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Date: 20 July 1976 / 20 July 1976
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Petra Thumer | GDR | 4:09.89 |
| 2 | Shirley Babashoff | USA | 4:10.46 |
| 3 | Shannon Smith | CAN | 4:14.60 |
| 4 | Rebecca Perrott | NZL | 4:14.76 |
| 5 | Kathy Heddy | USA | 4:15.50 |
| 6 | Brenda Borgh | USA | 4:17.43 |
| 7 | Annelies Maas | NED | 4:17.44 |
| 8 | Sabine Kahle | GDR | 4:20.42 |
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| 9 | Wendy Quirk | CAN | 4:19.69 |
| 10 | Regina Jager | GDR | 4:20.05 |
| 11 | Wendy Lee | CAN | 4:20.16 |
| 12 | Irina Vlasova | URS | 4:21.19 |
| 13 | Rosemary Milgate | AUS | 4:21.20 |
| 14 | Jenny Turrall | AUS | 4:21.33 |
| 15 | Allison Calder | NZL | 4:23.64 |
| 16 | Tracey Wickham | AUS | 4:24.44 |
| 17 | Carine Verbauwen | BEL | 4:26.27 |
| 18 | Laura Bortolotti | ITA | 4:29.71 |
| 19 | Susan Barnard | GBR | 4:30.05 |
| 20 | Antonia Real | ESP | 4:30.37 |
| 21 | Maria E. Guimaraes | BRA | 4:32.63 |
| 22 | Rachaniw Bulakul | THA | 4:32.98 |
| 23 | Susan Edmondson | GBR | 4:33.33 |
| 24 | Eleonora Pandini | ITA | 4:34.69 |
| 25 | Linda Faber | NED | 4:36.98 |
| 26 | Maria Perez | VEN | 4:38.93 |
| 27 | Maria M. Paris | CRC | 4:40.35 |
| 28 | Myriam Mizouni | TUN | 4:43.11 |
| 29 | Fernanda Perez | COL | 4:45.73 |
| 30 | Vilborg Sverrisdottir | ISL | 4:48.28 |
| 31 | Diana Hatler | PUR | 4:49.73 |
| 32 | Georgina Osorio | PAN | 4:49.80 |
| 33 | Susana Coppo | ARG | 4:57.41 |
| 34 | Karen Robertson | HKG | 5:03.90 |
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| Maria Ramon | CUB | ||