| | | Final |  | time |  | L |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |  East Germany | 7.90s |  | 3 |  | 2. Ginka Zagorcheva |  Bulgaria | 8.02s |  | 5 |  | 3. Anne Piquereau |  France | 8.03s |  | 1 |  | 4. Laurence Elloy |  France | 8.09s |  | 4 |  | 5. Ulrike Denk |  West Germany | 8.09s |  | 6 |  | 6. Nadezhda Korshunova |  Soviet Union | 8.11s |  | 2 | 
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 |  |  | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final. | 
 | | Semi 1 |  | time |  |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |  East Germany | 7.94s | Q |  | 4. Anne Piquereau |  France | 8.04s | Q |  | 8. Ulrike Denk |  West Germany | 8.22s | Q |  | 9. Sabine Braun |  West Germany | 8.22s |  |  | 10.Margit Palombi |  Hungary | 8.33s |  |  | 11.Margita Papić |  Yugoslavia | 8.40s |  | 
 |  | | Semi 2 |  | time |  |  | 2. Laurence Elloy |  France | 7.98s | Q |  | 3. Nadezhda Korshunova |  Soviet Union | 8.02s | Q |  | 4. Ginka Zagorcheva |  Bulgaria | 8.04s | Q |  | 6. Marie-Noëlle Savigny |  France | 8.08s |  |  | 7. Edith Oker |  West Germany | 8.12s |  |  | 12.Jitka Tesárková |  Czechoslovakia | 8.66s |  | 
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 | Heats - Saturday, 2nd March |  | First 2 from each Heat and next 6 Best advanced to Semi-Finals. | 
 | | Heat 1 |  | time |  |  | 1. Cornelia Oschkenat |  East Germany | 7.99s | Q |  | 5. Marie-Noëlle Savigny |  France | 8.16s | Q |  | 9. Edith Oker |  West Germany | 8.29s | q |  | -. Elizabet Pantazis |  Greece | DNS |  | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time |  |  | 2. Ginka Zagorcheva |  Bulgaria | 8.08s | Q |  | 3. Laurence Elloy |  France | 8.11s | Q |  | 6. Ulrike Denk |  West Germany | 8.20s | q |  | 13.Ann-Louise Skoglund |  Sweden | 8.50s |  |  | 14.Hilde Fredriksen |  Norway | 8.59s |  | 
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 | | Heat 3 |  | time |  |  | 4. Anne Piquereau |  France | 8.14s | Q |  | 7. Nadezhda Korshunova |  Soviet Union | 8.21s | Q |  | 8. Sabine Braun |  West Germany | 8.28s | q |  | 9. Margit Palombi |  Hungary | 8.29s | q |  | 9. Jitka Tesárková |  Czechoslovakia | 8.29s | q |  | 12.Margita Papić |  Yugoslavia | 8.49s | q | 
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