| Gold Medal Final (2-1) | time 1 | time 2 | time 3 |  | 1. Erika Salumäe |  URS |   | 12.00s | 15.58 |  | 2. Christa Luding-Rothenburger |  GDR | 11.68s |   |   |   
| Bronze medal Final (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 | time 3 |  | 3. Connie Paraskevin-Young |  USA | 14.07s | 12.41 |   |  | 4. Isabelle Gautheron |  FRA |   |   |   |   
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| Format |  | 1. Qualification - All participants complete one timed individual sprint, with their times deciding seeding in the eighth-finals. |  | 2. Eighth-Finals - Four sprints with three cyclists in each. Winners advanced to Quareter-Finals. Rest to Repechages. |  | 3. Repechages - Head-to-head. |  | 4. Quarter-Finals - Head-to-head, best of three sprints. |  | 5. Semi-Finals - Head-to-head, best of three sprints. |  | 6. Finals - Head-to-head, best of three sprints. Four-cyclist | 4 | sprint was held to decide fifth to eighth places. |   
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| Schedule |  | 21 September: Qualification, 1/8 Finals and 1/8 Repechage |  | 22 September: 1/4 Finals |  | 23 September: Semi-finals and Final 5th–8th places |  | 24 September: Final |   
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| Semi 1 (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 | time 3 |  | 1. Erika Salumäe |  URS||URS | 12.38s | 12.22s |   |  | 2. Connie Paraskevin-Young |  USA||USA |   |   |   |   
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| Semi 2 (1-2) | time 1 | time 2 | time 3 |  | 2. Isabelle Gautheron |  FRA||FRA |   |   |   |  | 1. Christa Luding-Rothenburger |  GDR||GDR | 11.92s | 11.92s | 11.89s |   
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| Quarter 1 (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 |  | 1. Erika Salumäe |  URS||URS | 12.34s | 11.81s |  | 2. Louise Jones |  GBR||GBR |   |   |   
| Quarter 2 (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 |  | 1. Isabelle Gautheron |  FRA||FRA | 12.13s | 11.90s |  | 2. Yang Hsiu-chen |  TPE||TPE |   |   |   
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| Quarter 3 (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 |  | 1. Christa Luding-Rothenburger |  GDR||GDR | 11.80s | 11.63s |  | 2. Julie Speight |  AUS||AUS |   |   |   
    | Quarter 4 (2-0) | time 1 | time 2 |  | 1. Connie Paraskevin-Young |  USA||USA | 12.85s | 12.94s |  | 2. Zhou Suying |  CHN||CHN |   |   |   
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| Repechage 1 | time |  | 1. Yang Hsiu-chen |  TPE||TPE | 12.80s |  | 2. Beth Tabor |  CAN||CAN |   |   
    | Repechage 2 | time |  | 1. Seiko Hashimoto |  JPN||JPN |   |  | 2. Louise Jones |  GBR||GBR | 12.36s |   
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| Repechage 3 | time |  | 1. Zhou Suying |  CHN||CHN | 12.65s |  | 2. Elisabetta Fanton |  ITA||ITA |   |   
| Repechage 4 | time |  | 1. Julie Speight |  AUS||AUS | 13.04s |  | 2. Kim Jin-yeong |  KOR||KOR |   |   
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| Heat 1 | time |  | 1. Erika Salumäe |  URS | 12.83s |  | 2. Yang Hsiu-chen |  TPE |   |  | 3. Kim Jin-yeong |  KOR |   |   
| Heat 2 | time |  | 1. Isabelle Gautheron |  FRA | 12.22s |  | 2. Seiko Hashimoto |  JPN |   |  | 3. Elisabetta Fanton |  ITA |   |   
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| Heat 3 | time |  | 1. Christa Luding-Rothenburger |  GDR | 12.24s |  | 2. Zhou Suying |  CHN |   |  | 3. Louise Jones |  GBR |   |   
| Heat 4 | time |  | 1. Connie Paraskevin-Young |  USA | 12.11s |  | 2. Julie Speight |  AUS |   |  | 3. Beth Tabor |  CAN |   |   
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