Home / Select a different event
Date: 31 July 1996
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Deon Hemmings | JAM | 52.82 |
| 2 | Kim Batten | USA | 53.08 |
| 3 | Tonja Buford-Bailey | USA | 53.22 |
| 4 | Debbie-Ann Parris | JAM | 53.97 |
| 5 | Heike Meissner | GER | 54.03 |
| 6 | Rosey Edeh | CAN | 54.39 |
| 7 | Ionela Tirlea | ROU | 54.40 |
| 8 | Silvia Rieger | GER | 54.57 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | USA | 54.73 |
| 10 | Gudrun Arnardottir | ISL | 54.81 |
| 11 | Susan Smith | IRL | 54.93 |
| 12 | Ann Mercken | BEL | 54.95 |
| 13 | Tanya Ledovskaya | BLR | 54.99 |
| 14 | Tetyana Tereshchuk | UKR | 55.34 |
| 15 | Michele Schenk | SUI | 55.96 |
| 16 | Sally Gunnell | GBR | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Natalya Torshina | KAZ | 55.94 |
| 18 | Lana Jekabsone | LAT | 56.18 |
| 19 | Anna Knoroz | RUS | 56.21 |
| 19 | Catherine Scott-Pomales | JAM | 56.21 |
| 21 | Martina Stoop | SUI | 56.32 |
| 22 | Miriam Alonso | ESP | 56.53 |
| 23 | Lade Akinremi | NGR | 56.83 |
| 24 | Nelli Voronkova | BLR | 56.97 |
| 25 | Karen van der Veen | RSA | 57.00 |
| 26 | Virna De Angeli | ITA | 57.12 |
| 27 | Tanya Kurochkina | BLR | 57.28 |
| 28 | Eva Paniagua | ESP | 58.10 |
| 29 | Mary-Estelle Kapalu | VAN | 58.68 |
| 30 | Hsu Pei-Chin | TPE | 58.80 |