| Final | Team | Time | N: | | 1. Gunda Niemann- Stirnemann | GER | 4:07.29 | 25 | | 2. Claudia Pechstein | GER | 4:08.47 | 26 | | 3. Anna Friesinger | GER | 4:09.44 | 23 | | 4. Jennifer Rodriguez | USA | 4:11.64 | 78 | | 5. Emese Hunyady | AUT | 4:12.01 | 2 | | 6. Kirstin Holum | USA | 4:12.24 | 76 | | 7. Lyudmila Prokasheva | KAZ | 4:14.23 | 43 | | 8. Annamarie Thomas | NED | 4:14.38 | 54 | | 9. Carla Zijlstra | NED | 4:16.43 | 57 | | 10.Svetlana Bazhanova | RUS | 4:16.45 | 65 | | 11.Elena Belci | ITA | 4:16.62 | 31 | | 12.Svetlana Vysokova | RUS | 4:17.70 | 71 | | 13.Tatyana Trapeznikova | RUS | 4:17.76 | 70 | | 14.Mie Uehara | JPN | 4:17.92 | 41 | | 15.Anette Tonsberg | NOR | 4:19.24 | 60 | | 16.Tonny De Jong | NED | 4:19.54 | 51 |
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| Final cont. | Team | Time | N: | | 17.Chiharu Nozaki | JPN | 4:19.60 | 36 | | 18.Noriko Munekata | JPN | 4:20.72 | 34 | | 19.Cindy Overland | CAN | 4:20.81 | 14 | | 20.Lee Kyung-nam | KOR | 4:21.10 | 49 | | 21.Susan Massitti | CAN | 4:21.66 | 12 | | 22.Catherine Raney | USA | 4:22.55 | 77 | | 23.Bak Eun-bi | KOR | 4:24.50 | 44 | | 24.Mihaela Dascalu | ROM | 4:26.65 | 63 | | 25.Ingrid Liepa | CAN | 4:27.99 | 11 | | 26.Li Song | CHN | 4:28.99 | 17 | | 27.Emese Doerfler-Antal | AUT | 4:33.67 | 1 | | 28.Ilonda Luse | LAT | 4:33.77 | 50 | | 29.Svetlana Chepelnikova | BLR | 4:36.97 | 3 | | 30.Svetlana Konstantinova | UKR | 4:37.27 | 4 | | 31.Kenzhes Orynbayeva | KAZ | 4:42.07 | 42 |
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