Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Lin Li | China | 2:18.02 | +2.14s | 4 | 20 | - | 5. | 2. Svenja Schlicht | Germany | 2:18.32 | +2.44s | 3 | 23 | - | 8. | 3. Nancy Sweetnam | Canada | 2:18.95 | +3.07s | 5 | 17 | - | 9. | 4. Zara Long | Great Britain | 2:20.48 | +4.60s | 6 | 20 | - | 12. | 5. Fumie Kurotori | Japan | 2:21.07 | +5.19s | 1 | 15 | - | 14. | 6. Malin Gustavsson | Sweden | 2:23.52 | +7.64s | 7 | _ | - | 19. | 7. Sandra Cam | Belgium | 2:27.00 | +11.12s | 8 | 18 | - | 24. | -. Yelena Dendeberova | Soviet Union | DNS | | 2 | 21 | - | -. |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Summer Sanders | United States | 2:15.88 | | 4 | 18 | - | 1. | 2. Elli Overton | Australia | 2:17.23 | +1.35s | 2 | 16 | - | 2. | 3. Marianne Limpert | Canada | 2:19.39 | +3.51s | 5 | 18 | - | 10. | 4. Leah Broderick | Australia | 2:20.47 | +4.59s | 3 | _ | - | 11. | 5. Anamarija Petricevic | Yugoslavia | 2:22.45 | +6.57s | 6 | 18 | - | 16. | 6. Brigitte Becue | Belgium | 2:23.14 | +7.26s | 7 | 18 | - | 18. | 7. Lorenza Munoz | Mexico | 2:24.31 | +8.43s | 8 | _ | - | 20. | 8. Annette Poulsen | Denmark | 2:25.43 | +9.55s | 1 | 21 | - | 21. |
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