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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     61.1 Sandra Dyson GBR Bonn May 15, 1971   60.7 Libuse Macounová TCH Prague Sep 29, 1971   60.4 Judith Vernon GBR London Mar 21, 1973   59.08 Wendy Koenig USA Phoenix May 24, 1973   58.6 Maria Sykora AUT Warley May 27, 1973   58.5 Maria Sykora AUT Edinburgh Jun 16, 1973   57.3 Maria Sykora AUT Frankfurt Jun 23, 1973   56.7 Danuta Piecyk POL Warsaw Aug 11, 1973 • 56.51 Krystyna Kacperczyk POL Augsburg Jul 13, 1974 • 55.74 Tatyana Storozheva URS Karl-Marx-Stadt Jun 26, 1977 • 55.63 Karin Rossley GDR Helsinki Aug 13, 1977 • 55.44 Krystyna Kacperczyk POL Berlin Aug 18, 1978 • 55.31 Tatyana Zelentsova URS Podolsk Aug 19, 1978 • 54.89 Tatyana Zelentsova URS Prague Sep 02, 1978 • 54.78 Marina Makeyeva URS Moscow Jul 27, 1979 • 54.28 Karin Rossley GDR Jena May 18, 1980 • 54.02 Anna Ambraziene URS Moscow Jun 11, 1983 • 53.58 Margarita Ponomaryova URS Kiev Jun 22, 1984 • 53.55 Sabine Busch GDR Berlin Sep 22, 1985 • 53.32 Marina Stepanova URS Stuttgart Aug 30, 1986 • 52.94 Marina Stepanova URS Tashkent Sep 19, 1986 • 52.74 Sally Gunnell GBR Stuttgart Aug 19, 1993 • 52.61 Kim Batten USA Göteborg Aug 10, 1995 • 52.34 Yuliya Pechonkina RUS Tula Aug 08, 2003 • 52.20 Dalilah Muhammad USA Des Moines, IA Jul 28, 2019 • 52.16 Dalilah Muhammad USA Doha Oct 04, 2019 • 51.90 Sydney McLaughlin USA Eugene, OR Jun 27, 2021 • 51.46 Sydney McLaughlin USA Tokyo Aug 04, 2021 • 51.41 Sydney McLaughlin USA Eugene, OR Jun 25, 2022 • 50.68 Sydney McLaughlin USA Eugene, OR Jul 22, 2022 • 50.65 Sydney McLaughlin USA Eugene, OR Jun 30, 2024   50.37 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone USA Paris Aug 08, 2024