Cerasela Hordobețiu 42.15 +2.90 30 15 I Krisztina Egyed 42.29 +3.04 31 13 I Jeong Bae-yeong 42.63 +3.38 32 12 O Cheon Hui-ju 43.05 +3.80 33 2 O Catriona Le May Doan 59.75 +20.50 - 13 O Michelle Kline DQ
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