| 1st | Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 1st | Ingrid Auerswald-Lange | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 1st | Marlies Oelsner-Göhr | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 1st | Romy Müller | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 2nd | Lyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 2nd | Nataliya Bochina | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 2nd | Vera Anisimova | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 2nd | Vera Komisova | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 3rd | Bev Goddard-Callender | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 3rd | Heather Hunte-Oakes | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 3rd | Kathy Smallwood-Cook | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 3rd | Sonia Lannaman | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 4th | Galina Penkova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 4th | Lilyana Panayotova-Ivanova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 4th | Mariya Shishkova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 4th | Sofka Popova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 5th | Chantal Réga | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Emma Sulter | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Raymonde Naigre | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Véronique Grandrieux-Rosset | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 6th | Jackie Pusey | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 6th | Lelieth Hodges | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 6th | Merlene Ottey-Page | |
| 6th | Rosie Allwood | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 7th | Elżbieta Stachurska | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Grażyna Rabsztyn | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Lucyna Langer | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Zofia Bielczyk | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| - | Andrea Lynch | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| - | Ann-Louise Skoglund | 🇸🇼SwedenSWE |
| - | Anna Włodarczyk | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| - | Dorothy Scott | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| - | Helena Pihl | 🇸🇼SwedenSWE |
| - | Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| - | Juliet Cuthbert | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| - | Laureen Beckles | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| - | Lena Möller | 🇸🇼SwedenSWE |
| - | Linda Haglund | 🇸🇼SwedenSWE |
| - | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| - | Rose-Aimée Bacoul | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| - | Wendy Clarke | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |