| 1 | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (Senior) | GER | 4:09.40 | | - | 60 |
| 2 | Claudia Pechstein (Senior) | GER | 4:09.72 | | +0.320 | 50 |
| 3 | Tonny de Jong (Senior) | NED | 4:11.64 | | +2.240 | 45 |
| 4 | Renate Groenewold (Neo) | NED | 4:13.38 | | +3.980 | 40 |
| 5 | Carla Zijlstra (Senior) | NED | 4:13.53 | | +4.130 | 36 |
| 6 | Anni Friesinger (Neo) | GER | 4:13.54 | SB | +4.140 | 32 |
| 7 | Jennifer Rodriguez (Neo) | USA | 4:15.06 | | +5.660 | 28 |
| 8 | Maki Tabata (Senior) | JPN | 4:16.13 | | +6.730 | 25 |
| 9 | Ulrike Adeberg (Senior) | GER | 4:17.12 | | +7.720 | 22 |
| 10 | Emese Hunyady (M30) | AUT | 4:18.17 | | +8.770 | 20 |
| 11 | Annamarie Thomas (Senior) | NED | 4:19.70 | | +10.300 | 18 |
| 12 | Eriko Seo (Neo) | JPN | 4:20.23 | | +10.830 | 16 |
| 13 | Marieke Wijsman (Senior) | NED | 4:20.39 | | +10.990 | 14 |
| 14 | Cindy Overland (Neo) | CAN | 4:21.17 | | +11.770 | 13 |
| 15 | Catherine Raney (A2) | USA | 4:21.18 | | +11.780 | 12 |
| 16 | Natalja Polozkova-Kozlova (Senior) | RUS | 4:21.70 | SB | +12.300 | 11 |
| 17 | Varvara Barysjeva (Neo) | RUS | 4:22.93 | | +13.530 | 10 |
| 18 | Anette Tønsberg (Senior) | NOR | 4:23.62 | | +14.220 | 9 |
| 19 | Yayoi Nagaoka (Senior) | JPN | 4:24.85 | | +15.450 | 8 |
| 20 | Anna Saveljeva (Neo) | RUS | 4:25.60 | | +16.200 | 7 |
| 21 | Svetlana Vysokova (Senior) | RUS | 4:25.68 | SB | +16.280 | 6 |
| 22 | Chiharu Nozaki (Senior) | JPN | 4:25.74 | | +16.340 | 5 |
| 23 | Daniela Anschütz (Senior) | GER | 4:25.99 | | +16.590 | 4 |
| 24 | Kristina Groves (Neo) | CAN | 4:28.17 | | +18.770 | 3 |
| 25 | Sarah Shapiro (A2) | USA | 4:29.02 | | +19.620 | 2 |
| 26 | Emese Dörfler-Antal (Senior) | AUT | 4:29.10 | | +19.700 | 1 |
| 27 | Nicole Slot (M30) | CAN | 4:29.15 | | +19.750 | |
| 28 | Ellen Kathrine Lie (Neo) | NOR | 4:31.00 | SB | +21.600 | |
| 29 | Krisztina Egyed (Neo) | HUN | 4:31.43 | | +22.030 | |
| 30 | Isabelle Doucet (Senior) | CAN | 4:31.76 | | +22.360 | |
| 31 | Katarzyna Wójcicka (A2) | POL | 4:32.39 | NRJ | +22.990 | |
| 32 | Outi Aunula-Ylá-Sulkava (Senior) | FIN | 4:33.55 | | +24.150 | |
| 33 | Anne Therese Tveter (Neo) | NOR | 4:33.91 | | +24.510 | |
| 34 | Yuri Obara (A1) | JPN | 4:35.72 | | +26.320 | |
| 35 | Svetlana Tsjepelnikova (Neo) | BLR | 4:35.96 | | +26.560 | |
| 36 | Hedvig Bjelkevik (A1) | NOR | 4:37.04 | NRJ | +27.640 | |
| 37 | Shana Sundstrom (Senior) | USA | 4:41.24 | | +31.840 | |
| 38 | Jenny Andberg (Senior) | FIN | 4:41.88 | SB | +32.480 | |
| 39 | Irina Safrankova (Neo) | BLR | 4:42.25 | SB | +32.850 | |
| 40 | Anna Björemark (A2) | SWE | 4:43.04 | NRJ | +33.640 | |
| 41 | Anna Karlsson (A2) | SWE | 4:48.30 | SB | +38.900 | |
| 42 | Jana Rejhonová (Senior) | CZE | 4:50.76 | | +41.360 | |