| Final | time | | | 1. Tatyana Providokhina |  Soviet Union | 1:55.80 | Cr | | 2. Nadezhda Mushta | Soviet Union | 1:55.82 | | | 3. Zoya Rigel | Soviet Union | 1:56.57 | | | 4. Totka Petrova |  Bulgaria | 1:56.59 | | | 5. Hildegard Ullrich |  East Germany | 1:57.45 | AJR | | 6. Anita Weiß | East Germany | 1:57.71 | | | 7. Ulrike Bruns | East Germany | 1:58.62 | | | 8. Fiţa Lovin |  Romania | 1:58.82 | |
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Semi-Finals - Wednesday 30.08 19:10 | | First 4 progress to Final. |
| Semi 1 | time | | | 1. Anita Weiß | East Germany | 1:58.8 | Q | | 2. Nadezhda Mushta | Soviet Union | 1:58.8 | Q | | 3. Fiţa Lovin | Romania | 1:58.8 | Q | | 4. Zoya Rigel | Soviet Union | 1:58.9 | Q | | 5. Gabriella Dorio |  Italy | 2:00.5 | | | 6. Elena Tarita | Romania | 2:01.7 | | | 7. Anne-Marie Van Nuffel |  Belgium | 2:06.2 | | | 8. Irén Lipcsei |  Hungary | 2:06.8 | |
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| Semi 2 | time | | | 1. Tatyana Providokhina | Soviet Union | 2:00.06 | Q | | 2. Totka Petrova | Bulgaria | 2:00.2 | Q | | 3. Ulrike Bruns | East Germany | 2:00.3 | Q | | 4. Hildegard Ullrich | East Germany | 2:00.6 | Q | | 5. Mariana Suman | Romania | 2:01.62 | | | 6. Liz Barnes |  Great Britain | 2:01.69 | | | 7. Jane Colebrook | Great Britain | 2:02.9 | | | 8. Jozefína Čerchlanová |  Czechoslovakia | 2:07.0 | |
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Heats - Tuesday 29.08 | | First 5 and 1 Best time (Jane Colebrook GBR) advanced to Semi-Finals. |
| Heat 1 | time | | | 1. Tatyana Providokhina | Soviet Union | 1:59.96 | Q | | 2. Fiţa Lovin | Romania | 2:00.0 | Q | | 3. Ulrike Bruns | East Germany | 2:00.38 | Q | | 4. Gabriella Dorio | Italy | 2:00.4 | Q | | 5. Anne-Marie Van Nuffel | Belgium | 2:01.3 | Q | | 6. Jane Colebrook | Great Britain | 2:03.0 | q | | 7. Maria Ritter |  Liechtenstein | 2:09.0 | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Hildegard Ullrich | East Germany | 2:01.39 | Q | | 2. Zoya Rigel | Soviet Union | 2:01.6 | Q | | 3. Totka Petrova | Bulgaria | 2:01.8 | Q | | 4. Irén Lipcsei | Hungary | 2:02.3 | Q | | 5. Elena Tarita | Romania | 2:02.9 | Q | | 6. Janet Prictoe | Great Britain | 2:03.7 | | | 7. Elly van Hulst |  Netherlands | 2:03.9 | | | 8. Jindřiška Kubečková | Czechoslovakia | 2:04.0 | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Nadezhda Mushta | Soviet Union | 2:01.67 | Q | | 2. Anita Weiß | East Germany | 2:01.8 | Q | | 3. Jozefína Čerchlanová | Czechoslovakia | 2:02.0 | Q | | 4. Liz Barnes | Great Britain | 2:02.1 | Q | | 5. Mariana Suman | Romania | 2:02.2 | Q | | 6. Marie-Rose Verhoeven | Belgium | 2:04.5 | | | 7. Fernande Schmitt |  Luxembourg | 2:04.7 | |
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