Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres; at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Dates	February 17
Competitors	27 from 14 nations
Winning time	4:17.43
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1994 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 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (GER)	4:10.80	Calgary, Canada	9 December 1990
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	4:11.94	Calgary, Canada	23 February 1988

Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind
	7	Svetlana Bazhanova	Russia	4:17.43	-
	4	Emese Hunyady	Austria	4:18.14	+0.71
	1	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	4:18.34	+0.91
4	6	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	4:19.33	+1.90
5	9	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	4:19.82	+2.39
6	14	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	4:21.07	+3.64
7	5	Hiromi Yamamoto	Japan	4:22.37	+4.94
8	2	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	4:22.42	+4.99
9	1	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	4:23.42	+5.99
10	4	Miki Ogasawara	Japan	4:25.27	+7.84
11	7	Tonny De Jong	Netherlands	4:25.88	+8.45
12	8	Tatyana Trapeznikova	Russia	4:27.82	+10.39
13	9	Emese Dörfler-Antal	Austria	4:27.91	+10.48
14	5	Ingrid Liepa	Canada	4:28.28	+10.85
15	2	Heike Warnicke	Germany	4:28.43	+11.00
16	8	Ewa Wasilewska	Poland	4:28.86	+11.43
17	10	Cerasela Hordobeţiu	Romania	4:29.31	+11.88
18	13	Elisabetta Pizio	Italy	4:32.34	+14.91
19	13	Angela Zuckerman	United States	4:33.08	+15.65
20	11	Jasmin Krohn	Sweden	4:33.34	+15.91
21	11	Chris Scheels	United States	4:34.14	+16.71
22	10	Chantal Bailey	United States	4:34.64	+17.21
23	12	Baeg Eun-Bi	South Korea	4:34.86	+17.43
24	14	Kenzhesh Sarsekenova-Orynbayeva	Kazakhstan	4:45.56	+28.13
25	12	Ilonda Lūse	Latvia	4:47.75	+30.32
-	3	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	DQ
-	6	Elena Belci	Italy	DQ