Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Susie O'Neill | AUS | 2:10.47 | 1. | 2. Summer Sanders | USA | 2:10.58 | 2. | 3. Ilaria Tocchini | ITA | 2:13.03 | 7. | 4. Hayley Lewis | AUS | 2:14.50 | 10. | 5. Berit Puggaard | DEN | 2:16.11 | 16. | 6. Nataša Meškovska | YUG | 2:16.54 | 18. | 7. Corina Dumitru | ROU | 2:16.86 | 21. | 8. Qian Hong | CHN | 2:22.77 | 29. |
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Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Mika Haruna | JPN | 2:11.21 | 4. | 2. Wang Xiaohong | CHN | 2:11.83 | 5. | 3. Ina Wester-Krieg | USA | 2:12.00 | 6. | 4. Ewa Synowska | POL | 2:14.58 | 11. | 5. Samantha Purvis | GBR | 2:15.04 | 13. | 6. Joana Arantes | POR | 2:16.56 | 19. | 7. Timea Toth | ISR | 2:16.84 | 20. | 8. Nataliya Yakovleva | URS | 2:19.02 | 22. |
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