| 1 | Emese Hunyady (Senior) | AUT | 2:02.19 | NR | - |
| 2 | Svetlana Fedotkina (Senior) | RUS | 2:02.69 | NR | +0.500 |
| 3 | Gunda Niemann (Senior) | GER | 2:03.41 | | +1.220 |
| 4 | Bonnie Blair (Senior) | USA | 2:03.44 | NR | +1.250 |
| 5 | Annamarie Thomas (Neo) | NED | 2:03.70 | SB | +1.510 |
| 6 | Svetlana Bazhanova (Neo) | RUS | 2:03.99 | | +1.800 |
| 7 | Natalja Polozkova-Kozlova (Neo) | RUS | 2:04.00 | SB | +1.810 |
| 8 | Mihaela Dascălu (Senior) | ROU | 2:04.02 | NR | +1.830 |
| 9 | Seiko Hashimoto (Senior) | JPN | 2:04.98 | | +2.790 |
| 10 | Tonny de Jong (A2) | NED | 2:05.18 | NRJ, TRJ | +2.990 |
| 11 | Anke Baier (Neo) | GER | 2:05.97 | | +3.780 |
| 12 | Elena Belci-Dal Farra (Senior) | ITA | 2:05.99 | NR | +3.800 |
| 13 | Shiho Kusunose (Senior) | JPN | 2:06.20 | SB | +4.010 |
| 14 | Ulrike Adeberg (Neo) | GER | 2:06.40 | | +4.210 |
| 15 | Hiromi Yamamoto (Senior) | JPN | 2:06.54 | PB | +4.350 |
| 16 | Maki Tabata (A2) | JPN | 2:06.79 | NRJ | +4.600 |
| 17 | Catriona LeMay (Neo) | CAN | 2:07.19 | SB | +5.000 |
| 18 | Ewa Wasilewska (Senior) | POL | 2:07.44 | PB | +5.250 |
| 19 | Emese Antal (Neo) | AUT | 2:07.72 | | +5.530 |
| 20 | Michelle Kline (Senior) | USA | 2:08.02 | PB | +5.830 |
| 21 | Angela Zuckerman (Senior) | USA | 2:08.43 | PB | +6.240 |
| 22 | Carla Zijlstra (Senior) | NED | 2:08.49 | | +6.300 |
| 23 | Cerasela Simona Hordobeţiu (Senior) | ROU | 2:08.50 | | +6.310 |
| 24 | Michelle Morton (Neo) | CAN | 2:08.53 | SB | +6.340 |
| 25 | Oksana Ravilova (Senior) | RUS | 2:08.65 | SB | +6.460 |
| 26 | Heike Warnicke (Senior) | GER | 2:09.53 | | +7.340 |
| 27 | Chantal Dunn-Bailey (Senior) | USA | 2:09.68 | | +7.490 |
| 28 | Ingrid Liepa (Senior) | CAN | 2:09.97 | | +7.780 |
| 29 | Elisabetta Pizio (Neo) | ITA | 2:11.02 | | +8.830 |
| 30 | Hee-Joo Cheon (A1) | KOR | 2:12.14 | | +9.950 |