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Quarter-final 1
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Charlene Rendina | AUS | 51.96 |
| 2 | Helga Seidler | GDR | 51.97 |
| 3 | Nadezhda Kolesnikova | URS | 52.30 |
| 4 | Trudy Ruth | NED | 52.45 |
| 5 | Karoline Kafer | AUT | 52.82 |
| 6 | Jannette Roscoe | GBR | 53.01 |
| 7 | Anette Ruckes | FRG | 53.22 |
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| Carmen Truste | CUB | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Yvonne Saunders | JAM | 52.13 |
| 2 | Monika Zehrt | GDR | 52.33 |
| 3 | Judith Ayaa | UGA | 52.68 |
| 4 | Christel Freese | FRG | 53.01 |
| 5 | Colette Besson | FRA | 53.39 |
| 6 | Marika Eklund | FIN | 53.50 |
| 7 | Tecla Chemabwai | KEN | 53.54 |
| 8 | Natalia Chistiakova | URS | 54.58 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Gyorgyi Szomov-Balogh | HUN | 51.71 |
| 2 | Rita Wilden | FRG | 51.91 |
| 3 | Aurelia Penton | CUB | 52.02 |
| 4 | Kathy Hammond | USA | 52.44 |
| 5 | Danuta Piecyk | POL | 52.62 |
| 6 | Penny Hunt | NZL | 52.66 |
| 7 | Olga Syrovatskaia | URS | 53.42 |
| 8 | Donata Govoni | ITA | 53.78 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Dagmar Kasling | GDR | 52.33 |
| 2 | Mona-Lisa Strandvall | FIN | 52.53 |
| 3 | Mable Fergerson | USA | 52.93 |
| 4 | Nicole Duclos | FRA | 52.96 |
| 5 | Verona Bernard | GBR | 53.29 |
| 6 | Alison Ross-Edwards | AUS | 53.60 |
| 7 | Karin Lundgren | SWE | 53.87 |
| 8 | Krystyna Kacperczyk | POL | 54.39 |