Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	14 February
Competitors	30 from 10 nations
Winning time	76.57
Medalists
Svetlana Zhurova  Russia Wang Manli  China Ren Hui  China

Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men
Team pursuit		men		women

The women's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

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
Olympic record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	37.30	Salt Lake City, United States	13 February 2002

500 meters x 2 (2 races)

World record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	74.72	Salt Lake City, United States	9 March 2001
Olympic record	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	74.75	Salt Lake City, United States	14 February 2002

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

Results

The race was held on 14 February 2006. 34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, became the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. Skaters from Asia occupied seven of the top nine places

Rank	Athlete	Race 1 Time (place)	Race 2 Time (place)	Total time	Difference
1	Svetlana Zhurova (RUS)	38.23 (1)	38.34 (2)	76.57	--
2	Wang Manli (CHN)	38.31 (2)	38.47 (5)	76.78	+0.21
3	Ren Hui (CHN)	38.60 (4)	38.27 (1)	76.87	+0.30
4	Tomomi Okazaki (JPN)	38.46 (3)	38.46 (4)	76.92	+0.35
5	22x20px Lee Sang-hwa (KOR)	38.69 (6)	38.35 (3)	77.04	+0.47
6	Jenny Wolf (GER)	38.70 (7)	38.55 (6)	77.25	+0.68
7	Wang Beixing (CHN)	38.71 (8)	38.56 (7)	77.27	+0.70
8	Sayuri Osuga (JPN)	38.74 (9)	38.65 (8)	77.39	+0.82
9	Sayuri Yoshii (JPN)	38.68 (5)	38.75 (11)	77.43	+0.86
10	22x20px Chiara Simionato (ITA)	39.02 (11)	38.66 (9)	77.68	+1.11
11	Jennifer Rodriguez (USA)	38.97 (10)	38.73 (10)	77.70	+1.13
12	Annette Gerritsen (NED)	39.12 (12)	38.97 (12)	78.09	+1.52
13	Xing Aihua (CHN)	39.20 (13)	39.15 (13)	78.35	+1.78
14	Sanne van der Star (NED)	39.26 (14)	39.33 (15)	78.59	+2.02
15	Yukari Watanabe (JPN)	39.46 (17)	39.19 (14)	78.65	+2.08
16	Shannon Rempel (CAN)	39.42 (=15)	39.43 (19)	78.85	+2.28
17	Amy Sannes (USA)	39.42 (=15)	39.47 (20)	78.89	+2.32
18	22x20px Choi Seung-Yong (KOR)	39.65 (21)	39.37 (16)	79.02	+2.45
19	Judith Hesse (GER)	39.64 (20)	39.39 (17)	79.03	+2.46
20	22x20px Kim You-Lim (KOR)	39.57 (18)	39.68 (24)	79.25	+2.68
21	Kerry Simpson (CAN)	39.69 (22)	39.65 (=22)	79.34	+2.77
22	Krisy Myers (CAN)	39.83 (=23)	39.60 (21)	79.43	+2.86
23	Elli Ochowicz (USA)	39.83 (=23)	39.65 (=22)	79.48	+2.91
24	Pamela Zoellner (GER)	40.16 (27)	39.40 (18)	79.56	+2.99
25	22x20px Lee Bo-ra (KOR)	40.01 (=25)	39.72 (25)	79.73	+3.16
26	Kim Weger (CAN)	40.01 (=25)	39.98 (27)	79.99	+3.42
27	Svetlana Radkevich (BLR)	40.45 (29)	39.91 (26)	80.36	+3.79
28	Chris Witty (USA)	40.23 (28)	40.46 (28)	80.69	+4.12
29	Yulia Nemaya (RUS)	39.63 (19)	72.76 (29)	112.39	+35.82
30	Marianne Timmer (NED)	DQ		DQ

References

• Women's 500m - Final - Simple Results, from NBCOlympics.com, retrieved 13 February 2006.