Final | time | | 1. Ellen van Langen | Netherlands | 1:55.54 | | 2. Liliya Nurutdinova | Unified Team | 1:55.99 | | 3. Ana Fidelia Quirot | Cuba | 1:56.80 | | 4. Inna Yevseyeva | Unified Team | 1:57.20 | | 5. Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 1:57.49 | | 6. Ella Kovacs | Romania | 1:57.95 | | 7. Joetta Clark | United States | 1:58.06 | | 8. Lyubov Gurina | Unified Team | 1:58.13 | |
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| Venue: Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc 67,007. | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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World record: 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvílová, Czechoslovakia, Munich, West Germany, July 26, 1983 | Olympic record: 1:53.43 Nadiya Olizarenko, Soviet Union, Moscow, Soviet Union, July 27, 1980 |
Semi 1 | time | | 1. Liliya Nurutdinova | Unified Team | 1:58.04 | | 2. Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 1:58.16 | | 3. Inna Yevseyeva | Unified Team | 1:58.20 | | 4. Joetta Clark | United States | 1:58.22 | | 5. Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 1:58.28 | | 6. Charmaine Crooks | Canada | 1:58.55 | | 7. Lorraine Baker | Great Britain | 2:02.17 | | 8. Sabine Zwiener | Germany | 2:02.64 | |
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Semi 2 | time | | 1. Lyubov Gurina | Unified Team | 2:00.64 | | 2. Ellen van Langen | Netherlands | 2:00.68 | | 3. Ana Fidelia Quirot | | 2:00.86 | | 4. Ella Kovacs | Romania | 2:00.89 | | 5. Sigrun Grau | Germany | 2:00.91 | | 6. Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 2:02.85 | | 7. Diane Edwards | Great Britain | 2:04.32 | | 8. Julie Jenkins | United States | 2:06.53 | |
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Heat 1 | time | | 1. Sigrun Grau | Germany | 2:00.31 | | 2. Liliya Nurutdinova | Unified Team | 2:00.37 | | 3. Diane Edwards | Great Britain | 2:00.39 | | 4. Shiny Wilson | India | 2:01.90 | | 5. Stella Jongmans | Netherlands | 2:02.26 | | 6. Brigitte Nganaye | Central Africa | 2:15.70 | | -. Baguepeng Gangue R. | Chad | DSQ | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Joetta Clark | United States | 1:59.62 | | 2. Ellen van Langen | Netherlands | 1:59.86 | | 3. Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 2:00.57 | | 4. Christine Wachtel | Germany | 2:01.39 | | 5. Paula Fryer | Great Britain | 2:02.72 | | 6. Sukanya Sang-Ngeun | Thailand | 2:09.94 | | 7. Andrea Garae | Vanuatu | 2:28.61 | |
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Heat 3 | time | | 1. Ella Kovacs | Romania | 1:59.88 | | 2. Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 1:59.93 | | 3. Julie Jenkins | United States | 1:59.96 | | 4. Sabine Zwiener | Germany | 2:00.87 | | 5. Fabia Trabaldo | Italy | 2:01.44 | | 6. Sriyani Dhammika Menike | Sri Lanka | 2:03.85 | NR | 7. Prisca Singamo | Malawi | 2:20.84 | |
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Heat 4 | time | | 1. Inna Yevseyeva | Unified Team | 1:58.58 | | 2. Ana Fidelia Quirot | Cuba | 1:59.06 | | 3. Charmaine Crooks | Canada | 1:59.52 | | 4. Lorraine Baker | Great Britain | 2:00.50 | | 5. Leontia Sălăgeanu | Romania | 2:01.44 | | 6. Zewdie Hailemariam | Ethiopia | 2:03.85 | | -. Carol Galea | Malta | DSQ | |
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Heat 5 | time | | 1. Lyubov Gurina | Unified Team | 2:00.27 | | 2. Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 2:00.83 | | 3. Meredith Rainey | United States | 2:01.33 | | 4. Viviane Dorsile | France | 2:01.54 | | 5. Amaia Andrés | Spain | 2:02.67 | | 6. Gladys Wamuyu | Kenya | 2:03.01 | | 7. Edith Nakiyingi | Uganda | 2:03.55 | | 8. Mantokoane Pitso | Lesotho | 2:29.77 | |
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