| 1 | Ewa Kasprczyk | POL | 23,06 | Q |
| 2 | Ingrid Auerswald | GDR | 23,26 | Q |
| 3 | Galina Malchugina | URS | 23,30 | Q |
| 4 | Kornelija Sinkovic | YUG | 23,46 | |
| Regula Aebi | SUI | DNS | ||
| Els Vader | NED | DNS |
| 1 | Silke Knoll | FRG | 23,13 | Q |
| 2 | Tatyana Papilina | URS | 23,18 | Q |
| 3 | Zvetanka Ilyeva | BUL | 23,30 | Q |
| 4 | Irma Könye | HUN | 23,66 | |
| 5 | Blanca Lacambra | ESP | 23,79 | |
| 6 | Marie-José Perec | FRA | 24,26 |