| Final 14:00 | Team | Time | Heat | N: | | 1. Svetlana Basjanova | RUS | 4:17.43 | 7 1 | 49 | | 2. Emese Hunyady | AUT | 4:18.14 | 4 I | 2 | | 3. Claudia Pechstein | GER | 4:18.34 | 1 I | 18 | | 4. Lyudmila Prokasjeva | KAZ | 4:19.33 | 6 I | 32 | | 5. Annamarie Thomas | NED | 4:19.82 | 9 I | 43 | | 6. Seiko Hashimoto | JPN | 4:21.07 | 3 O | 24 | | 7. Hiromi Yamamoto | JPN | 4:22.37 | 14 O | 30 | | 8. Mihaela Dascalu | ROU | 4:22.42 | 2 I | 47 | | 9. Carla Zijlstra | NED | 4:23.42 | 1 O | 44 | | 10.Miki Ogasawara | JPN | 4:25.27 | 4 I | 26 | | 11.Tonny de Jong | NED | 4:25.88 | 7 I | 41 | | 12.Tatjana Trapesnikova | RUS | 4:27.82 | 8 O | 54 | | 13.Emese Antal | AUT | 4:27.91 | 9 O | 1 | | 14.Ingrid Liepa | CAN | 4:28.28 | 5 O | 6 | | 15.Heike Warnicke | GER | 4:28.43 | 2 O | 20 | | 16.Ewa Justyna Wasilewska | POL | 4:28.86 | 8 I | 46 | | 17.Cerasela Hordobetiu | ROM | 4:29.31 | 10 O | 48 | | 18.Elisabetta Pizio | ITA | 4:32.34 | 13 I | 23 | | 19.Angela Zuckerman | USA | 4:33.08 | 13 O | 36 | | 20.Jasmin Krohn | SWE | 4:33.34 | 11 I | 55 | | 21.Christine Scheels | USA | 4:34.14 | 11 O | 60 | | 22.Chantal Bailey | USA | 4:34.64 | 10 I | 56 | | 23.Bak Eun-Bi | KOR | 4:34.86 | 12 O | 34 | | 24.Kensjesj Sarsekenova | KAZ | 4:45.56 | 14 I | 33 | | 25.Ilonda Luse | LAT | 4:47.75 | 12 I | 39 | | -. Gunda Niemann | GER | DQ | 3 I | 17 | | -. Elena Belci- Dal Farra | ITA | DQ | 6 O | 22 |
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| Hiromi Yamamoto (JPN) Origianlly skated in 3 O but felt and was granted reskating in 14 O. |
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