| | | Final |  | time |  | L |  | 1. Renate Meißner |  East Germany | 7.4s |  | 6 |  | 2. Sylviane Telliez |  France | 7.5s |  | 1 |  | 3. Wilma van den Berg |  Netherlands | 7.5s |  | 2 |  | 4. Nadezhda Besfamilnaya |  Soviet Union | 7.6s |  | 5 |  | 5. Mirosława Sarna |  Poland | 7.6s |  | 4 |  | 6. Annegret Irrgang |  West Germany | 7.6s |  | 3 | 
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 |  |  | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final. | 
 | | Semi 1 |  | time |  |  | 1. Renate Meißner |  East Germany | 7.4s | Q |  | 2. Wilma van den Berg |  Netherlands | 7.5s | Q |  | 3. Annegret Irrgang |  West Germany | 7.5s | Q |  | 4. Eleonora Monoranu |  Romania | 7.6s |  |  | 5. Else Hadrup |  Denmark | 7.6s |  |  | 6. Vera Popkova |  Soviet Union | 7.7s |  | 
 |  | | Semi 2 |  | time |  |  | 1. Sylviane Telliez |  France | 7.5s | Q |  | 2. Mirosława Sarna |  Poland | 7.5s | Q |  | 3. Nadezhda Besfamilnaya |  Soviet Union | 7.6s | Q |  | 4. Brigitte Ortner |  Austria | 7.7s |  |  | 5. Cecilia Molinari |  Italy | 7.7s |  |  | 6. Alena Vozáková |  Czechoslovakia | 7.7s |  | 
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 | | Heat 1 |  | time |  |  | 1. Renate Meißner |  East Germany | 7.3s | Q |  | 2. Sylviane Telliez |  France | 7.5s | Q |  | 3. Eleonora Monoranu |  Romania | 7.6s | Q |  | 4. Brigitte Ortner |  Austria | 7.7s | Q |  | 5. Elisabeth Waldburger |  Switzerland | 7.7s |  | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time |  |  | 1. Wilma van den Berg |  Netherlands | 7.5s | Q |  | 2. Mirosława Sarna |  Poland | 7.7s | Q |  | 3. Vera Popkova |  Soviet Union | 7.7s | Q |  | 4. Alena Vozáková |  Czechoslovakia | 7.8s | Q |  | 5. Gabrielle Meyer |  France | 7.8s |  | 
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 | | Heat 3 |  | time |  |  | 1. Annegret Irrgang |  West Germany | 7.6s | Q |  | 2. Nadezhda Besfamilnaya |  Soviet Union | 7.6s | Q |  | 3. Else Hadrup |  Denmark | 7.7s | Q |  | 4. Cecilia Molinari |  Italy | 7.7s | Q | 
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