| Final |   | time |   | L  |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |   East Germany | 7.90s |   | 3  |  | 2. Ginka Zagorcheva |   Bulgaria | 8.02s |   | 5 |  | 3. Anne Piquereau |   France | 8.03s |   | 1  |  | 4. Laurence Elloy |   France | 8.09s |   | 4  |  | 5. Ulrike Denk |   West Germany | 8.09s |   | 6  |  | 6. Nadezhda Korshunova |   Soviet Union | 8.11s |   | 2  |   
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  |  | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final.  |   
| Semi 1 |   | time |   |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |   East Germany | 7.94s | Q |  | 4. Anne Piquereau |   France | 8.04s | Q |  | 8. Ulrike Denk |   West Germany | 8.22s | Q |  | 9. Sabine Braun |   West Germany | 8.22s |   |  | 10.Margit Palombi |   Hungary | 8.33s |   |  | 11.Margita Papić |   Yugoslavia | 8.40s |   |   
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| Semi 2 |   | time |   |  | 2. Laurence Elloy |   France | 7.98s | Q |  | 3. Nadezhda Korshunova |   Soviet Union | 8.02s | Q |  | 4. Ginka Zagorcheva |   Bulgaria | 8.04s | Q |  | 6. Marie-Noëlle Savigny |   France | 8.08s |   |  | 7. Edith Oker |   West Germany | 8.12s |   |  | 12.Jitka Tesárková |   Czechoslovakia | 8.66s |   |   
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 Heats - Saturday, 2nd March |  | First 2 from each Heat and next 6 Best advanced to Semi-Finals.  |   
| Heat 1 |   | time |   |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |   East Germany | 7.99s | Q |  | 5. Marie-Noëlle Savigny |   France | 8.16s | Q |  | 9. Edith Oker |   West Germany | 8.29s | q |  | -. Elizabet Pantazis |   Greece | DNS |   |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   |  | 2. Ginka Zagorcheva |   Bulgaria | 8.08s | Q |  | 3. Laurence Elloy |   France | 8.11s | Q |  | 6. Ulrike Denk |   West Germany | 8.20s | q |  | 13.Ann-Louise Skoglund |   Sweden | 8.50s |   |  | 14.Hilde Fredriksen |   Norway | 8.59s |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   |  | 4. Anne Piquereau |   France | 8.14s | Q |  | 7. Nadezhda Korshunova |   Soviet Union | 8.21s | Q |  | 8. Sabine Braun |   West Germany | 8.28s | q |  | 9. Margit Palombi |   Hungary | 8.29s | q |  | 9. Jitka Tesárková |   Czechoslovakia | 8.29s | q |  | 12.Margita Papić |   Yugoslavia | 8.49s | q |   
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