Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women's 500 metres; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	January 30
Competitors	28 from 13 nations
Winning time	45.0
Medalists
	← 1960 1968 →

Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The women's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 30 January, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Inga Artamonova (URS)	44.9	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	27 January 1962
Olympic record	Helga Haase (EUA)	45.9	Squaw Valley, United States	20 February 1960

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
30 January	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)	45.0	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lidiya Skoblikova	Soviet Union	45.0	OR
	Irina Yegorova	Soviet Union	45.4
	Tatyana Sidorova	Soviet Union	45.5
4	Jeanne Ashworth	United States	46.2
4	Jan Smith	United States	46.2
6	Gunilla Jacobsson	Sweden	46.5
7	Mary Lawler	United States	46.6
8	Helga Haase	United Team of Germany	47.2
9	Inger Eriksson	Sweden	47.3
10	Doreen Ryan	23x15px Canada	47.7
11	Christina Lindblom-Scherling	Sweden	47.8
12	Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa	Japan	47.9
13	Doreen McCannell	23x15px Canada	48.0
13	Kaija Mustonen	Finland	48.0
15	Ryoo Choon-Za	23x15px North Korea	48.4
16	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	Finland	48.8
16	Elwira Seroczyńska	Poland	48.8
18	Françoise Lucas	France	48.9
19	Yasuko Takano	Japan	49.3
20	Kim Hye-Suk	23x15px South Korea	49.6
21	Brigitte Reichert	United Team of Germany	49.8
22	Adelajda Mroske	Poland	49.9
23	Helena Pilejczyk	Poland	50.1
24	Kaneko Takahashi	Japan	50.5
25	Sigrit Behrenz	United Team of Germany	50.9
25	Kornélia Ihász	Hungary	50.9
27	Jarmila Šťastná	Czechoslovakia	52.0
28	Han Pil-Hwa	23x15px North Korea	58.5