Final Ranking | time | | gap | pts | age | L | 1. Andrea Hubner | East Germany | 2:20.518 | WR | | 791 | 16 | 4 | 2. Kornelia Ender | East Germany | 2:21.218 | | +0.70s | 780 | 14 | 5 | 3. Kathy Heddy | United States | 2:23.842 | | +3.33s | 738 | 15 | 2 | 4. Novella Calligaris | Italy | 2:24.075 | | +3.56s | 734 | 18 | 3 | 5. Julie Woodcock | United States | 2:25.728 | | +5.21s | 710 | _ | 7 | 6. Leslie Cliff | Canada | 2:26.263 | | +5.75s | 702 | 18 | 1 | 7. Yukari Takemoto | Japan | 2:26.475 | | +5.96s | 699 | 18 | 8 | 8. Debra Cain | Australia | 2:26.634 | | +6.12s | 696 | 17 | 6 |
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Ranking | time | | gap | age | heats | 1. Andrea Hubner | East Germany | 2:24.168 | CR | | 16 | 1. 3 | 2. Kornelia Ender | East Germany | 2:25.316 | | +1.15s | 14 | 1. 4 | 3. Novella Calligaris | Italy | 2:26.490 | | +2.33s | 18 | 2. 3 | 4. Debra Cain | Australia | 2:26.721 | | +2.56s | 17 | 3. 3 | 5. Kathy Heddy | United States | 2:28.306 | CR | +4.14s | 15 | 1. 2 | 6. Julie Woodcock | United States | 2:28.661 | | +4.50s | _ | 2. 4 | 7. Leslie Cliff | Canada | 2:28.842 | CR | +4.68s | 18 | 1. 1 | 8. Yukari Takemoto | Japan | 2:29.557 | | +5.39s | 18 | 3. 4 | eliminated | 9. Susan Hunter | New Zealand | 2:29.999 | | +5.83s | 17 | 4. 3 | 10.Judy Wright | Canada | 2:30.033 | | +5.87s | 17 | 2. 2 | 11.Karin Borman | West Germany | 2:30.190 | | +6.03s | 19 | 2. 1 | 12.Anita Zarnowiecki | Sweden | 2:30.480 | | +6.32s | 19 | 3. 1 | 13.Trine Krogh | Norway | 2:31.285 | | +7.12s | 18 | 3. 2 | 14.Nataliya Popova | Soviet Union | 2:32.237 | | +8.07s | 15 | 4. 4 | 15.Gail Neall | Australia | 2:32.723 | | +8.56s | 18 | 5. 4 | 16.Marina Malyutina | Soviet Union | 2:32.953 | | +8.79s | | 4. 2 | 16.Helga Niemann | West Germany | 2:32.951 | | +8.79s | 17 | 6. 4 | 18.Olga Chlupova | Czechoslovakia | 2:33.090 | | +8.93s | | 4. 1 | 19.Gisela Cerezo | Venezuela | 2:33.935 | | +9.77s | 17 | 7. 4 | 20.Jasna Efendic | Yugoslavia | 2:34.731 | | +10.57s | | 5. 3 | 21.Maria Isabel Guerra | Brazil | 2:36.427 | | +12.26s | 18 | 5. 2 | 22.Naoko Shio | Japan | 2:36.970 | | +12.81s | | 6. 3 | 23.Nieves Panadell | Spain | 2:37.432 | | +13.27s | 17 | 5. 1 | 24.Roselina Angee | Colombia | 2:37.975 | | +13.81s | 15 | 6. 1 | 25.Eleni Avlonitou | Greece | 2:39.443 | | +15.28s | 14 | 7. 1 | 26.Borras Garcia | Argentina | 2:39.942 | | +15.78s | | 8. 4 | 27.Maria Mock | Puerto Rico | 2:40.556 | | +16.39s | 15 | 7. 3 | 28.Angela Lopez | Puerto Rico | 2:44.448 | | +20.28s | 17 | 6. 2 | 29.Myriam Mizouni | Tunisia | 2:45.520 | | +21.36s | 14 | 8. 1 | -. Gabriella Verraszto | Hungary | DNS | | | 11 | 3 |
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