Heat 2 | | time | | | - | 1. Lorenza Vigarani | Italy | 2:14.28 | | | - | 2. Dagmar Hase | Germany | 2:14.66 | | | - | 3. Roxana Maracineanu | France | 2:17.78 | | | - | 4. Cătălina Căşaru | Romania | 2:18.14 | | | - | 5. Petra Chaves | Portugal | 2:19.06 | | | - | 6. Helena Straková | Czechia | 2:21.76 | | | - | 7. Eydís Konráðsdóttir | Iceland | 2:25.85 | | | - | -. Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | DNS | | | - |
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Heat 1 | | time | | | - | 1. Izabela Burczyk | Poland | 2:17.07 | | | - | 2. Kathy Read | Great Britain | 2:17.25 | | | - | 3. Nina Zhivanevskaya | Russia | 2:18.78 | | | - | 4. Alenka Kejžar | Slovenia | 2:19.38 | | | - | 5. Yseult Gervy | Belgium | 2:20.57 | | | - | 6. Dijana Kvesić | Bosnia Herzeg | 2:24.42 | | | - |
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