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Date: 31 August 1972 / 31 August 1972 / 1 September 1972
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Mayumi Aoki | JPN | 1:03.34 |
| 2 | Roswitha Beyer | GDR | 1:03.61 |
| 3 | Andrea Gyarmati | HUN | 1:03.73 |
| 4 | Deena Deardruff | USA | 1:03.95 |
| 5 | Dana Shrader | USA | 1:03.98 |
| 6 | Ellie Daniel | USA | 1:04.08 |
| 7 | Gudrun Beckmann | FRG | 1:04.15 |
| 8 | Noriko Asano | JPN | 1:04.25 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Rosemarie Kother | GDR | 1:04.64 |
| 10 | Edeltraud Koch | FRG | 1:05.28 |
| 11 | Heike Nagel | FRG | 1:06.48 |
| 12 | Frieke Buys | NED | 1:06.78 |
| 12 | Marilyn Corson | CAN | 1:06.78 |
| 14 | Margrit Thomet | SUI | 1:07.12 |
| 15 | Eva Wikner | SWE | 1:07.53 |
| 16 | Irina Ustimenko | URS | 1:07.76 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Sue Funch | AUS | 1:07.51 |
| 18 | Jean Jeavons | GBR | 1:07.64 |
| 19 | Vera Faitlova | TCH | 1:08.18 |
| 20 | Aurora Chamorro | ESP | 1:08.39 |
| 21 | Brenda McGrory | IRL | 1:08.52 |
| 22 | Donatella Talpo | ITA | 1:08.98 |
| 23 | Leslie Cliff | CAN | 1:09.29 |
| 24 | Susan Smith | CAN | 1:09.38 |
| 25 | Judit Turoczy | HUN | 1:09.73 |
| 26 | Ileana Morales | VEN | 1:10.37 |
| 27 | Chin Jod Tay | SIN | 1:10.92 |
| 28 | Hsu Yue-Yun | TPE | 1:11.67 |
| 29 | Susana Saxlund | URU | 1:11.90 |
| 30 | Norma Amezcua | MEX | 1:12.23 |
| Did not start | |||
| Mireille Bassoul | LBN | ||
| Jeannette Slavtcheva | BUL | ||