| 1st | Florence Griffith Joyner | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| 2nd | Evelyn Ashford | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| 2nd | Merlene Ottey-Page | |
| 3rd | Heike Drechsler | |
| 4th | Grace Jackson-Small | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 4th | Jolanta Janota | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 4th | Patricia Girard-Léno | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Angela Bailey | 🇨🇦CanadaCAN |
| 5th | Angella Taylor-Issajenko | 🇨🇦CanadaCAN |
| 5th | Gwen Torrence | 🇺🇸United StatesUSA |
| 5th | Liu Shaomei | |
| 5th | Marisa Masullo | 🇮🇹ItalyITA |
| 5th | Paula Dunn | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 5th | Rossella Tarolo | 🇮🇹ItalyITA |
| 5th | Sandy Myers | 🇪🇸SpainESP |
| 5th | Silke Möller | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 5th | Simmone Jacobs | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 5th | Ulrike Sarvari | 🇫🇷West GermanyFRG |
| 5th | Voula Patoulidou | 🇬🇷GreeceGRE |
| 5th | Zhang Caihua | |
| 6th | Els Vader | 🇳🇱NetherlandsNED |
| 6th | Ewa Pisiewicz | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 6th | Gailey Dube | 🇿🇼ZimbabweZIM |
| 6th | Gisèle Ongollo | |
| 6th | Helen Miles | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 6th | Joanna Smolarek | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 6th | Kerry Johnson | 🇦🇺AustraliaAUS |
| 6th | Laurence Bily | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 6th | Lee Yeong-Suk | |
| 6th | Lydia de Vega | 🇵🇭PhilippinesPHI |
| 6th | Marlies Oelsner-Göhr | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 6th | Melvina Vulah | |
| 6th | Méryem Oumezdi | 🇲🇦MoroccoMAR |
| 6th | Nataliya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova | |
| 6th | Pauline Davis-Thompson | |
| 7th | Andrea Thomas | |
| 7th | Angela Williams | 🇹🇹Trinidad and TobagoTTO |
| 7th | Chen Ya-Li | 🇹🇼Chinese TaipeiTPE |
| 7th | Claudia Acerenza | 🇺🇷UruguayURU |
| 7th | Félicite Bada | 🇧🇯BeninBEN |
| 7th | Guilhermina da Cruz | 🇦🇳AngolaANG |
| 7th | Joyce Odhiambo | 🇰🇪KenyaKEN |
| 7th | Juliet Cuthbert | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 7th | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 7th | Nelli Fiere-Cooman | 🇳🇱NetherlandsNED |
| 7th | Ng Ka Yee | |
| 7th | Olivette Daruhi | 🇻🇺VanuatuVAN |
| 7th | Sabine Richter | 🇫🇷West GermanyFRG |
| 7th | Tian Yumei | |
| 7th | Yvette Bonapart | |
| 8th | Aminata Diarra | 🇲🇱MaliMLI |
| 8th | Amparo Caicedo | 🇨🇴ColombiaCOL |
| 8th | Aneliya Vechernikova-Nuneva | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 8th | Dinah Yankey | 🇬🇭GhanaGHA |
| 8th | Erin Tierney | |
| 8th | Evelyn Farrell | |
| 8th | Farida Kyakutema | 🇺🇬UgandaUGA |
| 8th | Françoise Leroux | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 8th | Jabou Jawo | |
| 8th | Judith Diankoléla-Missengué | 🇨🇬CongoCGO |
| 8th | Julie Rocheleau-Baumann | |
| 8th | Mala Sakonhninhom | |
| 8th | Mariama Ouiminga | 🇧🇫Burkina FasoBUR |
| 8th | Marina Zhirova | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |