World Record: Elise Christie, Great Britain 42.335 Salt Lake City, United States 13 Nov 2016
Olympic Record: Wang Meng, China 42.985 Vancouver, Canada 17 Feb 2010
| Final A 21:09 | time | Note | | 1. Arianna Fontana |  Italy | 42.569 | Gold | | 2. Yara van Kerkhof |  Netherlands | 43.256 | Silver | | 3. Kim Boutin |  Canada | 43.881 | Bronze | | 4. Elise Christie |  Great Britain | 1:23.063 | | | 6. Choi Min-jeong |  South Korea | 42.570 | PEN |
| Final B 21:07 scratched | time | Note | | 5. Sofia Prosvirnova |  OA Russia | NT | Only Skater | | No run after only one skater qualified to this heat. |
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Semifinals - Tuesday 13.02 1-:-- | | First 2 progress to Final A. 3rd and 4th to Final B. Kim Boutin (CAN) received bye. |
| Semi 1 20:11 | time | Note | | 1. Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 42.422 | QA,OR | | 2. Arianna Fontana | Italy | 42.635 | QA | | 3. Sofia Prosvirnova | OA Russia | 43.219 | QB | | -. Fan Kexin |  China | 43.154 | PEN |
| Semi 2 20:13 | time | Note | | 1. Yara van Kerkhof | Netherlands | 43.182 | QA | | 2. Elise Christie | Great Britain | 43.184 | QA | | 3. Kim Boutin | Canada | 43.234 | ADVA | | -. Qu Chunyu | China | 1:08.871 | PEN |
| Quarter 1 19:00 | time | Note | | 1. Arianna Fontana | Italy | 43.128 | Q | | 2. Yara van Kerkhof | Netherlands | 43.197 | Q | | 3. Natalia Maliszewska |  Poland | 43.384 | | | -. Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | | PEN |
| Quarter 2 19:02 | time | Note | | 1. Elise Christie | Great Britain | 42.703 | Q,OR | | 2. Kim Boutin | Canada | 42.789 | Q | | 3. Andrea Keszler |  Hungary | 43.053 | | | 4. Anna Seidel |  Germany | 44.325 | |
| Quarter 3 19:04 | time | Note | | 1. Sofia Prosvirnova | OA Russia | 43.466 | Q | | 2. Fan Kexin | China | 43.485 | Q | | 3. Han Yutong | China | 43.627 | | | 4. Maame Biney |  United States | 44.772 | |
| Quarter 4 19:06 | time | Note | | 1. Qu Chunyu | China | 42.954 | Q | | 2. Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 42.996 | Q | | 3. Martina Valcepina | Italy | 43.023 | | | 4. Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 43.043 | |
| Heat 1 19:44 | time | Note | | 1. Kim Boutin | Canada | 43.634 | Q | | 2. Natalia Maliszewska | Poland | 43.725 | Q | | 3. Lana Gehring | United States | 43.825 | | | 4. Lucia Peretti | Italy | 43.994 | |
| Heat 2 19:46 | time | Note | | 1. Arianna Fontana | Italy | 43.214 | Q | | 2. Andrea Keszler | Hungary | 43.274 | Q | | 3. Kathryn Thomson | Great Britain | 1:08.896 | | | 4. Suzanne Schulting | Netherlands | DNF | DNF |
| Heat 3 19:48 | time | Note | | 1. Sofia Prosvirnova | OA Russia | 43.376 | Q | | 2. Yara van Kerkhof | Netherlands | 43.430 | Q | | 3. Bianca Walter | Germany | 43.541 | | | 4. Sumire Kikuchi |  Japan | 44.838 | |
| Heat 4 19:50 | time | Note | | 1. Elise Christie | Great Britain | 42.872 | Q,OR | | 2. Qu Chunyu | China | 42.971 | Q | | 3. Shim Suk-hee | South Korea | 43.048 | | | 4. Veronique Pierron |  France | 43.148 | |
| Heat 5 19:52 | time | Note | | 1. Fan Kexin | China | 43.350 | Q | | 2. Maame Biney | United States | 43.665 | Q | | 3. Kim A-lang | South Korea | 43.724 | | | 4. Anastassiya Krestova |  Kazakhstan | 43.821 | |
| Heat 6 19:54 | time | Note | | 1. Martina Valcepina | Italy | 43.698 | Q | | 2. Han Yutong | China | 43.719 | Q | | 3. Tifany Huot-Marchand | France | 44.659 | | | -. Jamie Macdonald | Canada | DNF | PEN |
| Heat 7 19:56 | time | Note | | 1. Marianne St-Gelais | Canada | 43.437 | Q | | 2. Anna Seidel | Germany | 43.742 | Q | | 3. Lara van Ruijven | Netherlands | 43.771 | | | 4. Magdalena Warakomska | Poland | 44.311 | |
| Heat 8 19:56 | time | Note | | 1. Choi Min-jeong | South Korea | 42.870 | Q,OR | | 2. Petra Jászapáti | Hungary | 55.670 | Q | | 3. Emina Malagich | OA Russia | 56.830 | | | -. Charlotte Gilmartin | Great Britain | 1:16.036 | PEN |
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| Positions | | ITA 1. 9. 27. | | NED 2. 20. 30. | | CAN 3. 16. P | | GBR 4. 24. P | | OAR 5. 23. | | KOR 6. 17. 19. | | CHN 7. 8. 12. | | HUN 10. 13. | | POL 11. 28. | | USA 14. 21. | | GER 15. 18. | | FRA 22. 25. | | KAZ 26. | | JPN 29. |
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