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Date: 29 July 1996
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Marie-Jose Perec | FRA | 48.25 |
| 2 | Cathy Freeman | AUS | 48.63 |
| 3 | Falilat Ogunkoya | NGR | 49.10 |
| 4 | Pauline Davis | BAH | 49.28 |
| 5 | Jearl Miles | USA | 49.55 |
| 6 | Fatima Yusuf | NGR | 49.77 |
| 7 | Sandie Richards | JAM | 50.45 |
| 8 | Grit Breuer | GER | 50.71 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Svetlana Goncharenko | RUS | 50.84 |
| 10 | Kim Graham | USA | 51.13 |
| 11 | Maicel Malone | USA | 51.16 |
| 12 | Merlene Frazer | JAM | 51.18 |
| 13 | Olabisi Afolabi | NGR | 51.40 |
| 14 | Sandra Myers | ESP | 51.42 |
| 15 | Renee Poetschka | AUS | 51.49 |
| 16 | Juliet Campbell | JAM | 51.65 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 17 | Hana Benesova | CZE | 51.30 |
| 18 | Olga Kotlyarova | RUS | 51.36 |
| 19 | Donna Fraser | GBR | 51.58 |
| 20 | Helena Fuchsova | CZE | 51.70 |
| 21 | Virna De Angeli | ITA | 51.77 |
| 22 | Maria Magnolia Figueiredo | BRA | 51.98 |
| 23 | LaDonna Antoine | CAN | 52.03 |
| 24 | Anna Kozak | BLR | 52.14 |
| 25 | Phylis Smith | GBR | 52.16 |
| 26 | Diane Francis | SKN | 52.24 |
| 27 | Dora Kyriakou | CYP | 52.26 |
| 28 | Grace-Ann Dinkins | LBR | 52.53 |
| 29 | Patrizia Spuri | ITA | 52.78 |
| 30 | Yana Manuylova | UKR | 52.82 |
| 31 | Nadezda Kostovalova | CZE | 53.21 |
| 32 | Lee Naylor | AUS | 53.75 |
| Heats | |||
| 33 | Zoila Stewart | CRC | 52.66 |
| 34 | Olena Rurak | UKR | 52.92 |
| 34 | Melissa Straker | BAR | 52.92 |
| 36 | Marina Zivkovic | SCG | 53.10 |
| 37 | Grace Birungi | UGA | 53.12 |
| 38 | Svetlana Bodritskaya | KAZ | 53.24 |
| 39 | Ameerah Bello | ISV | 53.40 |
| 40 | Corinne Simasotchi | SUI | 53.69 |
| 41 | Du Xiujie | CHN | 53.95 |
| 42 | Ngozi Mwanamwambwa | ZAM | 54.12 |
| 43 | Melrose Mansaray | SLE | 54.37 |
| 44 | Mercy Addy | GHA | 54.92 |
| 45 | Guilhermina da Cruz | ANG | 55.42 |
| 46 | Denise Ouabangui | CAF | 55.74 |
| 47 | Arely Franco | ESA | 1:01.38 |
| 48 | Ahamada Haoulata | COM | 1:03.44 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Ximena Restrepo | COL | ||