| WOMEN'S WORLD RECORDS (OUTDOOR) | ||||
| 100m | Florence Griffith Joyner |  USA |
10.49 | 7/16/88 Indianapolis, IN |
| 200m | Florence Griffith Joyner | USA |
21.34 | 9/29/88 Seoul, KOR |
| 400m | Marita Koch | GDR | 47.60 | 10/6/85 Canberra, AUS |
| 800m | Jarmila Kratochvilova | TCH | 1:53.28 | 7/26/83 Munich, FRG |
| Mile | Svetlana Masterkova |  RUS |
4:12.56 | 8/14/96 Zurich, SUI |
| 5,000m | Bo Jiang |  CHN |
14:28.09 | 10/23/97 Shanghai, CHN |
| 10,000m | Junxia Wang | CHN |
29:31.78 | 9/8/93 Beijing, CHN |
| 20km Walk (track) | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS |
1:26:52.30 | 9/7/01 Brisbane, AUS |
| 20km walk (road) | Tatyana Gudkova | RUS |
1:25:18 | 5/19/00* Moscow, RUS |
| 100m hurdles | Yordanka Donkova |  BUL |
12.21 | 8/20/88 Stara Zagora, BUL |
| 400m hurdles | Kim Batten | USA |
52.61 | 8/11/95 Gothenburg, SWE |
| 3000m Steeple | Justyna Bak |  POL |
9:25.31 | 7/9/01 Nice, FRA |
| High Jump | Stefka Kostadinova | BUL |
2.09m 6-10¼ |
8/30/87 Rome, ITA |
| Pole Vault | Stacy Dragila | USA |
4.70m 15-5 |
4/27/01 Pocatello, ID |
| Long Jump | Galina Chistyakova | URS | 7.52m 24-8¼ |
6/11/88 Leningrad, URS |
| Triple Jump | Inessa Kravets |  UKR |
15.50m 50-10¼ |
8/10/95 Gothenburg, SWE |
| Shot Put | Natalya Lisovskaya | URS | 22.63m 74-3 |
6/7/87 Moscow, URS |
| Discus | Gabriele Reinsch | GDR | 76.80m 252-0 |
7/9/88 Neubrandenburg, GDR |
| Hammer | Mihaela Milente |  ROM |
76.07m 249-7 |
8/29/99 Rudlingen, SUI |
| Javelin | Osleidys Menendez |  CUB |
71.52m 234-8 |
7/1/01 Athens, GRE |
| Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA |
7291 pts. | 9/23-24/88 Seoul, KOR |
| 4x100m Relay | East Germany National Team (Silke Moeller, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Goehr) |
GDR | 41.37 | 10/6/85 Canberra, AUS |
| 4x400m Relay | Soviet Union National Team (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) |
URS | 3:15.17 | 10/1/88 Seoul, KOR |