| | | Final Wind -0.53m/s | time |  | 1. Marlies Goehr |  GDR | 11.01s |  | 2. Barbel Woeckel |  GDR | 11.20s |  | 3. Rose-Aimee Bacoul |  FRA | 11.29s |  | 4. Anelia Nuneva |  BUL | 11.30s |  | 5. Gesine Walther |  GDR | 11.38s |  | 6. Laurence Bily |  FRA | 11.45s |  | 7. Nadezhda Georgieva |  BUL | 11.68s |  | 8. Wendy Hoyte |  GBR | 12.35s | 
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 | | Semi 1 | time |  | 1. Bärbel Woeckel |  GDR | 11.19s |  | 2. Rose-Aimée Bacoul |  FRA | 11.28s |  | 3. Gesine Walther |  GDR | 11.33s |  | 4. Anelia Nuneva |  BUL | 11.35s |  | 5. Lyudmila Kondratyeva |  URS | 11.47s |  | 6. Shirley Thomas |  GBR | 11.53s |  | 7. Marisa Masullo |  ITA | 11.57s |  | 8. Lena Moeller |  SWE | 11.93s | 
 |  | | Semi 2 | time |  | 1. Marlies Goehr |  GDR | 11.22s |  | 2. Wendy Hoyte |  GBR | 11.41s |  | 3. Laurence Bily |  FRA | 11.43s |  | 4. Nadezhda Georgieva |  BUL | 11.54s |  | 5. Yelena Kelchevskaya |  URS | 11.58s |  | 6. Sofka Popova |  BUL | 11.58s |  | 7. Helina Laihorinne |  FIN | 11.58s |  | 8. Stepánka Sokolova |  TCH | 11.73s | 
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 | | Heat 1 | time |  | 1. Marlies Goehr |  GDR | 11.18s |  | 2. Lyudmila Kondratyeva |  URS | 11.38s |  | 3. Rose-Aimée Bacoul |  FRA | 11.40s |  | 4. Sofka Popova |  BUL | 11.44s |  | 5. Marisa Masullo |  ITA | 11.53s |  | 6. Heidi Gaugel |  FRG | 11.54s |  | 7. Mona Evjen |  NOR | 12.08s | 
 |  | | Heat 2 | time |  | 1. Bärbel Woeckel |  GDR | 11.41s |  | 2. Nadezhda Georgieva |  BUL | 11.45s |  | 3. Shirley Thomas |  GBR | 11.53s |  | 4. Stepánka Sokolova |  TCH | 11.61s |  | 5. Lena Moeller |  SWE | 11.87s | 
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 | | Heat 3 | time |  | 1. Anelia Nuneva |  BUL | 11.29s |  | 2. Laurence Bily |  FRA | 11.35s |  | 3. Gesine Walther |  GDR | 11.36s |  | 4. Wendy Hoyte |  GBR | 11.40s |  | 5. Helina Laihorinne |  FIN | 11.47s |  | 6. Yelena Kelchevskaya |  URS | 11.54s | 
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