2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 11 March at the Sheffield Arena.

Results

Quarterfinals

Top 2 athletes from each heat and the next 2 fastest riders qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Jianrou	China	2:26.832	Q
2	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	2:26.940	Q
3	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	2:27.338	q
4	Vera Antanenka	Belarus	2:30.404
5	Yesl Jung	Australia	2:30.454

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fan Kexin	China	2:33.760	Q
2	Olga Belyakova	Russia	2:34.489	Q
3	Wang Xinyue	Hong Kong	2:34.797
4	Ainara Equisoain	Spain	2:45.064
5	Ottilia Sillo	Romania	2:50.436
–	Martina Valcepina	Italy		PEN

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	2:30.598	Q
2	Bernadett Heidum	Hungary	2:30.911	Q
3	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	Bulgaria	2:32.279
4	Alex Whelbourne	United Kingdom	2:33.002
5	Olena Pashchenko	Ukraine	2:41.118

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	2:33.542	Q
2	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	2:33.593	Q
3	Veronika Windisch	Austria	2:33.694
4	Yui Sakai	Japan	2:34.074
5	Safiya Vlasova	Ukraine	2:39.008
6	Chung Hsiao-Ying	Chinese Taipei	2:41.946

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	2:29.488	Q
2	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	2:29.603	Q
3	Lana Gehring	United States	2:29.713
4	Bianca Walter	Germany	2:34.606
5	Tuende Balázs	Romania	2:35.190
6	Garazi Ganuza	Spain	2:56.905

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liu Qiuhong	China	2:31.316	Q
2	Annita van Doorn	Netherlands	2:31.395	Q
3	Szandra Lajtos	Hungary	2:31.546
4	Patrycja Maliszewska	Poland	2:32.240
5	Tatiana Bodova	Slovakia	2:37.402

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cho Ha-Ri	South Korea	2:31.750	Q
2	Jessica Hewitt	Canada	2:31.819	Q
3	Biba Sakurai	Japan	2:31.976
4	Julia Riedel	Germany	2:33.661
5	Raya Zaharieva	Bulgaria	2:36.481

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katherine Reutter	United States	2:24.195	Q
2	Elise Christie	United Kingdom	2:24.702	Q
3	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	2:26.807	q
4	Magdalena Szwajlik	Poland	2:30.619
5	Volha Talayeva	Belarus	2:31.183

Semifinals

Top 2 athletes from each heat qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	2:33.297	Q
2	Arianna Fontana	Italy	2:33.402	Q
3	Nina Yevteyeva	Russia	2:33.762
4	Fan Kexin	China	2:33.974
5	Kateřina Novotná	Czech Republic	2:34.080
6	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	2:34.206

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katherine Reutter	United States	2:26.656	Q
2	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	2:26.719	Q
3	Marie-Ève Drolet	Canada	2:26.880
4	Annita van Doorn	Netherlands	2:26.952
5	Liu Qiuhong	China	2:27.155
6	Olga Belyakova	Russia	2:28.644

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cho Ha-Ri	South Korea	2:29.349	Q
2	Li Jianrou	China	2:29.435	Q
3	Elise Christie	United Kingdom	2:29.521
4	Jessica Hewitt	Canada	2:29.738
5	Bernadett Heidum	Hungary	2:32.129
6	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	2:32.129

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Katherine Reutter	United States	2:33.978
	Park Seung-Hi	South Korea	2:34.218
	Cho Ha-Ri	South Korea	2:34.336
4	Arianna Fontana	Italy	2:34.424
5	Li Jianrou	China	2:34.486
6	Yang Shin-young	South Korea	2:35.418