| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yekaterina Fesenko-Grun | 
                                         
                                        URS
                                     | 
                                    56.43 | |
| 2 | Ann-Louise Skoglund | 
                                         
                                        SWE
                                     | 
                                    56.80 | |
| 3 | Gwen Wall | 
                                         
                                        CAN
                                     | 
                                    57.14 | |
| 4 | Judi Brown-King | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    57.14 | |
| 5 | Giuseppina Cirulli | 
                                         
                                        ITA
                                     | 
                                    57.43 | |
| 6 | Rose Tata-Muya | 
                                         
                                        KEN
                                     | 
                                    58.09 | |
| 7 | Guihua Liu | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    59.39 | |
| 8 | Felicia Candelario | 
                                         
                                        DOM
                                     | 
                                    1:00.72 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Ambraziené | 
                                         
                                        URS
                                     | 
                                    56.30 | |
| 2 | Susan Morley | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    56.58 | |
| 3 | Petra Krug | 
                                         
                                        GDR
                                     | 
                                    56.87 | |
| 4 | Anna Filicková | 
                                         
                                        TCH
                                     | 
                                    57.09 | |
| 5 | Ruth Kyalisima | 
                                         
                                        UGA
                                     | 
                                    57.58 | |
| 6 | Helle Sichlau | 
                                         
                                        DEN
                                     | 
                                    57.90 | |
| 7 | Tonja Brown | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    58.00 | |
| 8 | Ovrill Dwyer-Brown | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    58.40 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nawal El Moutawakel | 
                                         
                                        MAR
                                     | 
                                    56.52 | |
| 2 | Petra Pfaff | 
                                         
                                        GDR
                                     | 
                                    56.56 | |
| 3 | Hilde Fredriksen | 
                                         
                                        NOR
                                     | 
                                    56.66 | |
| 4 | Christine Slythe | 
                                         
                                        CAN
                                     | 
                                    57.40 | |
| 5 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    57.97 | |
| 6 | Verona Elder | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    58.74 | |
| 7 | Tuija Helander-Kuusisto | 
                                         
                                        FIN
                                     | 
                                    59.43 | |
| 8 | Mary Wagner | 
                                         
                                        FRG
                                     | 
                                    DNF* | 
IAAF Rule * - Beyond Time Limit
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Debbie Flintoff-King | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    56.47 | |
| 2 | Cristieana Cojocaru-Matei | 
                                         
                                        ROU
                                     | 
                                    56.49 | |
| 3 | Ellen Neumann-Fiedler | 
                                         
                                        GDR
                                     | 
                                    56.58 | |
| 4 | Sharrieffa Barksdale | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    56.60 | |
| 5 | Gladys Taylor | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    58.25 | |
| 6 | Andrea Page | 
                                         
                                        CAN
                                     | 
                                    58.55 | |
| 7 | Marcela Ševciková | 
                                         
                                        TCH
                                     | 
                                    1:00.34 |