| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cathy Freeman | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    51.29 Q | |
| 2 | Melanie Neef | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    51.39 Q | |
| 3 | Tatyana Chebykina | 
                                         
                                        RUS
                                     | 
                                    51.58 Q | |
| 4 | Linda Kisabaka | 
                                         
                                        GER
                                     | 
                                    51.96 | |
| 5 | Idalmis Bonne | 
                                         
                                        CUB
                                     | 
                                    52.10 | |
| 6 | Zoila Stewart | 
                                         
                                        CRC
                                     | 
                                    53.48 | |
| 7 | Pei-Chin Hsu | 
                                         
                                        TPE
                                     | 
                                    54.93 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maicel Malone-Wallace | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    51.22 Q | |
| 2 | Julia Duporty | 
                                         
                                        CUB
                                     | 
                                    51.55 Q | |
| 3 | Olga V. Nazarova | 
                                         
                                        RUS
                                     | 
                                    51.55 Q | |
| 4 | Olabisi Afolabi | 
                                         
                                        NGR
                                     | 
                                    51.79 | |
| 5 | Grace Birungi | 
                                         
                                        UGA
                                     | 
                                    53.92 | |
| 6 | Ngozi Mwanamwambwa | 
                                         
                                        ZAM
                                     | 
                                    53.92 | |
| 7 | Xifang Lu | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    56.64 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    51.24 Q | |
| 2 | Yuliya Sotnikova | 
                                         
                                        RUS
                                     | 
                                    51.39 Q | |
| 3 | Hengyun Zhang | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    51.51 Q | |
| 4 | Uta Rohländer-Fromm | 
                                         
                                        GER
                                     | 
                                    51.68 q | |
| 5 | Norfalia Carabali | 
                                         
                                        COL
                                     | 
                                    51.96 | |
| 6 | Öznur Dursun | 
                                         
                                        TUR
                                     | 
                                    54.21 | |
| Kannan Solaimathi | 
                                         
                                        IND
                                     | 
                                    DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Myers | 
                                         
                                        ESP
                                     | 
                                    51.18 Q | |
| 2 | Pauline Davis-Thompson | 
                                         
                                        BAH
                                     | 
                                    51.21 Q | |
| 3 | Kim Graham | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    51.39 Q | |
| 4 | Jing Li | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    51.50 q | |
| 5 | Sandra Kuschmann | 
                                         
                                        GER
                                     | 
                                    51.99 | |
| 6 | Olga Moroz | 
                                         
                                        UKR
                                     | 
                                    52.31 | |
| 7 | Sharron Celecia | 
                                         
                                        GIB
                                     | 
                                    1:01.03 | |
| Kate Clarke | 
                                         
                                        LBR
                                     | 
                                    DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falilat Ogunkoya | 
                                         
                                        NGR
                                     | 
                                    50.72 Q | |
| 2 | Jearl Miles Clark | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    50.94 Q | |
| 3 | Claudine Williams | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    51.32 Q | |
| 4 | Nancy McLeon | 
                                         
                                        CUB
                                     | 
                                    51.39 q | |
| 5 | Evelyne Élien | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    53.34 | |
| 6 | Mercy Addy | 
                                         
                                        GHA
                                     | 
                                    54.29 | |
| Bernice Morton | 
                                         
                                        SKN
                                     | 
                                    DQ | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandie Richards | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    51.30 Q | |
| 2 | Olena Rurak | 
                                         
                                        UKR
                                     | 
                                    51.32 Q | |
| 3 | Daniela Georgieva | 
                                         
                                        BUL
                                     | 
                                    51.37 Q | |
| 4 | Helena Fuchsová | 
                                         
                                        CZE
                                     | 
                                    51.96 | |
| 5 | Lee Naylor | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    52.37 | |
| 6 | Vernetta Lesforis | 
                                         
                                        LCA
                                     | 
                                    56.43 | |
| 7 | Mirna El-Laz | 
                                         
                                        LBN
                                     | 
                                    59.96 | |
| Francine Landre | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    DNF | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fatima Yusuf | 
                                         
                                        NGR
                                     | 
                                    50.60 Q | |
| 2 | Renée Poetschka | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    51.26 Q | |
| 3 | Ximena Restrepo | 
                                         
                                        COL
                                     | 
                                    51.57 Q | |
| 4 | Ludmila Formanová | 
                                         
                                        CZE
                                     | 
                                    52.05 | |
| 5 | Merlene Frazer | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    52.24 | |
| 6 | Dora Kyriakou | 
                                         
                                        CYP
                                     | 
                                    52.81 | |
| 7 | Mary-Estelle Kapalu | 
                                         
                                        VAN
                                     | 
                                    53.92 | |
| 8 | Bipendu Mbombo | 
                                         
                                        COD
                                     | 
                                    1:01.60 |