Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 14
Competitors	31 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:10.95
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Speed skating at the 1980 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 1980 Winter Olympics took place on February 14, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Khalida Vorobyeva (URS)	2:07.18	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	10 April 1978
Olympic record	Galina Stepanskaya (URS)	2:16.58	Innsbruck, Austria	5 February 1976

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

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR
14 February	Pair 1	Beth Heiden	United States	2:13.10	OR
14 February	Pair 3	Ria Visser	Netherlands	2:12.35	OR
14 February	Pair 5	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	2:10.95	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	2:10.95	OR
	Ria Visser	Netherlands	2:12.35
	Sabine Becker	East Germany	2:12.38
4	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Norway	2:12.59
5	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	2:12.84
6	Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich	East Germany	2:13.05
7	Beth Heiden	United States	2:13.10
8	Nataliya Petrusyova	Soviet Union	2:14.15
9	Sylvia Albrecht	East Germany	2:14.27
10	Sylvia Burka	Canada	2:14.65
11	Brenda Webster	Canada	2:14.73
12	Mary Docter	United States	2:14.74
13	Sarah Docter	United States	2:15.11
14	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	Norway	2:15.63
15	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	2:16.05
16	Kathy Vogt	Canada	2:16.09
17	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	2:16.29
18	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	2:16.32
18	Vira Bryndzei	Soviet Union	2:16.32
20	Annette Carlén-Karlsson	Sweden	2:17.31
21	Anneli Repola	Finland	2:17.81
22	Sigrid Smuda	West Germany	2:18.86
23	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	2:19.41
24	Miyoshi Kato	Japan	2:19.80
25	Kim Yeong-Hui	23x15px South Korea	2:20.23
26	Lee Seong-Ae	23x15px South Korea	2:20.67
27	Kong Meiyu	China	2:22.48
28	Mandy Horsepool	Great Britain	2:23.05
29	Chen Shuhua	China	2:29.48
30	Shen Guoqin	China	2:41.99
-	Kim Ferran	Great Britain	DQ