The women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

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

500 meters (1 race)

500 meters x 2 (2 races)

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

The race was held on 14 February 2006. 34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother and completed in her fourth Olympics after returning to the sport in 2004, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Skaters from Asia occupied seven of the top nine places.

PlaceAthlete Country Race 1 Race 2 Total Time Difference Svetlana Zhurova 38.23 (1) 38.34 (2) 76.57 -- Wang Manli 38.31 (2) 38.47 (5) 76.78 +0.21 Ren Hui 38.60 (4) 38.27 (1) 76.87 +0.30 4 Tomomi Okazaki 38.46 (3) 38.46 (4) 76.92 +0.35 5 Lee Sang-hwa 38.69 (6) 38.35 (3) 77.04 +0.47 6 Jenny Wolf 38.70 (7) 38.55 (6) 77.25 +0.68 7 Wang Beixing 38.71 (8) 38.56 (7) 77.27 +0.70 8 Sayuri Osuga 38.74 (9) 38.65 (8) 77.39 +0.82 9 Sayuri Yoshii 38.68 (5) 38.75 (11) 77.43 +0.86 10 Chiara Simionato 39.02 (11) 38.66 (9) 77.68 +1.11 11 Jennifer Rodriguez 38.97 (10) 38.73 (10) 77.70 +1.13 12 Annette Gerritsen 39.12 (12) 38.97 (12) 78.09 +1.52 13 Xing Aihua 39.20 (13) 39.15 (13) 78.35 +1.78 14 Sanne van der Star 39.26 (14) 39.33 (15) 78.59 +2.02 15 Yukari Watanabe 39.46 (17) 39.19 (14) 78.65 +2.08 16 Shannon Rempel 39.42 (=15) 39.43 (19) 78.85 +2.28 17 Amy Sannes 39.42 (=15) 39.47 (20) 78.89 +2.32 18 Choi Seung-yong 39.65 (21) 39.37 (16) 79.02 +2.45 19 Judith Hesse 39.64 (20) 39.39 (17) 79.03 +2.46 20 Kim You-Lim 39.57 (18) 39.68 (24) 79.25 +2.68 21 Kerry Simpson 39.69 (22) 39.65 (=22) 79.34 +2.77 22 Krisy Myers 39.83 (=23) 39.60 (21) 79.43 +2.86 23 Elli Ochowicz 39.83 (=23) 39.65 (=22) 79.48 +2.91 24 Pamela Zoellner 40.16 (27) 39.40 (18) 79.56 +2.99 25 Lee Bo-ra 40.01 (=25) 39.72 (25) 79.73 +3.16 26 Kim Weger 40.01 (=25) 39.98 (27) 79.99 +3.42 27 Svetlana Radkevich 40.45 (29) 39.91 (26) 80.36 +3.79 28 Chris Witty 40.23 (28) 40.46 (28) 80.69 +4.12 29 Yulia Nemaya 39.63 (19) 72.76 (29) 112.39 +35.82 30 Marianne Timmer DQ DQ

References

External links Women's 500m - Final - Simple Results, from NBCOlympics.com, retrieved 13 February 2006.