| Date | 16 February 1998 — 9:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Iizuna Kogen Resort, Iizuna | |
| Format | Top 12 finishers advanced to final. | |
| Judge #1 (Air & Form) | Martine Kohly | |
| Judge #2 (Air & Form) | Harry Ganja | |
| Judge #3 (Air & Form) | Morten Skarpaas | |
| Judge #4 (Air & Form) | Hans Kasnik | |
| Judge #5 (Air & Form) | Reinhard Krampfl | |
| Judge #6 (Landing) | Miki Miyazaki | |
| Judge #7 (Landing) | Philip Richard | |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Jump #1 | Jump #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xu Nannan | 182.01 | 88.83 (5) | 93.18 (2) | ||||
| 2 | Alla Tsuper | 178.46 | 91.05 (2) | 87.41 (5) | ||||
| 3 | Veronica Brenner | 174.86 | 85.40 (8) | 89.46 (3) | ||||
| 4 | Nikki Stone | 174.00 | 78.10 (12) | 95.90 (1) | ||||
| 5 | Hilde Synnøve Lid | 168.79 | 84.53 (9) | 84.26 (7) | ||||
| 6 | Ji Xiaoou | 167.42 | 86.10 (6) | 81.32 (10) | ||||
| 7 | Colette Brand | 165.07 | 90.40 (3) | 74.67 (17) | ||||
| 8 | Guo Dandan | 163.95 | 85.68 (7) | 78.27 (14) | ||||
| 9 | Tetiana Kozachenko | 162.09 | 72.79 (16) | 89.30 (4) | ||||
| 10 | Michèle Rohrbach | 161.76 | 74.67 (15) | 87.09 (6) | ||||
| 11 | Yuliya Kliukova | 161.59 | 79.23 (11) | 82.36 (9) | ||||
| 12 | Olena Yunchyk | 156.95 | 77.64 (13) | 79.31 (12) | ||||
| 13 | Lina Cheryazova | 154.02 | 76.45 (14) | 77.57 (15) | ||||
| 14 | Kirstie Marshall | 148.99 | 66.46 (21) | 82.53 (8) | ||||
| 15 | Evelyne Leu | 148.72 | 93.60 (1) | 55.12 (20) | ||||
| 16 | Sabina Hudribusch | 147.43 | 68.87 (20) | 78.56 (13) | ||||
| 17 | Tracy Evans | 147.23 | 88.96 (4) | 58.27 (18) | ||||
| 18 | Liselotte Johansson | 140.23 | 60.48 (23) | 79.75 (11) | ||||
| 19 | Caroline Olivier | 133.94 | 57.71 (24) | 76.23 (16) | ||||
| 20 | Stacey Blumer | 130.90 | 84.00 (10) | 46.90 (22) | ||||
| 21 | Mafalda Queiroz Pereira | 118.86 | 60.90 (22) | 57.96 (19) | ||||
| 22 | Nataliya Orekhova | 118.61 | 69.45 (19) | 49.16 (21) | ||||
| 23 | Jacqui Cooper | 101.19 | 69.65 (17) | 31.54 (23) | ||||
| 24 | Yin Hong | 90.73 | 69.61 (18) | 21.12 (24) |