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Date: 4 September 1972 / 4 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Karen Moe | USA | 2:15.57 |
| 2 | Lynn Colella | USA | 2:16.34 |
| 3 | Ellie Daniel | USA | 2:16.74 |
| 4 | Rosemarie Kother | GDR | 2:17.11 |
| 5 | Noriko Asano | JPN | 2:19.50 |
| 6 | Helga Lindner | GDR | 2:20.47 |
| 7 | Gail Neal | AUS | 2:21.88 |
| 8 | Mayumi Aoki | JPN | 2:22.84 |
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| 9 | Frieke Buys | NED | 2:24.20 |
| 10 | Brigitte Mertz | GDR | 2:24.92 |
| 11 | Sue Funch | AUS | 2:26.69 |
| 12 | Jean Jeavons | GBR | 2:27.59 |
| 13 | Eva Sigg | FIN | 2:27.64 |
| 14 | Ileana Morales | VEN | 2:28.41 |
| 15 | Eva Wikner | SWE | 2:29.03 |
| 16 | Margrit Thomet | SUI | 2:29.21 |
| 17 | Vera Faitlova | TCH | 2:29.34 |
| 18 | Moira Brown | GBR | 2:30.08 |
| 19 | Anca Groza | ROU | 2:30.32 |
| 20 | Jennifer McHugh | CAN | 2:30.36 |
| 21 | Maria Isabel Guerra | BRA | 2:32.60 |
| 22 | Olga de Angulo | COL | 2:34.69 |
| 23 | Grisel Mendoza | MEX | 2:35.85 |
| 24 | Hsu Yue-Yun | TPE | 2:44.88 |
| Did not start | |||
| Jeannette Slavtcheva | BUL | ||
| Novella Calligaris | ITA | ||
| Mireille Bassoul | LBN | ||