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Date: 1 September 1972 / 1 September 1972 / 2 September 1972
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Cathy Carr | USA | 1:13.58 |
| 2 | Galina Stepanova | URS | 1:14.99 |
| 3 | Beverley Whitfield | AUS | 1:15.73 |
| 4 | Agnes Kiss | HUN | 1:16.26 |
| 5 | Judy Melick | USA | 1:16.34 |
| 6 | Verena Eberle | FRG | 1:17.16 |
| 7 | Britt-Marie Smedh | SWE | 1:17.19 |
| 8 | Dorothy Harrison | GBR | 1:17.49 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Ludmila Porubaiko | URS | 1:16.85 |
| 10 | Renate Vogel | GDR | 1:16.87 |
| 11 | Erika Ruegg | SUI | 1:17.50 |
| 12 | Jeanette Pettersson | SWE | 1:17.54 |
| 13 | Christine Jarvis | GBR | 1:17.58 |
| 14 | Eva Kiss | HUN | 1:17.59 |
| 15 | Tatiana Prudnikova | URS | 1:19.37 |
| 16 | Sylvia Langer | GDR | 1:20.03 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Brigitte Schuchardt | GDR | 1:18.62 |
| 18 | Sylvia Dockerill | CAN | 1:18.64 |
| 19 | Marian Stuart | CAN | 1:18.69 |
| 20 | Alie te Riet | NED | 1:18.79 |
| 21 | Lynn Vidali | USA | 1:18.80 |
| 21 | Dagmar Sierck | FRG | 1:18.80 |
| 23 | Zuzana Markova | TCH | 1:18.88 |
| 24 | Yoko Yamamoto | JPN | 1:18.94 |
| 25 | Jaroslava Slavickova | TCH | 1:19.12 |
| 26 | Ann O'Connor | IRL | 1:19.13 |
| 27 | Diana Harris | GBR | 1:19.19 |
| 28 | Tineke Hofland | NED | 1:19.38 |
| 29 | Patricia Siewert | FRG | 1:19.54 |
| 30 | Judith Hudson | AUS | 1:19.78 |
| 31 | Jane Wright | CAN | 1:20.56 |
| 32 | Cristina Teixeira | BRA | 1:20.58 |
| 33 | Beatrice Mottoulle | BEL | 1:20.79 |
| 34 | Shlomit Nir | ISR | 1:20.90 |
| 35 | Ana Elena de la Portilla | MEX | 1:21.61 |
| 36 | Mary Ioannidou | GRE | 1:21.70 |
| 37 | Winnie Nielsen | DEN | 1:23.00 |
| 38 | Leonor Urueta | MEX | 1:23.21 |
| 39 | Lii Yue-Hwan | TPE | 1:25.47 |
| 40 | Ani Jane Mugrditchian | LBN | 1:29.71 |