ALL-TIME WORLD WOMEN'S TOP 10 LISTS

(as of May 24, 2002)

Key to abbreviations: (A)=mark made at altitude over 1000m (in affected events only); i=mark made indoors; '=road mark made on aided course; t=mark made on track; #=relay team whose members are of mixed citizenship.

100 METERS
10.49 .. Florence Griffith Joyner (US) '88
10.65(A) ........... Marion Jones (US) '98
10.73 .......... Christine Arron (Fra) '98
10.74 ............ Merlene Ottey (Jam) '96
10.76 ............ Evelyn Ashford (US) '84
10.77 .......... Irina Privalova (Rus) '94
10.78(A) ............ Dawn Sowell (US) '89
10.79 ................ Xuemei Li (Chn) '97
 ................... Inger Miller (US) '99
10.81 .............. Marlies Göhr (EG) '83

200 METERS
21.34 .. Florence Griffith Joyner (US) '88
21.62(A) ........... Marion Jones (US) '98
21.64 ............ Merlene Ottey (Jam) '91
21.71 ............... Marita Koch (EG) '79
 ................ Heike Drechsler (EG) '86
21.72 ............ Grace Jackson (Jam) '88
 .................. Gwen Torrence (US) '92
21.74 .............. Marlies Göhr (EG) '84
 ................... Silke Möller (EG) '87
21.75 .......... Juliet Cuthbert (Jam) '92

400 METERS
47.60 ............... Marita Koch (EG) '85
47.99 .... Jarmila Kratochvílová (Cze) '83
48.25 ......... Marie-José Pérec (Fra) '96
48.27 ............. Olga Bryzgina (SU) '85
48.59 ......... Tatána Kocembová (Cze) '83
48.63 ............ Cathy Freeman (Aus) '96
48.83 ............ Valerie Brisco (US) '84
49.04+ ......... Olga Nazarova II (SU) '88
49.05 ..... Chandra Cheeseborough (US) '84
49.10 ............ Fali Ogunkoya (Ngr) '96

800 METERS
1:53.28 .. Jarmila Kratochvílová (Cze) '83
1:53.43 ..... Nadezhda Olizarenko (SU) '80
1:54.44 ............. Ana Quirot (Cub) '89
1:54.81 ........... Olga Mineyeva (SU) '80
1:54.94 ....... Tatyana Kazankina (SU) '76
1:55.05 .......... Doina Melinte (Rom) '82
1:55.19 ........... Maria Mutola (Moz) '94
1:55.26 ............. Sigrun Grau (EG) '87
1:55.32 ....... Christine Wachtel (EG) '87
1:55.42 ...... Nikolina Shtereva (Bul) '76

1000 METERS
2:28.98 .... Svetlana Masterkova (Rus) '96
2:29.34 ........... Maria Mutola (Moz) '95
2:30.67 ....... Christine Wachtel (EG) '90
2:30.6 ..... Tatyana Providokhina (SU) '78
2:30.85 ........... Martina Steuk (EG) '80
2:31.50 ....... Natalya Artyomova (SU) '91
2:31.51 .......... Sandra Gasser (Swi) '89
2:31.5 .......... Maricica Puica (Rom) '86
2:31.65 ............. Olga Dvirna (SU) '82
2:31.6 ............ Beate Liebich (EG) '80

1500 METERS
3:50.46 .............. Yunxia Qu (Chn) '93
3:50.98 ............... Bo Jiang (Chn) '97
3:51.34 ........... Yinglai Lang (Chn) '97
3:51.92 ............ Junxia Wang (Chn) '93
3:52.47 ....... Tatyana Kazankina (SU) '80
3:53.91 ............... Lili Yin (Chn) '97
3:53.96 ............. Paula Ivan (Rom) '88
3:53.97 .............. Lixin Lan (Chn) '97
3:54.23 ............. Olga Dvirna (SU) '82
3:54.52 ............. Zhang Ling (Chn) '97

MILE
4:12.56 .... Svetlana Masterkova (Rus) '96
4:15.61 ............. Paula Ivan (Rom) '89
4:15.8 ........ Natalya Artyomova (SU) '84
4:16.71 ............. Mary Slaney (US) '85
4:17.14i ......... Doina Melinte (Rom) '90
4:17.25 ....... Sonia O'Sullivan (Ire) '94
4:17.33 ......... Maricica Puica (Rom) '85
4:17.57 ........... Zola Pieterse (GB) '85
4:19.30 .......... Gabriel Szabo (Rom) '98
4:19.41 ............. Kirsty Wade (GB) '85

2000 METERS
5:25.36 ....... Sonia O'Sullivan (Ire) '94
5:26.93 ........... Yvonne Murray (GB) '94
5:28.69 ......... Maricica Puica (Rom) '86
5:28.72 ....... Tatyana Kazankina (SU) '84
5:29.41 ........... Yanfang Wang (Chn) '93
5:29.64 ..... Tatyana Pozdnyakova (SU) '84
5:29.65 ............ Junxia Wang (Chn) '93
5:30.19 ............... Zola Budd (GB) '86 ..
5:30.92 ........ Galina Zakharova (SU) '84
5:32.7 .............. Mary Slaney (US) '84

STEEPLE
9:25.31 ............ Justyna Bak (Pol) '01
9:30.70 .......Melissa Rollinson (Aus) '01
9:39.51 ............Irene Limika (Ken) '01
9:40.20 ..Cristina Iloc-Casandra (Rom) '00
9:41.54 ......Yekaterina Volkova (Rus) '01
9:41.94 ........Elizabeth Jackson (US) '01
9:44.68 .........Elodie Olivares (Fra) '01
9:48.84 .......Laurence Duquénoy (Fra) '01
9:48.88 .........Yelena Motalova (Rus) '99
9:49.41 .................Lisa Nye (US) '01

3000 METERS
8:06.11 ............ Junxia Wang (Chn) '93
8:12.18 .............. Yunxia Qu (Chn) '93
8:16.50 ............ Linli Zhang (Chn) '93
8:19.78 ............... Liyan Ma (Chn) '93
8:21.64 ....... Sonia O'Sullivan (Ire) '94
8:21.84 ........... Lirong Zhang (Chn) '93
8:22.62 ....... Tatyana Kazankina (SU) '84
8:23.26 .......... Olga Yegorova (Rus) '01
8:24.19 ......... Gabriela Szabo (Rom) '01
8:25.40 .... Yelena Zadorozhnaya (Rus) '01

5000 METERS
14:28.09 .............. Jiang Bo (Chn) '97
14:29.32 ......... Olga Yegorova (Rus) '01
14:29.82 ........... Yanmei Dong (Chn) '97
14:31.48 ........ Gabriela Szabo (Rom) '98
14:31.69 ............. Gete Wami (Eth) '01
14:32.08 .......... Zahra Ouaziz (Mor) '98
14:32.33 .......... Shixiang Liu (Chn) '97
14:32.44 ........ Paula Radcliffe (GB) '01
14:36.45 ...... Fernanda Ribeiro (Por) '95
14:37.33 .... Ingrid Kristiansen (Nor) '86

10,000 METERS
29:31.78 ........... Junxia Wang (Chn) '93
30:13.37 .......... Huandi Zhong (Chn) '93
30:13.74 .... Ingrid Kristiansen (Nor) '86
30:17.49 .......... Derartu Tulu (Eth) '00
30:22.48 ............. Gete Wami (Eth) '00
20:22.88 ...... Fernanda Ribeiro (Por) '00
30:26.97 ........ Paula Radcliffe (GB) '00
30:32.03 ......... Tegla Loroupe (Ken) '99
30:38.09 ........... Yanmei Dong (Chn) '97
30:39.41 ............. Lixin Lan (Chn) '97

HALF-MARATHON
65:44 .......... Susan Chepkemei (Ken) '01
66:34 .......... Lornah Kiplagat (Ken) '01
66:40 ........ Ingrid Kristiansen (Nor)'87
66:43' ............ Masako Chiba (Jpn) '97
66:44' .............. Elana Meyer (SA) '99
66:47 ........... Paula Radcliffe (GB) '01
66:49' .......... Esther Wanjiru (Ken) '99
67:03 ............. Derartu Tulu (Eth) '01
67:11' ............. Liz McColgan (GB) '92
67:12' ........... Tegla Loroupe (Ken) '96

MARATHON
2:18:47 ...... Catherine Ndereba (Ken) '01
2:18:56 ..........Paula Radcliffe (GB) '02
2:19:46 ........ Naoko Takahashi (Jpn) '01
2:20:43 .......... Tegla Loroupe (Ken) '99
..................Margaret Okayo (Ken) '02
2:21:06 ..... Ingrid Kristiansen (Nor) '85
2:21:21 .......... Joan Samuelson (US) '85
2:21:45' ............ Uta Pippig (Ger) '94
2:22:12 .......... Eri Yamiguchi (Jpn) '99
2:22:23 .... Catherina McKiernan (Ire) '98

100 HURDLES
12.21 ......... Yordanka Donkova (Bul) '88
12.25 ......... Ginka Zagorcheva (Bul) '87
12.26 ......... Ludmila Engquist (Rus) '92
12.33 ............... Gail Devers (US) '00
12.36 ......... Grazyna Rabsztyn (Pol) '80
12.39 ............. Vera Komisova (SU) '80
 ............. Natalya Grigoryeva (SU) '91
12.42 .............. Bettine Jahn (EG) '83
 ............. Anjanette Kirkland (US) '01
12.43 ............. Lucyna Kalek (Pol) '84

400 HURDLES
52.61 ................ Kim Batten (US) '95
52.62 ....... Tonja Buford-Bailey (US) '95
52.74 ............. Sally Gunnell (GB) '93
52.79 ..... Sandra Farmer-Patrick (US) '93
52.82 ............ Deon Hemmings (Jam) '96
52.89 ............. Daimí Pernía (Cub) '99
52.90 ........... Nezha Bidouane (Mor) '99
52.94 .......... Marina Stepanova (SU) '86
53.02 .......... Irina Privalova (Rus) '00
53.11 ........ Tatyana Ledovskaya (SU) '91

10K WALK
41:04 ........ Yelena Nikolayeva (Rus) '96
41:16 ................. Yan Wang (Chn) '99
41:17 ........... Irina Stankina (Rus) '97
41:24 ........ Olimpiada Ivanova (Rus) '97
41:29 ........ Larisa Ramazanova (Rus) '95
41:30 ........ Kerry Saxby-Junna (Aus) '88
41:31 ......... Yelena Gruzinova (Rus) '96
41:38 ............. Hongmiao Gao (Chn) '94
 ............. Rossella Giordano (Ita) '97
41:45 ............... Hongyu Liu (Chn) '99

20K WALK
1:24:50 ...... Olimpiada Ivanova (Rus) '01
1:25:18 ........ Tatyana Gudkova (Rus) '00
1:25:20 ......... Olga Polyakova (Rus) '00
1:25:29 ......... Irina Stankina (Rus) '00
1:25:59 ....... Tamara Kovalenko (Rus) '00
1:26:22 ............... Yan Wang (Chn) '01
1:26:23 ............ Liping Wang (Chn) '01
1:26:35 ............. Hongyu Liu (Chn) '01
 ............ Nadezhda Ryashkina (Rus) '99
1:26:50 ...... Natalya Fedoskina (Rus) '01

4 x 100 METERS
41.37 ................... East Germany '85
41.47 .................. United States '97
41.49 ......................... Russia '93
 ....................... United States '93
41.52 .................. United States '97
41.53 ................... East Germany '83
41.55 .................. United States '87
41.58 .................. United States '87
41.60 ................... East Germany '80
41.61(A) ............... United States '83

4 x 200 METERS
1:27.46 ................ United States '00
1:28.15 ................. East Germany '80
1:29.64 ...... Nike International (US) '98
1:30:20 ...... Nike International (US) '97
1:30:23 ...... Nike International (US) '99
 ..............................Jamaica '01
1:30.52 ..................... adidas # '98
1:30.85 ................ United States '01
1:30.8 ....................... Ukraine '79
1:30.87 .................United States '02

4 x 400 METERS
3:15.17 ................. Soviet Union '88
3:15.51 ................ United States '88
3:15.92 ................. East Germany '84
3:16.71 ................ United States '93
3:16.87 ................. East Germany '86
3:18.29 ................ United States '84
 ........................ East Germany '88
3:18.38 ....................... Russia '93
3:18.43 ................. Soviet Union '91
3:18.58 ................. Soviet Union '85

4 x 800 METERS
7:50.17 ................. Soviet Union '84
7:51.62 ............... Soviet Union B '84
7:52.24 ................. Soviet Union '85
7:52.4 .................. Soviet Union '76
7:54.10 ................. East Germany '76
7:56.6 ........................ Russia '80
 ............................. Ukraine '80
7:56.9 ................ Leningrad (SU) '80
7:57.08 ....................... Russia '93
7:57.21 ...................... Romania '93

4 x 1500 METERS
17:09.97 ................... Australia '00
17:18.10 ................. Villanova # '90
17:19.09 ......................Ireland '00
17:22.30 ........ Providence (Ireland) '91
17:22.58 ................. Villanova # '89
17:22.72 .............. Wisconsin (US) '90
17:22.82 .............. Tennessee (US) '90
17:29.32 ................. Villanova # '97
17:30.10 ................. Villanova # '91
17:30.38 ................. Villanova # '00

SPRINT MEDLEY
3:41.97 ................... Texas (US) '88
3:42.10 ....... South Sprint Club (US) '96
3:42.39 ................... Texas (US) '00
3:42.88 .............. Arizona State # '95
3:43.11 ................. Florida (US) '91
3:43.23 ................. Florida (US) '01
3:43.34 .............. Arizona State # '94
3:43.55 ............... Tennessee (US) '91
3:43.80 ................. Florida (US) '96
3:44.07 ............... George Mason # '98

DISTANCE MEDLEY
10:48.38 .............. Villanova (US) '88
10:49.81 .............. Villanova (US) '90
10:53.27 .............. Villanova (US) '84
10:53.37 .............. Villanova (US) '89
10:54.08 .............. Tennessee (US) '90
10:54.34i ............. Villanova (US) '88
10:55.00 .................. Arkansas # '00
10:55.46 .............. Villanova (US) '87
10:55.71 .................... Tulane # '99
10:56.12 ....................... BYU # '00

4 x 100 HURDLES
52.00 ......................... Russia '92
52.30 ........................ Ukraine '93
52.85 ..................... Illinois # '01
53.14+ ......................... LSU # '91
53.39 .................. Illinois (US) '96
53.46 .................. Essex CC (US) '98
53.55 ..................... Illinois # '01
53.63 .................. Great Britain '93
53.83 .......................... LSU # '96
53.88 ........................ Miami # '96

HIGH JUMP
2.09        6-10 1/4..Stefka Kostadinova (Bul) '87
2.07        6-9 1/2....Lyudmila Andonova (Bul) '84
    i       ................Heike Henkel (Ger) '92
2.05        6-8 3/4.........Tamara Bykova (SU) '84
            ...............Inga Babakova (Ukr) '95
2.04        6-8 1/4.........Silvia Costa (Cub) '89
    i       ...............Alina Astafei (Ger) '95
            ...............Hestrie Cloete (SA) '99
            .............Venelina Veneva (Bul) '01
2.03        6-8...........Ulrike Meyfarth (WG) '83
            ................Louise Ritter (US) '88
            .............Tatyana Motkova (Rus) '95
            .............Niki Bakogianni (Gre) '96
    i       ................Monica Iagar (Rom) '99
    i       .............Marina Kuptsova (Rus) '02

POLE VAULT
4.81        15-9 1/4........Stacy Dragila (US) '01
4.75i       15-7......Svetlana Feofanova (Rus) '02
4.66i       15-3 1/2.....Christine Adams (Ger) '02
4.65i       15-3........Yvonne Buschbaum (Ger) '02
4.62        15-1 3/4..........Mel Mueller (US) '01
    i       .............. Annika Becker (Ger) '02
            ...................Mary Sauer (US) '02
4.61        15-1 1/2 .......Monica Pyrek (Pol) '01
4.60        15-1.............Emma George (Aus) '99
            ................Kellie Suttle (US) '01

LONG JUMP
7.52        24-8 1/4...Galina Chistyakova (SU) '88
7.49        24-7.....Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) '94
7.48        24-6 1/2......Heike Drechsler (EG) '88
7.43        24-4 1/2....Anisoara Stanciu (Rom) '83
7.39        24-3........Yelena Belevskaya (SU) '87
7.37        24-2 1/4......Inessa Kravets (Ukr) '92
7.31        23-11 3/4.....Yelena Kokonova (SU) '85
            .................Marion Jones (US) '98
7.26(A)     23-10..........Maurren Maggi (Bra) '99
7.24        23-9........Larisa Berezhnaya (SU) '91

TRIPLE JUMP
15.50       50-10 1/4.....Inessa Kravets (Ukr) '95
15.32       50-3 1/4....Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus) '00
15.20       49-10 1/2...Sárka Kaspárková (CzR) '97
            .............Tereza Marinova (Bul) '00
15.18       49-9 3/4......Iva Prandzheva (Bul) '95
15.16       49-9.........Rodica Mateescu (Rom) '97
     i      .................Ashia Hansen (GB) '98
15.09       49-6 1/4......Anna Biryukova (Rus) '93
            .............Inna Lasovskaya (Rus) '97
15.07       49-5 1/2..Paraskevi Tsiamita (Gre) '99

SHOT
22.63       74-3.......Natalya Lisovskaya (SU) '87
22.50i      73-10.....Helena Fibingerová (Cze) '77
22.45       73-8.........Ilona Briesenick (EG) '80
22.19       72-9 3/4........Claudia Losch (WG) '87
21.89       71-10.......Ivanka Khristova (Bul) '76
21.86       71-8 3/4........Marianne Adam (EG) '79
21.76       71-4 3/4............Meisu Li (Chn) '88
21.73       71-3 1/2...Natalya Akhrimenko (SU) '88
21.69       71-2............Vita Pavlysh (Ukr) '98
21.66       71-3/4............Xinmei Sui (Chn) '90

DISCUS
76.80       252-0........Gabriele Reinsch (EG) '88
74.56       244-7.........Zdenka Silhavá (Cze) '84
            .................Ilke Wyludda (EG) '89
74.08       243-0............Diana Gansky (EG) '87
73.84       242-3........Daniela Costian (Rom) '88
73.36       240-8.........Irina Meszynski (EG) '84
73.28       240-5........Galina Yermakova (SU) '84
73.22       240-3....Tsvetanka Khristova (Bul) '87
73.10       239-10...........Gisela Beyer (EG) '84
72.92       239-3........Martina Hellmann (EG) '87

HAMMER
76.07       249-7........Mihaela Melinte (Rom) '99
75.68       248-3.........Olga Kuzenkova (Rus) '00
72.09       236-6..Tatyana Konstantinova (Rus) '99
71.71       235-3.....Kamila Skolimowska (Pol) '01
71.18       233-6......Manuela Montebrun (Fra) '00
71.07       233-3 ..........Yipsi Moreno (Cub) '02
70.79       232-3..........Katalin Divós (Hun) '01
70.62       231-8............Dawn Ellerbe (US) '01
70.19       230-3.........Bronwyn Eagles (Aus) '01
69.92       229-5.......Lyudmila Gubkina (Blr) '00

JAVELIN
71.54       234-8......Osleidys Menéndez (Cub) '01
69.48       227-11.......Trine Hattestad (Nor) '00
67.51       221-6.........Miréla Tzelíli (Gre) '00
67.20       220-6.....Tatyana Shikolenko (Rus) '00
66.91       219-6..........Tanja Damaske (Ger) '99
66.80       219-2..........Louise Currey (Aus) '00
66.54       218-4...........Sonia Bisset (Cub) '01
65.76       215-9..........Steffi Nerius (Ger) '00
65.71       215-7.......Nikola Tomecková (CzR) '01
65.30       214-3......Claudia Coslovich (Ita) '00

HEPTATHLON
7291 ....... Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) '88
7007 ............ Larisa Nikitina (SU) '89
6985 .............. Sabine Braun (Ger) '92
6946 ................ Sabine John (EG) '84
6942 .............. Ghada Shouaa (Syr) '96
6935 ............. Ramona Neubert (EG) '83
6861 ............. Eunice Barber (Fra) '99
6859 ......... Natalya Shubenkova (SU) '84
6858 ................ Anke Behmer (EG) '88
6845 .............. Irina Belova (Rus) '92