EVENT		RECORD			HOLDER						DATE

	100 m		10.49 sec		Florence Griffith Joyner, US			July 16, 1988	 
 	200 m		21.34 sec		Florence Griffith Joyner, US			September 29, 1988	 
 	400 m		47.60 sec		Marita Koch, East Germany			October 6, 1985	 	
 	800 m		1 min, 53.28 sec	Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czechoslovakia		July 26, 1983	 
 	1,000 m		2 min, 28.98 sec	Svetlana Masterkova, Russia			August 23, 1996	 
 	1,500 m		3 min, 50.46 sec	Qu Yunxia, China				September 11, 1993	 
 	1 mile		4 min, 12.56 sec	Svetlana Masterkova, Russia			August 14, 1996	 
 	2,000 m		5 min, 25.36 sec	Sonia O'Sullivan, Ireland			July 9, 1994	 
 	3,000 m		8 min, 6.11 sec		Wang Junxia, China				September 13, 1993	 
 	5,000 m		14 min, 28.09 sec	Jiang Bo, China					October 23, 1997	 
 	10,000 m 	29 min, 31.78 sec	Wang Junxia, China				September 8, 1993	 
 	20,000 m 	1 hr, 6 min, 48.80 sec	Izumi Maki, Japan				September 20, 1993	 
 	25,000 m 	1 hr, 29 min, 29.20 sec	Karoline Szabo, Hungary				April 22, 1981	 
 	30,000 m 	1 hr, 47 min, 5.60 sec	Karoline Szabo, Hungary				April 22, 1981