| Final 20:00 | time | L | | 1. Nezha Bidouane |  MAR | 52.97s | 3 | | 2. Deon Hemmings |  JAM | 53.09s | 4 | | 3. Kim Batten |  USA | 53.52s | 5 | | 4. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova |  UKR | 53.81s | 6 | | 5. Debbie-Ann Parris | JAM | 54.19s | 8 | | 6. Tonja Buford-Bailey | USA | 54.77s | 2 | | 7. Susan Smith-Walsh |  IRL | 55.25s | 7 | | 8. Andrea Blackett |  BAR | 55.63s | 1 |
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| Semi 1 19.50h | time | L | | 1. Kim Batten | USA | 53.67s | 6 | | 2. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova | UKR | 54.02s | 4 | | 3. Debbie-Ann Parris | JAM | 54.72s | 8 | | 4. Susan Smith-Walsh | IRL | 54.72s | 3 | | 5. Yekaterina Bakhvalova |  RUS | 55.02s | 2 | | 6. Silvia Rieger |  GER | 55.08s | 5 | | 7. Karlene Haughton | JAM | 55.33s | 1 | | 8. Miriam Alonso |  ESP | 55.49s | 7 |
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| Semi 2 19.58h | time | L | | 1. Nezha Bidouane | MAR | 53.48s | 3 | | 2. Deon Hemmings | JAM | 53.82s | 4 | | 3. Tonja Buford-Bailey | USA | 54.48s | 5 | | 4. Andrea Blackett | BAR | 54.74s | 2 | | 5. Gudrun Arnardottir |  ISL | 54.93s | 7 | | 6. Anna Chuprina-Knoroz | RUS | 55.28s | 8 | | 7. Ester Goossens |  NED | 56.17s | 1 | | -. Sally Gunnell |  GBR | DNS | 6 |
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| Heat 1 8.35h | time | L | | 1. Deon Hemmings | JAM | 54.42s | 4 | | 2. Sally Gunnell | GBR | 54.53s | 7 | | 3. Ester Goossens | NED | 54.84s | 2 | | 4. Andrea Blackett | BAR | 55.26s | 1 | | 5. Tatyana Ledovskaya |  BLR | 56.88s | 5 | | 6. Rebecca Russell-Buchanan | USA | 57.79s | 6 | | 7. Christina Panagou |  GRE | 1:01.14 | 3 |
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| Heat 2 8.41h | time | L | | 1. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova | UKR | 55.17s | 4 | | 2. Tonja Buford-Bailey | USA | 55.25s | 5 | | 3. Anna Chuprina-Knoroz | RUS | 55.34s | 2 | | 4. Miriam Alonso | ESP | 55.57s | 6 | | 5. Gudrun Arnardottir | ISL | 55.76s | 3 | | 6. Donalda Duprey |  CAN | 56.73s | 7 | | 7. Inicia C. Da Fonseca |  STP | 1:01.39 | 1 |
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| Heat 3 8.47h | time | L | | 1. Kim Batten | USA | 54.56s | 3 | | 2. Susan Smith-Walsh | IRL | 54.61s | 5 | | 3. Yekaterina Bakhvalova | RUS | 55.08s | 4 | | 4. Karlene Haughton | JAM | 55.27s | 1 | | 5. Judit Szekeres |  HUN | 55.99s | 6 | | 6. Carla Barbarino |  ITA | 57.05s | 2 | | 7. Rikke Ronholt |  DEN | 57.26s | 7 |
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| Heat 4 8.53h | time | L | | 1. Nezha Bidouane | MAR | 55.53s | 3 | | 2. Silvia Rieger | GER | 55.64s | 6 | | 3. Debbie-Ann Parris | JAM | 55.84s | 5 | | 4. Irina Lenskaya | UKR | 56.05s | 7 | | 5. Natalya Torshina |  KZK | 56.64s | 2 | | 6. Ryan Tolbert | USA | 56.67s | 4 |
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