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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated Manual Timing • 28.6 Marie Mejzlíková I TCH Paris May 21, 1922 • 27.8 Alice Cast GBR Paris Aug 20, 1922   27.0y Mary Lines GBR London Sep 20, 1922 • 26.8y Mary Lines GBR Waddon Sep 23, 1922   26.8*y Gladys Elliott GBR Nottingham May 24, 1924 • 26.2y Eileen Edwards GBR London Aug 20, 1924   26.1y Rosa Grosse CAN Blandford Aug 01, 1925   26.1 Eileen Edwards GBR Stockholm Aug 31, 1926   26.0y Rosa Grosse CAN Toronto Sep 14, 1926   25.8y Eileen Edwards GBR Romford Sep 18, 1926 • 25.4 Eileen Edwards GBR Berlin Jun 12, 1927   25.4y Ivy Walker GBR London Jun 16, 1930   25.4*y Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Dallas Jul 04, 1930   25.2y Nellie Halstead GBR London Aug 16, 1930   25.1y Elizabeth Robinson USA Milwaukee Jun 20, 1931   24.6 Tollien Schuurman NED Brussels Aug 13, 1933   24.6* Käthe Krauss GER Berlin Jul 01, 1934   24.6* Käthe Krauss GER Nürnberg Jul 28, 1934   24.5 Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Warsaw Aug 04, 1934   24.5* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Posen Aug 19, 1934   24.4 Helen Stephens USA St.Louis Jun 01, 1935   24.3y Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Cleveland Jun 09, 1935 • 23.6 Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Warsaw Aug 04, 1935   23.6* Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL Warsaw Aug 15, 1935 • 23.6* Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 25, 1952 • 23.4 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 25, 1952 • 23.2 Betty Cuthbert AUS Sydney Sep 16, 1956 • 23.2y Betty Cuthbert AUS Hobart Mar 07, 1960 • 22.9 Wilma Rudolph USA Corpus Christi Jul 09, 1960 • 22.9y Margaret Burvill AUS Perth Feb 22, 1964 • 22.7 Irena Kirszenstein POL Warsaw Aug 08, 1965   22.7* Irena Kirszenstein POL Chorzów Jul 01, 1967 • 22.5 Irena Szewinska-Kirszenstein POL Mexico City Oct 18, 1968 • 22.4 Chi Cheng TWN München Jul 12, 1970 • 22.4* Renate Stecher GDR München Sep 07, 1972   22.4* Renate Stecher GDR Leipzig Jul 01, 1973 • 22.1 Renate Stecher GDR Dresden Jul 21, 1973   22.0 Irena Szewinska POL Potsdam Jun 13, 1974 Electronic Timing   25.03 Sylvia Chesseman GBR Helsinki Jul 25, 1952   24.48 Nadezhda Khnykina URS Helsinki Jul 25, 1952   23.74 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 25, 1952   23.59 Marjorie Jackson AUS Helsinki Jul 25, 1952   23.55 Betty Cuthbert AUS Melbourne Nov 30, 1956   23.30 Wilma Rudolph USA Rome Sep 03, 1960   23.05 Edith McGuire USA Tokyo Oct 19, 1964   22.94 Barbara Ferrell USA Mexico City Oct 17, 1968   22.86 Barbara Ferrell USA Mexico City Oct 17, 1968 • 22.58 Irena Szewinska-Kirszenstein POL Mexico City Oct 18, 1968 • 22.40 Renate Stecher GDR München Sep 07, 1972   22.38 Renate Stecher GDR Dresden Jul 21, 1973 • 22.21 Irena Szewinska POL Potsdam Jun 13, 1974 • 22.06 Marita Koch GDR Erfurt May 28, 1978 • 22.02 Marita Koch GDR Leipzig Jun 03, 1979 • 21.71 Marita Koch GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt Jul 10, 1979 • 21.71* Marita Koch GDR Potsdam Jul 21, 1984 • 21.71* Heike Drechsler GDR Jena Jun 29, 1986 • 21.71* Heike Drechsler GDR Stuttgart Aug 28, 1986 • 21.56 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA Seoul Sep 29, 1988 • 21.34 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA Seoul Sep 29, 1988