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Date: 12 February 1972
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Stien Kaiser | NED | 4:52.14 |
| 2 | Dianne Holum | USA | 4:58.67 |
| 3 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra | NED | 4:59.91 |
| 4 | Sippie Tigchelaar | NED | 5:01.67 |
| 5 | Nina Statkevich | URS | 5:01.79 |
| 6 | Kapitolina Seregina | URS | 5:01.88 |
| 7 | Tuula Vilkas | FIN | 5:05.92 |
| 8 | Lyudmila Savrulina | URS | 5:06.61 |
| 9 | Han Pil-Hwa | PRK | 5:07.24 |
| 10 | Sigrid Sundby | NOR | 5:07.76 |
| 11 | Kim Bok-Soon | PRK | 5:07.93 |
| 12 | Satomi Koike | JPN | 5:09.21 |
| 13 | Kim Ok-Soon | PRK | 5:09.69 |
| 14 | Sylvia Filipsson | SWE | 5:11.13 |
| 15 | Rosemarie Taupadel | GDR | 5:12.85 |
| 16 | Kaname Ide | JPN | 5:17.30 |
| 17 | Leah Poulos | USA | 5:17.38 |
| 18 | Akiko Aruga | JPN | 5:22.60 |
| 19 | Jeon Seon-Ok | KOR | 5:22.27 |
| 20 | Kirsti Biermann | NOR | 5:26.21 |
| 21 | Arja Kantola | FIN | 5:30.88 |
| 22 | Jeanne Omelenchuk | USA | 5:32.87 |
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| Choi Jung-Hui | KOR | ||