Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres; at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	February 9
Competitors	32 from 15 nations
Winning time	2:03.42
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on February 9, at the Zetra Ice Rink.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Nataliya Petrusyova (URS)	2:04.04	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	25 March 1983
Olympic record	Annie Borckink (NED)	2:10.95	Lake Placid, United States	14 February 1980

The following new world record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
9 February	Karin Enke (GDR)	2:03.42	OR	WR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Karin Enke	East Germany	2:03.42	WR
	Andrea Schöne	East Germany	2:05.29
	Nataliya Petrusyova	Soviet Union	2:05.78
4	Gabi Zange	East Germany	2:07.69
5	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	2:08.08
6	Valentina Lalenkova	Soviet Union	2:08.17
7	Nataliya Kurova	Soviet Union	2:08.41
8	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Norway	2:09.53
9	Thea Limbach	Netherlands	2:10.35
10	Sigrid Smuda	West Germany	2:10.55
11	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	2:10.61
12	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	Sweden	2:10.80
13	Ria Visser	Netherlands	2:11.06
14	Mary Docter	United States	2:12.14
15	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	2:12.56
16	Silvia Brunner	Switzerland	2:12.62
17	Jane Goldman	United States	2:12.94
18	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	2:13.74
19	Pak Gum-Hyon	23x15px North Korea	2:14.23
20	Han Chun-Ok	23x15px North Korea	2:14.25
21	Natalie Grenier	Canada	2:14.72
22	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	2:15.50
23	Wang Guifang	China	2:16.19
24	Wang Xiuli	China	2:16.68
25	Kim Chang-Hae	23x15px North Korea	2:17.37
26	Choi Seung-Youn	23x15px South Korea	2:17.80
27	Lee Kyung-Ja	23x15px South Korea	2:17.96
28	Lee Yeon-Ju	23x15px South Korea	2:18.34
29	Kong Meiyu	China	2:19.56
30	Lilianna Morawiec	Poland	2:39.37
31	Dubravka Vukušić	Yugoslavia	2:42.12
32	Bibija Kerla	Yugoslavia	2:46.32