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Date: 28 July 1976 / 29 July 1976 / 30 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 4:05.48 |
| 2 | Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR | 4:06.02 |
| 3 | Ulrike Klapezynski | GDR | 4:06.09 |
| 4 | Nikolina Chtereva | BUL | 4:06.57 |
| 5 | Liudmila Bragina | URS | 4:07.20 |
| 6 | Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:07.27 |
| 7 | Ellen Wellmann | FRG | 4:07.91 |
| 8 | Janice Merrill | USA | 4:08.54 |
| 9 | Nina Holmen | FIN | 4:09.55 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 10 | Raisa Katiukova | URS | 4:03.20 |
| 11 | Brigitte Kraus | FRG | 4:04.21 |
| 12 | Grete Waitz | NOR | 4:04.80 |
| 13 | Mary Stewart | GBR | 4:07.65 |
| 14 | Vesela Yatsinska | BUL | 4:07.89 |
| 15 | Natalia Marasescu | ROU | 4:07.92 |
| 16 | Christine Stoll | GDR | 4:08.28 |
| 17 | Francie Larrieu | USA | 4:09.07 |
| 18 | Sonja Castelein | BEL | 4:13.46 |
| Heats | |||
| 19 | Mary Purcell | IRL | 4:08.63 |
| 20 | Cynthia Poor | USA | 4:08.89 |
| 21 | Anne Garrett | NZL | 4:10.68 |
| 22 | Maricica Puica | ROU | 4:12.62 |
| 23 | Dianne Zorn | NZL | 4:12.81 |
| 24 | Rossitza Pekhlivanova | BUL | 4:13.11 |
| 25 | Penny Yule | GBR | 4:13.36 |
| 26 | Ilona Silai | ROU | 4:13.61 |
| 27 | Judith Pollock | AUS | 4:14.22 |
| 28 | Thelma Wright | CAN | 4:15.23 |
| 29 | Margheri Gargano | ITA | 4:15.94 |
| 30 | Bernadet Vanroy | BEL | 4:16.27 |
| 31 | Silvana Cruciata | ITA | 4:16.78 |
| 32 | Carmen Valero | ESP | 4:17.65 |
| 33 | Penny Werthner | CAN | 4:18.19 |
| 34 | Lilja Gudmundsdottir | ISL | 4:20.27 |
| 35 | Magdolna Lazar | HUN | 4:23.30 |
| 36 | Ndew Niang | SEN | 4:44.64 |
| Did not start | |||
| Maria Ritter | LIE | ||