| 1 | Song-Ok Jong | PRK | |
2:26:59 | NR |
| 2 | Ari Ichihashi | JPN | |
2:27:02 | |
| 3 | Lidia Slavuteanu-Simon | ROM | |
2:27:41 | |
| 4 | Fatuma Roba | ETH | 2:28:04 | ||
| 5 | Elfenesh Alemu | ETH | 2:28:52 | ||
| 6 | Sonja Krolik-Oberem | GER | 2:28:55 | ||
| 7 | Maria Manuela Machado | POR | 2:29:11 | ||
| 8 | Kayoko Obata | JPN | 2:29:11 | ||
| 9 | Claudia Dreher | GER | 2:29:22 | ||
| 10 | Chang-Ok Kim | PRK | 2:29:26 | ||
| 11 | Esther Wanjiru | KEN | 2:29:36 | ||
| 12 | Sun Yingjie | CHN | 2:30:12 | ||
| 13 | Florina Pana | ROM | 2:30:28 | ||
| 14 | Firiya Sultanova-Zhdanova | RUS | 2:30:45 | ||
| 15 | Ana Isabel Alonso | ESP | 2:31:38 | ||
| 16 | Junko Asari | JPN | 2:31:39 | ||
| 17 | Mayumi Ichikawa | JPN | 2:32:01 | ||
| 18 | Marie Söderström-Lundberg | SWE | 2:35:25 | ||
| 19 | Constantina Dita | ROM | 2:36:28 | ||
| 20 | Silvana Trampuz | AUS | 2:36:49 | ||
| 21 | Mónica Pont | ESP | 2:36:57 | ||
| 22 | Manuela Veith | GER | 2:37:24 | ||
| 23 | Kerryn McCann | AUS | 2:38:31 | ||
| 24 | Anke Laws | GER | 2:38:57 | ||
| 25 | Alina Tecuta-Gherasim | ROM | 2:39:29 | ||
| 26 | Gadissie Edatto | ETH | 2:40:03 | ||
| 27 | Elizabeth Mongudhi | NAM | 2:40:07 | ||
| 28 | Angelines Rodriguez | ESP | 2:40:10 | ||
| 29 | Zinaida Semenova | RUS | 2:41:33 | ||
| 30 | Jane Salumäe | EST | 2:41:50 | ||
| 31 | Fátima Silva | POR | 2:42:55 | ||
| 32 | Marie Boyd | USA | 2:44:16 | ||
| 33 | Maria Luisa Muñoz | ESP | 2:45:00 | ||
| 34 | Lete Yesus Berehe | ETH | 2:45:28 | ||
| 35 | Maria Trujillo | USA | 2:46:36 | ||
| 36 | Mary Lynn Currier | USA | 2:48:05 | ||
| 37 | Mimi Corcoran | USA | 2:49:21 | ||
| 38 | Cindy Keeler | USA | 2:53:04 | ||
| 39 | Sarah Mahlangu | RSA | 2:54:12 | ||
| 40 | Anna Markelova | TKM | 2:58:04 | ||
| 41 | Gina Coello | HON | 2:58:11 | NR | |
| 42 | Gulsara Dadabayeva | TJK | 3:23:01 | ||
| Anuta Catuna | ROM | DNF | |||
| Yelena Gundelakh | RUS | DNF | |||
| Nicole Carroll | AUS | DNF | |||
| Maria Polizou | GRE | DNF | |||
| Elizabeth McCaul | RSA | DNF | |||
| Abeba Tola | ETH | DNF | |||
| Christine Mallo | FRA | DNF | |||
| Heather Turland | AUS | DNF | |||
| Irina Timofeyeva | RUS | DNF | |||
| Franca Fiacconi | ITA | DNS | |||
| Colleen De Reuck | RSA | DNS | |||
| Naoko Takahashi | JPN | DNS |