| 1 | Junko Asari | JPN | |
2:30:03 |
| 2 | Maria Manuela Machado | POR | |
2:30:54 |
| 3 | Tomoe Abe | JPN | |
2:31:01 |
| 4 | Ramilya Burangulova | RUS | 2:33:03 | |
| 5 | Madina Biktagirova | BLR | 2:34:36 | |
| 6 | Katrin Dörre-Heinig | GER | 2:35:20 | |
| 7 | Frith Van Der Merwe | RSA | 2:35:56 | |
| 8 | Kimberly Rosenquist-Jones | USA | 2:36:33 | |
| 9 | Kamila Gradus | POL | 2:36:48 | |
| 10 | Firiya Sultanova-Zhdanova | RUS | 2:37:59 | |
| 11 | Akemi Matsuno | JPN | 2:38:04 | |
| 12 | Maria Rebelo-Lelut | FRA | 2:38:33 | |
| 13 | Anna Rybicka | POL | 2:39:44 | |
| 14 | Marion Sutton | GBR | 2:39:45 | |
| 15 | Judit Földing-Nagy | HUN | 2:41:06 | |
| 16 | Karen Macleod | GBR | 2:41:46 | |
| 17 | Ana Isabel Alonso | ESP | 2:42:53 | |
| 18 | Ritva Lemettinen | FIN | 2:45:05 | |
| 19 | Jane Welzel | USA | 2:46:08 | |
| 20 | Helena Javornik | SLO | 2:51:06 | |
| 21 | Emperatriz Wilson | CUB | 2:54:11 | |
| 22 | Tzu-Ning Su | TPE | 2:58:37 | |
| 23 | Winnie Ng Lai Chu | HKG | 2:58:41 | |
| Danuta Bartoszek | CAN | DNF | ||
| Gabrielle O'Rourke | NZL | DNF | ||
| Anne Van Schuppen | NED | DNF | ||
| Claudia Metzner | GER | DNF | ||
| Birgit Jerschabek | GER | DNF | ||
| Bettina Sabatini | ITA | DNF | ||
| Rosanna Munerotto | ITA | DNF | ||
| Rakiya Maraoui-Quetier | MAR | DNF | ||
| Liyan Ma | CHN | DNF | ||
| Sally Eastall | GBR | DNS |