Final 17:45 | time | | 1. Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Soviet Union | 22.52s | | 2. Marlies Göhr | East Germany | 22.53s | | 3. Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 22.64s | | 4. Monika Hamann | East Germany | 22.76s | | 5. Chantal Réga | France | 22.77s | | 6. Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 22.89s | | 7. Linda Haglund | Sweden | 23.07s | | 8. Lilyana Ivanova | Bulgaria | 23.23s | |
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Semi 1 | time | | 1. Marlies Göhr | East Germany | 22.86s | Q | 2. Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 22.86s | Q | 3. Monika Hamann | East Germany | 22.99s | Q | 4. Lilyana Ivanova | Bulgaria | 23.12s | Q | 5. Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 23.36s | | 6. Zofia Bielczyk | Poland | 23.41s | | 7. Raymonde Naigre | France | 23.89s | | 8. Claudia Steger | West Germany | 24.18s | |
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Semi 2 | time | | 1. Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Soviet Union | 22.83s | Q | 2. Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 22.92s | Q | 3. Chantal Réga | France | 22.98s | Q | 4. Linda Haglund | Sweden | 23.11s | Q | 5. Kathy Smallwood | Great Britain | 23.12s | | 6. Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.30s | | 7. Bev Goddard | Great Britain | 23.37s | | 8. Irén Orosz | Hungary | 23.56s | |
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Heat 1 | time | | 1. Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.23s | Q | 2. Kathy Smallwood | Great Britain | 23.54s | Q | 3. Marlies Göhr | East Germany | 23.73s | Q | 4. Claudia Steger | West Germany | 23.96s | Q | 5. Michelle Walsh | Ireland | 23.99s | | 6. Radislava Šoborová | Czechoslovakia | 24.55s | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Soviet Union | 23.11s | Q | 2. Monika Hamann | East Germany | 23.35s | Q | 3. Irén Orosz | Hungary | 23.46s | Q | 4. Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 23.48s | Q | 5. Dagmar Schenten | West Germany | 23.70s | | 6. Helinä Laihorinne | Finland | 23.84s | | 7. Tilly Verhoef | Netherlands | 24.12s | |
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Heat 3 | time | | 1. Chantal Réga | France | 23.26s | Q | 2. Linda Haglund | Sweden | 23.38s | Q | 3. Zofia Bielczyk | Poland | 23.40s | Q | 4. Bev Goddard | Great Britain | 23.54s | Q | 5. Marisa Masullo | Italy | 23.62s | | 6. Silvia Schinzel | Austria | 24.30s | |
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Heat 4 | time | | 1. Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 22.92s | Q | 2. Lilyana Ivanova | Bulgaria | 22.93s | Q | 3. Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 23.11s | Q | 4. Raymonde Naigre | France | 23.56s | Q | 5. Jolanta Stalmach | Poland | 23.96s | | 6. Ellie Henzen | Netherlands | 23.97s | |
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