| 1 | Maria Manuela Machado | POR | |
2:25:39 | |
| 2 | Anuta Catuna | ROM | |
2:26:25 | NR |
| 3 | Ornella Ferrara | ITA | |
2:30:11 | |
| 4 | Malgorzata Sobanska | POL | 2:31:10 | ||
| 5 | Ritva Lemettinen | FIN | 2:31:19 | ||
| 6 | Mónica Pont | ESP | 2:31:53 | ||
| 7 | Linda Somers | USA | 2:32:12 | ||
| 8 | Sonja Krolik-Oberem | GER | 2:32:17 | ||
| 9 | Sachiyo Seiyama | JPN | 2:33:07 | ||
| 10 | Lidia Slavuteanu-Simon | ROM | 2:33:18 | ||
| 11 | Miki Igarashi | JPN | 2:34:34 | ||
| 12 | Yukari Komatsu | JPN | 2:35:33 | ||
| 13 | Kirsi Rauta | FIN | 2:35:39 | ||
| 14 | Jane Salumäe | EST | 2:35:53 | ||
| 15 | Kerryn Mccann | AUS | 2:36:29 | ||
| 16 | Kimberly Rosenquist-Jones | USA | 2:37:06 | ||
| 17 | Ingmarie Nilsson | SWE | 2:37:17 | ||
| 18 | Susan Mahony | AUS | 2:37:38 | ||
| 19 | Fatuma Roba | ETH | 2:39:27 | ||
| 20 | Nelly Glauser | SUI | 2:40:42 | ||
| 21 | Maria Luisa Munoz | ESP | 2:41:37 | ||
| 22 | Trudi Thomson | GBR | 2:41:42 | ||
| 23 | Judit Földing-Nagy | HUN | 2:42:03 | ||
| 24 | Larisa Zyusko | RUS | 2:42:12 | ||
| 25 | Cathy Shum | IRL | 2:43:20 | ||
| 26 | Nurten Tasdemir | TUR | 2:44:36 | ||
| 27 | Aura Buia | ROM | 2:45:13 | ||
| 28 | Alison Rose | GBR | 2:45:52 | ||
| 29 | Nyla Carroll | NZL | 2:50:25 | ||
| 30 | Winnie Ng Lai Chu | HKG | 3:01:08 | ||
| 31 | Isabel Tum | GUA | 3:02:02 | ||
| 32 | Gilda Mendez | PAN | 3:05:00 | ||
| Maria Guadalupe Loma | MEX | DNF | |||
| Dorthe Rasmussen | DEN | DNF | |||
| Birgit Jerschabek | GER | DNF | |||
| Nadia Prasad | FRA | DNF | |||
| Carole Rouillard | CAN | DNF | |||
| Angelina Kanana | KEN | DNF | |||
| Anita Håkenstad | NOR | DNF | |||
| Rocío Ríos | ESP | DNF | |||
| Marina Belyayeva | RUS | DNF | |||
| Elaine Van Blunk | USA | DNF | |||
| Nadezhda Ilyina | RUS | DNF | |||
| Janet Mayal | BRA | DNS |