| Sigrid Smuda (Neo) | 44.11 | (17) | 1:30.29 | (23) | 2:18.86 | (22) | 4:53.55 | (19) |
| Sylvia Filipsson (Senior) | 44.05 | (16) | 1:28.18 | (9) | 2:12.84 | (5) | 4:40.22 | (7) |
| Sijtje van der Lende (M30) | 44.74 | (26) | 1:28.72 | (13) | 2:16.05 | (15) | 4:51.53 | (16) |
| Erwina Rys-Ferens (Senior) | 43.52 | (11) | 1:28.82 | (16) | 2:16.29 | (17) | 4:37.89 | (5) |
| Natalja Petrusjova (Senior) | 42.42 | (3) | 1:24.10 | (1) | 2:14.15 | (8) | 4:42.59 | (8) |
| Annette Karlsson (Neo) | 44.52 | (24) | 1:28.25 | (10) | 2:17.31 | (20) | 4:52.70 | (18) |
| Annie Borckink (Senior) | 44.47 | (22) | 1:27.24 | (6) | 2:10.95 | (1) | 4:47.35 | (13) |
| Sarah Docter (B1) | 44.48 | (23) | 1:28.80 | (14) | 2:15.11 | (13) | 4:43.30 | (10) |
| Beth Heiden (Neo) | 43.18 | (7) | 1:27.01 | (5) | 2:13.10 | (7) | 4:33.77 | (3) |
| Sylvia Burka (Senior) | 43.43 | (9) | 1:27.50 | (7) | 2:14.65 | (10) | 4:44.22 | (12) |
| Anneli Repola-Risku (Senior) | 44.33 | (20) | 1:31.76 | (27) | 2:17.81 | (21) | 4:50.51 | (15) |
| Kathy Vogt (Neo) | 44.15 | (18) | 1:30.33 | (24) | 2:16.09 | (16) | - | |
| Kim Ferran (Neo) | 47.25 | (30) | 1:34.19 | (34) | DQ | | - | |
| Monika Holzner-Pflug (Senior) | 44.59 | (25) | 1:30.13 | (21) | - | | - | |
| Christa Rothenburger (Neo) | 43.60 | (12) | 1:29.69 | (18) | - | | - | |
| Karin Enke (A2) | 41.78 | (1) | 1:26.66 | (4) | - | | - | |
| Ann-Sofie Järnström (M30) | 42.47 | (4) | 1:28.10 | (8) | - | | - | |
| Brigitte Flierl (Neo) | 45.28 | (28) | 1:33.61 | (32) | - | | - | |
| Sylvia Brunner (Neo) | 43.72 | (13) | 1:31.79 | (28) | - | | - | |
| Marzia Peretti (C2) | DNS | | 1:35.66 | (35) | - | | - | |
| Irina Kovrova (A1) | 43.50 | (10) | 1:29.94 | (20) | - | | - | |
| Nam-Soon Lee (A2) | 43.85 | (14) | 1:31.30 | (26) | - | | - | |
| Leah Poulos-Mueller (Senior) | 42.26 | (2) | 1:25.41 | (2) | - | | - | |
| Makiko Nagaya (Senior) | 42.70 | (5) | 1:30.27 | (22) | - | | - | |
| Haitske Valentijn-Pijlman (Senior) | 44.02 | (15) | 1:28.80 | (14) | - | | - | |
| Guifeng Cao (A2) | 44.43 | (21) | 1:31.74 | (26) | - | | - | |
| Guoqin Shen (A1) | 45.03 | (27) | - | | 2:41.99 | (30) | - | |
| Cornelia Jacob (Neo) | 42.98 | (6) | - | | - | | - | |
| Sylvie Daigle (B2) | 44.16 | (19) | - | | - | | - | |
| Tatjana Tarasova-Kovalenko (Neo) | 43.26 | (8) | - | | - | | - | |
| Limei Wang (A2) | 45.57 | (29) | - | | - | | - | |
| Sylvia Albrecht (B2) | - | | 1:26.46 | (3) | 2:14.27 | (9) | 4:47.76 | (14) |
| Bjørg Eva Jensen (Neo) | - | | 1:28.55 | (12) | 2:12.59 | (4) | 4:32.13 | (1) |
| Amanda Horsepool (Neo) | - | | 1:36.31 | (36) | 2:23.05 | (28) | 5:08.78 | (26) |
| Brenda Webster (A1) | - | | 1:29.84 | (19) | 2:14.73 | (11) | 4:43.67 | (11) |
| Miyoshi Kato (B2) | - | | 1:28.97 | (17) | 2:19.80 | (24) | 4:57.39 | (21) |
| Yuko Ota-Yaegashi (Neo) | - | | 1:30.72 | (25) | 2:19.41 | (23) | 5:00.40 | (25) |
| Sung-Ae Lee (B2) | - | | 1:32.04 | (29) | 2:20.67 | (26) | 4:58.77 | (24) |
| Yeong-Hee Kim (Senior) | - | | 1:34.17 | (33) | 2:20.23 | (25) | 4:58.41 | (22) |
| Valentina Lalenkova-Golovenkina (Neo) | - | | 1:28.27 | (11) | - | | 4:51.72 | (17) |
| Zhang Li (B2) | - | | 1:32.20 | (30) | - | | - | |
| Zhenshu Shen (A1) | - | | 1:32.49 | (31) | - | | - | |
| Sabine Becker (Neo) | - | | - | | 2:12.38 | (3) | 4:32.79 | (2) |
| Andrea Mitscherlich (A2) | - | | - | | 2:13.05 | (6) | 4:37.69 | (4) |
| Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg (M30) | - | | - | | 2:15.63 | (14) | 4:54.95 | (20) |
| Ria Visser (A1) | - | | - | | 2:12.35 | (2) | DNS | |
| Mary Docter (A2) | - | | - | | 2:14.74 | (12) | 4:39.29 | (6) |
| Meiyu Kong (Neo) | - | | - | | 2:22.48 | (27) | 5:08.90 | (27) |
| Tatjana Barabasj-Averina (M30) | - | | - | | 2:16.32 | (18) | - | |
| Vera Bryndzej (Senior) | - | | - | | 2:16.32 | (18) | - | |
| Shuhua Chen (Neo) | - | | - | | 2:29.48 | (29) | - | |
| Olga Plesjkova (Senior) | - | | - | | - | | 4:43.11 | (9) |
| Pat Durnin (Neo) | - | | - | | - | | 4:58.42 | (23) |
| Meiji Paio (Neo) | - | | - | | - | | 5:19.07 | (28) |