| 1 | Yelena Nikolayeva | RUS | |
1:26:52 | |
| 2 | Gillian O'Sullivan | IRL | |
1:27:34 | |
| 3 | Valentina Tsybulskaya | BLR | |
1:28:10 | NR |
| 4 | Tatyana Gudkova | RUS | 1:28:53 | ||
| 5 | Claudia Stef | ROM | 1:29:09 | ||
| 6 | Rossella Giordano | ITA | 1:29:14 | ||
| 7 | Athanasía Tsoumeléka | GRE | 1:29:34 | NR | |
| 8 | Melanie Seeger | GER | 1:29:44 | NR | |
| 9 | Susana Feitor | POR | 1:30:15 | ||
| 10 | Elisa Rigaudo | ITA | 1:30:34 | ||
| 11 | Jane Saville | AUS | 1:30:51 | ||
| 12 | Olive Loughnane | IRL | 1:30:53 | ||
| 13 | Aihui Xu | CHN | 1:31:34 | ||
| 14 | Kristina Saltanovic | LTU | 1:32:13 | ||
| 15 | Vera Santos | POR | 1:32:43 | ||
| 16 | Sonata Milušauskaité | LTU | 1:32:58 | ||
| 17 | Vira Zozulya | UKR | 1:33:34 | ||
| 18 | Geovana Irusta | BOL | 1:33:42 | AR | |
| 19 | Fatiha Ouali | FRA | 1:34:01 | ||
| 20 | Sabine Zimmer | GER | 1:34:08 | ||
| 21 | Barbora Dibelková | CZE | 1:34:44 | ||
| 22 | Svetlana Tolstaya | KAZ | 1:35:11 | ||
| 23 | Daniela Cîrlan | ROM | 1:36:02 | ||
| 24 | Joanne Dow | USA | 1:36:32 | ||
| 25 | Ryoko Tadamasa | JPN | 1:38:00 | ||
| 26 | Gabrielle Gorst | NZL | 1:38:51 | ||
| 27 | Monica Svensson | SWE | 1:39:21 | ||
| 28 | Teresita Collado | GUA | 1:41:19 | ||
| Hongjuan Song | CHN | DQ | |||
| Natalya Fedoskina | RUS | DQ | |||
| Yufang Yuan | MAS | DQ | |||
| Mi-Jung Kim | KOR | DQ | |||
| Mari Cruz Díaz | ESP | DQ | |||
| Kjersti Plätzer | NOR | DQ | |||
| Norica Cîmpean | ROM | DQ | |||
| Olga Kardopoltseva | BLR | DQ | |||
| Kelian Gao | CHN | DQ | |||
| Elisabetta Perrone | ITA | DNF | |||
| Maria Teresa Gargallo | ESP | DNF | |||
| Maria del Rosario Sánchez | MEX | DNF | |||
| María Vasco | ESP | DNF | |||
| Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | DNF |