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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     24.95 Marie Mejzlíková I TCH Prostejov Jul 30, 1922 • 25.01 Bozena Sramkova TCH Prague Aug 06, 1922 • 25.325 Bozena Sramkova TCH Prague Aug 13, 1922   25.50 Marie Janderová TCH Monte Carlo Apr 06, 1923   26.10 Kamila Olmerová TCH Hradec Králové May 31, 1923   27.30 Frantiska Vlachová TCH Jihlava Aug 26, 1923   27.30* Kamila Olmerová TCH Kladno Sep 02, 1923 • 27.24 Marie Janderová TCH Moravska Ostrava May 25, 1924   35.26 Lillian Copeland USA X May 08, 1926   35.55 Lillian Copeland USA Pasadena Jul 26, 1926   38.21 Lillian Copeland USA Los Angeles Feb 26, 1927   38.80 Margaret Jenkins USA Eureka, Calif. Sep 03, 1927   39.35 Margaret Jenkins USA San Jose Apr 15, 1928   40.68 Mildred Didrikson USA Dallas Jul 04, 1930   42.32 Liesel Schumann GER Prague Aug 08, 1930 • 44.64 Ellen Braumüller GER Berlin Jun 12, 1932 • 46.745 Nan Gindele USA Chicago Jun 18, 1932   47.80 Erika Matthes GER Stuttgart Jul 17, 1938   48.39 Lyudmila Anokina URS Kiev Sep 15, 1945   50.32 Klavdiya Mayuchaya URS Moscow Sep 23, 1947 • 48.63 Herma Bauma AUT Vienna Sep 12, 1948 • 49.59 Natalya Smirnitskaya URS Moscow Jul 25, 1949 • 53.41 Natalya Smirnitskaya URS Moscow Aug 05, 1949 • 53.56 Nadezhda Konyayeva URS Leningrad Feb 05, 1954 • 55.11 Nadezhda Konyayeva URS Kiev May 22, 1954 • 55.48 Nadezhda Konyayeva URS Kiev Aug 06, 1954 • 55.73 Dana Zátopková TCH Prague Jun 01, 1958 • 57.40 Anna Pazera AUS Cardiff Jul 24, 1958 • 57.49 Birute Zalogaitite URS Tbilisi Oct 30, 1958 • 57.92 Elvira Ozolina URS Leselidze May 03, 1960 • 59.55 Elvira Ozolina URS Bucurest Jun 04, 1960 • 59.78 Elvira Ozolina URS Moscow Jul 03, 1963   61.38 Elvira Ozolina URS Kiev Aug 27, 1964 • 62.40 Yelena Gorchakova URS Tokyo Oct 16, 1964 • 62.70 Ewa Gryziecka POL Bucurest Jun 11, 1972 • 65.06 Ruth Fuchs GDR Potsdam Jun 11, 1972 • 66.10 Ruth Fuchs GDR Edinburgh Sep 07, 1973 • 67.22 Ruth Fuchs GDR Rome Sep 03, 1974 • 69.12 Ruth Fuchs GDR Berlin Jul 10, 1976 • 69.32 Kathy Schmidt USA Fürth Sep 11, 1977 • 69.52 Ruth Fuchs GDR Dresden Jun 13, 1979 • 69.96 Ruth Fuchs GDR Split Apr 29, 1980 • 70.08 Tatyana Biryulina URS Podolsk Jul 12, 1980 • 71.88 Antoaneta Todorova BUL Zagreb Aug 15, 1981 • 72.40 Tina Lillak FIN Helsinki Jul 29, 1982 • 74.20 Sonia Sakorafa GRE Khania Sep 26, 1982 • 74.76 Tina Lillak FIN Tampere Jun 13, 1983 • 75.26 Petra Felke GDR Schwerin Jun 04, 1985 • 75.40 Petra Felke GDR Schwerin Jun 04, 1985 • 77.44 Fatima Whitbread GBR Stuttgart Aug 28, 1986 • 78.90 Petra Felke GDR Leipzig Jul 29, 1987 • 80.00 Petra Felke-Meier GDR Potsdam Sep 09, 1988 New Javelin (officially from 01.04.1999)   68.19 Trine Hattestad NOR Bergen Jul 28, 1999 • 68.22 Trine Hattestad NOR Rome Jun 30, 2000 • 69.48 Trine Hattestad NOR Oslo Jul 28, 2000 • 71.54 Osleidys Menendez CUB Rethymno Jul 01, 2001 • 71.70 Osleidys Menendez CUB Helsinki Aug 14, 2005 • 72.28 Barbora Špotáková CZE Stuttgart Sep 13, 2008