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Men    Women 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 80 m Hurdles 100 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase 4 x 100 m Relay 4 x 400 m Relay 10 km Road Walk 20 km Road Walk 50 km Road Walk 35 km Road Walk High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Pentathlon/Heptathlon

Women, 3000 m World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     14.44.4 Ana Cicanei ROU X 1927   11.29 Est. Joan Hall GBR London May 30, 1953   10.56 Est. Phyllis Perkins GBR London May 22, 1954   10.55 Est. Phyllis Perkins GBR London Jun 25, 1955   10.26 Est. Leila Buckland GBR London Aug 27, 1955   10.16 Est. June Bridgland GBR London Aug 25, 1956   9.42.8 Paola Pigni ITA Formia May 11, 1969   9.38.0 Paola Pigni ITA Milan Sep 02, 1969   9.26.9 Doris Brown USA Bakersfield Jul 10, 1971   9.23.4 Joyce Smith GBR London Jul 16, 1971   9.09.2 Paola Pigni-Cacchi ITA Formia May 11, 1972   8.53.0 Lyudmila Bragina URS Moscow Aug 12, 1972 • 8.52.8 Lyudmila Bragina URS Durham, NC Jul 06, 1974 • 8.46.6 Grete Waitz-Andersen NOR Oslo Jun 24, 1975 • 8.45.4 Grete Waitz NOR Oslo Jun 21, 1976 • 8.27.12 Lyudmila Bragina URS College Park Aug 07, 1976 • 8.26.78 Svetlana Ulmasova URS Kiev Jul 25, 1982 • 8.22.62 Tatyana Kazankina URS Leningrad Aug 26, 1984 • 8.22.06 Zhang Linli CHN Beijing Sep 12, 1993 • 8.12.19 Wang Junxia CHN Beijing Sep 12, 1993 • 8.06.11 Wang Junxia CHN Beijing Sep 13, 1993 • 8.21.64 Sonia O'Sullivan IRL London Jul 15, 1994 • 8.21.42 Gabriela Szabo ROU Monaco Jul 19, 2002