| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Beverley Whitfield | AUS | 2:41.71 | 6. | | 2. Dana Schoenfield | USA | 2:42.05 | 4. | | 3. Galina Prozum.-Stepanova | URS | 2:42.36 | 5. | | 4. Claudia Clevenger | USA | 2:42.88 | 7. | | 5. Petra Nows | FRG | 2:43.38 | 8. | | 6. Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss | HUN | 2:43.41 | 1. | | 7. Lyudmila Porubayko | URS | 2:44.48 | 3. | | 8. Éva Kiss | HUN | 2:45.12 | 2. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Vreni Eberle | FRG | 2:46.17 | 11. | | 2. Sylvia Langer | GDR | 2:49.68 | 21. | | 3. Tatyana Prudnikova | URS | 2:50.79 | 24. | | 4. Patrizia Miserini | ITA | 2:53.14 | 30. | | 5. Lee Yue-Hwan | TPE | 3:04.74 | 39. | | -. Cristina Teixeira | BRA | [2:57.03 | 40. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Britt-Marie Smedh | SWE | 2:46.05 | 10. | | 2. Barbara Mitchell | USA | 2:47.05 | 13. | | 3. Pat Beavan | GBR | 2:47.42 | 14. | | 4. Ulrike Klees | FRG | 2:50.48 | 23. | | 5. Brigitte Schuchardt | GDR | 2:53.03 | 28. | | 6. Ann O'Connor | IRE | 2:53.04 | 29. | | 7. Rose-Marie Pepe | CAN | 2:54.75 | 36. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Ágnes Kaczander-Kiss | HUN | 2:43.13 | 1. | | 2. Éva Kiss | HUN | 2:43.68 | 2. | | 3. Alie te Riet | NED | 2:48.49 | 17. | | 4. Amanda Randage | GBR | 2:51.85 | 26. | | 5. Mairi Ioannidou | GRE | 2:53.53 | 31. | | 6. Shlomit Nir | ISR | 2:53.60 | 32. | | 7. Leonor Urueta | MEX | 2:55.21 | 37. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Dana Schoenfield | USA | 2:43.97 | 4. | | 2. Hannelore Anke | GDR | 2:45.92 | 9. | | 3. Judith Hudson | AUS | 2:49.09 | 18. | | 4. Marian Stuart | CAN | 2:49.11 | 19. | | 5. Mottoulle Béatrice | BEL | 2:52.18 | 27. | | 6. Yoko Yamamoto | JPN | 2:54.28 | 35. | | 7. Winnie Nielsen | DEN | 2:59.31 | 38. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Galina Prozum.-Stepanova | URS | 2:44.20 | 5. | | 2. Beverley Whitfield | AUS | 2:44.47 | 6. | | 3. Jane Wright | CAN | 2:47.85 | 16. | | 4. Christine Jarvis | GBR | 2:49.24 | 20. | | 5. Jeanette Pettersson | SWE | 2:50.36 | 22. | | 6. Nieves Panadell | ESP | 2:51.50 | 25. |
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| Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Lyudmila Porubayko | URS | 2:43.68 | 3. | | 2. Claudia Clevenger | USA | 2:44.74 | 7. | | 3. Petra Nows | FRG | 2:45.20 | 8. | | 4. Chieno Shibata | JPN | 2:46.87 | 12. | | 5. Erika Rüegg | SUI | 2:47.63 | 15. | | 6. Zuzana Marková | TCH | 2:53.88 | 33. | | 7. Ana Elena de la Portilla | MEX | 2:54.10 | 34. |
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