| Final | | time | | gap | L | | 1. Judith Grinham |  Great Britain | 1:12.6 | ECR | | 2 | | 2. Margaret Edwards | Great Britain | 1:12.9 | | +0.3s | 5 | | 3. Larisza Viktorova |  Soviet Union | 1:13.9 | | +1.3s | 3 | | 4. Lenie de Nijs |  Netherlands | 1:14.3 | | +1.7s | 6 | | 5. Maria van Velsen | Netherlands | 1:15.2 | | +2.6s | 4 | | 6. Helga Schmidt |  West Germany | 1:15.8 | | +3.2s | 1 | | 7. Rosy Piacentini |  France | 1:15.9 | | +3.3s | 7 | | 8. Anneliese Schneider |  East Germany | 1:17.7 | | +5.1s | 8 |
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| World Record: Judith Grinham, Great Britain 1:11.9 Cardiff, Great Britain 23rd July 1958 | | Championship Record: |
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| Heat 4 | | time | | | 2. Margaret Edwards | Great Britain | 1:13.5 | Q | | 8. Anneliese Schneider | East Germany | 1:16.7 | Q | | 9. Takács Katalin |  Hungary | 1:16.7 | | | 10.Ethel Petersen |  Denmark | 1:17.3 | | | 18.Natalja Bajkovic |  Yugoslavia | 1:21.7 | |
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| Heat 3 | | time | | | 1. Maria van Velsen | Netherlands | 1:13.3 | Q | | 11.Csohány Eszter | Hungary | 1:18.5 | | | 15.Ingeborg Lechman | East Germany | 1:19.7 | | | 16.Eleonore Trittner |  Austria | 1:19.7 | | | 19.Joanne Sokołowska |  Poland | 1:22.4 | |
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| Heat 2 | | time | | | 5. Lenie de Nijs | Netherlands | 1:14.2 | Q | | 6. Rosy Piacentini | France | 1:15.9 | Q | | 7. Helga Schmidt | West Germany | 1:16.3 | Q | | 13.Arlette Faidiga |  Italy | 1:19.1 | | | 17.Nora Novotny | Austria | 1:21.2 | |
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| Heat 1 | | time | | | 3. Larisza Viktorova | Soviet Union | 1:14.1 | Q | | 4. Judith Grinham | Great Britain | 1:14.2 | Q | | 12.Brigitta Segerström |  Sweden | 1:19.1 | | | 14.Eva Sperlová |  Czechoslovakia | 1:19.4 | |
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