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World Records - Female

As at 1 January 2008

Discipline	Performance	Wind	Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
100m	10.49	0.0	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	Indianapolis, USA	16 Jul 88
200m	21.34	1.3	Florence Griffith-Joyner	USA	Seoul, KOR	29 Sep 88
400m	47.60		Marita Koch	GDR	Canberra, AUS	06 Oct 85
800m	01:53.28		Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	München, FRG	26 Jul 83
1000m	02:28.98		Svetlana Masterkova	RUS	Bruxelles, BEL	23 Aug 96
1500m	03:50.46		Yunxia Qu	CHN	Beijing, CHN	11 Sep 93
1 Mile	04:12.56		Svetlana Masterkova	RUS	Zürich, SUI	14 Aug 96
2000m	05:25.36		Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	Edinburgh, GBR	08 Jul 94
3000m	08:06.11		Junxia Wang	CHN	Beijing, CHN	13 Sep 93
5000m	14:16.63		Meseret DEFAR	ETH	Oslo, NOR	15 Jun 07
10,000m	29:31.78		Junxia Wang	CHN	Beijing, CHN	08 Sep 93
20,000m	01:05:26.6		Tegla Loroupe	KEN	Borgholzhausen, GER	03 Sep 00
1 Hour	18,340		Tegla Loroupe	KEN	Borgholzhausen, GER	07 Aug 98
25,000m	01:27:05.9		Tegla Loroupe	KEN	Mengerskirchen, GER	21 Sep 02
30,000m	01:45:50.0		Tegla Loroupe	KEN	Warstein, GER	06 Jun 03
3000m Steeplechase	09:01.6		Gulnara Samitova	RUS	Iráklio, GRE	04 Jul 04
100m Hurdles	12.21	0.7	Yordanka Donkova	BUL	Stara Zagora, BUL	20 Aug 88
400m Hurdles	52.34		Yuliya Pechenkina	RUS	Tula, RUS	08 Aug 03
FIELD EVENTS
High Jump	2.09		Stefka Kostadinova	BUL	Roma, ITA	30 Aug 87
Pole Vault	5.01		Yelena Isinbayeva	RUS	Helsinki, FIN	12 Aug 05
Long Jump	7.52	1.4	Galina Chistyakova	URS	Leningrad, URS	11 Jun 88
Triple Jump	15.50	0.9	Inessa Kravets	UKR	Göteborg, SWE	10 Aug 95
Shot Put	22.63		Natalya Lisovskaya	URS	Moskva, URS	07 Jun 87
Discus Throw	76.80		Gabriele Reinsch	GDR	Neubrandenburg, GDR	09 Jul 88
Hammer Throw	77.80		Tatyana Lysenko	RUS	Tallinn, EST	15 Aug 06
Javelin Throw	71.70		Osleidys Menéndez	CUB	Helsinki, FIN	14 Aug 05
COMBINED EVENTS
Heptathlon	7291		Jackie Joyner-Kersee (12.69, 1.86, 15.80,22.56, 7.27, 45.66, 2:08.51	USA	Seoul, KOR	23/24 Sep 88
Decathlon	8358		Austra Skujyte (12.49, 46.19, 3.10, 48.78, 57.19, 14.22, 6.12, 16.42, 1.78, 5:15.86)	LTU	Columbia, USA	14/15 Apr 05
RACE WALKING (Track)
10,000m	41:56.23		Nadezhda Ryashkina	URS	Seattle, USA	24 Jul 90
20,000m	1:26:52.3		Olimpiada Ivanova	RUS	Brisbane, AUS	06 Sep 01
RACE WALKING (Road)
20km	1:25:41		Olimpiada Ivanova	RUS	Helsinki, FIN	07 Aug 05
RELAY RACES
4X100m	41.37		Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Gohr	GDR	Canberra, AUS	06 OCt 85
4X200m	01:27.46		LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen perry, Marion Jones	USA	Philadelphia, USA	29 Apr 00
4X400m	03:15.17		Tatyana Ledovskaya, Irina Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga bryzgina	URS	Seoul, KOR	01 Oct 88
4X800m	07:50.17		Nadezhd Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya	URS	Moskva, URS	05 Aug 84
ROAD RACES
10km	30:21		Paula Radcliffe	GBR	San Juan, PUR	23 Feb 03
15km	46:57		Elena Meyer	RSA	Cape Town, RSA	02 Nov 91
20km	1:02:57		Lornah KIPLAGAT	NED	Udine, ITA	14 Oct 07
Half Marathon	1:06:25		Lornah KIPLAGAT	NED	Udine, ITA	14 Oct 07
25km	1:22:13		Mizuki Noguchi	JPN	Berlin, GER	25 Sep 05
30km	1:38:49		Mizuki Noguchi	JPN	Berlin, GER	25 Sep 05
Marathon	2:15:25		Paula Radcliffe	GBR	London, GBR	13 Apr 03
100km	6:33:11		Tomoe Abe	JPN	Lake Saroma, JPN	25 Jun 00
Road Relay 42.195km	2:11:41		Jiang Bo, Dong Yanmei, Zhao Fengting, Ma Zaiije, Lan Lixin, Lin Na	CHN	Beijing, CHN	28 Feb 98