| 1 | Rosa Mota | POR | |
2:25:17 | |
| 2 | Zoya Ivanova | URS | |
2:32:38 | |
| 3 | Jocelyn Villeton | FRA | |
2:32:53 | |
| 4 | Bente Moe | NOR | 2:33:21 | ||
| 5 | Yelena Tsukhlo | URS | 2:33:55 | ||
| 6 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | URS | 2:34:23 | ||
| 7 | Nancy Ditz | USA | 2:34:54 | ||
| 8 | Sinikka Keskitalo | FIN | 2:35:16 | ||
| 9 | Karolina Szabó | HUN | 2:36:18 | ||
| 10 | Miyuki Yamashita | JPN | 2:36:55 | ||
| 11 | Angie Pain-Hulley | GBR | 2:38:12 | ||
| 12 | Antonella Bizioli | ITA | 2:38:52 | ||
| 13 | Mercedes Calleja | ESP | 2:38:58 | ||
| 14 | Uta Pippig | GDR | 2:39:30 | ||
| 15 | Agnes Pardaens | BEL | 2:39:52 | ||
| 16 | Odette Lapierre | CAN | 2:40:20 | ||
| 17 | Paula Fudge | GBR | 2:42:42 | ||
| 18 | Genoveva Eichenmann | SUI | 2:43:07 | ||
| 19 | Maria Luisa Irizar | ESP | 2:43:54 | ||
| 20 | Emma Scaunich | ITA | 2:44:32 | ||
| 21 | Evy Palm | SWE | 2:44:41 | ||
| 22 | Veronique Marot | GBR | 2:45:02 | ||
| 23 | Gabriela Wolf | FRG | 2:45:13 | ||
| 24 | Christine Kennedy | IRL | 2:45:47 | ||
| 25 | Hazel Stewart | NZL | 2:48:41 | ||
| 26 | Eriko Asai | JPN | 2:48:44 | ||
| 27 | Marcianne Mukamurenzi | RWA | 2:49:38 | NR | |
| 28 | Rita Borralho | POR | 2:52:26 | ||
| 29 | Dorothy Goertzen | CAN | 2:53:11 | ||
| 30 | Cornelia Melis | ARU | 2:59:31 | ||
| 31 | Gina Coello | HON | 3:01:53 | NR | |
| 32 | Maria Del Pilar Menendez | GUA | 3:16:20 | ||
| 33 | Juli Ogbourn | GUM | 3:50:56 | ||
| Cathy Twomey | USA | DNF | |||
| Lisa Martin-Ondieki | AUS | DNF | |||
| Renata Kokowska | POL | DNF | |||
| Kimberly Rosenquist-Jones | USA | DNF | |||
| Maria Rebelo-Lelut | FRA | DNF | |||
| Rita Marchisio | ITA | DNF | |||
| Monika Schäfer | FRG | DNF | |||
| Angelica De Almeida | BRA | DNF | |||
| Susan Stone | CAN | DNF |