| Final | time | | 1. Ionela Tirlea |  ROU | 53.37s | | 2. Tatyana Tereshchuk |  UKR | 54.07s | | 3. Silvia Rieger |  GER | 54.45s | | 4. Gudrun Arnardottir |  ISL | 54.59s | | 5. Ester Goossens |  NED | 54.62s | | 6. Ulrike Urbansky | GER | 55.38s | | 7. Anna Knoroz |  RUS | 55.47s | | 8. Susan Smith |  IRL | 55.61s |
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| Round | H | Athl. | date | | Heats | 3 | 24 | 19.08 |
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Heats - Wednesday 19.08 | | First 2 from each Geat and Best 2 times advanced to Final. |
| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Silvia Rieger | GER | 54.50s | | 2. Tatyana Tereshchuk | UKR | 54.65s | | 3. Ester Goossens | NED | 54.85s | | 4. Petra Soderstrom |  FIN | 56.23s | | 5. Tatyana Kurochkina |  BLR | 57.05s | | 6. Meta Macus |  SLO | 57.28s | | 7. Yuliya Nosova | RUS | 58.26s | | 8. Orsolya Doczi |  HUN | 58.76s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Ionela Tirlea | ROU | 54.89s | | 2. Gudrun Arnardottir | ISL | 55.21s | | 3. Ulrike Urbansky | GER | 55.63s | | 4. Yekaterina Bakhvalova | RUS | 55.69s | | 5. Frida Svensson |  SWE | 56.55s | | 6. Ann Mercken |  BEL | 57.39s | | 7. Lara Rocco |  ITA | 57.51s | | 8. Rikke Ronholt |  DEN | 58.55s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Susan Smith | IRL | 55.65s | | 2. Anna Knoroz | RUS | 55.68s | | 3. Judit Szekeres | HUN | 55.86s | | 4. Gesine Schmidt | GER | 56.40s | | 5. Monima Niederstatter | ITA | 56.74s | | 6. Natasha Danvers |  GBR | 57.19s | | 7. Mari Bjone |  NOR | 58.13s | | 8. Florence Delaune |  FRA | 59.01s |
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