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World Records

Discipline	Perf		Wind	Athlete	DOB	Nat	Venue	Date
100 Metres	10.49		0.0	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21/12/1959	USA	Indianapolis, IN	16/07/1988
200 Metres	21.34		1.3	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21/12/1959	USA	Seoul	29/09/1988
400 Metres	47.60			Marita Koch	18/02/1957	GDR	Canberra	06/10/1985
800 Metres	1:53.28			Jarmila Kratochvílová	26/01/1951	TCH	München	26/07/1983
1000 Metres	2:28.98			Svetlana Masterkova	17/01/1968	RUS	Bruxelles	23/08/1996
1500 Metres	3:50.46			Yunxia Qu	25/12/1972	CHN	Beijing	11/09/1993
One Mile	4:12.56			Svetlana Masterkova	17/01/1968	RUS	Zürich	14/08/1996
2000 Metres	5:25.36			Sonia O'Sullivan	28/11/1969	IRL	Edinburgh	08/07/1994
3000 Metres	8:06.11			Junxia Wang	09/01/1973	CHN	Beijing	13/09/1993
5000 Metres	14:11.15			Tirunesh Dibaba	01/06/1985	ETH	Oslo (Bislett)	06/06/2008
10,000 Metres	29:31.78			Junxia Wang	09/01/1973	CHN	Beijing	08/09/1993
10 Kilometres	30:21			Paula Radcliffe	17/12/1973	GBR	San Juan, PUR	23/02/2003
15 Kilometres	46:28			Tirunesh Dibaba	01/06/1985	ETH	Nijmegen	15/11/2009
20,000 Metres	1:05:26.6			Tegla Loroupe	09/05/1973	KEN	Borgholzhausen	03/09/2000
20 Kilometres	1:02:36	+*		Mary Jepkosgei Keitany	18/01/1982	KEN	Ras Al Khaimah	18/02/2011
One Hour	18.517			Dire Tune	19/06/1985	ETH	Ostrava	12/06/2008
Half Marathon	1:05:50	*		Mary Jepkosgei Keitany	18/01/1982	KEN	Ras Al Khaimah	18/02/2011
25,000 Metres	1:27:05.9			Tegla Loroupe	09/05/1973	KEN	Mengerskirchen	21/09/2002
25 Kilometres	1:19:53			Mary Jepkosgei Keitany	18/01/1982	KEN	Berlin	09/05/2010
30,000 Metres	1:45:50.0			Tegla Loroupe	09/05/1973	KEN	Warstein	06/06/2003
30 Kilometres	1:38:49	+		Mizuki Noguchi	03/07/1978	JPN	Berlin	25/09/2005
Marathon	2:15:25			Paula Radcliffe	17/12/1973	GBR	London	13/04/2003
100 Kilometres	6:33:11			Tomoe Abe	13/08/1971	JPN	Yubetsu	25/06/2000
3000 Metres Steeplechase	8:58.81			Gulnara Galkina	09/07/1978	RUS	Beijing (National Stadium)	17/08/2008
100 Metres Hurdles	12.21		0.7	Yordanka Donkova	28/09/1961	BUL	Stara Zagora	20/08/1988
400 Metres Hurdles	52.34			Yuliya Pechenkina	21/04/1978	RUS	Tula	08/08/2003
High Jump	2.09			Stefka Kostadinova	25/03/1965	BUL	Roma	30/08/1987
Pole Vault	5.06			Elena Isinbaeva	03/06/1982	RUS	Zürich	28/08/2009
Long Jump	7.52		1.4	Galina Chistyakova	26/07/1962	URS	Leningrad	11/06/1988
Triple Jump	15.50		0.9	Inessa Kravets	05/10/1966	UKR	Göteborg	10/08/1995
Shot Put	22.63			Natalya Lisovskaya	16/07/1962	URS	Moskva	07/06/1987
Discus Throw	76.80			Gabriele Reinsch	23/09/1963	GDR	Neubrandenburg	09/07/1988
Hammer Throw	79.42			Betty Heidler	14/10/1983	GER	Halle	21/05/2011
Javelin Throw	72.28			Barbora Špotáková	30/06/1981	CZE	Stuttgart	13/09/2008
Heptathlon	7291			Jackie Joyner-Kersee	03/03/1962	USA	Seoul	24/09/1988
( 12.69/0.5 - 1.86 - 15.80 - 22.56/1.6 / 7.27/0.7 - 45.66 - 2:08.51 )
Decathlon	8358			Austra Skujyte	12/08/1979	LTU	Columbia, MO	15/04/2005
( 12.49/1.6 - 46.19 - 3.10 - 48.78 - 57.19 / 14.22/2.4 - 6.12/1.6 - 16.42 - 1.78 - 5:15.86 )
10,000 Metres Race Walk	41:56.23			Nadezhda Ryashkina	22/01/1967	URS	Seattle, WA	24/07/1990
20,000 Metres Race Walk	1:26:52.3			Olimpiada Ivanova	26/08/1970	RUS	Brisbane	06/09/2001
20 Kilometres Race Walk	1:25:08	*		Vera Sokolova	08/06/1987	RUS	Sochi	26/02/2011
4x100 Metres Relay	41.37			German Democratic Republic		GDR	Canberra	06/10/1985
(Gladisch-Möller Silke, Rieger-Günther Sabine, Auerswald-Lange Ingrid, Göhr Marlies)
4x200 Metres Relay	1:27.46			United States "Blue"		USA	Philadelphia, PA	29/04/2000
(Jenkins LaTasha, Colander LaTasha, Perry Nanceen, Jones Marion)
4x400 Metres Relay	3:15.17			USSR		URS	Seoul	01/10/1988
(Ledovskaya Tatyana, Nazarova Olga V., Kulchunova-Pinigina Mariya, Vladykina-Bryzgina Olga)
4x800 Metres Relay	7:50.17			USSR		URS	Moskva	05/08/1984
(Olizarenko Nadezhda, Gurina Lyubov, Borisova Lyudmila, Podyalovskaya Irina)
Road Relay	2:11:41			PR of China		CHN	Beijing	28/02/1998
(Jiang Bo, Dong Yanmei, Zhao Fengting, Ma Zaijie, Lan Lixin, Lin Na)

* Awaiting Ratification