| 1st | Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 2nd | Nataliya Bochina | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 3rd | Merlene Ottey-Page | |
| 4th | Carmela Bolívar | 🇵🇪PeruPER |
| 4th | Romy Müller | 🇬🇩East GermanyGDR |
| 5th | Chantal Réga | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 5th | Eugenia Osho-Williams | |
| 5th | Jackie Pusey | 🇯🇦JamaicaJAM |
| 5th | Kathy Smallwood-Cook | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 5th | Lea Alaerts | 🇧🇪BelgiumBEL |
| 5th | Mosi Alli | |
| 5th | Ruth Enang Mesode | 🇨🇲CameroonCMR |
| 5th | Trần Thị Ngọc Anh | 🇻🇳VietnamVIE |
| 6th | Bessey de Létourdie | |
| 6th | Bev Goddard-Callender | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| 6th | Boualong Boungnavong | |
| 6th | Estella Meheux | |
| 6th | Irén Orosz-Árva | 🇭🇺HungaryHUN |
| 6th | Lilyana Panayotova-Ivanova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 6th | Linda Haglund | 🇸🇼SwedenSWE |
| 6th | Nicoleta Lia | 🇷🇴RomaniaROU |
| 6th | Rufina Ubah | 🇳🇬NigeriaNGR |
| 7th | Denise Robertson-Boyd | 🇦🇺AustraliaAUS |
| 7th | Elżbieta Stachurska | 🇵🇴PolandPOL |
| 7th | Karin Verguts | 🇧🇪BelgiumBEL |
| 7th | Lyudmila Zharkova-Maslakova | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| 7th | Marisa Masullo | 🇮🇹ItalyITA |
| 7th | P. T. Usha | 🇮🇳IndiaIND |
| 7th | Raymonde Naigre | 🇫🇷FranceFRA |
| 8th | Brigitte Senglaub | 🇨🇭SwitzerlandSUI |
| 8th | Els Vader | 🇳🇱NetherlandsNED |
| 8th | Françoise Damado | 🇸🇳SenegalSEN |
| 8th | Galina Penkova | 🇧🇬BulgariaBUL |
| 8th | Nzaeli Kyomo | |
| 8th | Sonia Lannaman | 🇬🇧Great BritainGBR |
| - | Debbie Wells | 🇦🇺AustraliaAUS |
| - | Helinä Laihorinne-Marjamaa | 🇫🇮FinlandFIN |
| - | Jarmila Kratochvílová | 🇹🇨CzechoslovakiaTCH |
| - | Karoline Käfer | 🇦🇺AustriaAUT |
| - | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | 🇺🇷Soviet UnionURS |
| - | Xiomara Larios | 🇳🇨NicaraguaNCA |