2nd World Cup 1996-1997
Result 3000 m Women (Group A)
| Venue | Heerenveen |
| Date | 30 November 1996 |
| Participants | 16 |
| Countries | 7 |
| World Record | 4.09,32 — Gunda Niemann-Kleemann — Calgary — 25 March 1994 |
| Pos | Skater | Nation | Time | |
| 1 | Tonny de Jong | 
| 4.17,01 | |
| 2 | Barbara de Loor |
| 4.17,90 | |
| 3 | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | 
| 4.18,56 | |
| 4 | Kirstin Holum | 
| 4.21,32 | |
| 5 | Anni Friesinger |
| 4.21,91 | |
| 6 | Svetlana Bazhanova | 
| 4.22,13 | |
| 7 | Mie Uehara | 
| 4.22,21 | |
| 8 | Claudia Pechstein |
| 4.23,77 | |
| 9 | Natalya Polozkova-Kozlova |
| 4.25,82 | |
| 10 | Emese Hunyady | 
| 4.26,86 | |
| 11 | Maki Tabata |
| 4.26,93 | |
| 12 | Elena Belci-Dal Farra | 
| 4.27,81 | |
| 13 | Chiharu Nozaki |
| 4.28,36 | |
| 14 | Heike Warnicke-Schalling |
| 4.29,69 | |
| 15 | Tatyana Trapeznikova |
| 4.31,90 | |
| 16 | Carla Zijlstra |
| 4.38,57 | fall |