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Date: 29 August 1972 / 29 August 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Beverley Whitfield | AUS | 2:41.71 |
| 2 | Dana Schoenfield | USA | 2:42.05 |
| 3 | Galina Stepanova | URS | 2:42.36 |
| 4 | Claudia Clevenger | USA | 2:42.88 |
| 5 | Petra Nows | FRG | 2:43.38 |
| 6 | Agnes Kiss | HUN | 2:43.41 |
| 7 | Ludmila Porubaiko | URS | 2:44.48 |
| 8 | Eva Kiss | HUN | 2:45.12 |
| Heats | |||
| 9 | Hannelore Anke | GDR | 2:45.92 |
| 10 | Britt-Marie Smedh | SWE | 2:46.05 |
| 11 | Verena Eberle | FRG | 2:46.17 |
| 12 | Chieno Shibata | JPN | 2:46.87 |
| 13 | Barbara Mitchell | USA | 2:47.05 |
| 14 | Pat Beavan | GBR | 2:47.42 |
| 15 | Erika Ruegg | SUI | 2:47.63 |
| 16 | Jane Wright | CAN | 2:47.85 |
| 17 | Alie te Riet | NED | 2:48.49 |
| 18 | Judith Hudson | AUS | 2:49.09 |
| 19 | Marian Stuart | CAN | 2:49.11 |
| 20 | Christine Jarvis | GBR | 2:49.24 |
| 21 | Sylvia Langer | GDR | 2:49.68 |
| 22 | Jeanette Pettersson | SWE | 2:50.36 |
| 23 | Ulrike Klees | FRG | 2:50.48 |
| 24 | Tatiana Prudnikova | URS | 2:50.79 |
| 25 | Nieves Panadell | ESP | 2:51.50 |
| 26 | Amanda Radnage | GBR | 2:51.85 |
| 27 | Beatrice Mottoulle | BEL | 2:52.18 |
| 28 | Brigitte Schuchardt | GDR | 2:53.03 |
| 29 | Ann O'Connor | IRL | 2:53.04 |
| 30 | Patrizia Miserini | ITA | 2:53.14 |
| 31 | Mary Ioannidou | GRE | 2:53.53 |
| 32 | Shlomit Nir | ISR | 2:53.60 |
| 33 | Zuzana Markova | TCH | 2:53.88 |
| 34 | Ana Elena de la Portilla | MEX | 2:54.10 |
| 35 | Yoko Yamamoto | JPN | 2:54.28 |
| 36 | Rose-Marie Pepe | CAN | 2:54.75 |
| 37 | Leonor Urueta | MEX | 2:55.21 |
| 38 | Winnie Nielsen | DEN | 2:59.31 |
| 39 | Lii Yue-Hwan | TPE | 3:04.74 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Cristina Teixeira | BRA | 2:57.03 | |
| Did not start | |||
| Ani Jane Mugrditchian | LBN | ||
| Halina Zawadzka | POL | ||