| 1 | Ana Fidelia Quirot | CUB | |
1:57,14 |
| 2 | Yelena Afanasyeva | RUS | |
1:57,56 |
| 3 | Maria Mutola | MOZ | |
1:57,59 |
| 4 | Letitia Vriesde | SUR | 1:58,12 | |
| 5 | Ludmila Formanová | CZE | 1:59,52 | |
| 6 | Toni Hodgkinson | NZL | 2:00,40 | |
| 7 | Joetta Clark | USA | 2:02,05 | |
| 8 | Stella Jongmans | NED | 2:05,50 |