| Final A | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Penny Heyns | RSA | 2:25.41 | 1. | | 2. Amanda Beard | USA | 2:25.75 | 2. | | 3. Ágnes Kovács | HUN | 2:26.57 | 5. | | 4. Sam Riley | AUS | 2:27.91 | 3. | | 5. Masami Tanaka | JPN | 2:28.05 | 4. | | 6. Nadine Neumann | AUS | 2:28.34 | 7. | | 7. Brigitte Becue | BEL | 2:28.36 | 6. | | 8. Christin Petelski | CAN | 2:31.45 | 8. |
| Final B | Team | time | Rk. | | 9. Lena Eriksson | SWE | 2:28.87 | 14. | | 10.Kyoko Iwasaki | JPN | 2:29.32 | 11. | | 11.Lenka Maňhalová | CZE | 2:29.96 | 15. | | 12.Julia Russell | RSA | 2:30.38 | 17. | | 13.Alicja Pęczak | POL | 2:30.99 | 10. | | 14.Marie Hardiman | GBR | 2:31.39 | 12. | | 15.Jilen Siroky | USA | 2:33.43 | 13. | | 16.Lin Li | CHN | 2:33.45 | 9. |
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| Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Sam Riley | AUS | 2:28.30 | 3. | | 2. Masami Tanaka | JPN | 2:29.36 | 4. | | 3. Brigitte Becue | BEL | 2:29.62 | 6. | | 4. Christin Petelski | CAN | 2:30.30 | 8. | | 5. Alicja Pęczak | POL | 2:30.64 | 10. | | 6. Marie Hardiman | GBR | 2:31.12 | 12. | | 7. Maria Östling | SWE | 2:33.44 | 21. | | 8. Larisa Lăcustă | ROU | 2:38.08 | 33. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Amanda Beard | USA | 2:28.10 | 2. | | 2. Ágnes Kovács | HUN | 2:29.58 | 5. | | 3. Nadine Neumann | AUS | 2:29.91 | 7. | | 4. Lin Li | CHN | 2:30.64 | 9. | | 5. Jilen Siroky | USA | 2:31.57 | 13. | | 6. Lenka Maňhalová | CZE | 2:32.14 | 15. | | 7. Yelena Makarova | RUS | 2:33.74 | 22. | | 8. Manuela Dalla Valle | ITA | 2:34.76 | 26. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Penny Heyns | RSA | 2:26.63 | 1. | | 2. Kyoko Iwasaki | JPN | 2:30.84 | 11. | | 3. Lena Eriksson | SWE | 2:31.65 | 14. | | 4. Svitlana Bondarenko | UKR | 2:32.42 | 16. | | 5. Julia Russell | RSA | 2:32.44 | 17. | | 6. Elin Austevoll | NOR | 2:32.48 | 18. | | 7. Riley Mants | CAN | 2:32.97 | 19. | | 8. Yuan Yuan | CHN | 2:33.89 | 25. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Alenka Kejžar | SLO | 2:33.34 | 20. | | 2. Lourdes Becerra | ESP | 2:33.80 | 23. | | 3. Elvira Fischer | AUT | 2:33.89 | 24. | | 4. Mia Hagman | FIN | 2:36.11 | 27. | | 5. No Ju-Hui | KOR | 2:36.20 | 28. | | 6. Kathrin Dumitru | GER | 2:37.07 | 31. | | 7. María Carolina Santa Cruz | ARG | 2:37.85 | 32. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Karine Brémond | FRA | 2:36.26 | 29. | | 2. Isabel Ceballos | COL | 2:36.94 | 30. | | 3. Margarita Kalmikova | LAT | 2:39.63 | 34. | | 4. Mou Ying-Hsin | TPE | 2:43.94 | 35. | | 5. Cruz Nádia | ANG | 2:44.24 | 36. | | 6. Natália Kodajová | SVK | 2:45.21 | 37. | | 7. Cerian Gibbes | TRT | 2:45.87 | 38. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 2. Oksana Cherevko | KGZ | 2:57.65 | 39. |
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