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Date: 24 July 1980 / 25 July 1980 / 27 July 1980
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 1:53.5 |
| 2 | Olga Mineeva | URS | 1:54.9 |
| 3 | Tatiana Providokhina | URS | 1:55.5 |
| 4 | Martina Kampfert | GDR | 1:56.3 |
| 5 | Hildegard Ullrich | GDR | 1:57.2 |
| 6 | Jolanta Januchta | POL | 1:58.3 |
| 7 | Nikolina Shchereva | BUL | 1:58.8 |
| 8 | Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 1:59.2 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Fica Lovin | ROU | 1:59.2 |
| 10 | Vesela Yatsinska | BUL | 1:59.9 |
| 11 | Totka Petrova | BUL | 2:00.0 |
| 12 | Anna Bukis | POL | 2:00.3 |
| 13 | Doina Besliu | ROU | 2:00.8 |
| 14 | Christina Boxer | GBR | 2:00.9 |
| 15 | Elzbieta Katolik | POL | 2:01.1 |
| 16 | Anne-Marie van Nuffel | BEL | 2:02.0 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Agnese Rossamai | ITA | 2:04.1 |
| 18 | Mwinga Mwanjala | TAN | 2:05.2 |
| 19 | Gita Zutshi | IND | 2:06.6 |
| 20 | Fantaye Sirak | ETH | 2:08.7 |
| 21 | Daniela Porcelli | ITA | 2:10.7 |
| 22 | Lilian Nyiti | TAN | 2:11.1 |
| 23 | Albertine Raheliarisoa | MAD | 2:11.7 |
| 24 | Margaret Morel | SEY | 2:17.0 |
| 25 | Hala el-Moughrabi | SYR | 2:17.6 |
| 26 | Acacia Mate | MOZ | 2:19.7 |
| 27 | Fatalmoudou Toure | MLI | 2:19.8 |
| 28 | Eugenia Osho-Williams | SLE | 2:33.4 |
| Did not start | |||
| Sakina Boutamine | ALG | ||