| Final | | time | | L | | 1. Bettine Jahn |  East Germany | 7.75s | WB | 4 | | 2. Kerstin Knabe | East Germany | 7.96s | | 3 | | 3. Tatyana Malyuvanyets |  Soviet Union | 8.07s | | 2 | | 4. Ginka Zagorcheva |  Bulgaria | 8.08s | | 4 | | 5. Ulrike Denk |  West Germany | 8.20s | | 6 | | 6. Edith Oker | West Germany | 8.21s | | 1 |
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Heats - Saturday, 5th March | | First 2 from each Heat and Best 2 times advanced to Final. |
| Heat 1 | | time | | | 2. Kerstin Knabe | East Germany | 7.97s | Q | | 4. Ginka Zagorcheva | Bulgaria | 8.10s | Q | | 5. Edith Oker | West Germany | 8.18s | q | | 7. Marie-Noëlle Savigny |  France | 8.22s | | | 9. Semra Aksu |  Turkey | 8.66s | | | -. Svetlana Gusarova | Soviet Union | DNS | |
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| Heat 2 | | time | | | 1. Bettine Jahn | East Germany | 7.87s | Q | | 3. Tatyana Malyuvanyets | Soviet Union | 8.04s | Q | | 5. Ulrike Denk | West Germany | 8.18s | q | | 8. Michèle Chardonnet | France | 8.26s | | | 9. Lorna Boothe |  Great Britain | 8.32s | | | 10.Andrea Csehi |  Hungary | 8.71s | |
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