Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m | 1. Catherine Plewinski | France | 59.34s | | - | 20 | 1. | 27.57s | 2. Kristin Otto | East Germany | 1:00.40 | +1.06s | - | 22 | 3. | 28.49s | 3. Conny Van Bentum | Netherlands | 1:00.94 | +1.60s | - | 23 | 5. | 29.11s | 4. Svitlana Kopchykova | Soviet Union | 1:01.65 | +2.31s | - | 21 | 9. | 29.22s | 5. Fiona Alessandrini | Australia | 1:01.90 | +2.56s | - | 20 | 10. | 29.29s | 6. Gabriele Reha | West Germany | 1:02.27 | +2.93s | - | 23 | 15. | 29.61s | 7. Jane Kerr | Canada | 1:02.91 | +3.57s | - | 20 | 20. | 29.67s | 8. Agneta Eriksson | Sweden | 1:03.45 | +4.11s | - | 23 | 22. | 29.18s |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m | 1, Birte Weigang | East Germany | 59.97s | +0.63s | - | 20 | 2. | 28.59s | 2. Qian Hong | China | 1:00.66 | +1.32s | - | 17 | 4. | 28.49s | 3. Xiaohong Wang | China | 1:01.16 | +1.82s | - | 19 | 7. | 29.02s | 4. Jacqueline Delord | France | 1:02.24 | +2.90s | - | 18 | 14. | 29.06s | 5. Takayo Kitano | Japan | 1:02.35 | +3.01s | - | 16 | 16. | 29.38s | 6. Caroline Foot | Great Britain | 1:02.76 | +3.42s | - | 23 | 18. | 29.28s | 7. Ina Beyermann | West Germany | 1:02.85 | +3.51s | - | 23 | 19. | 29.54s | 8. Andrea Nugent | Canada | 1:03.69 | +4.35s | - | 19 | 23. | 29.44s |
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