Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The women's 1500 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 20 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan.[1][2]
| Women's 1500 metres at the XXV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Milano Speed Skating Stadium, Milan | ||||||||||||
| Date | 20 February 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:54.09 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong of the Netherlands won the event, her first Olympic gold medal and fifth straight gold for the Netherlands in this event. Ragne Wiklund of Norway won silver, her third medal. Valérie Maltais of Canada won bronze, her third medal of the games and fourth medal overall.[3][4]
Background
The 2022 champion, Ireen Wüst, retired from competitions. The silver medalist, Miho Takagi, qualified for the event, as did the bronze medalist, Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong. Before the Olympics, Takagi was leading the 1500m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Joy Beune was the 1500m 2025 world champion.
Qualification
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
| World record |  Miho Takagi (JPN) | 1:49.83 | Salt Lake City, United States | 10 March 2019 |
| Olympic record |  Ireen Wüst (NED) | 1:53.28 | Beijing, China | 7 February 2022 |
| Track record | Meike Veen (NED) | 1:57.66 | 30 November 2025 |
Results
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14 | O | Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong | Netherlands | 1:54.09 | TR | |
 | 13 | O | Ragne Wiklund |  Norway | 1:54.15 | +0.06 | |
 | 10 | O | Valérie Maltais |  Canada | 1:54.40 | +0.31 | |
| 4 | 14 | I | Brittany Bowe |  United States | 1:54.70 | +0.61 | |
| 5 | 1 | I | Femke Kok | Netherlands | 1:54.79 | +0.70 | |
| 6 | 15 | O | Miho Takagi | Japan | 1:54.865 | +0.77 | |
| 7 | 11 | I | Elizaveta Golubeva |  Kazakhstan | 1:54.868 | +0.77 | |
| 8 | 12 | I | Ivanie Blondin | Canada | 1:54.93 | +0.84 | |
| 9 | 11 | O | Han Mei |  China | 1:54.97 | +0.88 | |
| 10 | 7 | I | Marijke Groenewoud | Netherlands | 1:55.16 | +1.07 | |
| 11 | 12 | O | Kaitlyn McGregor |  Switzerland | 1:55.39 | +1.30 | |
| 12 | 13 | I | Nadezhda Morozova | Kazakhstan | 1:55.76 | +1.67 | |
| 13 | 9 | O | Francesca Lollobrigida |  Italy | 1:56.51 | +2.42 | |
| 14 | 15 | I | Nikola Zdráhalová |  Czech Republic | 1:56.93 | +2.84 | |
| 15 | 7 | O | Natalia Czerwonka |  Poland | 1:56.96 | +2.87 | |
| 16 | 5 | I | Jeannine Rosner |  Austria | 1:57.24 | +3.15 | |
| 17 | 4 | I | Béatrice Lamarche | Canada | 1:57.65 | +3.56 | |
| 18 | 6 | I | Lea Sophie Scholz |  Germany | 1:57.68 | +3.59 | |
| 19 | 8 | O | Yin Qi | China | 1:57.75 | +3.66 | |
| 20 | 10 | I | Isabelle van Elst |  Belgium | 1:57.82 | +3.73 | |
| 21 | 5 | O | Park Ji-woo |  South Korea | 1:58.26 | +4.17 | |
| 22 | 9 | I | Ayano Sato | Japan | 1:58.36 | +4.27 | |
| 23 | 2 | I | Ellia Smeding |  Great Britain | 1:58.40 | +4.31 | |
| 24 | 2 | O | Arina Ilyachshenko | Kazakhstan | 1:58.43 | +4.34 | |
| 25 | 3 | I | Aurora Grinden Løvås | Norway | 1:58.77 | +4.68 | |
| 26 | 6 | O | Momoka Horikawa | Japan | 1:59.33 | +5.24 | |
| 27 | 4 | O | Li Jiaxuan | China | 1:59.36 | +5.27 | |
| 28 | 3 | O | Lim Lee-won | South Korea | 1:59.73 | +5.64 | |
| 29 | 8 | I | Greta Myers | United States | 1:59.81 | +5.72 |