| 1 | Brigita Bukovec | SLO | 12,93 | Q |
| 2 | Dionne Rose | JAM | 12,97 | Q |
| 3 | Anne Piquereau | FRA | 13,05 | q |
| 4 | Caren Jung-Sonn | GER | 13,13 | |
| 5 | Carla Tuzzi | ITA | 13,32 | |
| 6 | Sau Ying Chan | HKG | 13,53 |
| 1 | Tatyana Reshetnikova | RUS | 13,07 | Q |
| 2 | Marsha Guialdo | USA | 13,08 | Q |
| 3 | Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret | FRA | 13,13 | |
| 4 | Birgit Wolf | GER | 13,21 | |
| 5 | María José Mardomingo | ESP | 13,31 | |
| 6 | Isabel Abrantes | POR | 13,77 | |
| Hsiu-Ying Hsu | TPE | DNF |
| 1 | Yuliya Filippova-Graudyn | RUS | 12,90 | Q |
| 2 | Patricia Girard | FRA | 12,95 | Q |
| 3 | Michelle Freeman | JAM | 12,99 | q |
| 4 | Lidiya Yurkova | BLR | 13,00 | q |
| 5 | Odalys Adams | CUB | 13,33 | |
| 6 | Heike Blassneck | GER | 13,47 | |
| Gilda Massa | PER | DNS |
| 1 | Olga Shishigina | KZK | 12,80 | Q |
| 2 | Aliuska López | CUB | 13,01 | Q |
| 3 | Jackie Agyepong | GBR | 13,06 | q |
| 4 | Nicole Ramalalanirina | MAD | 13,13 | q |
| 5 | Doris Williams | USA | 13,33 | |
| 6 | Sriyani Kulawansa-Fonseca | SRI | 13,45 | |
| Joyce Melendez | PUR | DNS |
| 1 | Gillian Russell | JAM | 12,84 | Q |
| 2 | Gail Devers | USA | 12,85 | Q |
| 3 | Julie Baumann | SUI | 12,99 | q |
| 4 | Yelena Ovcharova-Krasovska | UKR | 13,18 | |
| 5 | Monica Grefstad | NOR | 13,30 | |
| 6 | Jing Zhou | CHN | 13,61 | |
| 7 | Veronique Linster | LUX | 13,74 |
| 1 | Gail Devers | USA | 12,67 | Q | |
| 2 | Gillian Russell | JAM | 12,74 | Q | NR |
| 3 | Yuliya Filippova-Graudyn | RUS | 12,82 | Q | |
| 4 | Julie Baumann | SUI | 12,86 | Q | |
| 5 | Patricia Girard | FRA | 12,87 | ||
| 6 | Lidiya Yurkova | BLR | 12,95 | ||
| 7 | Jackie Agyepong | GBR | 13,14 | ||
| 8 | Michelle Freeman | JAM | 13,23 |
| 1 | Olga Shishigina | KZK | 12,78 | Q |
| 2 | Brigita Bukovec | SLO | 12,82 | Q |
| 3 | Dionne Rose | JAM | 12,86 | Q |
| 4 | Tatyana Reshetnikova | RUS | 12,88 | Q |
| 5 | Marsha Guialdo | USA | 12,91 | |
| 6 | Aliuska López | CUB | 12,98 | |
| 7 | Anne Piquereau | FRA | 13,09 | |
| 8 | Nicole Ramalalanirina | MAD | 13,24 |