title: 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships – Women's 1500 metres
text: # 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 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 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 |
  