| Final | Team | Time | N: | | 1. Manuela Di Centa | ITA | 1:25:41.6 | 45 | | 2. Marit Wold | NOR | 1:25:57.8 | 47 | | 3. Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi | FIN | 1:26:13.6 | 42 | | 4. Trude Dybendahl | NOR | 1:26:52.6 | 55 | | 5. Ljubov Jegorova | RUS | 1:26:54.8 | 51 | | 6. Jelena Valbe | RUS | 1:26:57.4 | 41 | | 7. Inger Helene Nybraaten | NOR | 1:27:11.2 | 39 | | 8. Marjut Rolig | FIN | 1:27:51.4 | 43 | | 9. Svetlana Nagejkina | RUS | 1:27:57.2 | 49 | | 10.Anita Moen | NOR | 1:28:18.1 | 54 | | 11.Antonina Ordina | SWE | 1:28:39.2 | 31 | | 12.Marie-Helene Ostlund | SWE | 1:28:46.2 | 40 | | 13.Anna Frithioff | SWE | 1:29:07.2 | 6 | | 14.Pirkko Maatta | FIN | 1:29:27.0 | 46 | | 15.Merja Lahtinen | FIN | 1:29:55.1 | 25 | | 16.Malgorzata Ruchala | POL | 1:30:45.8 | 38 | | 17.Guidina Dal Sasso | ITA | 1:30:47.5 | 21 | | 18.Lubomira Balazova | SVK | 1:30:58.7 | 32 | | 19.Sylvia Honegger | SUI | 1:31:11.6 | 53 | | 20.Irina Taranenko | UKR | 1:31:26.5 | 50 | | 21.Jelena Volodina | KAZ | 1:31:43.1 | 30 | | 22.Jelena Sinkevitsj | BLR | 1:31:47.8 | 24 | | 23.Natalja Martinova | RUS | 1:31:59.4 | 52 | | 24.Carole Stanisiere | FRA | 1:32:17.6 | 33 | | 25.Vida Venciene | LIT | 1:32:18.9 | 22 | | 26.Fumiko Aoki | JPN | 1:32:22.3 | 37 | | 27.Nina Kemppel | USA | 1:32:55.3 | 36 | | 28.Lis Frost | SWE | 1:33:04.1 | 28 | | 29.Piret Niglas | EST | 1:33:09.3 | 29 | | 30.Gabriella Paruzzi | ITA | 1:33:28.9 | 44 | | 31.Michalina Maciuszek | POL | 1:33:34.2 | 10 | | 32.Alzbeta Havrancikova | SVK | 1:33:41.5 | 48 | | 33.Silke Schwager | SUI | 1:34:07.4 | 2 | | 34.Bernadetta Bocek | POL | 1:34:28.6 | 27 | | 35.Cristel Vahtra | EST | 1:34:48.6 | 19 | | 36.Martina Vondrova | CZE | 1:34:50.1 | 34 | | 37.Brigitte Albrecht | SUI | 1:34:55.3 | 15 | | 38.Irina Nikultsjina | BUL | 1:36:06.3 | 13 | | 39.Lucie Chroustovska | CZE | 1:36:07.8 | 12 | | 40.Dorcas Wonsavage | USA | 1:36:34.1 | 8 | | 41.Barbara Mettler | SUI | 1:36:40.8 | 4 | | 42.Jana Razlova | CZE | 1:36:40.9 | 28 | | 43.Tatiana Kutlikova | SVK | 1:36:41.4 | 16 | | 44.Svetlana Kamotskaja | BLR | 1:36:51.0 | 26 | | 45.Sumiko Yokoyama | JPN | 1:37:14.7 | 11 | | 46.Jelena Tsjernetsova | KAZ | 1:38:17.0 | 18 | | 47.Oksana Kotova | KAZ | 1:38:34.1 | 7 | | 48.Ineta Kravale | LAT | 1:38:41.8 | 14 | | 49.Laura Wilson | USA | 1:38:52.6 | 35 | | 50.Sylvie Giry-Rousset | FRA | 1:39:26.3 | 17 | | 51.Suzanne King | USA | 1:45:27.9 | 1 | | -. Dorota Kwasny | POL | DNF | 3 | | -. Iveta Zelingerova | CZE | DNF | 23 | | -. Ljudmila Dideljeva | BLR | DNS | 5 | | -. Jelena Piirainen | BLR | DNS | 20 |
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| Places | | ITA | 1. | 17. | 30. | | NOR | 2. | 4. | 7. | 10. | | FIN | 3. | 8. | 14. | 15. | | RUS | 5. | 6. | 9. | 23. | | SWE | 11. | 12. | 13. | 28. | | POL | 16. | 31. | 34. | DF. | | SVK | 18. | 32. | 43. | | SUI | 19. | 33. | 37. | 41. | | UKR | 20. | | KAZ | 21. | 46. | 47. | | BLR | 22. | 44. | DS. | DS. | | FRA | 24. | 50. | | LIT | 25. | | JPN | 26. | 45. | | USA | 27. | 40. | 49. | 51. | | EST | 29. | 35. | | CZE | 36. | 39. | 42. | DF. | | BUL | 38. | | LAT | 48. |
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