Final | | time | | L | 1. Marita Koch | East Germany | 22.39s | WB | 3 | 2. Joan Baptiste | Great Britain | 23.37s | | 4 | 3. Christina Sussiek | West Germany | 23.61s | | 2 | 4. Els Vader | Netherlands | 23.64s | | 5 | -. Raisa Makhova | Soviet Union | DNF | | 1 |
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Heats - Saturday, 5yh March | First 2 from each Heat and Best time advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | | 1. Marita Koch | East Germany | 23.12s | Q | 2. Joan Baptiste | Great Britain | 23.48s | Q | 3. Raisa Makhova | Soviet Union | 23.55s | q | 8. Susanna Bergman | Sweden | 24.76s | | 9. Semra Aksu | Turkey | 25.04s | |
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Heat 2 | | time | | 4. Christina Sussiek | West Germany | 23.82s | Q | 5. Els Vader | Netherlands | 24.08s | Q | 6. Renata Ŭernochová | Czechoslovakia | 24.15s | | 7. Ezsébet Juhász | Hungary | 24.21s | |
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