| Final Ranking | time | | gap | L | pts | age | Q | | 1. Renate Vogel |  East Germany | 1:13.748 | CR | | 4 | 741 | 18 | 1. | | 2. Lyubov Rusanova |  Soviet Union | 1:15.428 | | +1.68 | 3 | 693 | 19 | 3. | | 3. Brigitte Schuchardt | East Germany | 1:15.821 | | +2.08 | 6 | 682 | 18 | 4. | | 4. Christine Jarvis |  Great Britain | 1:16.358 | | +2.61 | 8 | 668 | 23 | 8. | | 4. Lynn Colella |  United States | 1:16.758 | | +3.01 | 1 | 657 | 23 | 2. | | 6. Britt-Marie Smedh |  Sweden | 1:16.790 | | +3.05 | 2 | 656 | 18 | 5. | | 7. Petra Nows |  West Germany | 1:16.931 | | +3.19 | 7 | 653 | 20 | 6. | | 8. Marcia Morey | United States | 1:17.049 | | +3.30 | 1 | 650 | 18 | 7. |
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| Ranking | time | gap | age | heats | | 1. Renate Vogel | East Germany | 1:14.600 | CR | 18 | 1. 3 | | 2. Lynn Colella | United States | 1:16.670 | +2.07 | 23 | 1. 2 | | 3. Lyubov Rusanova | Soviet Union | 1:16.762 | +2.16 CR | 19 | 2. 3 | | 4. Brigitte Schuchardt | East Germany | 1:16.877 | +2.27 | 18 | 2. 2 | | 5. Britt-Marie Smedh | Sweden | 1:17.030 | +2.43 CR | 18 | 1. 1 | | 6. Petra Nows | West Germany | 1:17.271 | +2.67 | 20 | 3. 2 | | 7. Marcia Morey | United States | 1:17.325 | +2.72 | 18 | 2. 1 | | 8. Christine Jarvis | Great Britain | 1:17.995 | +3.39 | 23 | 4. 2 | | eliminated | | 9. Eva Kiss |  Hungary | 1:18.136 | +3.53 | 19 | 3. 1 | | 10.Sylvia Deschamps |  Canada | 1:18.147 | +3.54 | _ | 5. 2 | | 11.Olga Luskatova | Soviet Union | 1:18.920 | +4.32 | _ | 3. 3 | | 12.Judy Hudson |  Australia | 1:19.210 | +4.61 | 15 | 4. 3 | | 13.Beverley Whitfield | Australia | 1:19.390 | +4.79 | 19 | 6. 2 | | 14.Marian Stuart | Canada | 1:19.570 | +4.97 | 18 | 5. 3 | | 15.Olga Chlupova |  Czechoslovakia | 1:20.048 | +5.44 | _ | 4. 1 | | 16.Cristina Bassani Teixeira |  Brazil | 1:20.481 | +5.88 | 15 | 5. 1 | | 17.Jane Lowe |  New Zealand | 1:20.770 | +6.17 | _ | 6. 3 | | 18.Suzana Mendonca | Brazil | 1:20.819 | +6.21 | _ | 7. 2 | | 19.Visnja Petkovic |  Yugoslavia | 1:21.170 | +6.57 | _ | 7. 3 | | 20.Machiko Iwashita |  Japan | 1:21.446 | +6.84 | _ | 6. 1 | | 21.Angela Lopez |  Puerto Rico | 1:21.828 | +7.22 | 17 | 7. 1 | | 22.Nieves Panadell |  Spain | 1:21.920 | +7.32 | 17 | 8. 3 | | 23.Una El-Shenawy |  Egypt | 1:23.503 | +8.90 | _ | 8. 1 | | 24.Eser Aktulga |  Turkey | 1:28.048 | +13.44 | _ | 8. 2 |
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