The women's 1000 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands won the event, improving on her silver in 2022. Her teammate Femke Kok won the silver medal, which was her first Olympic medal. Miho Takagi, the defending champion, won bronze.
Background All the 2022 medalists, the champion Miho Takagi, the silver medalist Jutta Leerdam, and the bronze medalist Brittany Bowe, qualified for the Olympics. Before the Olympics, Femke Kok was leading the 1000m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Takagi was the 1000m 2025 world champion.
Summary Skating in pair 1, Suzanne Schulting remained the leader until pair 11, when Erin Jackson improved her time. In pair 13, Kok skated faster than the Olympic record, and Bowe finished in provisional silver medal position. In pair 15, the last one, Leerdam beat Kok's time, thus setting the new Olympic record. Takagi in the same pair finished third, moving Bowe off the podium.
Qualification
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
A new Olympic record was set twice during the competition; the previous record was set four years earlier and was broken by 0.88 seconds; the top two finishers were under the previous record.
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record9 FebruaryPair 13Femke Kok1:12.59OR Pair 15 Jutta Leerdam 1:12.31 OR, TR
Results Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 15 O Jutta Leerdam 1:12.31 OR 13 O Femke Kok 1:12.59 +0.28 15 I Miho Takagi 1:13.95 +1.64 4 13 I Brittany Bowe 1:14.55 +2.24 5 14 O Béatrice Lamarche 1:14.73 +2.42 6 11 I Erin Jackson 1:15.00 +2.69 7 14 I Rio Yamada 1:15.16 +2.85 8 1 O Suzanne Schulting 1:15.47 +3.15 9 12 O Lee Na-hyun 1:15.76 +3.45 10 8 O Nikola Zdráhalová 1:15.830 +3.52 11 12 I Ellia Smeding 1:15.834 +3.52 12 10 O Yin Qi 1:15.87 +3.56 13 9 I Han Mei 1:15.97 +3.66 14 9 O Nadezhda Morozova 1:16.00 +3.69 15 6 I Natalia Czerwonka 1:16.09 +3.78 16 8 I Yukino Yoshida 1:16.11 +3.80 17 4 I Kaitlyn McGregor 1:16.17 +3.85 18 11 O Kim Min-sun 1:16.24 +3.93 19 7 I Elizaveta Golubeva 1:16.40 +4.09 20 7 O Isabelle van Elst 1:16.68 +4.37 21 6 O Anna Ostlender 1:16.83 +4.52 22 10 I Karolina Bosiek 1:16.88 +4.57 23 2 I Fran Vanhoutte 1:16.93 +4.62 24 5 I Vanessa Herzog 1:16.99 +4.68 25 1 I Maybritt Vigl 1:17.151 +4.84 26 2 O Carolina Hiller-Donnelly 1:17.156 +4.84 27 3 O Rose Laliberté-Roy 1:17.50 +5.19 28 4 O Kristina Silaeva 1:17.57 +5.26 29 5 O Tian Ruining 1:17.87 +5.56 30 3 I Jeannine Rosner 1:18.41 +6.10
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