| 1 | Yekaterina Fesenko-Grun | URS | |
54,14 | |
| 2 | Anna Ambraziene | URS | |
54,15 | |
| 3 | Ellen Neumann-Fiedler | GDR | |
54,55 | |
| 4 | Petra Pfaff | GDR | 54,64 | ||
| 5 | Petra Krug | GDR | 54,76 | ||
| 6 | Ann-Louise Skoglund | SWE | 54,80 | ||
| 7 | Susan Morley | GBR | 56,04 | NR | |
| 8 | Cristieana Cojocaru-Matei | ROM | 56,26 | NR |