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Host City: Athina, Greece
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Athens Olympic Sports Complex Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Date Started: August 22, 2004
Date Finished: August 22, 2004
Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.
| Gold: | Fani Khalkia |
| Silver: | Ionela Târlea-Manolache |
| Bronze: | Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antypova |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuliya Nosova-Pechonkina | 26 | Russia | RUS | 53.31 | 0.232 | 6 | QU |
| 2 | Jana Pittman | 21 | Australia | AUS | 54.05 | 0.296 | 3 | QU |
| 3 | Sheena Johnson-Tosta | 21 | United States | USA | 54.32 | 0.260 | 1 | QU |
| 4 | Brenda Taylor | 25 | United States | USA | 55.02 | 0.229 | 4 | QU |
| 5 | Nataliya Torshina-Alimzhanova | 35 | Kazakhstan | KAZ | 55.08 | 0.387 | 8 | |
| 6 | Małgorzata Pskit | 28 | Poland | POL | 55.24 | 5 | ||
| 7 | Ulrike Urbansky | 27 | Germany | GER | 56.44 | 0.368 | 7 | |
| 8 | Andri Sialou | 31 | Cyprus | CYP | 1:05.72 | 0.323 | 2 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fani Khalkia | 25 | Greece | GRE | 52.77 | 0.278 | 4 | QU/OR |
| 2 | Ionela Târlea-Manolache | 28 | Romania | ROU | 53.32 | 0.241 | 3 | QU |
| 3 | Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antypova | 34 | Ukraine | UKR | 53.37 | 0.379 | 6 | QU |
| 4 | Yekaterina Bikert | 24 | Russia | RUS | 53.79 | 0.378 | 8 | QU |
| 5 | Lashinda Demus | 21 | United States | USA | 54.32 | 0.261 | 5 | |
| 6 | Yekaterina Bakhvalova | 32 | Russia | RUS | 54.98 | 0.360 | 7 | |
| 7 | Debbie-Ann Parris | 31 | Jamaica | JAM | 54.99 | 0.239 | 2 | |
| 8 | Huang Xiaoxiao | 21 | China | CHN | 55.53 | 0.206 | 1 |