| Women's 1500 metres at the XXV Olympic Winter Games | |
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| Venue | Milano Speed Skating Stadium, Milan |
| Date | 20 February 2026 |
| Competitors | 29 from 16 nations |
| Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| 500 m | men | women |
| 1000 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| Mass start | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | women |
The women's 1500 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held on 20 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. [1] [2]
The 2022 champion, Ireen Wüst, retired from competitions. The silver medalist, Miho Takagi, qualified for the event, as did the bronze medalist, Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong. Before the Olympics, Takagi was leading the 1500m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Joy Beune was the 1500m 2025 world champion.
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
| World record | 1:49.83 | Salt Lake City, United States | 10 March 2019 | |
| Olympic record | 1:53.28 | Beijing, China | 7 February 2022 | |
| Track record | 1:57.66 | 30 November 2025 |
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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| 1 | I | Femke Kok | |||||
| 2 | I | Ellia Smeding | |||||
| 2 | O | Arina Ilyachshenko | |||||
| 3 | I | Aurora Grinden Løvås | |||||
| 3 | O | Lim Lee-won | |||||
| 4 | I | Béatrice Lamarche | |||||
| 4 | O | Li Jiaxuan | |||||
| 5 | I | Jeannine Rosner | |||||
| 5 | O | Park Ji-woo | |||||
| 6 | I | Lea Sophie Scholz | |||||
| 6 | O | Momoka Horikawa | |||||
| 7 | I | Marijke Groenewoud | |||||
| 7 | O | Natalia Czerwonka | |||||
| 8 | I | Greta Myers | |||||
| 8 | O | Yin Qi | |||||
| 9 | I | Ayano Sato | |||||
| 9 | O | Francesca Lollobrigida | |||||
| 10 | I | Isabelle van Elst | |||||
| 10 | O | Valérie Maltais | |||||
| 11 | I | Elizaveta Golubeva | |||||
| 11 | O | Han Mei | |||||
| 12 | I | Ivanie Blondin | |||||
| 12 | O | Kaitlyn McGregor | |||||
| 13 | I | Nadezhda Morozova | |||||
| 13 | O | Ragne Wiklund | |||||
| 14 | I | Brittany Bowe | |||||
| 14 | O | Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong | |||||
| 15 | I | Nikola Zdráhalová | |||||
| 15 | O | Miho Takagi |