| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Petria Thomas |  AUS | 57.72s | 1. 2. | | 2. Otylia Jędrzejczak |  POL | 57.84s | 2. 3. | | 3. Inge de Bruijn |  NED | 57.99s | 3. 1. | | 4. Jess Schipper | AUS | 58.22s | 5. 4. | | 5. Jenny Beth Thompson |  USA | 58.72s | 6. 6. | | 6. Martina Moravcová |  SVK | 58.96s | 4. 5. | | 7. Yelena Popchenko |  BLR | 59.06s | 14.7. | | 8. Junko Onishi |  JPN | 59.83s | 7. 8. |
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| Semi 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Otylia Jędrzejczak | POL | 58.10s | 3. | | 2. Martina Moravcová | SVK | 58.66s | 5. | | 3. Jenny Beth Thompson | USA | 58.91s | 6. | | 4. Rachel Komisarz | USA | 59.34s | 11. | | 5. Yuko Nakanishi | JPN | 59.53s | 13. | | 5. Ambra Migliori |  ITA | 59.53s | 13. | | 7. Mette Jacobsen |  DEN | 59.72s | 15. | | 8. Nataliya Sutyagina |  RUS | 59.79s | 16. |
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| Semi 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Inge de Bruijn | NED | 57.50s | 1. | | 2. Petria Thomas | AUS | 57.93s | 2. | | 3. Jess Schipper | AUS | 58.63s | 4. | | 4. Yelena Popchenko | BLR | 58.97s | 7. | | 5. Junko Onishi | JPN | 59.24s | 8. | | 6. Malia Metella |  FRA | 59.28s | 9. | | 7. Anna-Karin Kammerling |  SWE | 59.33s | 10. | | 8. Zhou Yafei |  CHN | 59.48s | 12. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Petria Thomas | AUS | 57.47s | 1. | | 2. Inge de Bruijn | NED | 58.47s | 3. | | 3. Jess Schipper | AUS | 58.57s | 5. | | 4. Junko Onishi | JPN | 59.22s | 7. | | 5. Malia Metella | FRA | 59.38s | 9. | | 6. Franziska van Almsick |  GER | 59.53s | 11. | | 7. Francesca Segat | ITA | 1:00.60 | 22. | | 8. Xu Yanwei | CHN | 1:01.53 | 28. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Otylia Jędrzejczak | POL | 57.84s | 2. | | 2. Jenny Beth Thompson | USA | 58.77s | 6. | | 3. Ambra Migliori | ITA | 59.47s | 10. | | 4. Zhou Yafei | CHN | 59.62s | 12. | | 5. Anna-Karin Kammerling | SWE | 59.84s | 16. | | 6. Georgina Lee |  GBR | 1:00.45 | 20. | | 7. Chantal Groot | NED | 1:00.49 | 21. | | 8. Aurore Mongel | FRA | 1:00.65 | 25. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Martina Moravcová | SVK | 58.48s | 4. | | 2. Rachel Komisarz | USA | 59.38s | 8. | | 3. Nataliya Sutyagina | RUS | 59.76s | 13. | | 4. Yelena Popchenko | BLR | 59.77s | 14. | | 5. Yuko Nakanishi | JPN | 1:00.16 | 17. | | 6. Beatrix Boulsevicz |  HUN | 1:00.18 | 18. | | 7. Johanna Sjöberg | SWE | 1:00.61 | 23. | | 8. Vered Borochovski |  ISR | 1:00.69 | 26. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Mette Jacobsen | DEN | 59.81s | 15. | | 2. Eirini Kavarnou |  GRE | 1:00.43 | 19. | | 3. Elizabeth Coster |  NZL | 1:00.61 | 23. | | 4. Joscelin Yeo |  SIN | 1:00.81 | 27. | | 5. Maria Papadopoulou |  CYP | 1:02.01 | 29. | | 6. Kolbrún Yr Kristjánsdóttir |  ISL | 1:02.33 | 31. | | 7. Sze Hang Yu |  HKG | 1:02.42 | 32. | | 8. Park Gyeong-Hwa |  KOR | 1:02.52 | 33. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Kateryna Zubkova |  UKR | 1:02.22 | 30. | | 2. Cheng Wan-Jung |  TPE | 1:02.94 | 34. | | 3. Gülşah Gönenç |  TUR | 1:04.30 | 35. | | 4. Angela Galea |  MLT | 1:05.47 | 36. | | 5. Mariya Bugakova |  UZB | 1:07.08 | 37. | | 6. Natasha Sara Georgeos |  SLC | 1:07.94 | 38. |
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