| 1st | Florence Griffith Joyner | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| 2nd | Grace Jackson-Small | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 3rd | Heike Drechsler | |
| 4th | Merlene Ottey-Page | |
| 4th | Xie Zhiling | |
| 4th | Yolande Straughn | 🇧🇦BarbadosBAR |
| 5th | Falilat Ogunkoya | 🇳🇬NigeriaNGR |
| 5th | Gailey Dube | 🇿🇼ZimbabweZIM |
| 5th | Joyce Odhiambo | 🇰🇪KenyaKEN |
| 5th | Kerry Johnson | 🇦🇺AustraliaAUS |
| 5th | Marina Skordi | 🇬🇷GreeceGRE |
| 5th | Mary Onyali-Omagbemi | 🇳🇬NigeriaNGR |
| 5th | Muriel Leroy | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Nadezhda Georgieva | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 5th | Olivette Daruhi | 🇻🇺VanuatuVAN |
| 5th | Silke Möller | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 5th | Simmone Jacobs | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 5th | Ximena Restrepo | 🇨🇴ColombiaCOL |
| 5th | Zhang Xiaoqiong | |
| 6th | Claudia Acerenza | 🇺🇷UruguayURU |
| 6th | Félicite Bada | 🇧🇯BeninBEN |
| 6th | Gwen Torrence | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| 6th | Katrin Krabbe | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 6th | Magnólia Figueiredo | 🇧🇷BrazilBRA |
| 6th | Marisa Masullo | 🇮🇹ItalyITA |
| 6th | Oliver Acii | 🇺🇬UgandaUGA |
| 6th | Paula Dunn | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 6th | Rita Angotzi | 🇮🇹ItalyITA |
| 6th | Rosa Mbuamangongo | |
| 6th | Ruth Morris | |
| 6th | Silke Knoll | |
| 6th | U Yang-Ja | |
| 6th | Yvette Bonapart | |
| 6th | Yvonne Hasler | 🇱🇮LiechtensteinLIE |
| 7th | Agnes Griffith | |
| 7th | Agnieszka Siwek | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Aminata Diarra | 🇲🇱MaliMLI |
| 7th | Angela Williams | 🇹🇹Trinidad and TobagoTTO |
| 7th | Chen Ya-Li | 🇹🇼Chinese TaipeiTPE |
| 7th | Guilhermina da Cruz | 🇦🇳AngolaANG |
| 7th | Jocelyn Joseph | |
| 7th | Jolanta Janota | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Judith Diankoléla-Missengué | 🇨🇬CongoCGO |
| 7th | Karin Janke | 🇫🇷West GermanyFRG |
| 7th | Maia Azarashvili | |
| 7th | Mariama Ouiminga | 🇧🇫Burkina FasoBUR |
| 7th | Melvina Vulah | |
| 7th | Pauline Davis-Thompson | |
| 8th | Andrea Thomas | |
| 8th | Erin Tierney | |
| 8th | Evelyn Farrell | |
| 8th | Galina Malchugina | |
| 8th | Louise Stuart | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 8th | Marie-Christine Cazier-Balo | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 8th | Marie-José Pérec | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 8th | Ng Ka Yee | |
| 8th | Norfalia Carabalí | |
| 8th | Regula Aebi | 🇨🇭SwitzerlandSUI |
| AC h8 r1/4 | Pam Marshall | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| - | Maree Holland | 🇦🇺AustraliaAUS |