Heat 1 | time | | 1. Marlies Göhr | East Germany | 11.34s | Q | 2. Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Soviet Union | 11.41s | Q | 3. Laura Miano | Italy | 11.52s | Q | 4. Bev Goddard | Great Britain | 11.53s | Q | 5. Helinä Laihorinne | Finland | 11.58s | Q | 6. Annie Alizé | France | 11.61s | q | 7. Elvira Possekel | West Germany | 11.82s | | 8. Tilly Verhoef | Netherlands | 12.04s | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 11.23s | Q | 2. Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 11.54s | Q | 3. Ivanka Valkova | Bulgaria | 11.61s | Q | 4. Michelle Walsh | Ireland | 11.70s | Q | 5. Rosset Véronique | France | 11.77s | Q | 6. Petra Sharp | West Germany | 11.84s | | 7. Brigitte Haest | Austria | 11.89s | | 8. Ludmila Jimramovská | Czechoslovakia | 11.91s | |
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