| | "Rank","Athlete","Country","Time","Notes" |
| | "","Kaija Mustonen","Finland","2:22.4","OR" |
| | "","Carry Geijssen","Netherlands","2:22.7","" |
| | "","Stien Kaiser","Netherlands","2:24.5","" |
| | "4","Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl","Norway","2:25.2","" |
| | "5","Lāsma Kauniste","Soviet Union","2:25.4","" |
| | "6","Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka","Finland","2:25.8","" |
| | "7","Lyudmila Titova","Soviet Union","2:26.8","" |
| | "8","Ruth Schleiermacher","East Germany","2:27.1","" |
| | "9","Christina Lindblom-Scherling","Sweden","2:27.5","" |
| | "9","Hildegard Sellhuber","West Germany","2:27.5","" |
| | "11","Lidiya Skoblikova","Soviet Union","2:27.6","" |
| | "12","Ans Schut","Netherlands","2:28.3","" |
| | "13","Dianne Holum","United States","2:28.5","" |
| | "14","Martine Ivangine","France","2:29.9","" |
| | "14","Kari Kåring","Norway","2:29.9","" |
| | "16","Jeanne Ashworth","United States","2:30.3","" |
| | "17","Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg","Norway","2:30.7","" |
| | "18","Christina Karlsson","Sweden","2:31.4","" |
| | "18","Sachiko Saito","Japan","2:31.4","" |
| | "20","Ylva Hedlund","Sweden","2:31.5","" |
| | "21","Doreen McCannell","Canada","2:32.2","" |
| | "22","Arja Kantola","Finland","2:33.2","" |
| | "23","Kaname Ide","Japan","2:34.2","" |
| | "24","Marcia Parsons","Canada","2:34.4","" |
| | "25","Jeanne Omelenchuk","United States","2:35.5","" |
| | "26","Jitsuko Saito","Japan","2:36.6","" |
| | "27","Kim Gwi-Jin","South Korea","2:36.7","" |
| | "28","Marie-Louise Perrenoud","France","2:39.2","" |
| | "29","Patricia Demartini","France","2:40.6","" |
| | "30","Paula Dufter","West Germany","2:45.2","" |
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