Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 13
Competitors	31 from 12 nations
Winning time	74.75
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men

The Women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

World record holder Catriona Le May Doan retained her Olympic title by beating four-time World Sprint Champion Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt.

Records

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

500 meters (1 race)

World record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	37.22	Calgary, Canada	9 December 2001	^[1]
Olympic record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	38.21	Nagano, Japan	14 February 1998	^[1]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date^[1]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
14 February	Race 1	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	37.77	OR
14 February	Race 1	Catriona Le May Doan	Canada	37.30	OR

Rank	Name	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Difference
	Catriona Le May Doan	Canada	37.30 OR	37.45	74.75	-
	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	37.34	37.60	74.94	+0.19
	Sabine Völker	Germany	37.62	37.57	75.19	+0.44
4	Andrea Nuyt	Netherlands	37.54	37.83	75.37	+0.62
5	Anzhelika Kotyuga	Belarus	37.73	37.66	75.39	+0.64
6	Tomomi Okazaki	Japan	37.77	37.87	75.64	+0.89
7	Svetlana Zhurova	Russia	37.55	38.09	75.64	+0.89
8	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	38.30	37.87	76.17	+1.42
9	Yukari Watanabe	Japan	37.98	38.22	76.20	+1.45
10	Svetlana Kaykan	Russia	38.05	38.26	76.31	+1.56
11	Eriko Sanimya	Japan	38.25	38.12	76.37	+1.62
12	Sayuri Osuga	Japan	37.82	38.60	76.42	+1.67
13	Wang Manli	China	38.20	38.42	76.62	+1.87
14	Chris Witty	United States	38.37	38.36	76.73	+1.98
15	Jenny Wolf	Germany	38.36	38.37	76.73	+1.98
16	Chiara Simionato	Italy	38.45	38.47	76.92	+2.17
17	Marieke Wijsman	Netherlands	38.31	38.79	77.10	+2.35
18	Choi Seung-Yong	23x15px South Korea	38.31	38.83	77.14	+2.39
19	Marion Wohlrab	Germany	38.66	38.71	77.37	+2.62
20	Becky Sundstrom	United States	38.89	38.71	77.60	+2.85
21	Susan Auch	Canada	38.84	38.76	77.60	+2.85
22	Elli Ochowicz	United States	38.85	38.86	77.71	+2.96
23	Jin Hua	China	39.06	39.20	78.26	+3.51
24	Yang Chunyuan	China	39.56	39.07	78.63	+3.88
25	Cho Seon-Yeon	23x15px South Korea	39.31	39.48	78.79	+4.04
26	Emese Hunyady	Austria	39.38	39.51	78.89	+4.14
27	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	39.47	39.81	79.28	+4.53
28	Svetlana Radkevich	Belarus	39.84	39.61	79.45	+4.70
29	Lee Yong-Joo	23x15px South Korea	39.72	40.06	79.78	+5.03
30	Xing Aihua	China	104.62	39.74	144.36	+69.61
-	Amy Sannes	United States	38.86	DNF	DNF	-