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Podium
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Sippie Tigchelaar
Tigchelaar
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Karin Kessow
Kessow
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Tatiana Averina
Averina
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| Results | Rank | No. | Name | Country | Time | Gap | ||
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Results
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| Rank | No. | Name | Country | Time | Gap | |||
| 1 | Sippie Tigchelaar | Netherlands |
4:51.05 | |||||
| 2 | Karin Kessow | East Germany |
4:55.24 | +4.19 | ||||
| 3 | Tatiana Averina | Soviet Union |
4:58.05 | +7.00 | ||||
| 4 | Erwina Rys |  Poland |
4:58.89 | +7.84 | ||||
| 5 | Galina Stepanskaya | Soviet Union |
5:02.93 | +11.88 | ||||
| 6 | Sophie Westenbroek | Netherlands |
5:04.53 | +13.48 | ||||
| 7 | Tatyana Shelekhova | Soviet Union |
5:05.04 | +13.99 | ||||
| 8 | Annie Borckink | Netherlands |
5:07.46 | +16.41 | ||||
| 9 | Sheila Young |  United States |
5:08.65 | +17.60 | ||||
| 10 | Janina Korowicka | Poland |
5:08.85 | +17.80 | ||||
| 11 | Paula Halonen |  Finland |
5:09.43 | +18.38 | ||||
| 12 | Gayle Gordon |  Canada |
5:10.11 | +19.06 | ||||
| 13 | Monika Holzner-Pflug |  West Germany |
5:12.86 | +21.81 | ||||
| 14 | Sigrid Sundby |  Norway |
5:13.54 | +22.49 | ||||
| 15 | Makiko Nagaya |  Japan |
5:13.88 | +22.83 | ||||
| 16 | Cathy Priestner | Canada |
5:15.37 | +24.32 | ||||