| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merlene Ottey | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    22.65 Q | |
| 2 | Ekaterina Grigorieva | 
                                         
                                        RUS
                                     | 
                                    22.91 Q | |
| 3 | EkaterÃni Kóffa | 
                                         
                                        GRE
                                     | 
                                    23.05 Q | |
| 4 | Xuemei Li | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    23.06 | |
| 5 | Lucrécia Jardim | 
                                         
                                        POR
                                     | 
                                    23.16 | |
| 6 | Hana Benešová | 
                                         
                                        CZE
                                     | 
                                    23.34 | |
| 7 | Lauren Hewitt | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    23.53 | |
| 8 | Katharine Merry | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    23.98 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Susanthika Jayasinghe | 
                                         
                                        SRI
                                     | 
                                    22.47 Q | |
| 2 | Marina Trandenkova | 
                                         
                                        RUS
                                     | 
                                    22.63 Q | |
| 3 | Juliet Cuthbert | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    22.83 Q | |
| 4 | Jiankui Yan | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    22.97 SB | |
| 5 | Cheryl Taplin | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    23.07 | |
| 6 | Chandra Sturrup | 
                                         
                                        BAH
                                     | 
                                    23.07 | |
| 7 | Katia Benth | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    23.20 | |
| 8 | Simmone Jacobs | 
                                         
                                        GBR
                                     | 
                                    23.49 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    22.69 Q | |
| 2 | Inger Miller | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    22.85 Q | |
| 3 | Merlene Frazer | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    22.92 Q | |
| 4 | Pauline Davis-Thompson | 
                                         
                                        BAH
                                     | 
                                    23.13 | |
| 5 | Melanie Paschke | 
                                         
                                        GER
                                     | 
                                    23.22 | |
| 6 | Felipa Alicia Palacios | 
                                         
                                        COL
                                     | 
                                    23.34 | |
| 7 | Alenka Bikar | 
                                         
                                        SLO
                                     | 
                                    23.43 | |
| 8 | Sanna Hernesniemi-Kyllönen | 
                                         
                                        FIN
                                     | 
                                    23.52 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | 
                                         
                                        AUS
                                     | 
                                    22.45 Q | |
| 2 | Sylviane Félix | 
                                         
                                        FRA
                                     | 
                                    22.56 Q PB | |
| 3 | Zhanna Block | 
                                         
                                        UKR
                                     | 
                                    22.56 Q | |
| 4 | Juliet Campbell | 
                                         
                                        JAM
                                     | 
                                    22.75 q | |
| 5 | Zundra Feagin-Alexander | 
                                         
                                        USA
                                     | 
                                    22.81 q SB | |
| 6 | Petya Pendareva | 
                                         
                                        BUL
                                     | 
                                    22.90 q SB | |
| 7 | Xiaomei Liu | 
                                         
                                        CHN
                                     | 
                                    22.95 q | |
| 8 | Shanta Ghosh | 
                                         
                                        GER
                                     | 
                                    23.62 |