Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for short track
Venue	Torino Palavela
Dates	February 18
Competitors	30 from 19 nations
Medalists
Jin Sun-yu   South Korea   Choi Eun-kyung   South Korea   Wang Meng   China

Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m relay				women
5000 m relay		men

The women's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February at the Torino Palavela.

Records

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

World record	Jung Eun-ju (KOR)	2:18.861	Beijing, China	11 January 2004
Olympic record	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:21.069	Salt Lake City, United States	13 February 2002

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

Results

Heats

There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers advancing to the semifinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Wang Meng (CHN)	2:41.384	Q
2	Byun Chun-sa (KOR)	2:41.411	Q
3	Katia Zini (ITA)	2:41.561	Q
4	Rozsa Darazs (HUN)	2:42.256
5	Aika Klein (GER)	2:41.380

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Allison Baver (USA)	2:41.384	Q
2	Amanda Overland (CAN)	2:27.666	Q
3	Liesbeth Mau Asam (NED)	2:28.910	Q
4	Ikue Teshigawara (JPN)	2:30.977
5	Julia Elsakova (BLR)	2:33.564

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	2:37.754	Q
2	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:37.862	Q
3	Yuka Kamino (JPN)	2:37.865
4	Myrtille Gollin (FRA)	2:38.442
5	Emily Rosemond (AUS)	2:40.171

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	2:27.155	Q
2	Hyo-jung Kim (USA)	2:27.460	Q
3	Tatiana Borodulina (RUS)	2:27.757
4	Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (CAN)	2:28.001
5	Han Yueshuang (HKG)	2:36.233

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Jin Sun-yu (KOR)	2:29.731	Q
2	Marta Capurso (ITA)	2:31.053	Q
3	Kateřina Novotná (CZE)	2:31.367	Q
4	Katalin Kristo (ROU)	2:31.705
5	Evita Krievane (LAT)	2:36.233

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Stéphanie Bouvier (FRA)	2:35.410	Q
2	Erika Huszar (HUN)	2:35.920	Q
3	Sarah Lindsay (GBR)	2:38.460	Q
4	Yvonne Kunze (GER)	2:48.009
5	Cheng Xiaolei (CHN)	2:50.017

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final. Tatiana Borodulina finished fifth in her semifinal, but was advanced due to interference from Stéphanie Bouvier.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Jin Sun-yu (KOR)	2:31.747	QA
2	Erika Huszar (HUN)	2:32.504	QA
3	Hyo-jung Kim (USA)	2:32.527	QB
4	Yuka Kamino (JPN)	2:44.05 7	QB
5	Tatiana Borodulina (RUS)	2:45.897	ADV
–	Stéphanie Bouvier (FRA)	DQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:22.776	QA
2	Amanda Overland (CAN)	2:22.946	QA
3	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	2:23.048	QB
4	Katia Zini (ITA)	2:23.141	QB
5	Allison Baver (USA)	2:23.490
6	Liesbeth Mau Asam (NED)	2:26.370

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Byun Chun-sa (KOR)	2:26.915	QA
2	Wang Meng (CHN)	2:27.095	QA
3	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	2:27.145	QB
4	Marta Capurso (ITA)	2:27.291	QB
5	Kateřina Novotná (CZE)	2:27.395
6	Sarah Lindsay (GBR)	2:29.173

Finals

The largest short-track race of the Games, with seven women entered, saw two of the skaters disqualified. The most notable of these was Byun Chun-sa, who originally finished third. She was adjudged to have interfered with Wang Meng. Wang, who was originally fourth, moved into the bronze medal position after Byun's disqualification.^[1][2]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
01 !	Jin Sun-yu (KOR)	2:23.494
02 !	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:24.069
03 !	Wang Meng (CHN)	2:24.469
4	Erika Huszar (HUN)	2:25.405
5	Amanda Overland (CAN)	2:26.495
–	Byun Chun-sa (KOR)	DQ
–	Tatiana Borodulina (RUS)	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
6	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	2:29.314
7	Yuka Kamino (JPN)	2:29.540
8	Hyo-jung Kim (USA)	2:29.978
9	Marta Capurso (ITA)	2:30.054
10	Katia Zini (ITA)	2:30.164
11	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	2:32.097

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