2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1500 metres

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.

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	11	i	Christine Nesbitt	Canada	1:56.07
	10	i	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1:56.40	+0.33
	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