Final | time | 1. Tatyana Kazankina | URS | 4:05.48 | 2. Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR | 4:06.02 | 3. Ulrike Klapezynski | GDR | 4:06.09 | 4. Nikolina Shtereva | BUL | 4:06.57 | 5. Lyudmila Bragina | URS | 4:07.20 | 6. Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:07.27 | 7. Ellen Wellmann | FRG | 4:07.91 | 8. Janice Merrill | USA | 4:08.54 | 9. Nina Holmen | FIN | 4:09.55 |
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Semi 1 | time | 1. Ulrike Klapezynski | GDR | 4:02.13 | 2. Nikolina Chtereva | BUL | 4:02.33 | 3. Liudmila Bragina | URS | 4:02.41 | 4. Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR | 4:02.45 | 5. Janice Merrill | USA | 4:02.61 | 6. Raisa Katiukova | URS | 4:03.20 | 7. Brigitte Kraus | FRG | 4:04.21 | 8. Grete Waitz | NOR | 4:04.80 | 9. Sonja Castelein | BEL | 4:13.46 |
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Semi 2 | time | 1. Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 4:07.37 | 2. Nina Holmen | FIN | 4:07.53 | 3. Ellen Wellmann | FRG | 4:07.54 | 4. Gabriell Dorio | ITA | 4:07.61 | 5. Mary Stewart | GBR | 4:07.65 | 6. Vessela Yatzinska | BUL | 4:07.89 | 7. Natalia Marasescu | ROM | 4:07.92 | 8. Christine Stoll | GDR | 4:08.28 | 9. Francie Larrieu | USA | 4:09.07 |
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Heat 1 | time | 1. Gabriell Dorio | ITA | 4:10.84 | 2. Raisa Katiukova | URS | 4:10.88 | 3. Janice Merrill | USA | 4:10.92 | 4. Mary Stewart | GBR | 4:11.10 | 5. Maricica Puica | ROM | 4:12.62 | 6. Rossitza Pekhlivanova | BUL | 4:13.11 | 7. Judith Pollock | AUS | 4:14.22 | 8. Bernadet Vanroy | BEL | 4:16.27 | 9. Magdolna Lazar | HUN | 4:23.30 | -.Maria Ritter | LIE | DNS |
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Heat 2 | time | 1. Liudmila Bragina | URS | 4:07.11 | 2. Christine Stoll | GDR | 4:07.13 | 3. Nina Holmen | FIN | 4:07.14 | 4. Grete Waitz | NOR | 4:07.20 | 5. Ellen Wellmann | FRG | 4:07.20 | 6. Francie Larrieu | USA | 4:07.21 | 7. Dianne Zorn | NZL | 4:12.81 | 8. Thelma Wright | CAN | 4:15.23 | 9. Ndew Niang | SEN | 4:44.64 |
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Heat 3 | time | 1. Ulrike Klapezynski | GDR | 4:11.62 | 2. Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 4:12.10 | 3. Vessela Yatzinska | BUL | 4:12.72 | 4. Sonja Castelein | BEL | 4:12.95 | 5. Penny Yule | GBR | 4:13.36 | 6. Ilona Silai | ROM | 4:13.61 | 7. Margheri Gargano | ITA | 4:15.94 | 8. Carmen Valero | ESP | 4:17.65 | 9. Penny Werthner | CAN | 4:18.19 |
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Heat 4 | time | 1. Brigitte Kraus | FRG | 4:07.79 | 2. Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR | 4:08.23 | 3. Natalia Marasescu | ROM | 4:08.31 | 4. Nikolina Chtereva | BUL | 4:08.38 | 5. Mary Purcell | IRL | 4:08.63 | 6. Cynthia Poor | USA | 4:08.89 | 7. Anne Garrett | NZL | 4:10.68 | 8. Silvana Cruciata | ITA | 4:16.78 | 9. Lilja Guomundsdottir | ISL | 4:20.27 |
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