| 1 | Jacqueline Börner (Senior) | GER | 2:05.87 | TR, SB | - |
| 2 | Gunda Niemann (Senior) | GER | 2:05.92 | | +0.050 |
| 3 | Seiko Hashimoto (Senior) | JPN | 2:06.88 | | +1.010 |
| 4 | Natalja Polozkova-Kozlova (Neo) | RUS | 2:07.12 | NR | +1.250 |
| 5 | Monique Garbrecht (Neo) | GER | 2:07.24 | SB | +1.370 |
| 6 | Svetlana Bazhanova (A2) | RUS | 2:07.81 | NRJ, TRJ | +1.940 |
| 7 | Emese Hunyady (Senior) | AUT | 2:08.29 | | +2.420 |
| 8 | Heike Warnicke (Senior) | GER | 2:08.52 | | +2.650 |
| 9 | Carla Zijlstra (Neo) | NED | 2:08.54 | SB | +2.670 |
| 10 | Ljudmila Prokasjeva (Neo) | KAZ | 2:08.71 | NR | +2.840 |
| 11 | Mitsue Uehara (Neo) | JPN | 2:09.33 | SB | +3.460 |
| 12 | Else Ragni Yttredal (Neo) | NOR | 2:09.38 | | +3.510 |
| 13 | Jasmin Krohn (Senior) | SWE | 2:09.62 | | +3.750 |
| 14 | Ewa Justyna Wasilewska-Borkowska (Senior) | POL | 2:09.64 | | +3.770 |
| 15 | Mary Docter (M30) | USA | 2:09.66 | NRM | +3.790 |
| 16 | Lia van Schie (Neo) | NED | 2:09.70 | | +3.830 |
| 17 | Mihaela Dascălu (Neo) | ROU | 2:09.87 | | +4.000 |
| 18 | Sandra Voetelink (Neo) | NED | 2:10.31 | | +4.440 |
| 19 | Yumi Kaeriyama (Senior) | JPN | 2:10.75 | | +4.880 |
| 20 | Elena Belci-Dal Farra (Senior) | ITA | 2:10.75 | | +4.880 |
| 21 | Bonnie Blair (Senior) | USA | 2:10.89 | | +5.020 |
| 22 | Chang-Suk Chong (B2) | PRK | 2:11.06 | SB | +5.190 |
| 23 | Qing Zhang (Senior) | CHN | 2:11.26 | SB | +5.390 |
| 24 | Junhong Liu (Neo) | CHN | 2:11.61 | PB | +5.740 |
| 25 | Jelena Lapuga-Konotopova (Senior) | RUS | 2:11.72 | SB | +5.850 |
| 26 | Angela Zuckerman (Senior) | USA | 2:13.21 | | +7.340 |
| 27 | Tara Laszlo (Neo) | USA | 2:13.35 | | +7.480 |
| 28 | Cerasela Simona Hordobeţiu (Neo) | ROU | 2:14.69 | | +8.820 |
| 29 | Chun-Wol Kim (B2) | PRK | 2:14.87 | SB | +9.000 |
| 30 | Edel Therese Høiseth (Senior) | NOR | 2:14.93 | | +9.060 |
| 31 | Hwa-Seon Song (Senior) | PRK | 2:15.87 | SB | +10.000 |
| 32 | Krisztina Egyed (C2) | HUN | 2:21.11 | NRJ | +15.240 |
| DQ | Yvonne van Gennip (Senior) | NED | DQ | | - |