| 1 | Maria Mutola | MOZ | 2:02,59 | Q |
| 2 | Joetta Clark | USA | 2:02,93 | Q |
| 3 | Irina Biryukova | RUS | 2:03,16 | Q |
| 4 | Ludmila Formanová | CZE | 2:03,23 | |
| 5 | Hayley Parry | GBR | 2:04,40 | |
| 6 | Ana Menéndez | ESP | 2:04,86 |
| 1 | Toni Hodgkinson | NZL | 2:00,90 | Q | AR |
| 2 | Letitia Vriesde | SUR | 2:01,41 | Q | |
| 3 | Natalya Dukhnova | BLR | 2:01,89 | Q | |
| 4 | Regula Zürcher | SUI | 2:02,70 | ||
| 5 | Inez Turner | JAM | 2:03,51 | ||
| 6 | Stephanie Graf | AUT | 2:04,79 |