The top 20 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Women's 1000 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country.

Then the additional 16 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships.

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Olga Fatkulina at 1:15.44.

[4] On 24 November 2017, Russian athlete Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping offence.

[5] In January 2018, she successfully appealed against the disqualification at the court of arbitration for sport.