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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
•   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated
 
  2.43.0y Phyllis Hall GBR Birmingham May 13, 1922
  2.35.8y Lucille Godbold USA Mamaroneck, NY May 13, 1922
• 2.30.4 Georgette Lenoir FRA Paris Aug 20, 1922
• 2.26.6y Mary Lines GBR London Aug 30, 1922
  2.26.6*y Edith Trickey GBR London Jul 11, 1925
  2.24.8y Gladys Lane GBR London Jul 25, 1925
  2.24.0y Edith Trickey GBR London Aug 01, 1925
• 2.23.8y Karoline Radke GER Breslau (Wroclaw) Aug 07, 1927
• 2.20.4 Inga Gentzel SWE Stockholm Jun 16, 1928
• 2.19.6 Karoline Radke GER Brieg Jul 01, 1928
• 2.16.8 Karoline Radke GER Amsterdam Aug 02, 1928
  2.16.8* Marie Dollinger GER Magdeburg Aug 02, 1931
  2.15.8 Martha Wretman SWE London Aug 11, 1934
  2.15.6 Nellie Halstead GBR London Aug 10, 1935
  2.15.3 Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS Kharkov Sep 09, 1938
  2.15.3* Kseniya Shilo URS Moscow Aug 26, 1940
  2.12.0 Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS Moscow Aug 05, 1943
• 2.15.9 Anna Larsson SWE Stockholm Aug 27, 1944
• 2.14.8 Anna Larsson SWE Helsingborg Aug 19, 1945
• 2.13.8 Anna Larsson SWE Stockholm Aug 30, 1945
  2.10.0 Marit Hemstad-Øisted NOR Oslo Aug 16, 1946
• 2.13.0 Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS Moscow Jul 17, 1950
• 2.12.2 Valentina Pomogayeva URS Moscow Jul 26, 1951
• 2.12.0 Nina Pletneva URS Minsk Aug 26, 1951
  2.11.7 Polina Solopova URS Kiev May 27, 1952
• 2.08.5 Nina Pletnyova URS Kiev Jun 15, 1952
  2.08.2 Nina Pletnyova-Otkalenko URS Moscow Jun 07, 1953
• 2.07.3 Nina Otkalenko URS Moscow Aug 27, 1953
• 2.06.6 Nina Otkalenko URS Kiev Sep 16, 1954
  2.06.4 Nina Otkalenko URS Belgrad Sep 19, 1955
  2.05.0 Nina Otkalenko URS Zagreb Sep 24, 1955
• 2.04.3 Lyudmila Shevtsova URS Moscow Jul 03, 1960
• 2.04.3* Lyudmila Shevtsova URS Rome Sep 07, 1960
  2.01.2 Shin Kim Dan PRK Pyongyang May 01, 1961
• 2.01.2* Dixie Willis AUS Perth Mar 03, 1962
  1.59.1 Shin Kim Dan PRK Jakarta Nov 12, 1963
  1.58.0 Shin Kim Dan PRK Pyongyang Sep 05, 1964
• 2.01.1 Ann Packer GBR Tokyo Oct 20, 1964
• 2.01.0 Judith Pollock AUS Helsinki Jun 28, 1967
• 2.00.5 Vera Nikolic YUG London Jul 20, 1968
• 1.58.45 Hildegard Falck FRG Stuttgart Jul 11, 1971
• 1.57.48 Svetla Zlateva BUL Athens Aug 24, 1973
• 1.56.0 Valentina Gerasimova URS Kiev Jun 12, 1976
• 1.54.94 Tatyana Kazankina URS Montréal Jul 26, 1976
• 1.54.85 Nadezhda Olizarenko URS Moscow Jun 12, 1980
• 1.53.43 Nadezhda Olizarenko URS Moscow Jul 27, 1980
• 1.53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH München Jul 26, 1983