skupina 1 -
1. Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS) 53.57 Q
2. Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova (UKR) 54.63 Q
3. Ulrike Urbansky (NJE) 55.15 q
4. Monika Niederstatter (ITA) 55.57
5. Cora Olivero (ŠPA) 56.19
6. Patrina Allen (JAM) 56.40
7. Aissata Soulama (Burkina Faso) 57.60
skupina 2 -
1. Jana Pittman (AUS) 54.83 Q
2. Yekaterina Bikert (RUS) 54.95 Q
3. Natalya Alimzhanova (KAZ) 55.22 q
4. Ieva Zunda (LAT) 56.21
5. Benedetta Ceccarelli (ITA) 56.28
6. Surita Febbraio (JAR) 56.49
skupina 3 -
1. Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (RUM) 54.41 Q
2. Brenda Taylor (SAD) 54.72 Q
3. Nezha Bidouane (MAR) 55.69
4. Anna Jesien (POLJ) 56.03
5. Shevon Stoddart (JAM) 56.61
6. Klodiana Shala (ALB) 1:00.00
skupina 4-
1. Fani Halkia (GRČ) 53.85 Q
2. Lashinda Demus (SAD) 54.66 Q
3. Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS) 55.16 q
4. Debbie-Ann Parris (JAM) 55.21 q
5. Yvonne Harrison (Portoriko) 55.84
6. Mame Tacko Diouf (SEN) 57.25
7. Salhate Djamalidine (Komori) 59.72
skupina 5 -
1. Malgorzata Pskit (POLJ) 54.75 Q
2. Sheena Johnson (SAD) 54.81 Q
3. Huang Xiaoxiao (KINA) 54.83 q
4. Androula Sialou (CIP) 55.02 q
5. Daimi Pernia (KUBA) 55.91
6. Andrea Melissa Blackett (Barbados) 56.49
7. Galina Pedan (Kirgistan) 59.02