
IAAF - Results and Stats - World Records - World  Records - Women

Women
World Records

Event 
Perf. 
Wind 
Athlete 
Nat. 
Place 
Date 

100m 
10.49 
0.0 
Florence GRIFFITH JOYNER 
USA 
Indianapolis 
16 Jul 88 

200m 
21.34 
1.3 
Florence GRIFFITH JOYNER 
USA 
Seoul 
29 Sep 88 

400m 
47.60 
Marita KOCH 
GDR 
Canberra 
6 Oct 85 

800m 
1:53.28 
Jarmila KRATOCHVILOVA 
TCH 
Munich 
26 Jul 83 

1000m 
2:28.98 
Svetlana MASTERKOVA 
RUS 
Brussels 
23 Aug 96 

1500m 
3:50.46 
QU Yunxia 
CHN 
Beijing 
11 Sep 93 

Mile 
4:12.56 
Svetlana MASTERKOVA 
RUS 
Zrich 
14 Aug 96 

2000m 
5:25.36 
Sonia O'SULLIVAN 
IRL 
Edinburgh 
8 Jul 94 

3000m 
8:06.11 
WANG Junxia 
CHN 
Beijing 
13 Sep 93 

5000m   
14:36.45 
Fernanda RIBEIRO 
POR 
Hechtel 
22 Jul 95 

10,000m   
29:31.78 
WANG Junxia 
CHN 
Beijing 
8 Sep 93 

1 Hour 
18,084 
Silvana CRUCIATA 
ITA 
Rome 
4 May 81 

20,000m 
1:06:48.8 
Izumi MAKI 
JPN 
Amagasaki 
19 Sep 93 

25,000m    
1:29:29.2 
Karolina SZABO 
HUN 
Budapest 
22 Apr 88 

30,000m    
1:47:05.6 
Karolina SZABO 
HUN 
Budapest 
22 Apr 88 

100m Hurdles 
12.21 
0.7 
Yordanka DONKOVA 
BUL 
Stara Zagora 
20 Aug 88 

400m Hurdles 
52.61 
Kim BATTEN 
USA 
Goteborg 
11 Aug 95 

High Jump  
2.09 
Stefka KOSTADINOVA 
BUL 
Rome 
30 Aug 87 

Pole Vault 
4.55 
Emma GEORGE 
AUS 
Melbourne 
20 Feb 97 

Long Jump  
7.52 
1.4 
Galina CHISTYAKOVA 
URS 
Leningrad 
11 Jun 88 

Triple Jump 
15.50 
0.9 
Inessa KRAVETS 
UKR 
Goteborg 
10 Aug 95 

Shot Put 
22.63 
Natalya LISOVSKAYA 
URS 
Moscow 
7 Jun 87 

Discus 
76.80 
Gabriele REINSCH 
GDR 
Neubrandenburg 
9 Jul 88 

Hammer 
73.10 
Olga KUZENKOVA 
RUS 
Munich 
22 Jun 97 

Javelin 
80.00 
Petra FELKE 
GDR 
Potsdam 
9 Sep 88 

Heptathlon  
7291 
Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE 
(12.69, 1.86, 15.80, 22.56, 
7.27, 45.66, 2:08.51) 
USA 
Seoul 
23/24 Sep 88 

5000m Walk 
20:13.26 
Kerry SAXBY-JUNNA 
AUS 
Hobart 
25 Feb 96 

10,000m Walk  
41:56.23 
Nadezhda RYASHKINA 
URS 
Seattle 
24 Jul 90 

4 x 100m Relay 
41.37 
(S. Gladisch, S. Rieger, I. Auerswald, M. Ghr) 
GDR 
Canberra 
6 Oct 85 

4 x 200m Relay 
1:28.15 
(M. Ghr, R. Mller, B. Wckel, M. Koch) 
GDR 
Jena 
9 Aug 80 

4 x 400m Relay 
3:15.17 
(T. Ledovskaya, I. Nazarova, M. Pinigina, O. Bryzgina) 
URS 
Seoul 
1 Oct 88 

4 x 800m Relay 
7:50.17 
(N. Olizarenko, L. Gurina, L. Borisova, I. Podyalovskaya) 
URS 
Moscow 
5 Aug 84 

Best performance 

Marathon  
2:21:06 
Ingrid KRISTIANSEN 
NOR 
London 
21 Apr 85 

*awaiting ratification   

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