| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilke Wyludda |  GER | 67.72 | Q | ||||||
| 2 | Daniela Costian |  AUS | 62.74 | Q | ||||||
| 3 | Maritza Martén |  CUB | 60.88 | q | ||||||
| 4 | Iryna Yatchenko |  URS | 60.38 | q | ||||||
| 5 | Yonghua Zhao |  CHN | 59.80 | q | ||||||
| 6 | Franka Dietzsch |  GER | 59.16 | |||||||
| 7 | Stefenia Simova |  BUL | 58.10 | |||||||
| 8 | Lacy Barnes-Mileham |  USA | 56.84 | |||||||
| 9 | Agnese Maffeis |  ITA | 56.36 | |||||||
| 10 | Mette Bergmann |  NOR | 55.78 | |||||||
| 11 | Teresa Machado |  POR | 53.64 | |||||||
| 12 | Alice Matejková |  TCH | 53.22 | |||||||
| 13 | Ikuko Kitamori |  JPN | 48.52 | |||||||
| 14 | Maria L. Obando |  NCA | 41.78 | |||||||
| Hanane Ahmed Khaled |  EGY | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | DETAIL | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsvetanka Khristova |  BUL | 67.10 | Q | ||||||
| 2 | Martina Hellmann |  GER | 65.26 | Q | ||||||
| 3 | Larisa Mikhalchenko |  URS | 64.68 | Q | ||||||
| 4 | Ellina Zvereva |  URS | 61.86 | |||||||
| 5 | Yanling Xiao |  CHN | 61.68 | |||||||
| 6 | Bárbara Hechavarría |  CUB | 60.86 | |||||||
| 7 | Chunfeng Min |  CHN | 59.42 | |||||||
| 8 | Vladimíra Racková |  TCH | 58.38 | |||||||
| 9 | Marie-Paule Geldhof |  BEL | 57.26 | |||||||
| 10 | Carla Garrett |  USA | 56.62 | |||||||
| 11 | Jackie McKernan |  GBR | 55.64 | |||||||
| 12 | Manuela Tîrneci |  ROU | 55.62 | |||||||
| 13 | Penny Neer |  USA | 54.26 | |||||||
| 14 | Ángeles Barreiro |  ESP | 51.24 | |||||||
| 15 | Wilna Bredenhann |  NAM | 43.60 | |||||||
| 16 | Hughette Robertson |  GUY | 34.52 |