| 1 | Ludmila Formanová | CZE | |
1:56,68 |
| 2 | Maria Lourdes Mutola | MOZ | |
1:56,72 |
| 3 | Svetlana Masterkova | RUS | |
1:56,93 |
| 4 | Jearl Miles-Clark | USA | 1:57,40 | |
| 5 | Natalya Tsyganova | RUS | 1:57,81 | |
| 6 | Natalya Gorelova | RUS | 1:57,90 | |
| 7 | Stephanie Graf | AUT | 1:57,92 | |
| 8 | Natalya Dukhnova | BLR | 1:58,69 |