Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Sam Riley | AUS | 2:28.30 | 3. | 2. Masami Tanaka | JPN | 2:29.36 | 4. | 3. Brigitte Becue | BEL | 2:29.62 | 6. | 4. Christin Petelski | CAN | 2:30.30 | 8. | 5. Alicja Pęczak | POL | 2:30.64 | 10. | 6. Marie Hardiman | GBR | 2:31.12 | 12. | 7. Maria Östling | SWE | 2:33.44 | 21. | 8. Larisa Lăcustă | ROU | 2:38.08 | 33. |
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Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Amanda Beard | USA | 2:28.10 | 2. | 2. Ágnes Kovács | HUN | 2:29.58 | 5. | 3. Nadine Neumann | AUS | 2:29.91 | 7. | 4. Lin Li | CHN | 2:30.64 | 9. | 5. Jilen Siroky | USA | 2:31.57 | 13. | 6. Lenka Maňhalová | CZE | 2:32.14 | 15. | 7. Yelena Makarova | RUS | 2:33.74 | 22. | 8. Manuela Dalla Valle | ITA | 2:34.76 | 26. |
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