| Final | | time | | gap | L | | 1. Sally Tuttle |  United States | 1:00.33 | | | 4 | | 2. Jutta Weber |  East Germany | 1:00.59 | | +0.26s | 3 | | 3. Heidi Reineck |  West Germany | 1:00.82 | | +0.59s | 2 | | 4. Eadie Wetzel | United States | 1:00.87 | | +0.54s | 5 | | 5. Tayana Zolotnitskaya |  Soviet Union | 1:01.56 | | +1.23s | 6 | | 6. Magda Paton |  Hungary | 1:02.13 | | +1.80s | 7 | | 8. Jill Quirk |  Canada | 1:02.29 | | +1.96s | 8 | | 7. Elena Timoshenko | Soviet Union | 1:02.44 | | +2.11s | 1 |
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| Heat ? | | time | | gap | L | | 1. Sally Tuttle | United States | 1:00.21 | | | - | | 2. Eadie Wetzel | United States | 1:00.97 | | +0.76s | - | | 3. Jutta Weber | East Germany | 1:01.34 | | +1.13s | - | | 4. Tayana Zolotnitskaya | Soviet Union | 1:01.56 | | +1.35s | - | | 5. Heidi Reineck | West Germany | 1:02.07 | | +1.86s | - | | 6. Magda Paton | Hungary | 1:02.56 | | +1.35s | - | | 7. Elena Timoshenko | Soviet Union | 1:03.23 | | +2.02s | - | | 8. Jill Quirk | Canada | 1:03.29 | | +2.08s | - | | 9. Merrily Stratten | Canada | 1:03.54 | | +2.33s | - | | 10.Edit Kovacs | Hungary | 1:03.59 | | +2.38s | - | | 11.Judith Sirs |  Great Britain | 1:03.77 | | +2.56s | - | | 12.Jennifer Chiller |  Australia | 1:03.81 | | +2.60s | - | | 13.Chris Knibuelhy |  France | 1:04.45 | | +4.24s | - | | 14.Alex. Hlavachkova |  Czechoslovakia | 1:04.48 | | +4.37s | - | | 15.Eliana Macia |  Brazil | 1:04.92 | | +4.71s | - | | 16.Anne Gaudibert | France | 1:05.45 | | +5.24s | - | | 17.Janet Slavcheva |  Bulgaria | 1:05.60 | | +5.31s | - | | 18.Sally Pickering | Great Britain | 1:05.83 | | +5.62s | - | | 19.Hriska Peycheva | Bulgaria | 1:06.28 | | +6.07s | - | | 20.Franca Maltaglisti |  Italy | 1:06.60 | | +6.39s | - | | 21.Vera Bortoli | Italy | 1:07.90 | | +7.69s | - |
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