| 1 | Yu Zhang | CHN | 13,12 | Q |
| 2 | Arnita Myricks | USA | 13,12 | Q |
| 3 | Anne Piquereau | FRA | 13,20 | q |
| 4 | Lesley-Ann Skeete | GBR | 13,33 | |
| 5 | Mihaela Stoica-Pogacian | ROM | 13,38 | |
| 6 | Cornelia Riefstahl-Oschkenat | GER | 13,55 |
| 1 | Natalya Grigoryeva | URS | 13,02 | Q |
| 2 | Odalys Adams | CUB | 13,30 | Q |
| 3 | Paraskevi Patoulidou | GRE | 13,41 | |
| 4 | Liliana Nastase | ROM | 13,41 | |
| 5 | Donalda Duprey | CAN | 13,75 | |
| 6 | Carmen Bezanilla | CHI | 14,01 | |
| Yasmina Azzizi | ALG | DNS |
| 1 | Gail Devers | USA | 12,77 | Q | |
| 2 | Michelle Freeman | JAM | 13,10 | Q | |
| 3 | Florence Colle | FRA | 13,12 | q | |
| 4 | María José Mardomingo | ESP | 13,22 | q | NR |
| 5 | Gloria Uibel-Siebert | GER | 13,29 | ||
| 6 | Bin Luo | CHN | 13,53 |
| 1 | Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret | FRA | 12,92 | Q |
| 2 | Aliuska López | CUB | 13,10 | Q |
| 3 | Kay Morley-Brown | GBR | 13,24 | q |
| 4 | Nadezhda Bodrova | URS | 13,34 | |
| 5 | Brigita Bukovec | YUG | 13,44 | |
| 6 | Monica Pellegrinelli | SUI | 13,49 | |
| 7 | Shu-Hwa Wang | TPE | 13,81 |
| 1 | Ludmila Engquist | URS | 12,66 | Q |
| 2 | Julie Baumann | SUI | 12,86 | Q |
| 3 | Sylvia Dethier | BEL | 13,07 | q |
| 4 | Kristin Patzwahl | GER | 13,08 | q |
| 5 | Dawn Bowles | USA | 13,41 | |
| 6 | Michelle Edwards | GBR | 13,50 | |
| 7 | Ayumi Sasaki | JPN | 13,85 |
| 1 | Natalya Grigoryeva | URS | 12,66 | Q |
| 2 | Gail Devers | USA | 12,71 | Q |
| 3 | Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret | FRA | 12,88 | Q |
| 4 | Kristin Patzwahl | GER | 13,11 | Q |
| 5 | Michelle Freeman | JAM | 13,17 | |
| 6 | Sylvia Dethier | BEL | 13,18 | |
| 7 | Kay Morley-Brown | GBR | 13,24 | |
| 8 | Odalys Adams | CUB | 13,26 |
| 1 | Ludmila Engquist | URS | 12,52 | Q | |
| 2 | Aliuska López | CUB | 12,91 | Q | |
| 3 | Florence Colle | FRA | 12,94 | Q | |
| 4 | Julie Baumann | SUI | 12,94 | Q | |
| 5 | Anne Piquereau | FRA | 13,02 | ||
| 6 | Arnita Myricks | USA | 13,12 | ||
| 7 | María José Mardomingo | ESP | 13,19 | NR | |
| 8 | Yu Zhang | CHN | 13,24 |