Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Women's 3000 metres; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	February 11
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:07.29 OR
Medalists
	← 1994 2002 →

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 11 February, at the M-Wave.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3]^[4]

World record	Claudia Pechstein (GER)	4:07.13	Hamar, Norway	13 December 1997
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	4:11.94	Calgary, Canada	23 February 1988

The following new World and Olympic records was set during this competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR
11 February	Pair 11	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	4:11.64	OR
11 February	Pair 12	Anni Friesinger	Germany	4:09.44	OR
11 February	Pair 13	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	4:08.47	OR
11 February	Pair 15	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	4:07.29	OR

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	15	O	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	4:07.29	-	OR
	13	O	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	4:08.47	+1.18
	12	O	Anni Friesinger	Germany	4:09.44	+2.15
4	11	O	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	4:11.64	+4.35
5	13	I	Emese Hunyady	Austria	4:12.01	+4.72
6	15	I	Kirstin Holum	United States	4:12.24	+4.95
7	9	O	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	4:14.23	+6.94
8	10	I	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	4:14.38	+7.09
9	16	I	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	4:16.43	+9.14
10	16	O	Svetlana Bazhanova	Russia	4:16.45	+9.16
11	14	I	Elena Belci	Italy	4:16.62	+9.33
12	5	I	Svetlana Vysokova	Russia	4:17.70	+10.41
13	9	I	Tatyana Trapeznikova	Russia	4:17.76	+10.47
14	10	O	Mie Uehara	Japan	4:17.92	+10.63
15	12	I	Anette Tønsberg	Norway	4:19.24	+11.95
16	14	O	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	4:19.54	+12.25
17	6	I	Chiharu Nozaki	Japan	4:19.60	+12.31
18	11	I	Noriko Munekata	Japan	4:20.72	+13.43
19	7	I	Cindy Overland	Canada	4:20.81	+13.52
20	5	O	Lee Gyeong-nam	South Korea	4:21.10	+13.81
21	6	O	Susan Massitti	Canada	4:21.66	+14.37
22	2	O	Catherine Raney-Norman	United States	4:22.55	+15.26
23	7	O	Baeg Eun-bi	South Korea	4:24.50	+17.21
24	8	O	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	4:26.65	+19.36
25	8	I	Ingrid Liepa	Canada	4:27.99	+ 20.70
26	4	O	Song Li	China	4:28.99	+ 21.70
27	3	O	Emese Dörfler-Antal	Austria	4:33.67	+26.38
28	1	I	Ilonda Lūse	Latvia	4:33.77	+26.48
29	4	I	Svetlana Chepelnikova	Belarus	4:36.97	+29.68
30	2	I	Svitlana Konstantynova	Ukraine	4:37.27	+29.98
31	3	I	Kenzhesh Sarsekenova-Orynbayeva	Kazakhstan	4:42.07	+34.78

^ ^a ^b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
^ "Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
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