| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cydonie Mothersille |  CAY | 22.78 Q | 0.246 | 
| 2 | Felipa Alicia Palacios |  COL | 23.08 Q SB | 0.215 | 
| 3 | Oksana Ekk |  RUS | 23.17 Q | 0.159 | 
| 4 | Fatima Yusuf |  NGR | 23.21 q | 0.222 | 
| 5 | Alenka Bikar |  SLO | 23.26 q | 0.191 | 
| 6 | Monica Twum |  GHA | 23.51 | 0.164 | 
| Marion Jones |  USA | DQ | 0.225 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Myriam Léonie Mani |  CMR | 22.68 Q | 0.150 | 
| 2 | Muriel Hurtis |  FRA | 23.04 Q | 0.220 | 
| 3 | Cathy Freeman |  AUS | 23.11 Q | 0.261 | 
| 4 | Juliet Campbell |  JAM | 23.18 Q | 0.289 | 
| 5 | Sarah Reilly |  IRL | 23.43 | 0.175 | 
| 6 | Zuzanna Radecka |  POL | 23.57 | 0.157 | 
| 7 | Kaltouma Nadjina |  CHA | 23.81 | 0.344 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauren Hewitt |  AUS | 23.07 Q | 0.226 | 
| 2 | Mercy Nku |  NGR | 23.14 Q | 0.180 | 
| 3 | Nanceen Perry |  USA | 23.18 Q | 0.179 | 
| 4 | Johanna Manninen |  FIN | 23.40 Q | 0.222 | 
| 5 | EkaterÃni Kóffa |  GRE | 23.53 | 0.245 | 
| 6 | Lineo Shoai |  LES | 25.57 | 0.171 | 
| Manuela Levorato |  ITA | DNS | ||
| Andrea Philipp |  GER | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melinda Gainsford-Taylor |  AUS | 22.71 Q | 0.251 | 
| 2 | Louise Ayétotché |  CIV | 22.85 Q NR | 0.283 | 
| 3 | Chandra Sturrup |  BAH | 23.09 Q | 0.181 | 
| 4 | Olena Pastushenko-Sinyavina |  UKR | 23.64 Q | 0.208 | 
| 5 | Lyubov Perepelova |  UZB | 23.83 | 0.300 | 
| 6 | Karin Mayr-Krifka |  AUT | 23.90 | 0.164 | 
| 7 | Akonga Nsimbo |  COD | 25.35 NR | 0.240 | 
| Ameerah Bello |  ISV | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly McDonald |  JAM | 22.50 Q | 0.198 | 
| 2 | Pauline Davis-Thompson |  BAH | 22.61 Q | 0.214 | 
| 3 | Irina Khabarova |  RUS | 23.21 Q | 0.278 | 
| 4 | Valma Bass |  SKN | 23.37 Q | 0.209 | 
| 5 | Mireille Donders |  SUI | 23.44 | 0.186 | 
| 6 | Xiaomei Liu |  CHN | 23.56 | 0.230 | 
| 7 | Joanne Durant |  BAR | 23.90 | 0.265 | 
| 8 | Heather Samuel |  ANT | 24.44 | 0.189 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary Onyali-Omagbemi |  NGR | 22.90 Q | 0.243 | 
| 2 | Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie |  BAH | 23.19 Q | 0.237 | 
| 3 | Sabrina Mulrain |  GER | 23.31 Q | 0.216 | 
| 4 | Astia Walker |  JAM | 23.33 Q | 0.203 | 
| 5 | Samantha Davies |  GBR | 23.36 q | 0.215 | 
| 6 | Wangping Qin |  CHN | 24.10 | 0.271 | 
| 7 | Mila Savic |  SCG | 24.12 | 0.330 | 
| 8 | Monika Gachevska |  BUL | 24.16 | 0.167 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Susanthika Jayasinghe |  SRI | 22.53 Q | 0.229 | 
| 2 | Zhanna Block |  UKR | 23.13 Q | 0.213 | 
| 3 | Torri Edwards |  USA | 23.29 Q | 0.164 | 
| 4 | Marina Trandenkova |  RUS | 23.31 Q | 0.176 | 
| 5 | Joice Maduaka |  GBR | 23.36 q | 0.196 | 
| 6 | Aïda Diop |  SEN | 23.46 | 0.196 | 
| 7 | Hellena Wrappah |  GHA | 23.64 |