Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
-	4	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	56.61	WR
-	2	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	57.97	NR
-	6	Dara Torres	United States	58.20	-
4	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	58.49	-
5	3	Jenny Thompson	United States	58.73	-
6	7	Junko Onishi	Japan	59.13	-
7	1	Susie O'Neill	Australia	59.27	-
8	8	Diana Mocanu	Romania	59.43	-