Short-track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Women's 500 metres; at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre
Dates	24 February
Competitors	30 from 13 nations
Winning time	45.98
Medalists
	← 1992 1998 →

The women's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 24 February at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre.^[1]^[2]

Results

The first round was held on 24 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Xiulan	China	47.32	Q
2	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	47.38	Q
3	Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	50.67

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Turner	United States	46.22	Q
2	Won Hye-kyung	South Korea	48.08	Q
3	Anke Jannie Landman	Netherlands	48.36
4	Bea Pintens	Belgium	49.59

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	46.98	Q
2	Chun Lee-kyung	South Korea	47.14	Q
3	Yelena Tikhanina	Russia	47.79
4	Debbie Palmer	Great Britain	47.93

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Isabelle Charest	Canada	46.92	Q
2	Sandrine Daudet	France	49.06	Q
3	Barbara Baldissera	Italy	79.96
–	Sofie Pintens	Belgium	DQ

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ayako Tsubaki	Japan	48.49	Q
2	Karen Gardiner-Kah	Australia	48.56	Q
3	Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina	Russia	48.59
4	Valérie Barizza	France	50.30

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marinella Canclini	Italy	47.19	Q
2	Kim So-hee	South Korea	47.77	Q
3	Yelena Sinitsina	Kazakhstan	50.36

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Yang (S)	China	47.23	Q
2	Marina Pylayeva	Russia	47.47	Q
3	Katia Mosconi	Italy	47.90
4	Penèlope di Lella	Netherlands	48.44

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Amy Peterson	United States	47.02	Q
2	Zhang Yanmei	China	47.35	Q
3	Laure Drouet	France	50.47
4	Cindy Meyer	South Africa	77.18

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Isabelle Charest	Canada	47.25	Q
2	Yang Yang (S)	China	47.25	Q
3	Karen Gardiner-Kah	Australia	47.90
4	Chun Lee-kyung	South Korea	69.56

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Amy Peterson	United States	46.59	Q OR
2	Zhang Yanmei	China	46.64	Q
3	Sandrine Daudet	France	47.97
4	Marinella Canclini	Italy	88.77

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim So-hee	South Korea	46.97	Q
2	Cathy Turner	United States	47.24	Q
3	Ayako Tsubaki	Japan	47.51
4	Nathalie Lambert	Canada	65.45

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Xiulan	China	48.40	Q
2	Won Hye-kyung	South Korea	48.87	Q
3	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	55.59
–	Marina Pylayeva	Russia	DQ

The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Zhang Yanmei	China	46.01	QA OR
2	Amy Peterson	United States	46.28	QA
3	Kim So-hee	South Korea	46.36	QB
–	Yang Yang (S)	China	DQ

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cathy Turner	United States	47.54	QA
2	Won Hye-kyung	South Korea	47.63	QA
3	Wang Xiulan	China	48.00	QB
–	Isabelle Charest	Canada	DQ

The four qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four others raced for 5th place in Final B.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Cathy Turner	United States	45.98	OR
	Zhang Yanmei	China	46.44
	Amy Peterson	United States	46.76
4	Won Hye-kyung	South Korea	47.60

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
5	Kim So-hee	South Korea	49.01
6	Wang Xiulan	China	49.03

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Women's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2019.