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Women's 3000 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Ireen Wüst
VenueAdler Arena Skating Center
Date9 February 2014
Competitors28 from 13 nations
Winning time4:00.34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ireen Wüst  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Olga Graf  Russia
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The women's 3000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 9 February 2014 at 15:30 MSK. The competition was won by Ireen Wüst from the Netherlands, who previously won the same distance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Martina Sáblíková from the Czech Republic, the defending champion, finished second, while Olga Graf won the bronze medal.

The race featured three Olympic Champions at this distance: Sáblíková of 2010, Wüst of 2006, and Claudia Pechstein of 2002. Pechstein, also the Olympic record holder, finished fourth. Stephanie Beckert, the silver medalist of the 2010 Winter Olympics, finished 17th.

Kim Bo-reum in the third pair took an early lead, and her result was subsequently improved by Yuliya Skokova in the 6th pair, Annouk van der Weijden in the 8th pair, and Olga Graf in the 10th pair. Pechstein in the 11th pair was racing better than the Graf's pace for most of the distance, but in the end lost to the Graf's time. In the next two pairs, first Sáblíková and then Wüst took the lead, each of them beating a track record, pushing Pechstein out of the medals. In the last pair, Antoinette de Jong finished seventh, leaving Graf as a surprise medal winner and the first medal winner for Russia at the 2014 Olympics. None of the athletes posted time better than 4 minutes.

Qualification

A total of twenty-eight speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of three skaters per country. The top 16 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 3000 and 5000 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 12 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup 3000 metres. A reserve list was also made.

Records

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

World record  Cindy Klassen (CAN) 3:53.34 Calgary, Canada 18 March 2006
Olympic record  Claudia Pechstein (GER) 3:57.70 Salt Lake City, United States 20 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Ireen Wüst at 4:02.43.

The following records were set during this competition.

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
9 February Pair 13 Ireen Wüst  Netherlands 4:00.34 TR
9 February Pair 12 Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic 4:01.94 TR

TR = track record

Results

The races were started at 15:30.

Ireen Wüst
Martina Sáblíková
Olga Graf
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 13 I Ireen Wüst  Netherlands 4:00.34 — TR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 12 I Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic 4:01.94 +1.61 TR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10 I Olga Graf  Russia 4:03.47 +3.13
4 11 I Claudia Pechstein  Germany 4:05.26 +4.92
5 8 I Annouk van der Weijden  Netherlands 4:05.75 +5.41
6 11 O Ida Njåtun  Norway 4:06.73 +6.39
7 14 O Antoinette de Jong  Netherlands 4:06.77 +6.43
8 6 I Yuliya Skokova  Russia 4:09.35 +9.02
9 13 O Shiho Ishizawa  Japan 4:09.39 +9.05
10 10 O Jilleanne Rookard  United States 4:10.01 +9.68
11 8 O Bente Kraus  Germany 4:10.16 +9.83
12 9 I Jelena Peeters  Belgium 4:10.87 +10.53
13 3 O Kim Bo-reum  South Korea 4:12.08 +11.74
14 5 I Mari Hemmer  Norway 4:12.21 +11.87
15 1 I Shoko Fujimura  Japan 4:12.71 +12.37
16 9 O Natalia Czerwonka  Poland 4:13.26 +12.92
17 4 O Stephanie Beckert  Germany 4:13.54 +13.21
18 7 I Luiza Złotkowska  Poland 4:14.18 +13.85
19 7 O Brittany Schussler  Canada 4:14.65 +14.31
20 1 O Yekaterina Shikhova  Russia 4:14.97 +14.63
21 14 I Masako Hozumi  Japan 4:15.52 +15.18
22 2 I Anna Rokita  Austria 4:16.43 +16.09
23 4 I Francesca Lollobrigida  Italy 4:16.51 +16.18
24 3 I Ivanie Blondin  Canada 4:18.69 +18.36
25 5 O Noh Seon-yeong  South Korea 4:19.02 +18.68
26 2 O Anna Ringsred  United States 4:21.51 +21.17
27 6 O Yang Shin-young  South Korea 4:23.67 +23.33
12 O Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś  Poland DQ

TR = track record, DQ = disqualified

References

  1. "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Ladies' 3000 m". SOOC. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  2. "Sochi 2014: Winter Olympics day two – as it happened". The Guardian. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  3. Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of December 9, 2013 Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  5. Final Results
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