Final | time | 1. Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 3:56.6 | 2. Christiane Wartenberg | GDR | 3:57.8 | 3. Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 3:59.6 | 4. Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:00.3 | 5. Ulrike Bruns | GDR | 4:00.7 | 6. Liubov Smolka | URS | 4:01.3 | 7. Maricica Puika | ROM | 4:01.3 | 8. Ileana Silai | ROM | 4:03.0 | 9. Natalia Marasescu | ROM | 4:04.8 |
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| Venue: Central Lenin Stadium, Luzhniki 100,000. | 26 competitors from -- nations. |
Round | H | Athl | Date | Heats | 2 | 26 | 30.07 |
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Heat 1 | time | 1. Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 3:59.2 | 2. Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 3:59.5 | 3. Christiane Wartenberg | GDR | 4:00.4 | 4. Ulrike Bruns | GDR | 4:01.6 | 5. Maricica Puika | ROM | 4:01.7 | 6. Vesela Yatsinska | BUL | 4:04.7 | 7. Cornelia Borki | SUI | 4:05.5 | 8. Totka Petrova | BUL | 4:13.8 | 9. Janet Marlow | GBR | 4:15.9 | 10.Amsale Woldegibriel | ETH | 4:25.3 | 11.Marcellino Emmanuel | TAN | 4:26.8 | 12.Albertine Raheliarisoa | MAD | 4:30.8 | 13.Margaret Morel | SEY | 4:37.9 |
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Heat 2 | time | 1. Liubov Smolka | URS | 4:04.4 | 2. Ileana Silai | ROM | 4:04.7 | 3. Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:05.0 | 4. Natalia Marasescu | ROM | 4:05.9 | 5. Anna Bukis | POL | 4:06.0 | 6. Beate Liebich | GDR | 4:06.8 | 7. Nikolina Shchereva | BUL | 4:08.3 | 8. Breda Pergar | YUG | 4:13.2 | 9. Agnese Rossamai | ITA | 4:14.7 | 10.Mwinga Mwanjala | TAN | 4:20.9 | 11.Thi Be Trinh | VIE | 4:38.6 | -. Hala el-Moughrabi | SYR | DNS | -. Gita Zutshi | IND | DNS |
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