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500m Women
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 500m Women
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1992
Marinella Canclini
47
Albertville 1992
18 FEBRUARY
1994
Cathy TURNER
46.22
Lillehammer 1994
24 FEBRUARY
USA
Yanmei Zhang
46.01
Lillehammer 1994
24 FEBRUARY
Cathy TURNER
45.98
Lillehammer 1994
24 FEBRUARY
USA
1998
Chunlu Wang
45.655
Nagano 1998
19 FEBRUARY
Isabelle Charest
44.991
Nagano 1998
19 FEBRUARY
2002
Chunlu Wang
44.723
Salt Lake City 2002
16 FEBRUARY
Yang YANG (A)
44.118
Salt Lake City 2002
16 FEBRUARY
CHN
All records in this event
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All events
MEN'S EVENTS
1000m men
1500m men
5000m relay men
500m men
WOMEN'S EVENTS
1000m women
1500m women
3000m relay women
500m women
New Olympic Record
42.985’’
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Gold medals
Suk Hee SHIM
Meng WANG
Yang YANG (A)
Annie PERREAULT
Cathy TURNER
Silver medals
Aili XU
Marianne ST-GELAIS
Evgenia RADANOVA
Yang YANG (S)
Yanmei ZHANG
Yan LI
Bronze medals
Nicole MARTINELLI
Arianna FONTANA
Anouk LEBLANC-BOUCHER
Chunlu WANG
Lee-Kyung CHUN
Amy PETERSON
Ok Sil HWANG