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Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games:

Women's 1,000 metres

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Host City: Salt Lake City, United States
Venue(s): Salt Lake Ice Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Date Started: February 20, 2002
Date Finished: February 23, 2002
Format: Placements 1-8 based on final and B final. Deeper placements based on points earned in earlier rounds, and time in final round skated.

Gold: CHN Yang Yang (A)
Silver: KOR Go Gi-Hyeon
Bronze: CHN Yang Yang (S)

Summary

Only one woman was supposed to win this competition: Yang Yang (A) of China. She had won the last five world titles in the event, and the season's World Cup. To boot, she also owned the world record, and had won the 500 m gold earlier in the Olymics. She would face tough competition, from the season's winners in World Cup races: namesake and teammate Yang Yang (S), and South Koreans [Go Gi-Hyun] and [Choi Eun-Gyeong], who had placed 1-2 in the 1,500 m.

The race was pretty much a copy of the 500 m. Again, Yang (A) led from start to finish, holding off a competitor (Go) and a teammate (Yang (S)) for the title. Her victory marked the first time a short track skater won two individual gold medals at the Olympics

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal PTS BT
1 Yang Yang (A) 25 China CHN Gold
2 Go Gi-Hyeon 15 South Korea KOR Silver
3 Yang Yang (S) 24 China CHN Bronze
4 Marie-Eve Drolet 20 Canada CAN
5 Evgeniya Radanova 24 Bulgaria BUL
6 Choi Eun-Gyeong 17 South Korea KOR
7 Chikage Tanaka 28 Japan JPN
8 Alanna Kraus 24 Canada CAN
9 Jo Williams 20 Great Britain GBR 42 1:34.373
10 Caroline Hallisey 21 United States USA 34 1:33.007
11 Mara Zini 22 Italy ITA 34 1:33.697
12 Stéphanie Bouvier 20 France FRA 34 1:35.409
13 Sarah Lindsay 21 Great Britain GBR 34 1:36.753
14 Yvonne Kunze 24 Germany GER 29 1:35.830
15 Nina Yevteyeva 19 Russia RUS 29 1:36.519
16 Christin Priebst 18 Germany GER 29 1:36.848
17 Ikue Teshigawara 23 Japan JPN 13 1:33.855
18 Anna Krasteva 24 Bulgaria BUL 13 1:39.195
19 Szandra Lajtos 15 Hungary HUN 13 1:40.688
20 Katalin Kristo 18 Romania ROU 13 1:42.276
21 Olga Danilov 28 Israel ISR 13 1:42.767
22 Cordia Tsoi 17 Hong Kong HKG 13 1:48.445
23 Christy Ren 18 Hong Kong HKG 13 1:50.094
24 Nataliya Dmitriyeva 24 Russia RUS 13 1:50.132
25 Marianna Nagy 17 Hungary HUN 8 1:39.648
26 Kateřina Novotná 17 Czech Republic CZE 8 1:42.495
27 Erin Porter 23 United States USA 8 1:56.409
AC Katia Zini 20 Italy ITA DQ