| Incheon Asiad Main Stadium - Track. Start time: 20:50 |   
| Final Wind 0.0m/s | time |   | L | React. | Birth | bib |  | 1. Olga Safronova |  KAZ | 23.02s |   | 4 | 0.162 | 05 Nov 1991 | 1128 |  | 2. Yongli Wei |  CHN | 23.27s |   | 9 | 0.181 | 11 Oct 1991 | 1015 |  | 3. Chisato Fukushima |  JPN | 23.45s |   | 5 | 0.166 | 27 Jun 1988 | 1105 |  | 4. Huijun Lin |  CHN | 23.53s |   | 6 | 0.170 | 01 Feb 1993 | 1017 |  | 5. Maryam Toosi |  IRI | 23.64s | SB | 8 | 0.207 | 05 Dec 1988 | 1100 |  | 6. Rasnayaka Mudiyanselage C. S. R. |  SRI | 23.65s |   | 3 | 0.193 | 20 Jun 1987 | 1213 |  | 7. Viktoriya Zyabkina |  KAZ | 23.69s |   | 7 | 0.210 | 04 Sep 1992 | 1127 |  | 8. Thi Huong Vu |  VIE | 23.77s |   | 2 | 0.209 | 07 Oct 1986 | 1270 |   
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|  Records |  | WR | Florence Griffith Joyner |  USA | 21.34s | Seoul (KOR) | Olympic Games | 29 Sep 1988 |  | AS | Xuemei Li |  CHN | 22.01s | Shanghai (CHN) |   | 22 Oct 1997 |  | GR | Damayanthi Darsha |  SRI | 22.48s | Bangkok (THA) | Asian Games | 18 Dec 1998 |   
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| Ranking Wind 0.0m/s | time |   | L | React. | Birth | bib |  | 1. Olga Safronova |  KAZ | 23.46s |   | 4 | 0.172 | 05 Nov 1991 | 1128 |  | 2. Maryam Toosi |  IRI | 23.66s | SB | 8 | 0.187 | 05 Dec 1988 | 1100 |  | 3. Asha Roy |  IND | 23.96s |   | 3 | 0.205 | 05 Jan 1990 | 1071 |  | 4. Danah Hussein A. Al Khafaji |  IRQ | 24.38s |   | 7 | 0.223 | 03 Jan 1986 | 1103 |  | 5. Hansol Joung |  KOR | 24.73s |   | 5 | 0.159 | 20 Nov 1993 | 1149 |  | 6. Khanrutai Pakdee |  THA | 24.93s |   | 6 | 0.177 | 06 Jan 1993 | 1217 |  | 7. Man Ling Hui |  HKG | 26.18s |   | 2 | 0.179 | 30 Apr 1991 | 1063 |   
| Ranking Wind +1.2m/s | time |   | L | React. | Birth | bib |  | 1. Chisato Fukushima |  JPN | 23.35s | SB | 5 | 0.159 | 27 Jun 1988 | 1105 |  | 2. Yongli Wei |  CHN | 23.55s |   | 8 | 0.178 | 11 Oct 1991 | 1015 |  | 3. Rasnayaka Mudiyanselage C. S. R. |  SRI | 23.59s | PB | 3 | 0.180 | 20 Jun 1987 | 1213 |  | 4. Minji Kim |  KOR | 23.77s | PB | 4 | 0.181 | 27 Sep 1995 | 1150 |  | 5. Hajar Saad Saeed S. S. A. Alkhaldi |  BRN | 24.50s | PB | 6 | 0.186 | 17 Mar 1995 | 1002 |  | 6. Shinoona Saleh Said Khalfan Habsi |  OMA | 26.12s | PB | 9 | 0.168 | 03 Jul 1993 | 1195 |  | 7. Dil Maya Karki |  NEP | 27.03s | PB | 7 | 0.176 | 05 Oct 1988 | 1191 |  | 8. Tahmina Kohistani |  AFG | 31.08s |   | 2 | 0.247 | 18 Jun 1989 | 1001 |   
| Ranking Wind +0.9m/s | time |   | L | React. | Birth | bib |  | 1. Huijun Lin |  CHN | 23.35s | PB | 7 | 0.188 | 01 Feb 1993 | 1017 |  | 2. Viktoriya Zyabkina |  KAZ | 23.51s |   | 5 | 0.174 | 04 Sep 1992 | 1127 |  | 3. Thi Huong Vu |  VIE | 23.57s | SB | 4 | 0.187 | 07 Oct 1986 | 1270 |  | 4. Ching Hsien Liao |  TPE | 24.10s |   | 6 | 0.171 | 22 Jun 1994 | 1243 |  | 5. Maysa Rejepova |  TKM | 25.34s |   | 2 | 0.211 | 04 Jan 1993 | 1240 |  | 6. Mazoon Khalfan Saleh Khalfan Alawi |  OMA | 25.48s |   | 3 | 0.193 | 14 Nov 1997 | 1196 |  | 7. Hau Sze Leung |  HKG | 25.81s |   | 8 | 0.197 | 05 Sep 1991 | 1062 |   
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