| 100 | 10.64 | Carmelita Jeter (US) |
| 200 | 21.88 | Allyson Felix (US) |
| 400 | 48.83 | Sanya Richards (US) |
| 800 | 1:55.45 | Caster Semenya (South Africa) |
| 1500 | 3:56.55 | Maryam Jamal (Bahrain) |
| Mile | 4:25.91i | Jenny Barringer (US) |
| St | 9:07.32 | Marta Domínguez (Spain) |
| 3000 | 8:25.80i+ | Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) |
| 5000 | 14:24.37i | Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) |
| 10,000 | 29:53.80 | Meselech Melkamu (Ethiopia) |
| 100H | 12.46 | Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Jamaica) |
| 400H | 52.42 | Melaine Walker (Jamaica) |
| HMar | 67:00 | Mary Keitany (Kenya) |
| Mar | 2:22:11 | Irina Mikitenko (Germany) |
| 20W | 1:24:56 | Olga Kaniskina (Russia) |
| 4 x 100 | 41.58 | USA Red–Cottbus |
| 4 x 400 | 3:17.83 | USA |
| HJ | 6-9¾ (2.08) | Blanka Vlašić (Croatia) |
| PV | 16-7¼ (5.06) | Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia) |
| LJ | 23-3½ (7.10) | Brittney Reese (US) |
| TJ | 49-8¼ (15.14) | Nadezhda Alekhina (Russia) |
| SP | 69-1½ (21.07) | Valerie Vili (New Zealand) |
| DT | 217-2 (66.21) | Stephanie Brown Trafton (US) |
| HT | 255-9 (77.96) &par | Anita Włodarczyk (Poland) |
| JT | 226-1 (68.92) | Maria Abakumova (Russia) |
| Hept | 6731 | Jessica Ennis (Great Britain) |
