Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | age | Rk | 4. Angrla Francke | East Germany | 9:09.677 | CR | +16.70s | - | - | 1. | 7. Elisa Gunston | Sweden | 9:22.139 | | +29.16s | - | | 2. | 9. M. de Angelis | Italy | 9:23.206 | | +30.23s | - | | 3. | 12.Maria Guimaraes | Brazil | 9:27.920 | | +34.95s | - | | 4. | 13.Roselina Angel | Colombia | 9:42.695 | | +49.72s | - | | 5. | 16.Naoko Shio | Japan | 9:51.499 | | +58.52s | - | | 6. | 17.Tatyana Skvortsova | Soviet Union | 9:57.458 | | +1:04.48 | - | | 7. | 18.Svetlana Pavletic | Yugoslavia | 10:04.873 | | +1:11.90 | - | | 8. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | age | Rk | 14.Marina Maliutina | Soviet Union | 9:45.644 | CR | +52.67s | - | | 1. | 15.Sandra Arambatsis | Venezuela | 9:51.384 | | +58.41s | - | | 2. | 19.Elzbieta Pilawska | Poland | 10:06.768 | | +1:13.79 | - | | 3. | 20.Eva Tomandi | Austria | 10:11.277 | | +1:18.30 | - | | 4. | 21.Loida Moreda | Puerto Rico | 10:18.319 | | +1:25.34 | - | | 5. | 22.Myriam Moreda | Tunisia | 10:28.992 | | +1:36.02 | - | | 6. | -. Belinda Phillips | Jamaica | DNS/DQ | | | - | | | -. Leslie Thompson | Puerto Rico | DNS/DQ | | | - | | |
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