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Date: 23 July 1976 / 24 July 1976 / 26 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 1:54.94 |
| 2 | Nikolina Chtereva | BUL | 1:55.42 |
| 3 | Elfi Zinn | GDR | 1:55.60 |
| 4 | Anita Weiss | GDR | 1:55.74 |
| 5 | Svetlana Styrkina | URS | 1:56.44 |
| 6 | Svetla Zlateva | BUL | 1:57.21 |
| 7 | Doris Gluth | GDR | 1:58.99 |
| 8 | Mariana Suman | ROU | 2:02.21 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Judith Pollock | AUS | 1:59.93 |
| 10 | Charlene Rendina | AUS | 2:00.29 |
| 11 | Valentina Gerasimova | URS | 2:01.00 |
| 12 | Liliana Tomova | BUL | 2:01.97 |
| 13 | Ilona Silai | ROU | 2:02.22 |
| 14 | Wendy Knudson | USA | 2:02.31 |
| 15 | Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 2:02.46 |
| 16 | Madeline Jackson | USA | 2:07.25 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Elizabeth Barnes | GBR | 2:01.70 |
| 18 | Jozefina Cerchlanova | TCH | 2:02.36 |
| 19 | Kathleen Weston | USA | 2:03.31 |
| 20 | Angela Creamer | GBR | 2:03.48 |
| 21 | Yvonne Saunders | CAN | 2:03.54 |
| 22 | Joan Wenzel | CAN | 2:03.62 |
| 23 | Magdolna Lazar | HUN | 2:04.05 |
| 24 | Anne-Marie van Nuffel | BEL | 2:04.09 |
| 25 | Rita Thijs | BEL | 2:04.39 |
| 26 | Christine McMeekin | GBR | 2:04.54 |
| 26 | Celestine N'Drin | CIV | 2:04.54 |
| 28 | Abigail Hoffman | CAN | 2:05.32 |
| 29 | Anne Garrett | NZL | 2:05.78 |
| 30 | Carmen Valero | ESP | 2:06.14 |
| 31 | Lilja Gudmundsdottir | ISL | 2:07.26 |
| 32 | Ileana Hocking | PUR | 2:08.46 |
| 33 | Ndew Niang | SEN | 2:09.32 |
| 34 | Maria Ritter | LIE | 2:14.39 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Chee Swee Lee | SIN | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Nina Holmen | FIN | ||