| 1 | Sigrun Wodars-Grau | GDR | |
1:55,26 | NR |
| 2 | Christine Wachtel | GDR | |
1:55,32 | |
| 3 | Lyubov Gurina | URS | |
1:55,56 | |
| 4 | Ana Fidelia Quirot | CUB | 1:55,84 | AR | |
| 5 | Jarmila Kratochvílová | TCH | 1:57,81 | ||
| 6 | Mitica Junghiatu-Constantin | ROM | 1:59,66 | ||
| 7 | Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 2:00,28 | ||
| 8 | Slobodanka Colovic | YUG | 2:02,09 |