Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres

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Women's 3000 metres at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 20
Competitors	29 from 14 nations
Winning time	4:32.13 OR
Medalists
Bjørg Eva Jensen  Norway Sabine Becker  East Germany Beth Heiden  United States
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Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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The women's 3000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Galina Stepanskaya (URS)	4:31.00	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	23 March 1976
Olympic record	Tatyana Averina (URS)	4:45.19	Innsbruck, Austria	8 February 1976

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 1	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Norway	4:32.13	OR

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	1	o	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Norway	4:32.13	–	OR
	2	o	Sabine Becker	East Germany	4:32.79	+0.66
	1	i	Beth Heiden	United States	4:33.77	+1.64
4	11	i	Andrea Mitscherlich	East Germany	4:37.69	+5.56
5	3	o	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	4:37.89	+5.76
6	4	i	Mary Docter	United States	4:39.29	+7.16
7	4	o	Sylvia Filipsson	Sweden	4:40.22	+8.09
8	6	o	Nataliya Petrusyova	Soviet Union	4:42.59	+10.46
9	2	i	Olga Pleshkova	Soviet Union	4:43.11	+10.89
10	8	i	Sarah Docter	United States	4:43.30	+11.17
11	3	i	Brenda Webster	Canada	4:43.67	+11.54
12	9	i	Sylvia Burka	Canada	4:44.22	+12.09
13	6	i	Annie Borckink	Netherlands	4:47.35	+15.22
14	10	i	Sylvia Albrecht	East Germany	4:47.76	+15.63
15	11	o	Anneli Repola	Finland	4:50.51	+18.38
16	8	o	Sijtje van der Lende	Netherlands	4:51.53	+19.40
17	5	o	Valentina Lalenkova	Soviet Union	4:51.72	+19.59
18	7	o	Annette Karlsson	Sweden	4:52.70	+20.57
19	9	i	Sigrid Smuda	West Germany	4:53.55	+21.42
20	10	o	Lisbeth Korsmo	Norway	4:54.95	+22.82
21	7	i	Miyoshi Kato	Japan	4:57.39	+25.26
22	13	o	Kim Yeong-Hui	South Korea	4:58.41	+26.28
23	14	i	Pat Durnin	Canada	4:58.42	+26.29
24	12	o	Lee Seong-Ae	South Korea	4:58.77	+26.64
25	14	o	Yuko Yaegashi-Ota	Japan	5:00.40	+28.87
26	13	i	Mandy Horsepool	Great Britain	5:08.78	+36.65
27	12	i	Kong Meiyu	China	5:08.90	+36.77
28	15	i	Piao Meiji	China	5:19.07	+46.94
-	5	i	Ria Visser	Netherlands	DNF

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Women's 3,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
3. ^ "3000m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
4. ^ "3000m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.