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Women, 10000 m
              
All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated
 
  38.06.4 Anne O'Brien IRL Gormanstown Mar 26, 1967
  35.30.5 Paola Pigni ITA Milan May 09, 1970
  34.51.0 Kathy Gibbons USA Phoenix Jun 12, 1971
  35.00.4 Julie Brown USA Los Angeles Mar 29, 1975
  34.01.4 Christa Vahlensieck FRG Wolfsburg Aug 20, 1975
  33.34.2 Loa Olafsson DEN Hvidovre Mar 19, 1977
  33.15.09 Peggy Neppel USA Los Angeles Jun 09, 1977
  32.43.2 Natalia Marasescu ROU Baile Felix Jan 22, 1978
  31.45.40 Loa Olafsson DEN København Apr 06, 1978
  32.30.80 Olga Krentser URS Moscow Aug 07, 1981
32.17.20 Yelena Sipatova URS Moscow Sep 19, 1981
31.35.3 Mary Decker-Tabb USA London Jul 16, 1982
31.35.01 Lyudmila Baranova URS Krasnodar May 29, 1983
31.27.58 Raisa Sadretdinova URS Odessa Sep 07, 1983
31.13.78 Olga Bondarenko URS Kiev Jun 24, 1984
30.59.42 Ingrid Kristiansen NOR Oslo Jul 27, 1985
30.13.74 Ingrid Kristiansen NOR Oslo Jul 05, 1986
29.31.78 Wang Junxia CHN Beijing Sep 08, 1993
29.17.45 Almaz Ayana ETH Rio de Janeiro Aug 12, 2016
29.06.82 Sifan Hassan NED Hengelo Jun 06, 2021
29.01.03 Letesenbet Gidey ETH Hengelo Jun 08, 2021