Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
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The women's 1000 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan.[1] Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands won the event, improving on her silver in 2022. Her teammate Femke Kok won the silver medal, which was her first Olympic medal. Miho Takagi, the defending champion, won bronze.[2][3][4]
| Women's 1000 metres at the XXV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Milano Speed Skating Stadium, Milan | ||||||||||||
| Date | 9 February 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:12.31 | ||||||||||||
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Background
All the 2022 medalists, the champion Miho Takagi, the silver medalist Jutta Leerdam, and the bronze medalist Brittany Bowe, qualified for the Olympics. Before the Olympics, Femke Kok was leading the 1000m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Takagi was the 1000m 2025 world champion.
Summary
Skating in pair 1, Suzanne Schulting remained the leader until pair 11, when Erin Jackson improved her time. In pair 13, Kok skated faster than the Olympic record, and Bowe finished in provisional silver medal position. In pair 15, the last one, Leerdam beat Kok's time, thus setting the new Olympic record. Takagi in the same pair finished third, moving Bowe off the podium.
Qualification
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
| World record |  Brittany Bowe | 1:11.61 | Salt Lake City, United States | 9 March 2019 |
| Olympic record |  Miho Takagi | 1:13.19 | Beijing, China | 17 February 2022 |
| Track record |  Meike Veen | 1:16.61 | 29 November 2025 |
A new Olympic record was set twice during the competition; the previous record was set four years earlier and was broken by 0.88 seconds; the top two finishers were under the previous record.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
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| 9 February | Pair 13 | Femke Kok | Netherlands |
1:12.59 | OR |
| Pair 15 | Jutta Leerdam | Netherlands | 1:12.31 | OR, TR |
Results
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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 | 15 | O | Jutta Leerdam | Netherlands | 1:12.31 | OR | |
 | 13 | O | Femke Kok | Netherlands | 1:12.59 | +0.28 | |
 | 15 | I | Miho Takagi | Japan | 1:13.95 | +1.64 | |
| 4 | 13 | I | Brittany Bowe | United States | 1:14.55 | +2.24 | |
| 5 | 14 | O | Béatrice Lamarche |  Canada | 1:14.73 | +2.42 | |
| 6 | 11 | I | Erin Jackson | United States | 1:15.00 | +2.69 | |
| 7 | 14 | I | Rio Yamada | Japan | 1:15.16 | +2.85 | |
| 8 | 1 | O | Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | 1:15.47 | +3.15 | |
| 9 | 12 | O | Lee Na-hyun |  South Korea | 1:15.76 | +3.45 | |
| 10 | 8 | O | Nikola Zdráhalová |  Czech Republic | 1:15.830 | +3.52 | |
| 11 | 12 | I | Ellia Smeding |  Great Britain | 1:15.834 | +3.52 | |
| 12 | 10 | O | Yin Qi |  China | 1:15.87 | +3.56 | |
| 13 | 9 | I | Han Mei | China | 1:15.97 | +3.66 | |
| 14 | 9 | O | Nadezhda Morozova |  Kazakhstan | 1:16.00 | +3.69 | |
| 15 | 6 | I | Natalia Czerwonka |  Poland | 1:16.09 | +3.78 | |
| 16 | 8 | I | Yukino Yoshida | Japan | 1:16.11 | +3.80 | |
| 17 | 4 | I | Kaitlyn McGregor |  Switzerland | 1:16.17 | +3.85 | |
| 18 | 11 | O | Kim Min-sun | South Korea | 1:16.24 | +3.93 | |
| 19 | 7 | I | Elizaveta Golubeva | Kazakhstan | 1:16.40 | +4.09 | |
| 20 | 7 | O | Isabelle van Elst |  Belgium | 1:16.68 | +4.37 | |
| 21 | 6 | O | Anna Ostlender |  Germany | 1:16.83 | +4.52 | |
| 22 | 10 | I | Karolina Bosiek | Poland | 1:16.88 | +4.57 | |
| 23 | 2 | I | Fran Vanhoutte | Belgium | 1:16.93 | +4.62 | |
| 24 | 5 | I | Vanessa Herzog |  Austria | 1:16.99 | +4.68 | |
| 25 | 1 | I | Maybritt Vigl |  Italy | 1:17.151 | +4.84 | |
| 26 | 2 | O | Carolina Hiller-Donnelly | Canada | 1:17.156 | +4.84 | |
| 27 | 3 | O | Rose Laliberté-Roy | Canada | 1:17.50 | +5.19 | |
| 28 | 4 | O | Kristina Silaeva | Kazakhstan | 1:17.57 | +5.26 | |
| 29 | 5 | O | Tian Ruining | China | 1:17.87 | +5.56 | |
| 30 | 3 | I | Jeannine Rosner | Austria | 1:18.41 | +6.10 |