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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     1.45 Elise Constant FRA Caen Mar 26, 1921   1.47 Elise Constant FRA Caen Mar 26, 1921   1.50 Waltraude Schmidt GER Dresden Jul 17, 1921   1.51 Gertrude Döring GER Berlin Jun 10, 1923   1.50* Hilda Hatt GBR London Jul 14, 1923   1.51* Elise Van Truyen BEL London Aug 04, 1924   1.51* Phyllis Green GBR London Jun 06, 1925   1.51* Phyllis Green GBR Brussels Jul 05, 1925 • 1.524 Phyllis Green GBR London Jul 11, 1925 • 1.552 Phyllis Green GBR London Aug 02, 1926 • 1.58 Ethel Catherwood CAN Regina Sep 06, 1926   1.585 Marjorie Clark RSA Pietermaritzburg Oct 03, 1927   1.60 Marjorie Clark RSA London Jun 23, 1928   1.60* Ethel Catherwood CAN Halifax Jul 02, 1928 • 1.605 Carolina Gisolf NED Maastricht Aug 18, 1929 • 1.62 Carolina Gisolf NED Amsterdam Jun 12, 1932   1.625 Jean Shiley USA Los Angeles Aug 07, 1932   1.625* Mildred Didrikson USA Los Angeles Aug 07, 1932 • 1.65 Jean Shiley USA Los Angeles Aug 07, 1932 • 1.65* Mildred Didrikson USA Los Angeles Aug 07, 1932   1.65* Dora Greenwood GBR Southend Jun 08, 1933   1.65* Dorothy Odam GBR Brentwood Jun 01, 1936 • 1.66 Dorothy Odam GBR Brentwood May 29, 1939 • 1.66* Esther van Heerden RSA Stellenbosch Mar 29, 1941 • 1.66* Ilsebill Pfenning SUI Lugano Jul 27, 1941   1.67 Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Amsterdam May 30, 1943   1.69 Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Amsterdam May 30, 1943 • 1.71 Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Amsterdam May 30, 1943 • 1.72 Sheila Lerwill GBR London Jul 07, 1951 • 1.73 Aleksandra Chudina URS Kiev May 22, 1954 • 1.74 Thelma Hopkins GBR Belfast May 05, 1956 • 1.75 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Jul 14, 1956 • 1.76 Mildred McDaniel USA Melbourne Dec 01, 1956 • 1.76* Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Oct 13, 1957 • 1.77 Cheng Feng-Yung CHN Beijing Nov 17, 1957 • 1.78 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Jun 07, 1958 • 1.80 Iolanda Balas ROU Cluj Jun 22, 1958 • 1.81 Iolanda Balas ROU Poiana Brasov Jul 31, 1958 • 1.82 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Oct 04, 1958 • 1.83 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Oct 18, 1958 • 1.84 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Sep 21, 1959 • 1.85 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Jun 06, 1960 • 1.86 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Jul 10, 1960 • 1.87 Iolanda Balas ROU Bucharest Apr 15, 1961 • 1.88 Iolanda Balas ROU Warsaw Jun 18, 1961 • 1.90 Iolanda Balas ROU Budapest Jul 08, 1961 • 1.91 Iolanda Balas ROU Sofia Jul 16, 1961 • 1.92 Ilona Gusenbauer AUT Vienna Sep 04, 1971 • 1.92* Ulrike Meyfarth FRG München Sep 04, 1972 • 1.94 Yordanka Blagoeva BUL Zagreb Sep 24, 1972 • 1.94* Rosemarie Witschas GDR Berlin Aug 24, 1974 • 1.95 Rosemarie Witschas-Ackermann GDR Rome Sep 08, 1974 • 1.96 Rosemarie Ackermann GDR Dresden May 08, 1976 • 1.96* Rosemarie Ackermann GDR Dresden Jul 03, 1976 • 1.97 Rosemarie Ackermann GDR Helsinki Aug 14, 1977 • 1.97* Rosemarie Ackermann GDR Berlin Aug 26, 1977 • 2.00 Rosemarie Ackermann GDR Berlin Aug 26, 1977 • 2.01 Sara Simeoni ITA Brescia Aug 04, 1978 • 2.01* Sara Simeoni ITA Prague Aug 21, 1978 • 2.02 Ulrike Meyfarth FRG Athens Sep 08, 1982 • 2.03 Ulrike Meyfarth FRG London Aug 21, 1983 • 2.03* Tamara Bykova URS London Aug 21, 1983 • 2.04 Tamara Bykova URS Pisa Aug 25, 1983 • 2.05 Tamara Bykova URS Kiev Jun 22, 1984 • 2.07 Lyudmilla Andonova BUL Berlin Jul 20, 1984 • 2.07* Stefka Kostadinova BUL Sofia May 25, 1986 • 2.08 Stefka Kostadinova BUL Sofia May 31, 1986 • 2.09 Stefka Kostadinova BUL Rome Aug 30, 1987   2.10 Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR Paris Jul 07, 2024