The women's 3000 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. Francesca Lollobrigida representing Italy won the event setting an Olympic record. This was her first Olympic gold medal, as well as the first Olympic gold won by an Italian female speed skater. Ragne Wiklund of Norway won silver, her first Olympic medal. Valérie Maltais of Canada became the bronze medalist, her first individual Olympic medal, and completed a full set of medals (one of which is in short-track).

Background The 2022 champion, Irene Schouten, retired from competitions. The silver, Francesca Lollobrigida, and the bronze medalist, Isabelle Weidemann, qualified for the Olympics, and both were competing. Before the Olympics, Ragne Wiklund was leading the long-distance standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Joy Beune was the 3000m 2025 world champion. The field also included the world record holder and multiple Olympic champion Martina Sáblíková but she withdrew on the day of the race.

Qualification

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.

A new Olympic record was set during the competition; the previous record was set four years earlier and was broken by 2.65 seconds; the top two finishers were under the previous record, which was equaled by the bronze medalist.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record 7 February Pair 8 Francesca Lollobrigida 3:54.28 OR, TR

Results The race starts at 16:00. Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 8 O Francesca Lollobrigida 3:54.28 OR, 9 O Ragne Wiklund 3:56.54 +2.26 8 I Valérie Maltais 3:56.93 +2.65 4 10 I Joy Beune 3:58.12 +3.84 5 10 O Isabelle Weidemann 3:59.24 +4.96 6 7 I Nadezhda Morozova 4:01.20 +6.92 7 5 O Sandrine Tas 4:01.26 +6.98 8 9 I Marijke Groenewoud 4:01.35 +7.07 9 2 I Merel Conijn 4:01.65 +7.37 10 5 I Elizaveta Golubeva 4:03.30 +9.02 11 2 O Kaitlyn McGregor 4:04.97 +10.69 12 3 O Kseniia Korzhova 4:05.84 +11.55 13 1 O Laura Hall 4:06.15 +11.85 14 6 O Josie Hofmann 4:06.54 +12.26 15 7 O Maryna Zuyeva 4:07.09 +12.81 16 4 O Violette Braun 4:07.17 +12.88 17 4 I Yang Binyu 4:07.62 +13.34 18 6 I Momoka Horikawa 4:08.32 +14.04 19 3 I Jeannine Rosner 4:08.42 +14.14 20 1 I Greta Myers 4:13.47 +19.18

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