| Final | time | | gap | | 1. Heidi Pechstein |  East Germany | 1:03.3 | NR | | | 2. Diana Wilkinson |  Great Britain | 1:03.3 | | +0.0s | | 3. Ineke Tikelaar |  Netherlands | 1:03.3 | | +0.0s | | 4. Erika Terpstra | Netherlands | 1:03.6 | | +0.3s | | 5. Maria Frank |  Hungary | 1:04.3 | | +1.0s | | 6. Paola Saini |  Italy | 1:04.8 | | +1.5s | | 7. Csilla Masdarsz | Hungary | 1:05.0 | | +1.7s | | 8. Christiane Hagberg |  Sweden | 1:05.1 | | +1.8s |
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Heats - Sunday, 19th August |
| Heat 1 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Linda Amos | Great Britain | 1:05.6 | | 10. | | 2. Karin Gruub | Sweden | 1:05.7 | | 11. | | 3. Nataliya Ustinova |  Soviet Union | 1:05.7 | | 12. | | 4. Yvonne Tobisova |  Czechoslovakia | 1:07.1 | NR | 14. | | 5. Ruth Eggli |  Switzerland | 1:16.3 | | 26. |
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| Heat 2 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Csilla Masdarsz | Hungary | 1:05.2 | | 8. | | 2. Rita Schumacher | East Germany | 1:05.5 | | 9. | | 3. Daniela Benneck | Italy | 1:06.0 | | 13. | | 4. Marina Ruzczynista |  Poland | 1:11.6 | | 23. | | 5. Annie Duym |  Belgium | 1:11.8 | | 24. | | 6. Tone Brit Korsvold |  Norway | 1:12.1 | | 25. | | -. Ballester |  Spain | | | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Erika Terpstra | Netherlands | 1:03.6 | | 2. | | 2. Heidi Pechstein | East Germany | 1:03.9 | | 3. | | 3. Maria Frank | Hungary | 1:04.4 | | 5. | | 4. Paola Saini | Italy | 1:04.6 | | 6. | | 5. Kristen Strange |  Denmark | 1:07.4 | | 15. | | 6. Hilda Zeier |  YUG Yugoslavia | 1:08.7 | | 19. | | 7. Christine Paukeri |  Austria | 1:09.3 | | 20. | | 8. Elisabeta Tineva |  Bulgaria | 1:09.8 | | 21. |
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| Heat 4 | time | | Rk. | | 1. Diana Wilkinson | Great Britain | 1:02.5 | | 1. | | 2. Ineke Tikelaar | Netherlands | 1:04.1 | | 4. | | 3. Anie Christiane Hagberg | Sweden | 1:05.1 | | 7. | | 4. Rita Pulido | Spain | 1:07.8 | | 16. | | 5. Marina Luzhkovskaya | Soviet Union | 1:08.0 | | 17. | | 6. Karin Muller | Switzerland | 1:08.2 | | 18. | | 7. Jenny Baeten | Belgium | 1:10.6 | | 22. |
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