Heat 2 | | time | | Rk | 4. Aneta Patrascoiu | Romania | 2:17.15 | | 1. | 6. Yolande van den Straten | Italy | 2:18.18 | | 2. | 9. Katharine Read | Great Britain | 2:20.45 | | 3. | 14.Susanne Dahlstroem | Sweden | 2:21.70 | | 4. | 15.Brigitte van der Lans | Netherlands | 2:22.27 | | 5. | 18.Darja Alauf | Yugoslavia | 2:23.43 | | 6. | 19.Svenja Schlicht | West Germany | 2:23.60 | | 7. | 21.Ana Pinera | Spain | 2:29.00 | | 8. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | Rk | 2. Jolanda de Rover | Netherlands | 2:15.73 | | 1. | 3. Kathrin Zimmermann | East Germany | 2:15.79 | | 2. | 5. Natalia Shibaeva | Soviet Union | 2:17.54 | | 3. | 12.Monika Gyuro | Hungary | 2:21.30 | | 4. | 16.Christine Magnier | France | 2:21.30 | | 5. | 20.Katalin Virag | Hungary | 2:24.32 | | 6. |
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