| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deon Hemmings |  JAM | 54.42 Q | |
| 2 | Sally Gunnell |  GBR | 54.53 Q SB | |
| 3 | Ester Goossens |  NED | 54.84 Q NR | |
| 4 | Andrea Blackett |  BAR | 55.26 q | |
| 5 | Tatyana Ledovskaya |  BLR | 56.88 | |
| 6 | Rebecca Russell-Buchanan |  USA | 57.79 | |
| 7 | ChristÃna Panágou |  GRE | 1:01.14 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tetiana Tereschuk-Antipova |  UKR | 55.17 Q | |
| 2 | Tonja Buford-Bailey |  USA | 55.25 Q | |
| 3 | Anna Chuprina-Knoroz |  RUS | 55.34 Q | |
| 4 | Miriam Alonso |  ESP | 55.57 q SB | |
| 5 | Gudrún Arnardóttir |  ISL | 55.76 q | |
| 6 | Donalda Duprey |  CAN | 56.73 | |
| 7 | Inicia C. Da Fonseca |  STP | 1:01.39 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Batten |  USA | 54.56 Q | |
| 2 | Susan Smith-Walsh |  IRL | 54.61 Q NR | |
| 3 | Yekaterina Bakhvalova |  RUS | 55.08 Q | |
| 4 | Karlene Haughton |  JAM | 55.27 q | |
| 5 | Judit Szekeres |  HUN | 55.99 | |
| 6 | Carla Barbarino |  ITA | 57.05 | |
| 7 | Rikke Rønholt-Albertsen |  DEN | 57.26 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nezha Bidouane |  MAR | 55.53 Q | |
| 2 | Silvia Rieger |  GER | 55.64 Q | |
| 3 | Debbie-Ann Parris-Thymes |  JAM | 55.84 Q | |
| 4 | Irina Lenskiy |  UKR | 56.05 | |
| 5 | Natalya Torshina-Alimzhanova |  KAZ | 56.64 | |
| 6 | Ryan Tolbert-Jackson |  USA | 56.67 |