| Final A | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Summer Sanders |  USA | 2:08.67 | 2.  |  | 2. Wang Xiaohong |  CHN | 2:09.01 | 5.  |  | 3. Susie O'Neill |  AUS | 2:09.03 | 1.  |  | 4. Mika Haruna |  JPN | 2:09.88 | 4.  |  | 5. Rie Shito |  JPN | 2:10.24 | 3.  |  | 6. Ina Wester-Krieg |  USA | 2:11.46 | 6.  |  | 7. Mette Jacobsen |  DEN | 2:11.87 | 8.  |  | 8. Ilaria Tocchini |  ITA | 2:13.78 | 7.  |   
| Final B | Team | time | Rk. |  | 9. Hayley Lewis |  AUS | 2:13.11 | 10.  |  | 10.Jeanson Cécile |  FRA | 2:13.40 | 9.  |  | 11.Ewa Synowska |  POL | 2:13.61 | 11.  |  | 12.Anna Uryniuk |  POL | 2:14.44 | 12.  |  | 13.Samantha Purvis |  GBR | 2:14.47 | 13.  |  | 14.Iuliana Pantelimon |  ROU | 2:14.95 | 14.  |  | 15.Berit Puggaard |  DEN | 2:15.07 | 16.  |  | 15.María Peláez |  ESP | 2:15.07 | 15.  |   
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Susie O'Neill |  AUS | 2:10.47 | 1. |  | 2. Summer Sanders |  USA | 2:10.58 | 2. |  | 3. Ilaria Tocchini |  ITA | 2:13.03 | 7. |  | 4. Hayley Lewis |  AUS | 2:14.50 | 10. |  | 5. Berit Puggaard |  DEN | 2:16.11 | 16. |  | 6. Nataša Meškovska |  YUG | 2:16.54 | 18. |  | 7. Corina Dumitru |  ROU | 2:16.86 | 21. |  | 8. Qian Hong |  CHN | 2:22.77 | 29. |   
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Mika Haruna |  JPN | 2:11.21 | 4. |  | 2. Wang Xiaohong |  CHN | 2:11.83 | 5. |  | 3. Ina Wester-Krieg |  USA | 2:12.00 | 6. |  | 4. Ewa Synowska |  POL | 2:14.58 | 11. |  | 5. Samantha Purvis |  GBR | 2:15.04 | 13. |  | 6. Joana Arantes |  POR | 2:16.56 | 19. |  | 7. Timea Toth |  ISR | 2:16.84 | 20. |  | 8. Nataliya Yakovleva |  URS | 2:19.02 | 22. |   
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Rie Shito |  JPN | 2:11.00 | 3. |  | 2. Mette Jacobsen |  DEN | 2:13.18 | 8. |  | 3. Jeanson Cécile |  FRA | 2:13.23 | 9. |  | 4. Iuliana Pantelimon |  ROU | 2:15.44 | 14. |  | 5. María Peláez |  ESP | 2:15.77 | 15. |  | 6. María Luisa Fernández |  ESP | 2:16.18 | 17. |  | 7. Jacinthe Pineau |  CAN | 2:19.44 | 23. |   
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Anna Uryniuk |  POL | 2:14.91 | 12. |  | 2. Helen Slatter |  GBR | 2:20.45 | 24. |  | 3. Blanca Morales |  GUA | 2:21.97 | 28. |  | 4. Jeanine Steenkamp |  RSA | 2:25.24 | 30. |   
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. |  | 1. Minpraphal Praphalsai |  THA | 2:20.48 | 25. |  | 2. Bettina Ustrowski |  GER | 2:21.49 | 26. |  | 3. Anja Margetić |  BIH | 2:21.56 | 27. |  | 4. Claudia Fortin |  HON | 2:26.92 | 31. |  | 5. May Ooi |  SIN | 2:26.97 | 32. |   
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