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Date: 30 July 1980 / 1 August 1980
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 3:56.6 |
| 2 | Christiane Wartenberg | GDR | 3:57.8 |
| 3 | Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 3:59.6 |
| 4 | Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:00.3 |
| 5 | Ulrike Bruns | GDR | 4:00.7 |
| 6 | Liubov Smolka | URS | 4:01.3 |
| 7 | Maricica Puica | ROU | 4:01.3 |
| 8 | Ileana Silai | ROU | 4:03.0 |
| 9 | Natalia Marasescu | ROU | 4:04.8 |
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| 10 | Vesela Yatsinska | BUL | 4:04.7 |
| 11 | Cornelia Burki | SUI | 4:05.5 |
| 12 | Anna Bukis | POL | 4:06.0 |
| 13 | Beate Liebich | GDR | 4:06.8 |
| 14 | Nikolina Shchereva | BUL | 4:08.3 |
| 15 | Breda Pergar | YUG | 4:13.2 |
| 16 | Totka Petrova | BUL | 4:13.8 |
| 17 | Agnese Rossamai | ITA | 4:14.7 |
| 18 | Janet Marlow | GBR | 4:15.9 |
| 19 | Mwinga Mwanjala | TAN | 4:20.9 |
| 20 | Amsale Woldegibriel | ETH | 4:25.3 |
| 21 | Marcellino Emmanuel | TAN | 4:26.8 |
| 22 | Albertine Raheliarisoa | MAD | 4:30.8 |
| 23 | Margaret Morel | SEY | 4:37.9 |
| 24 | Thi Be Trinh | VIE | 4:38.6 |
| Did not start | |||
| Gita Zutshi | IND | ||
| Hala el-Moughrabi | SYR | ||