| 1 | Maria de Lourdes Mutola | MOZ | |
1:57,17 |
| 2 | Stephanie Graf | AUT | |
1:57,20 |
| 3 | Letitia Vriesde | SUR | |
1:57,35 |
| 4 | Faith Macharia | KEN | 1:58,98 | |
| 5 | Diane Cummins | CAN | 1:59,49 | |
| 6 | Kelly Holmes | GBR | 1:59,76 | |
| 7 | Mayte Martínez | ESP | 2:00,09 | |
| 8 | Ivonne Teichmann | GER | 2:04,33 |