Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 8
Competitors	26 from 12 nations
Winning time	4:45.19
Medalists
Tatyana Averina   Soviet Union   Andrea Mitscherlich   East Germany   Lisbeth Korsmo   Norway

Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men

The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tamara Kuznetsova (URS)	4:44.69	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	12 January 1975
Olympic record	Stien Kaiser (NED)	4:52.14	Sapporo, Japan	12 February 1972

The following new Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 1	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67	OR
8 February	Pair 6	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	OR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	6	i	Tatyana Averina	Soviet Union	4:45.19	–	OR
	10	i	Andrea Mitscherlich	East Germany	4:45.23	+0.04
	9	o	Lisbeth Korsmo	Norway	4:45.24	+0.05
4	13	o	Karin Kessow	East Germany	4:45.60	+0.41
5	1	i	Ines Bautzmann	East Germany	4:46.67	+1.48
6	10	o	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	4:48.15	+2.96
7	2	i	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	4:48.46	+3.17
8	7	i	Sylvia Burka	Canada	4:49.04	+3.85
9	8	i	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	4:50.86	+5.67
10	9	i	Erwina Ryś	Poland	4:50.95	+5.76
11	5	o	Beth Heiden	United States	4:51.67	+6.48
12	6	o	Tuula Vilkas	Finland	4:51.71	+6.52
13	13	i	Nina Statkevich	Soviet Union	4:53.94	+8.75
14	4	i	Tetiana Shelekhova	Soviet Union	4:54.03	+8.84
15	3	o	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	4:56.75	+11,56
16	11	i	Janina Korowicka	Poland	4:57.48	+12.29
17	11	o	Cindy Seikkula	United States	4:57.57	+12.38
18	12	o	Liz Appleby	Canada	4:58.68	+13.49
19	7	o	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	4:58.92	+13.73
20	12	i	Christa Jaarsma	Netherlands	5:00.08	+14.89
21	1	o	Chieko Ito	Japan	5:02.57	+17.38
22	4	o	Paula-Irmeli Halonen	Finland	5:03.08	+17.89
23	3	i	Gayle Gordon	Canada	5:07.09	+21.90
24	8	o	Lee Nam-Sun	South Korea	5:08.34	+23.15
25	2	o	Ewa Malewicka	Poland	5:08.79	+23.60
26	5	i	Linda Rombouts	Belgium	5:10.35	+25.16

References

1. "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "3000m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
3. "3000m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.

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