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3,000 metres Relay, Women

Date20 February 1992
StatusOlympic
LocationLa Halle de Glace, Albertville
Participants32 from 8 countries
FormatPlacements 1-8 based on final and B final.

There was only one favourite for the inaugural short track relay gold: Canada. They had won the event at 11 out of 16 World Championships, including the most recent six. With Sylvie Daigle and Nathalie Lambert as members, the Canadians also possessed the strongest individual skaters of the pre-Olympic seasons. The only nation that could hope to challenge them was China, which had twice improved the World Record at the pre-Olympic test event, besting the North Americans.

But China eliminated itself from contention, as Zhang Yanmei crashed hard while enjoying a comfortable last lap lead in the semi-finals. With the Chinese out, Canada was joined by the United States, Japan and the Unified Team. As the Soviet Union, the latter team had been runner-up at the last World Championships, but they were not able to challenge the Canadians. The Canadians made it a tactical race, holding off the Americans for most of the race to win by the biggest margin of victory at Albertville, 1.23 seconds.

PosNrTeamNOCPointsBest Time
1CanadaCANGold
Angela CutroneSylvie DaigleNathalie LambertAnnie PerreaultEden Donatelli (DNS)
2United StatesUSASilver
Darcie DohnalAmy PetersonCathy TurnerNikki ZiegelmeyerTricia Stennes (DNS)
3Unified TeamEUNBronze
Yuliya AllagulovaNataliya IsakovaViktoriya TaraninaYuliya VlasovaTatyana Kabutova (DNS)
4JapanJPN
Mie NaitoRie SatoHiromi TakeuchiNobuko YamadaTsugumi Watanabe (DNS)
5FranceFRA24:43.32
Valérie BarizzaSandrine DaudetMurielle LeyssieuxKarine RubiniLaure Drouet (DNS) 1
6NetherlandsNED24:47.21
Priscilla ErnstJoëlle van Koetsveld-van AnkerenMonique VelzeboerSimone VelzeboerPenèlope di Lella (DNS)
7ItalyITA14:47.31
Marinella CancliniMaria Rosa CandidoKetty La TorreCristina SciollaKatia Colturi (DNS)
8People's Republic of ChinaCHN0DQ
Li YanWang XiulanZhang YanmeiLi ChangxiangZheng Chunyang (DNS)

Semi-Finals (20 February 1992)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to final.

Heat One

PosLaneTeamNOCTimePoints
1CanadaCAN4:42.105QOR
Angela CutroneSylvie DaigleNathalie LambertAnnie Perreault
2United StatesUSA4:42.563Q
Darcie DohnalAmy PetersonCathy TurnerNikki Ziegelmeyer
3NetherlandsNED4:47.212
Priscilla ErnstJoëlle van Koetsveld-van AnkerenMonique VelzeboerSimone Velzeboer
4ItalyITA4:47.311
Marinella CancliniMaria Rosa CandidoKetty La TorreCristina Sciolla

Heat Two

PosLaneTeamNOCTimePoints
1JapanJPN4:37.085QOR
Mie NaitoRie SatoHiromi TakeuchiNobuko Yamada
2Unified TeamEUN4:38.373Q
Yuliya AllagulovaNataliya IsakovaViktoriya TaraninaYuliya Vlasova
3FranceFRA4:43.322
Valérie BarizzaSandrine DaudetMurielle LeyssieuxKarine Rubini
DQPeople's Republic of ChinaCHN
Li YanWang XiulanZhang YanmeiLi Changxiang 2

Final Round (20 February 1992)

A Final

PosLaneTeamNOCTime
1CanadaCAN4:36.62
Angela CutroneSylvie DaigleNathalie LambertAnnie Perreault
2United StatesUSA4:37.85
Darcie DohnalAmy PetersonCathy TurnerNikki Ziegelmeyer
3Unified TeamEUN4:42.69
Yuliya AllagulovaNataliya IsakovaViktoriya TaraninaYuliya Vlasova
4JapanJPN4:44.50
Mie NaitoRie SatoHiromi TakeuchiNobuko Yamada