The women's 1000 m competition in

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at the

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was held on 17 February, at the

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("Ice Ribbon") in

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. Miho Takagi of Japan won the event, becoming the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist in this event, and second Asian gold medalist after Zhang Hong in

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. It was also her first Olympic gold medal in an individual event.

Jutta Leerdam Jutta Leerdam (born 30 December 1998) is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the sprint events. Career Leerdam became the junior world champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The following year, at the 2018 Cham ...

of the Netherlands won the silver medal, her first Olympic medal.

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of the United States was third, her first individual Olympic medal. The 2018 champion and the Olympic record holder,

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, retired from competitions. The silver medalist,

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, and the bronze medalist, Takagi, were both competing. Bowe was the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 1000 m distance and also the world record holder at the beginning of the Olympics. Leerdam and Elizaveta Golubeva were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Bowe was leading the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup at the 1000 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Kodaira and Takagi. Takagi skated the season best time, 1:11.83 in Salt Lake City on 4 December 2021. In pair 3,

Antoinette de Jong Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong (; born 6 April 1995) is a Dutch speed skater. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She also competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she placed sev ...

took the lead with the first time below 1:15. This time was improved only in pair 11, when

skated 1:13.83, with four pairs to go. In pair 13, Takagi set the new Olympic record with 1:13.19, and

Angelina Golikova Angelina Romanovna Golikova (russian: Ангелина Романовна Голикова; born 17 September 1991) is a Russian speed skater. She competed at the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Nagano, and at the 2014 Winter Oly ...

had provisionally third time, shifting de Jong off the podium. In the last pair, Bowe skated the third time of the day.

Qualification

A total of 30 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per NOC. The first 20 athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, while the last ten earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum three spots through the World Cup rankings. The qualification time for the event (1:18.00) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid

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(ISU) events.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

Results

The races were started at 16:30.Final results
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References

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