| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Sandy Neilson | USA | 58.59s | 3. 3. | | 2. Shirley Babashoff | USA | 59.02s | 4. 1. | | 3. Shane Gould | AUS | 59.06s | 1. 2. | | 4. Gabriele Wetzko | GDR | 59.21s | 9. 4. | | 5. Heidi Reineck | FRG | 59.73s | 8. 6. | | 6. Andrea Eife | GDR | 59.91s | 6. 7. | | 7. Magdolna Patóh | HUN | 1:00.02 | 2. 5. | | 8. Enith Brigitha | NED | 1:00.09 | 7. 8. |
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| Semi 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Shirley Babashoff | USA | 59.05s | 1. | | 2. Magdolna Patóh | HUN | 59.64s | 5. | | 3. Heidi Reineck | FRG | 59.66s | 6. | | 4. Andrea Eife | GDR | 59.71s | 7. | | 5. Jenny Kemp | USA | 59.93s | 10. | | 6. Anke Rijnders | NED | 1:00.84 | 13. | | 7. Wendy Cook-Hogg | CAN | 1:01.26 | 15. | | 8. Claude Mandonnaud | FRA | 1:01.88 | 16. |
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| Semi 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Shane Gould | AUS | 59.20s | 2. | | 2. Sandy Neilson | USA | 59.41s | 3. | | 3. Gabriele Wetzko | GDR | 59.46s | 4. | | 4. Enith Brigitha | NED | 59.75s | 8. | | 5. Jutta Weber | FRG | 59.90s | 9. | | 6. Sylvia Eichner | GDR | 1:00.73 | 11. | | 7. Hansje Bunschoten | NED | 1:00.79 | 12. | | 8. Tatyana Zolotnitskaya | URS | 1:01.12 | 14. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Gabriele Wetzko | GDR | 1:00.40 | 9. | | 2. Tatyana Zolotnitskaya | URS | 1:01.24 | 15. | | 3. Claude Mandonnaud | FRA | 1:01.34 | 16. | | 4. Guylaine Berger | FRA | 1:01.54 | 19. | | 5. Judit Turóczy | HUN | 1:01.57 | 20. | | 6. Sharon Booth | AUS | 1:02.07 | 26. | | 7. Kirsten Strange-Campbell | DEN | 1:03.83 | 41. | | 8. Susana Saxlund | URU | 1:04.91 | 45. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Enith Brigitha | NED | 1:00.02 | 7. | | 2. Anke Rijnders | NED | 1:00.76 | 12. | | 3. Judy Wright | CAN | 1:01.97 | 25. | | 4. Chantal Schertz | FRA | 1:02.82 | 33. | | 5. Edit Kovács | HUN | 1:03.00 | 36. | | 6. Lucy Burle | BRA | 1:03.12 | 37. | | 7. Marcia Arriaga | MEX | 1:03.66 | 40. | | 8. Ileana Morales | VEN | 1:04.13 | 42. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Magdolna Patóh | HUN | 59.47s | 2. | | 2. Sandy Neilson | USA | 59.51s | 3. | | 3. Hansje Bunschoten | NED | 1:00.82 | 13. | | 4. Eva Andersson | SWE | 1:01.88 | 23. | | 5. Susan Edmondson | GBR | 1:02.29 | 30. | | 6. Françoise Monod | SUI | 1:02.43 | 32. | | 7. Heather Coombridge | NZL | 1:02.95 | 35. | | 8. Hsu Yue-Yun | TPE | 1:04.77 | 44. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Shirley Babashoff | USA | 59.51s | 4. | | 2. Wendy Cook-Hogg | CAN | 1:01.20 | 14. | | 3. Mary Beth Rondeau | CAN | 1:01.46 | 17. | | 4. Leanne Francis | AUS | 1:01.90 | 24. | | 5. Lesley Allardice | GBR | 1:02.07 | 26. | | 6. Inger Andersson | SWE | 1:03.40 | 38. | | 7. Diana Walker | GBR | 1:04.44 | 43. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jutta Weber | FRG | 59.72s | 5. | | 2. Jenny Kemp | USA | 1:00.42 | 10. | | 3. Sylvia Eichner | GDR | 1:00.64 | 11. | | 4. Angela Steinbach | FRG | 1:01.66 | 21. | | 5. Nadezhda Matyukhina | URS | 1:02.14 | 29. | | 6. Margrit Thomet | SUI | 1:02.33 | 31. | | 7. Laura Podesta | ITA | 1:02.88 | 34. |
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| Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Shane Gould | AUS | 59.44s | 1. | | 2. Andrea Eife | GDR | 59.73s | 6. | | 3. Heidi Reineck | FRG | 1:00.39 | 8. | | 4. Grethe Mathiesen | NOR | 1:01.47 | 18. | | 5. Yelena Timoshenko | URS | 1:01.68 | 22. | | 6. Shigeko Kawanishi | JPN | 1:02.13 | 28. | | 7. Khriska Peycheva | BUL | 1:03.43 | 39. | | 8. Virginia Anchestegui | MEX | 1:04.99 | 46. |
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