The women's 1500 metres race of the 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held on 23 March at 16:30 local time.[1]
Results edit
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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11 | i | Christine Nesbitt |  Canada |
1:56.07 | ||
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10 | i | Ireen Wüst |  Netherlands |
1:56.40 | +0.33 | |
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6 | i | Linda de Vries | Netherlands |
1:57.08 | +1.01 | |
| 4 | 6 | o | Cindy Klassen | Canada |
1:57.30 | +1.23 | |
| 5 | 9 | i | Yekaterina Lobysheva |  Russia |
1:58.13 | +2.06 | |
| 6 | 11 | o | Diane Valkenburg | Netherlands |
1:58.37 | +2.30 | |
| 7 | 10 | o | Yekaterina Shikhova | Russia |
1:58.48 | +2.41 | |
| 8 | 9 | o | Yuliya Skokova | Russia |
1:58.66 | +2.59 | |
| 9 | 7 | o | Miho Takagi |  Japan |
1:58.84 | +2.77 | |
| 10 | 4 | o | Natalia Czerwonka |  Poland |
1:58.88 | +2.81 | |
| 11 | 8 | o | Brittany Schussler | Canada |
1:59.62 | +3.55 | |
| 12 | 7 | i | Hege Bøkko |  Norway |
1:59.92 | +3.85 | |
| 13 | 4 | i | Ayaka Kikuchi | Japan |
1:59.96 | +3.89 | |
| 14 | 5 | i | Karolína Erbanová |  Czech Republic |
2:00.176 | +4.10 | |
| 15 | 3 | o | Noh Seon-yeong |  South Korea |
2:00.178 | +4.10 | |
| 16 | 8 | i | Ida Njåtun | Norway |
2:00.34 | +4.27 | |
| 17 | 3 | i | Jilleanne Rookard |  United States |
2:00.41 | +4.34 | |
| 18 | 2 | o | Katarzyna Woźniak | Poland |
2:01.74 | +5.67 | |
| 19 | 2 | i | Lee Ju-Youn | South Korea |
2:01.91 | +5.84 | |
| 20 | 5 | o | Gabriele Hirschbichler |  Germany |
2:02.13 | +6.06 | |
| 21 | 1 | i | Luiza Złotkowska | Poland |
2:02.17 | +6.10 |