| Final | time | gap | | 1. Ria van Velsen |  Netherlands | 1:10.5 | | | 2. Korrie Winkel | Netherlands | 1:10.7 | +0.2s | | 3. Veronika Holletz |  East Germany | 1:11.3 | +0.8s | | 4. Ingrid Schmidt | East Germany | 1:11.6 | +1.1s | | 5. Linda Ludgrove |  Great Britain | 1:11.9 | +1.4s | | 6. Rosy Piacential |  France | 1:12.6 | +2.1s | | 7. Sylvia Lewis | Great Britain | 1:12.6 | +2.1s | | 8. Kirsten Michaelsen |  Denmark | 1:13.4 | +2.9s |
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| World Record: Lynn Burke, United States 1:09.0 1960 |
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Heats - Sunday, 19th August |
| Heat 1 | time | Rk. | | 1. Linda Ludgrove | Great Britain | 1:12.7 | 5. | | 2. Galina Jegorova |  Soviet Union | 1:16.6 | 13. | | 3. Elizabet Tineva |  Bulgaria | 1:21.0 | 18. | | 4. Ethel Ward Petersen | Denmark | 1:23.4 | 19. |
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| Heat 2 | time | Rk. | | 1. Korrie Winkel | Netherlands | 1:11.4 | 2. | | 2. Ingrid Schmidt | East Germany | 1:12.3 | 4. | | 3. Maria Bala |  Hungary | 1:14.0 | 10. | | 4. Miriam Brikova |  Czechoslovakia | 1:15.0 | 11. | | 5. Ursula Seitz |  Austria | 1:18.3 | 14. |
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| Heat 3 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Veronika Holletz | East Germany | 1:12.1 | | 3. | | 2. Sylvia Lewis | Great Britain | 1:12.7 | | 5. | | 3. Kirsten Michaelsen | Denmark | 1:13.0 | NR | 7. | | 4. Christine Caron | France | 1:15.6 | | 12. | | 5. Jadwiga Szalecka |  Poland | 1:18.4 | | 15. | | 6. Luciana Massenzi |  Italy | 1:19.0 | | 16. | | 7. Gaby van den Brande |  Belgium | 1:20.6 | | 17. |
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| Heat 4 | time | Rk. | | 1. Ria van Velsen | Netherlands | 1:11.4 | 1. | | 2. Rosy Piacential | France | 1:13.3 | 8. | | 3. Olga Koronyi | Hungary | 1:13.7 | 9. |
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