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	18 February
Competitors	30 from 19 nations
Medalists
Jin Sun-yu  South Korea Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea Wang Meng  China
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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
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The women's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February at the Torino Palavela.^[1]

Records[edit]

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	[2]
Olympic record	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:21.069	Salt Lake City, United States	13 February 2002	[2]

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

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers advancing to the semifinals.^[2]

Heat	Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	1	Wang Meng	China	2:41.384	Q
1	2	Byun Chun-sa	South Korea	2:41.411	Q
1	3	Katia Zini	Italy	2:41.561	Q
1	4	Rozsa Darazs	Hungary	2:42.256
1	5	Aika Klein	Germany	2:41.380
2	1	Allison Baver	United States	2:41.384	Q
2	2	Amanda Overland	Canada	2:27.666	Q
2	3	Liesbeth Mau Asam	Netherlands	2:28.910	Q
2	4	Ikue Teshigawara	Japan	2:30.977
2	5	Julia Elsakova	Belarus	2:33.564
3	1	Yang Yang (A)	China	2:37.754	Q
3	2	Choi Eun-kyung	South Korea	2:37.862	Q
3	3	Yuka Kamino	Japan	2:37.865
3	4	Myrtille Gollin	France	2:38.442
3	5	Emily Rosemond	Australia	2:40.171
4	1	Evgenia Radanova	Bulgaria	2:27.155	Q
4	2	Hyo-jung Kim	United States	2:27.460	Q
4	3	Tatiana Borodulina	Russia	2:27.757
4	4	Anouk Leblanc-Boucher	Canada	2:28.001
4	5	Han Yueshuang	Hong Kong	2:36.233
5	1	Jin Sun-yu	South Korea	2:29.731	Q
5	2	Marta Capurso	Italy	2:31.053	Q
5	3	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	2:31.367	Q
5	4	Katalin Kristo	Romania	2:31.705
5	5	Evita Krievāne	Latvia	2:36.233
6	1	Stéphanie Bouvier	France	2:35.410	Q
6	2	Erika Huszar	Hungary	2:35.920	Q
6	3	Sarah Lindsay	Great Britain	2:38.460	Q
6	4	Yvonne Kunze	Germany	2:48.009
6	5	Cheng Xiaolei	China	2:50.017

Semifinals[edit]

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.^[2]

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[edit]

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.^[2][3]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
	Jin Sun-yu (KOR)	2:23.494
	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:24.069
	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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