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100m: 10.49
Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 16 July 1988

200m: 21.34
Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
Seoul, South Korea, 29 Sept 1988

400m: 47.60
Marita Koch (GDR)
Canberra, Australia, 6 Oct 1985

800m: 1:53.28
Jarmila Kratochvilova (Czechoslovakia)
Munich, Germany, 26 July 1983

1,500m: 3:50.46
Qu Yunxia (China)
Beijing, China, 11 Sept 1993

3,000m: 8:06.11
Wang Junxia (China)
Beijing, China, 13 Sept 1993

5,000m: 14:28.09
Jiang Bo (China)
Beijing, China, 23 Oct 1997

10,000m: 29:31.78
Wang Junxia (China)
Beijing, China, 8 Sept 1993

20,000m: 1:06:48.8
Isumi Maki (Japan)
Amagasaki, Japan, 20 Sept 1993

30,000m: 1:47:05.6
Karolina Szabo (Hungary)
Budapest, Hungary, 23 April 1988

100-m hurdles: 12.21
Yordanka Donkova (Bulgaria)
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 20 Aug 1988

400-m hurdles: 52.61
Kim Batten (USA)
Gothenburg, Sweden, 11 Aug 1995

4 x 100-m: 41.37
GDR (Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Gohr)
Canberra, Australia, 6 Oct 1985

4 x 200-m: 1:28.15
GDR (Marlies Gohr, Romy Muller, Barbel Wockel, Marita Koch)
Jena, Germany, 9 Aug 1980

4 x 400-m: 3:15.17
USSR (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Maria Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina)
Seoul, South Korea, 1 Oct 1988

4 x 800-m: 7:50.17
USSR (Nadezhda Olizarenka, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova,
Irina Podyalovskaya)
Moscow, USSR, 5 Aug 1984

Field Events

High Jump: 2.09m (6ft 10 ? in)
Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria)
Rome, Italy, 30 Aug 1987

Pole Vault: 4.59m (15ft ? in)
Emma George (Australia)
Brisbane, Australia, 20 March 1998

Long Jump: 7.52m (24ft 8 ? in)
Galina Chistyakova (USSR)
Leningrad, USSR, 11 June 1988

Triple Jump: 15.50m (50ft 10 ? in)
Inesso Kravets (Ukraine)
Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 Aug 1995

Shot: 22.6374m (74ft 3 in)
Natalya Venedictovna Lisovskaya (USSR)
Moscow, USSR, 7 June 1987

Discus: 76.80m (252ft)
Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)
Neubrandenburg, Germany, 9 July 1988

Hammer: 69.58m (228ft 3 in)
Mihaela Melinte (Romania)
Bucharest, Romania, 11 March 1997

Javelin: 80.00m (262ft 5 in)
Petra Felke (GDR)
Potsdam, Germany, 9 Sept 1988

Heptathlon: 7,291 points
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (USA)
Seoul, South Korea, 23-24 Sept 1988
100-m hurdles: 12.69 sec; high jump: 1.86m (6ft 1 ? in)
shot: 15.80m (51ft 10 in); 200m: 22.56sec; long jump: 7.27m
(23ft 10 ? in); javelin: 45.66m (149 ft 10 in); 800m: 2min 8.51 sec


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