| Final 20:07 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | 50m | 150m | 150m |  | 1. Samantha Riley |   Australia | 2:26.87 | CR | 7 | 21 | - | 849 |  | 2. Yuan Yuan |   China | 2:27.38 | +0.51s | 3 | 18 | - | 840 |  | 3. Brigitte Becue |   Belgium | 2:28.85 | +1.98s | 6 | 21 | - | 816 |  | 4. Rebecca Brown |   Australia | 2:28.87 | +2.00s | 4 | 17 | - | 815 |  | 5. Guohong Dai |   China | 2:28.93 | +2.06s | 5 | 17 | - | 814 |  | 6. Kristine Quance |   United States | 2:29.64 | +2.77s | 2 | 19 | - | 803 |  | 7. Guylaine Cloutier |   Canada | 2:30.48 | +3.61s | 1 | 22 | - | 790 |  | 8. Hitomi Maehara |   Japan | 2:31.03 | +4.16s | 8 |   | - | 781 |   
| Final B 20:16 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 150m | 150m |  | 9. Lenka Manhalova |   Czechia | 2:31.29 |   | 5 | 19 | - | 777 | 1. |  | 10.Lisa Flood |   Canada | 2:31.88 | +0.59s | 4 | 23 | - | 768 | 2. |  | 11.Masami Tanaka |   Japan | 2:32.57 | +1.28s | 3 | 15 | - | 757 | 3. |  | 12.Manuela Dalla Valle |   Italy | 2:32.76 | +1.47s | 8 | 31 | - | 755 | 4. |  | 13.Penny Heyns |   South Africa | 2:33.08 | +1.79s | 1 | 19 | - | 750 | 5. |  | 14.Allison Wagner |   United States | 2:33.65 | +2.36s | 6 | 17 | - | 742 | 6. |  | 15.Marie Hardiman |   Great Britain | 2:34.21 | +2.92s | 2 | 19 | - | 734 | 7. |  | 16.Lena Eriksson |   Sweden | 2:36.84 | +5.55s | 7 | 21 | - | 697 | 8. |   
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 Heats - Tuesday, 6th September 12:00  |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final.  |   
| Heat 6 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 1. Rebecca Brown |   Australia | 2:28.15 |   | 4 | 17 | - | 827 | 1. |  | 2. Guohong Dai |   China | 2:29.00 | +0.85s | 5 | 17 | - | 813 | 2. |  | 7. Guylaine Cloutier |   Canada | 2:31.08 | +2.93s | 6 | 22 | - | 780 | 7. |  | 10.Lenka Manhalova |   Czechia | 2:32.13 | +3.98s | 2 | 19 | - | 764 | 10. |  | 11.Masami Tanaka |   Japan | 2:32.42 | +4.27s | 3 | 15 | - | 760 | 11. |  | 14.Lena Eriksson |   Sweden | 2:34.01 | +5.86s | 7 | 21 | - | 736 | 14. |  | 22.Karine Bremond |   France | 2:35.61 | +7.46s | 1 | 19 | - | 714 | 22. |  | 24.Adriana Enache |   Romania | 2:36.01 | +7.86s | 8 |   | - | 708 | 24. |   
| Heat 5 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 4. Brigitte Becue |   Belgium | 2:29.96 | +1.81s | 6 | 21 | - | 798 | 4. |  | 5. Kristine Quance |   United States | 2:30.24 | +2.09s | 5 | 19 | - | 793 | 5. |  | 6. Samantha Riley |   Australia | 2:30.89 | +2.74s | 4 | 21 | - | 783 | 6. |  | 8. Hitomi Maehara |   Japan | 2:31.73 | +3.58s | 3 |   | - | 770 | 8. |  | 15.Penny Heyns |   South Africa | 2:34.11 | +5.96s | 2 | 19 | - | 735 | 15. |  | 18.Alenka Kejzar |   Slovenia | 2:34.99 | +6.84s | 7 | 15 | - | 723 | 18. |  | 19.Olga Prokhorova |   Russia | 2:35.17 | +7.02s | 8 |   | - | 720 | 19. |  | 34.Audrey Guerit |   France | 2:40.99 | +12.84s | 1 | 18 | - | 645 | 34. |   
| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 3. Yuan Yuan |   China | 2:29.33 | +1.18s | 4 | 18 | - | 808 | 3. |  | 9. Lisa Flood |   Canada | 2:31.85 | +3.70s | 6 | 23 | - | 768 | 9. |  | 12.Allison Wagner |   United States | 2:32.71 | +4.56s | 5 | 17 | - | 755 | 12. |  | 13.Marie Hardiman |   Great Britain | 2:33.85 | +5.70s | 3 | 19 | - | 739 | 13. |  | 16.Manuela Dalla Valle |   Italy | 2:34.41 | +6.26s | 7 | 31 | - | 731 | 16. |  | 25.Viktoriya Aleksandrova |   Russia | 2:36.02 | +7.87s | 8 |   | - | 708 | 25. |  | 27.Maria Olay |   Spain | 2:36.16 | +8.01s | 1 | 16 | - | 706 | 27. |  | 28.Svitlana Bondarenko |   Ukraine | 2:37.51 | +9.36s | 2 | 23 | - | 688 | 28. |   
| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 17.Yelena Rudkovskaya |   Belarus | 2:34.64 | +6.49s | 5 | 21 | - | 727 | 17. |  | 20.Dagmara Ajnenkiel |   Poland | 2:35.26 | +7.11s | 2 | 17 | - | 719 | 20. |  | 21.Elin Austevoll |   Norway | 2:35.41 | +7.26s | 6 | 19 | - | 717 | 21. |  | 23.Britta Vestergaard |   Denmark | 2:35.92 | +7.77s | 4 | 19 | - | 710 | 23. |  | 26.Terrie Miller |   Norway | 2:36.15 | +8.00s | 7 | 16 | - | 707 | 26. |  | 29.Jana Dorries |   Germany | 2:37.58 | +9.43s | 3 | 18 | - | 687 | 29. |  | 31.Maria Carolina Santa Cruz |   Argentina | 2:39.61 | +11.46s | 8 | 16 | - | 662 | 31. |  | 40.Gina Galligan |   Ireland | 2:48.65 | +20.50s | 1 |   | - | 561 | 40. |   
| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 30.Magdalena Kupiec |   Poland | 2:39.40 | +11.25s | 4 | 17 | - | 664 | 30. |  | 32.Petra Passerova |   Czechia | 2:39.62 | +11.47s | 5 |   | - | 661 | 32. |  | 33.Martina Schmidtova |   Slovakia | 2:40.69 | +12.54s | 6 |   | - | 648 | 33. |  | 35.Erika Graf Esolk |   Uruguay | 2:41.25 | +13.10s | 3 | 17 | - | 642 | 35. |  | 36.Joana Soutinho |   Portugal | 2:43.21 | +15.06s | 2 | 16 | - | 619 | 36. |  | 39.Tanya Hildebrand |   South Africa | 2:45.10 | +16.95s | 7 |   | - | 598 | 39. |  | 41.Kenia Puertas |   Venezuela | 2:49.64 | +21.49s | 1 |   | - | 551 | 41. |   
| Heat 1 12:00 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rc | pts | Rk | 50m | 100m | 150m |  | 37.Isabel Ceballos |   Colombia | 2:44.86 | +16.71s | 5 | 15 | - | 600 | 37. |  | 38.Hsin Mou |   Chinese Taipei | 2:45.05 | +16.90s | 4 | 16 | - | 598 | 38. |  | 42.Nadia Vanda Sousa Eloy Cruz |   Angola | 2:51.09 | +22.94s | 3 | 19 | - | 537 | 42. |   
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