Lane Posn 2000 1500 1000 500 ROM RUMAENIEN 5 1 06:09.52 04:36.88 03:03.82 01:30.61 DAMIAN GEORGETA SUSANU VIORICA CAZAC ANGELA OLTEANU IOANA GAFENCU LILIANA COCHELA VERONICA TANASE ANCA IGNAT DOINA GEORGESCU ELENA GER DEUTSCHLAND 4 2 06:17.69 04:43.71 03:08.55 01:33.56 VOGEL STEFANIE PRINZ JOHANNA HAACKER KATHRIN GOLDBACH SANDRA HENKER KATHRIN PYRITZ DANA PYRITZ ANJA GUENTHER SILKE RICHTER MONIQUE NED NEDERLAND 1 3 06:21.40 04:46.81 03:11.12 01:34.82 HOKS KARIN KNAVEN TESSA DALY JENNY KOK LOES SWARTE DAGNE EIJGELAAR ANNEMIEKE WIEGERTJES HILDA APPELDOORN TESSA QUICK MARTYNTIE BLR BYELORUSSIAN 2 4 06:30.63 04:52.80 03:15.10 01:36.62 MIKOULITCH ELENA MIAKOTA OLGA PIATINA GALINA DAVYDENKO TAMARA ZNAK MARINA SKRABATUN VALENTINA KOUZMAR MARINA TAGAEVA OLGA PAVLOVITCH IAROSLAVA DEN DENMARK 3 5 06:36.44 04:58.81 03:18.70 01:38.71 TORNEHOEJ ANNETTE PEDERSEN LENE MATHIASSEN METTE JESPERSEN ASTRID ANDERSEN BIRGITTE RINDOM CHRISTINA GITZ TINE FREDERIKSEN LOUISE CHRISTIANSEN METTE
Romania whisked off to a canvas lead from ther Germans, at a screaming rate, and settled to a length's lead at 600 metres. From 1200 on the Romanians were suffering but clear, no-one really troubling them. They increased this lead to bring the procession home.
A demonstration race in the morning of Sunday was poorly attended, in place of a semi-final.