| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anelia Nuneva |  BUL | 11.20 | |
| 2 | Angella Taylor-Issajenko |  CAN | 11.24 | |
| 3 | Alice Brown |  USA | 11.30 | |
| 4 | Olga Antonova |  URS | 11.32 | |
| 5 | Els Scharn-Vader |  NED | 11.56 | |
| 6 | Leleith Hodges |  JAM | 11.63 | |
| 7 | Marie-France Loval |  FRA | 11.79 | |
| 8 | Monika Hirsch |  FRG | 11.91 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marita Koch |  GDR | 11.25 | |
| 2 | Merlene Ottey |  JAM | 11.33 | |
| 3 | Helinä Marjamaa |  FIN | 11.34 | |
| 4 | Nadezhda Georgieva |  BUL | 11.43 | |
| 5 | Beverley Callender |  GBR | 11.48 | |
| 6 | Esmeralda de Jesús Garcia |  BRA | 11.64 | |
| 7 | Dorthe A. Rasmussen |  DEN | 11.67 | |
| 8 | Lydia De Vega-Mercado |  PHI | 11.90 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diane Williams |  USA | 11.25 | |
| 2 | Silke Gladisch-Möller |  GDR | 11.36 | |
| 3 | Rose-Aimée Bacoul |  FRA | 11.42 | |
| 4 | Shirley Thomas |  GBR | 11.48 | |
| 5 | Rufina Ubah |  NGR | 11.60 | |
| 6 | Pauline Davis-Thompson |  BAH | 11.62 | |
| 7 | Juliet Cuthbert |  JAM | 11.67 | |
| 8 | Radislava Šoborová |  TCH | 11.90 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evelyn Ashford |  USA | 11.11 | |
| 2 | Marlies Göhr |  GDR | 11.16 | |
| 3 | Angela Bailey |  CAN | 11.36 | |
| 4 | Heather Hunte-Oakes |  GBR | 11.57 | |
| 5 | Marina Romanova |  URS | 11.61 | |
| 6 | Lena Möller |  SWE | 11.75 | |
| 7 | Laurence Bily |  FRA | 11.76 | |
| 8 | Shu-Foog Shen |  TPE | 12.17 |