| 1 | Qiaobo Ye (Senior) | CHN | 40.60 | | - | 25 |
| 2 | Bonnie Blair (Senior) | USA | 41.42 | | +0.820 | 22 |
| 3 | Kyuoko Shimazaki (Neo) | JPN | 41.56 | | +0.960 | 20 |
| 4 | Susan Auch (Senior) | CAN | 41.77 | | +1.170 | 18 |
| 5 | Seon-Hee Yoo (Senior) | KOR | 41.91 | | +1.310 | 16 |
| 6 | Catriona LeMay (Neo) | CAN | 42.01 | | +1.410 | 15 |
| 7 | Anke Baier (Neo) | GER | 42.04 | | +1.440 | 14 |
| 8 | Peggy Clasen (Senior) | USA | 42.06 | | +1.460 | 13 |
| 9 | Oksana Ravilova (Senior) | RUS | 42.10 | | +1.500 | 12 |
| 10 | Christine Aaftink (Senior) | NED | 42.22 | | +1.620 | 11 |
| 11 | Seiko Hashimoto (Senior) | JPN | 42.26 | | +1.660 | 10 |
| 12 | Ruihong Xue (Senior) | CHN | 42.30 | | +1.700 | 9 |
| 13 | Herma Emmens-Meijer (Senior) | NED | 42.31 | | +1.710 | 8 |
| 14 | Edel Therese Høiseth (Senior) | NOR | 42.38 | | +1.780 | 7 |
| 15 | Sabine Völker (Neo) | GER | 42.40 | | +1.800 | 6 |
| 16 | Tomomi Okazaki (Neo) | JPN | 42.59 | | +1.990 | 5 |
| 17 | Nami Nemoto (A1) | JPN | 42.65 | SB | +2.050 | 4 |
| 18 | Svetlana Zjurova (Neo) | RUS | 42.67 | | +2.070 | 3 |
| 19 | Monique Garbrecht (Senior) | GER | 42.69 | | +2.090 | 2 |
| 20 | Chieko Yoda (Senior) | JPN | 42.71 | | +2.110 | 1 |
| 21 | Franziska Schenk (A2) | GER | 42.90 | | +2.300 | 0 |
| 22 | Jacqueline Börner (Senior) | GER | 42.96 | | +2.360 | 0 |
| 23 | Renske Vellinga (A1) | NED | 42.99 | | +2.390 | 0 |
| 24 | Tama Sundstrom (Senior) | USA | 43.29 | | +2.690 | 0 |
| 25 | Linda Johnson-Blair (Neo) | CAN | 43.32 | | +2.720 | 0 |
| 26 | Cerasela Simona Hordobeţiu (Senior) | ROU | 43.46 | | +2.860 | 0 |
| 27 | Lesja Belozub (Neo) | UKR | 45.25 | | +4.650 | 0 |
| 28 | Jelena Tjushnjakova (M30) | RUS | 45.81 | | +5.210 | 0 |