| 1 | Tatyana Ledovskaya | URS | |
53,11 | |
| 2 | Sally Gunnell | GBR | |
53,16 | NR |
| 3 | Janeene Vickers | USA | |
53,47 | |
| 4 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | USA | 53,95 | ||
| 5 | Kim Batten | USA | 53,98 | ||
| 6 | Anita Protti | SUI | 54,25 | NR | |
| 7 | Heike Meissner | GER | 55,26 | ||
| 8 | Margarita Khromova-Ponomaryova | URS | 55,27 |