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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
•   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated
Manual Timing
• 13.6 Marie Mejzlíková II TCH Prague Aug 05, 1922
• 12.8 Mary Lines GBR Paris Aug 20, 1922
  12.8* Marie Mejzlíková II TCH Prague May 13, 1923
  12.7 Emmy Haux GER Frankfurt/Main May 21, 1925
  12.4 Leni Schmidt GER Leipzig Aug 30, 1925
  12.2 Leni Junker GER Wiesbaden Sep 13, 1925
  12.2* Leni Junker GER Hannover Aug 29, 1926
  12.1 Gertrud Gladitsch GER Stuttgart Jul 03, 1927
  12.0 Elizabeth Robinson USA Chicago Jun 02, 1928
• 12.0* Myrtle Cook CAN Halifax Jul 02, 1928
• 12.0* Tollien Schuurman NED Amsterdam Aug 31, 1930
  12.0* Helene Thymm GER Magdeburg Aug 01, 1931
  12.0* Leni Junker-Thymm GER Magdeburg Aug 01, 1931
  12.0* Helene Thymm GER Magdeburg Aug 02, 1931
• 11.9 Tollien Schuurman NED Haarlem Jun 05, 1932
  11.9* Tollien Schuurman NED Amsterdam Jun 12, 1932
• 11.9** Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Los Angeles Aug 01, 1932
  11.9* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Los Angeles Aug 01, 1932
  11.9** Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Los Angeles Aug 02, 1932
  11.9* Hilda Strike CAN Los Angeles Aug 02, 1932
  11.9* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Chicago Aug 18, 1932
  11.9* Tollien Schuurman NED Amsterdam Jul 16, 1933
  11.9* Tollien Schuurman NED Deventer Jul 23, 1933
  11.9* Tollien Schuurman NED Brussels Aug 13, 1933
  11.9* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Brussels Aug 13, 1933
• 11.8 Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Poznan Aug 17, 1933
  11.8* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Warsaw Sep 04, 1933
  11.6 Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Warsaw Aug 04, 1934
  11.6* Helen Stephens USA Kansas City Jun 08, 1935
  11.6* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Cleveland Jun 10, 1935
  11.6* Helen Stephens USA New York Sep 14, 1935
  11.5 Helen Stephens USA Memphis May 15, 1936
  11.5* Helen Stephens USA Dresden Aug 10, 1936
  11.5* Lulu Mae Hymes USA Tuskegee May 06, 1939
  11.5* Rowena Harrison USA Tuskegee May 06, 1939
• 11.5* Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Amsterdam Sep 05, 1943
  11.5* Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Amsterdam Jun 13, 1948
  11.5** Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 22, 1952
• 11.5* Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 22, 1952
  11.5* Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Frechen Sep 28, 1952
• 11.4 Marjorie Jackson AUS Gifu Oct 04, 1952
• 11.3 Shirley Strickland AUS Warsaw Aug 04, 1955
  11.3* Vera Krepkina URS Kiev Sep 13, 1958
  11.3* Wilma Rudolph USA Rome Sep 02, 1960
  11.3* Wilma Rudolph USA Moscow Jul 15, 1961
• 11.2 Wilma Rudolph USA Stuttgart Jul 19, 1961
• 11.2* Wyomia Tyus USA Tokyo Apr 15, 1964
  11.1 Ewa Klobukowska# POL Prague Jul 09, 1965
• 11.1* Irena Kirszenstein POL Prague Jul 09, 1965
• 11.1* Wyomia Tyus USA Kiev Jul 31, 1965
• 11.1* Barbara Ferrell USA Santa Barbara Jul 02, 1967
  11.1* Wyomia Tyus USA Mexico City Apr 21, 1968
• 11.1* Lyudmila Samotyosova URS Leninakan Aug 15, 1968
  11.1** Margaret Bailes USA Aurora Aug 18, 1968
  11.1* Margaret Bailes USA Aurora Aug 18, 1968
  11.1* Barbara Ferrell USA Mexico City Oct 14, 1968
• 11.1* Irena Szewinska-Kirszenstein POL Mexico City Oct 14, 1968
• 11.0 Wyomia Tyus USA Mexico City Oct 15, 1968
• 11.0* Chi Cheng TWN Vienna Jul 18, 1970
• 11.0* Renate Meissner GDR Berlin Aug 02, 1970
• 11.0* Renate Stecher-Meissner GDR Berlin Jul 31, 1971
• 11.0* Renate Stecher GDR Potsdam Jun 03, 1972
• 11.0* Ellen Stropahl GDR Potsdam Jun 15, 1972
• 11.0* Eva Gleskova TCH Budapest Jul 01, 1972
  11.0* Renate Stecher GDR Potsdam Aug 19, 1972
• 10.9 Renate Stecher GDR Ostrava Jun 07, 1973
  10.9* Renate Stecher GDR Leipzig Jun 30, 1973
  10.9* Renate Stecher GDR Dresden Jul 20, 1973
• 10.8 Renate Stecher GDR Dresden Jul 20, 1973
Electronic Timing
  12.18* Catherine Hardy USA Helsinki Jul 21, 1952
  12.18 Winsome Cripps AUS Helsinki Jul 21, 1952
  11.86 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 21, 1952
  11.72 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 22, 1952
  11.65 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 22, 1952
  11.65* Wilma Rudolph USA Rome Sep 01, 1960
  11.41 Wilma Rudolph USA Rome Sep 02, 1960
  11.23 Wyomia Tyus USA Tokyo Apr 15, 1964
• 11.21 Wyomia Tyus USA Mexico City Oct 14, 1968
• 11.12 Barbara Ferrell USA Mexico City Oct 14, 1968
• 11.08 Wyomia Tyus USA Mexico City Oct 15, 1968
• 11.07 Renate Stecher GDR München Sep 02, 1972
  11.07* Renate Stecher GDR Dresden Jul 20, 1973
  11.04 Inge Helten FRG Fürth Jun 13, 1976
• 11.01 Annegret Richter FRG Montréal Jul 25, 1976
• 10.88 Marlies Oelsner GDR Dresden Jul 01, 1977
  10.87 Lyudmila Kondratyeva URS Leningrad Jun 03, 1980
• 10.81 Marlies Göhr-Oelsner GDR Berlin Jun 08, 1983
• 10.79 Evelyn Ashford USA Air Force Academy Jul 03, 1983
• 10.76 Evelyn Ashford USA Zürich Aug 22, 1984
• 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA Indianapolis Jul 16, 1988