| 400m- | W30 | Falilat Ogunkoya | NGR | 49.95 | |
| Jearl Miles-Clark | - |
50.04 | |||
| Marie Jose-Perec | FRA | 50.32 | |||
| Sandie Richards | JAM | 50.42 | |||
| Maicel Wallace | - | 50.82 | |||
| Linetta Wilson | 52.19 | ||||
| Andria Thomas | - | 54.1 | |||
| M. Mayberry | - | 56.26 | |||
| Diane Francis | - | 57.3 | |||
| Chelma Peenz | SAF | 57.9 | |||
| Angela Scott | - | 59.41 | (i) | ||
| Renate Reischl | GER | 59.56 | |||
| Debra Malone | - | 59.8 | |||
| Ursula Grossmann | GER | 60.06 | |||
| Lara Zamboni | ITA | 60.20 | |||
| Sherri L.-Halmer | AUT | 60.25 | (i) | ||
| Diane Broff | - |
60.44 | |||
| Katonya Harding | CAN | 62.61 | |||
| Michelle Poole | - | 63.23 | |||
| Yvonne Ellington | - | 63.63 | |||
| Robin M. Robinson | - | 63.94 | |||
| Stefanie Haaks | GER | 64.26 | |||
| Toni Leal | - | 64.55 | (i) | ||
| Irene Thompson | - | 64.66 | (i) | ||
| Laurie Blume | - | 67.08 | |||
| 400m- | W35 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 50.56 | |
| LaTanya Sheffield | - | 53.22 | |||
| Myra Mayberry | - | 54.75 | |||
| Adina Valdez | 55.61 | (i) | |||
| Althea Morris | - | 56.66 | (i) | ||
| Jennie Mathews | GBR | 57.17 | (i) | ||
| Rosa Marchi | ITA | 57.56 | |||
| Clare Acford | GBR | 57.74 | (i) | ||
| Brigitte Heidrich | GER | 57.98 | |||
| Joy Sargis | - | 58.2 | |||
| Tracy Brighten | GBR | 58.26 | |||
| Linda Gabriel | GBR | 58.46 | |||
| Rosanne Kemp | AUS | 58.82 | |||
| Elaine Pretorius | SAF | 59.29 | |||
| Charlene Landrum | - | 59.47 | (i) | ||
| Sylvia Shierjott | GER | 59.64 | |||
| Fiona Kirton | GBR | 59.83 | |||
| Giuseppina Perlino | ITA | 60.38 | |||
| Anna Cranton | CAN | 60.96 | |||
| Lesley Hopkins | GBR | 61.05 | |||
| Linda Berghman | BEL | 61.30 | |||
| Mary Edwards | GBR | 61.36 | |||
| Gorel Manners | SWE | 61.51 | (i) | ||
| J. R.-Bosma | NET | 61.78 | |||
| Renee Sterrett | - | 61.82 | (i) | ||
| Zsuzsanna Peto | AUT | 62.04 | |||
| 400m- | W40 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 53.68 | |
| Rose Monday | - | 58.56 | |||
| Tilly Jacobs | NET | 59.23 | |||
| Christine Muller | SWI | 59.48 | |||
| Jenny Brown | GBR | 59.94 | |||
| Annette Koop | GER | 60.08 | |||
| Alison Brown | GBR | 60.18 | |||
| Angela Beadnall | GBR | 60.25 | |||
| Yannick Bouras | FRA | 60.61 | |||
| Marleen Oosterlinck | BEL | 60.68 | |||
| Lynn Talbert | GBR | 60.73 | (i) | ||
| Cherie Smee | AUS | 61.36 | |||
| Petra Herrmann | GER | 61.58 | |||
| Irina Tchernykh | RUS | 61.76 | |||
| Betsy Lord | CAN | 61.79 | |||
| Sonja Oost | NET | 61.98 | |||
| Anke Moritz | GER | 62.03 | |||
| Gisele Gaboriequ | FRA | 62.54 | |||
| Anja Matakena | NET | 62.76 | |||
| Karin Niesner | GER | 63.02 | |||
| Felecia Anderson | - | 63.26 | |||
| Leonie Louwrens | SAF | 63.4 | |||
| Lourdes Alonso | SPN | 63.61 | |||
| Karin Wahlstedt | SWE | 63.77 | (i) | ||
| H. Roggeband | NET | 63.82 | |||
| Resi Fransen | NET | 63.92 | |||
| 400m- | W45 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 56.82 | |
| Dagmar Fuhrmann | GER | 60.25 | |||
| Jacqueline Board | - | 61.68 | |||
| Edna Roe | GBR | 61.75 | |||
| B. Beaumont | FRA | 61.77 | |||
| Olia Inak-Price | GBR | 62.49 | |||
| Maria Sanguos | SPN | 63.51 | |||
| Caroline Marler | GBR | 63.54 | (i) | ||
| Irene Thompson | - |
64.3 | |||
| Diny Klomp | NET | 64.54 | |||
| Marlene Reid | AUS | 64.98 | |||
| Lena Jansen | NET | 65.13 | |||
| Mary Libal | - | 65.28 | |||
| Janny Kuper | NET | 65.29 | |||
| Cornelia Pelz | GER | 66.48 | |||
| Jocelyn Lowther | - | 66.62 | |||
| Lieve de Roock | BEL | 66.65 | |||
| Marie Blaude | BEL | 66.96 | |||
| Anja Akkerman | NET | 67.06 | |||
| Sigrid Schwarz | GER | 67.30 | |||
| S. v Rooyen | SAF | 67.4 | |||
| Umbertina Contini | ITA | 67.48 | |||
| Susan Guthrie | AUS | 67.71 | |||
| Cristina de Grandis | ITA | 67.75 | |||
| Paula D.-Taylor | - | 67.85 | (i) | ||
| Silvana Cattaneo | ITA | 68.25 | |||
| 400m- | W50 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 58.51 | |
| Avril Douglas | CAN | 62.95 | |||
| Maureen Lewington | GBR | 65.04 | |||
| Mary Libal | - | 65.12 | |||
| Ingrid Meier | GER | 65.89 | |||
| N. Afanassieva | RUS | 66.06 | |||
| Brenda Elliott | GBR | 66.08 | |||
| Ulla Littenheim | SWE | 66.33 | |||
| Waltraud Kraebe | GER | 66.56 | |||
| Phil Raschker | - | 66.61 | (i) | ||
| Umbertina Contini | ITA | 66.74 | |||
| M-C. D-Bonnant | FRA | 67.36 | (i) | ||
| Wilma Perkins | AUS | 67.47 | |||
| Elizabeth Riordan | - | 68.05 | (i) | ||
| Aija Hynynen | FIN | 68.42 | |||
| Carol Wright | BEL | 68.83 | |||
| Kaye Smythe | AUS | 68.85 | |||
| Lynda Robson | GBR | 69.73 | |||
| Nadine Lowenstein | - | 70.16 | (i) | ||
| Hedwig B-Wittgen | GER | 70.44 | |||
| Shelley Keeling | - | 71.0 | |||
| Rhona Trott | CAN | 71.08 | |||
| Christel Weniger | GER | 71.34 | |||
| Karin Forster | GER | 71.45 | |||
| Hazel McDonnell | AUS | 71.96 | |||
| Erika Cambell | - | 72.58 | (i) | ||
| 400m- | W55 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 64.50 | |
| Peggy MacLiver | AUS | 66.92 | |||
| Christa Stedtler | GER | 68.67 | |||
| Anne Stobaus | AUS | 69.20 | |||
| ChrisWaring | AUS | 70.12 | |||
| Lynne Ingalls | - | 70.73 | |||
| Nadine Lowenstein | - | 71.26 | |||
| Jan Gatt | - | 71.28 | |||
| N. Lowenstein | - | 71.28 | |||
| Leena Halme | FIN | 71.65 | |||
| Noreen Parish | AUS | 71.73 | |||
| Christl Weniger | GER | 71.94 | |||
| Mary Robinson | - |
72.09 | |||
| Lynn Naftel | - | 72.6 | |||
| M. Tomlinson | SAF | 73.0 | |||
| Doris Gallep | GER | 73.29 | |||
| Gerda Seibert | GER | 74.41 | |||
| Glenyss Jones | NZL | 75.06 | |||
| Hannelore Venn | GER | 75.22 | |||
| Boden-Soderblom | SWE | 76.37 | (i) | ||
| Iris Hornsey | GBR | 76.83 | |||
| C. Schieferdecker | GER | 77.04 | |||
| Nyala Millar | AUS | 77.07 | |||
| Gundula Tost | GER | 77.12 | |||
| Gun Eriksson | SWE | 77.40 | |||
| Gerd Eriksson | SWE | 77.68 | |||
| 400m- | W60 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 67.80 | |
| Diane Palmason | - | 68.34 | |||
| Kemisole Solwazi | - | 69.78 | |||
| Madeline Bost | - | 70.3 | |||
| Brunhilde Hoffmann | GER | 71.26 | |||
| Carolyn Cappetta | - | 71.60 | (i) | ||
| Dorothy Fraser | GBR | 71.64 | |||
| Yvette LaVigne | - | 72.01 | |||
| Erika Sauer | GER | 72.94 | |||
| Jan Morrey | AUS | 73.08 | |||
| Jean Hulls | GBR | 73.55 | (i) | ||
| Ingrid Holzknecht | GER | 74.85 | |||
| Kathleen Stewart | GBR | 75.44 | |||
| Ingeborg Schott | GER | 75.53 | |||
| Jeanne Daprano | - | 76.21 | |||
| Elfriede Hofmann | GER | 76.23 | |||
| Elisabeth Koschitzki | GER | 76.54 | |||
| Walburga Klockers | GER | 77.20 | |||
| Doris Kreutz | GER | 78.14 | |||
| Monica Tang Wang | TRI | 78.66 | |||
| Lisa Plat | GBR | 78.82 | (i) | ||
| Marilyn Ongley | - | 1:20.12 | |||
| Baiba Lejina | LAT | 1:20.61 | |||
| Aino Holm | SWE | 1:20.75 | |||
| Karol Perry | - | 1:21.35 | |||
| Corinne Collins | NZL | 1:22.33 | |||
| 400m- | W65 | Emma Mazzenga | ITA | 69.02 | |
| >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 73.71 | |||
| Audrey Lary | - | 76.56 | (i) | ||
| Jean Horne | CAN | 77.60 | |||
| Margaret Peters | NZL | 77.65 | |||
| Marilyn Fitzgerald | - | 77.86 | |||
| M. Fitzgerald | - | 77.88 | |||
| Liisa Karkkulainen | FIN | 1:22.29 | |||
| Noemi Gastaldi | ITA | 1:24.62 | |||
| Grace Butcher | - |
1:25.04 | |||
| Edith Arnold | GER | 1:25.45 | |||
| Lois Calhoun | - | 1:28.11 | |||
| Betty Steedman | GBR | 1:28.77 | |||
| Judy Cox | AUS | 1:29.77 | |||
| Nessie Hollicky | CAN | 1:30.22 | |||
| Patricia Carr | AUS | 1:30.30 | |||
| Barbara Jordan | - | 1:35.0 | |||
| Margarette Sutton | NZL | 1:35.12 | |||
| Yae Natsumi | BRA | 1:35.3 | |||
| Joan Burguess | - | 1:36.37 | (i) | ||
| Jean Schooler | - | 1:36.48 | |||
| Helgi Mepham | - | 1:37.0 | |||
| R. Hanstvedt | NOR | 1:38.63 | |||
| Phyllis Provost | - | 1:39.8 | |||
| Edna Myer | - | 1:46.8 | |||
| Edythe Leek | - | 1:47.30 | |||
| 400m- | W70 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 79.14 | |
| Patricia Peterson | - | 1:27.87 | |||
| Ethel Lehman | - | 1:28.94 | |||
| Sumi Ono-Leonard | - | 1:29.98 | |||
| Berthilia De Preter | BEL | 1:33.61 | |||
| Tomiko Saito | BRA | 1:36.9 | |||
| Shirley Brasher | AUS | 1:37.09 | |||
| Helene Marie Glet | FRA | 1:38.12 | |||
| Peggy Ewing | - | 1:45.99 | |||
| Shirley Goff | - | 1:49.42 | |||
| Brenda Green | GBR | 1:50.98 | |||
| Brigette Langer | - | 1:53.3 | |||
| Georgia Johnson | - | 1:54.31 | (i) | ||
| Beverly Liby | - | 2:03.98 | |||
| Mary Crusius | - | 2:05.35 | |||
| Melicent Whinston | - | 2:16.11 | |||
| 400m- | W75 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 1:28.42 | |
| Mary Holland | - | 1:40.41 | |||
| Hazel Cameron | CAN | 1:40.64 | |||
| Shizue Matsumoto | BRA | 1:41.6 | |||
| Louise Adams | - | 1:47.03 | |||
| Gerry Davidson | - | 1:47.38 | |||
| Marjorie Lawson | - | 1:48.68 | |||
| Po Adams | - | 1:55.47 | |||
| Marie Williams | - | 2:00.28 | |||
| Dottie Gray | - | 2:02.75 | |||
| Millie Bolton | - | 2:07.7 | |||
| Marge Hagerty | - | 2:24.72 | |||
| Sue Osborn | - | 2:25.36 | |||
| Victoriana Muoz | SPN | 2:30.34 | (i) | ||
| Lillie Doss | - | 2:31.00 | |||
| Ella Burks | - | 2:32.51 | |||
| Janet Zimmer | - | 2:43.7 | |||
| Ann McGowan | - | 2:50.00 | |||
| Margaret Nasal | - | 2:59.6 | |||
| 400m- | W80 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 1:40.45 | |
| Anne Fleming | CAN | 1:59.83 | |||
| Irene Crane | - | 2:26.91 | |||
| Dorothy Ray | - | 2:34.9 | |||
| Ernestine Yeomans | - | 2:48.5 | |||
| Frances Smith | - | 3:14.73 | |||
| Adrienne Salmini | - | 3:25.89 | (i) | ||
| Sis Warnke | - | 3:42.25 | |||
| Dorothy Bavaro | - | 4:35.4 | |||
| 400m- | W85 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 2:13.68 | |
| Rosario Iglesias | MEX | 2:46.16 | |||
| Ivy Granstrom | CAN | 2:50.30 | |||
| Josephine Gregg | - | 3:07.8 | |||
| Laverna Soiset | - | 3:11.20 | |||
| 400m- | W90 | Kate Kendrick | - | 3:00.0 | |
| >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 3:45.62 |
