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Date: 23 September 1988 / 24 September 1988
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Janet Evans | USA | 8:20.20 |
| 2 | Astrid Strauss | GDR | 8:22.09 |
| 3 | Julie McDonald | AUS | 8:22.93 |
| 4 | Anke Moehring | GDR | 8:23.09 |
| 5 | Tami Bruce | USA | 8:30.86 |
| 6 | Janelle Elford | AUS | 8:30.94 |
| 7 | Isabelle Arnould | BEL | 8:37.47 |
| 8 | Antoaneta Strumenlieva | BUL | 8:41.05 |
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| 9 | Debra Joanne Wurzberger | CAN | 8:36.24 |
| 10 | Irene Dalby | NOR | 8:38.33 |
| 11 | Tomomi Hosoda | JPN | 8:39.55 |
| 12 | Manuela Melchiorri | ITA | 8:40.63 |
| 13 | Karyn Faure | FRA | 8:41.64 |
| 14 | Stephanie Ortwig | FRG | 8:41.95 |
| 15 | Natalia Trefilova | URS | 8:43.19 |
| 16 | Karen Mellor | GBR | 8:44.64 |
| 17 | Alexandra Russ | FRG | 8:49.31 |
| 18 | Pernille P. Jensen | DEN | 8:50.82 |
| 19 | Huda Abdullah Nurul | MAS | 8:50.84 |
| 20 | Christelle Janssens | BEL | 8:51.22 |
| 21 | Patricia Amorim | BRA | 8:51.95 |
| 22 | Eva Mortensen | DEN | 8:53.67 |
| 23 | Judit Csabai | HUN | 8:56.37 |
| 24 | Cecile Prunier | FRA | 8:57.22 |
| 25 | Tracey Atkin | GBR | 9:00.04 |
| 26 | Yan Ming | CHN | 9:00.81 |
| 27 | Rita Garay Massey | PUR | 9:04.62 |