| 1 | Gunda Niemann (Senior) | GER | 2:02.74 | TR | - | 25 |
| 2 | Emese Hunyady (Senior) | AUT | 2:02.99 | NR | +0.250 | 22 |
| 3 | Heike Warnicke (Senior) | GER | 2:05.08 | SB | +2.340 | 20 |
| 4 | Svetlana Bazhanova (Neo) | RUS | 2:05.70 | NR | +2.960 | 18 |
| 5 | Mihaela Dascălu (Neo) | ROU | 2:06.11 | NR | +3.370 | 16 |
| 6 | Annamarie Thomas (Neo) | NED | 2:06.14 | SB | +3.400 | 15 |
| 7 | Else Ragni Yttredal (Senior) | NOR | 2:06.39 | NR | +3.650 | 14 |
| 8 | Natalja Polozkova-Kozlova (Neo) | RUS | 2:06.58 | SB | +3.840 | 13 |
| 9 | Mitsue Uehara (Neo) | JPN | 2:06.75 | SB | +4.010 | 12 |
| 10 | Ewa Justyna Wasilewska-Borkowska (Senior) | POL | 2:07.06 | | +4.320 | 11 |
| 11 | Elena Belci-Dal Farra (Senior) | ITA | 2:07.34 | SB | +4.600 | 10 |
| 12 | Bonnie Blair (Senior) | USA | 2:08.07 | SB | +5.330 | 9 |
| 13 | Ingrid van der Voort (Neo) | NED | 2:08.17 | PB | +5.430 | 8 |
| 14 | Jasmin Krohn (Senior) | SWE | 2:08.44 | PB | +5.700 | 7 |
| 15 | Cerasela Simona Hordobeţiu (Senior) | ROU | 2:08.52 | SB | +5.780 | 6 |
| 16 | Chantal Bailey (Senior) | USA | 2:09.06 | | +6.320 | 5 |
| 17 | Ingrid Liepa (Senior) | CAN | 2:09.19 | | +6.450 | 4 |
| 18 | Claudia Pechstein (Neo) | GER | 2:09.24 | SB | +6.500 | 3 |
| 19 | Emese Antal (Neo) | AUT | 2:09.59 | SB | +6.850 | 2 |
| 20 | Edel Therese Høiseth (Senior) | NOR | 2:10.11 | SB | +7.370 | 1 |
| 21 | Anja Mischke (Senior) | GER | 2:10.83 | SB | +8.090 | 0 |