| 1 | Maria Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | |
1:55,43 | AR |
| 2 | Lyubov Gurina | RUS | |
1:57,10 | |
| 3 | Ella Kovacs | ROM | |
1:57,92 | |
| 4 | Diane Modahl | GBR | 1:59,42 | ||
| 5 | Meredith Rainey-Valmon | USA | 1:59,57 | ||
| 6 | Li Liu | CHN | 2:04,45 | ||
| 7 | Tina Paulino | MOZ | 3:19,89 | ||
| Liliya Nurutdinova | RUS | DQ |