Womens World Track Records

eagle eye

I just decided to put these up, just the regular events. Its so sad really. The highlighted ones are all ahem! long standing ones. Will anybody ever break these records. If we go through some of them. We have Marion Jones who has been convicted of using performance enhancing drugs and she could not get near the 100m or 200m records. We have had some exceptional athletes at 400m and if they break 49 seconds its a really big deal nowadays. We have a young kenyan girl running 800m called Pamela Jalemo who destroyed all around her in the Olympic final with a time of 1.54.87. Over the last 6 years Carolina Kluft has been the best heptathlete in the world but her best ever performance is some 259 points less than the world record. So just for you perusal and to let people know that its clear that the sport is a lot cleaner today than it was many years ago, either that or women athletes have fallen way behind the times even with all the improvements in training, diet etc.


100 10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner (US) Indianapolis, Indiana 7/16/88
200 21.34 Florence Griffith Joyner (US) Seoul, South Korea 9/29/88
400 47.60 Marita Koch (East Germany) Canberra, Australia 10/06/85
800 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvílová (Czechoslovakia) Munich, Germany 7/26/83
1500 3:50.46 Yunxia Qu (China) Beijing, China 9/11/93
Steeplechase 9:01.59 Gulnara Samitova (Russia) Tula, Russia 8/10/03
3000 8:06.11 Junxia Wang (China) Beijing, China 9/13/93
5000 14:11.15p Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) Oslo, Norway 6/06/08
10,000 29:31.78 Junxia Wang (China) Beijing, China 9/08/93
Marathon 2:15:25 Paula Radcliffe (Great Britain) London, England 4/13/03
100 Hurdles 12.21 Yordanka Donkova (Bulgaria) Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 8/20/88
400 Hurdles 52.34 Yuliya Pechonkina (Russia) Tula, Russia 8/08/03
Relay Events
4 x 100 41.37 East Germany Canberra, Australia 10/06/85
(Silke Möller, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr)

4 x 400 3:15.17 Soviet Union Seoul, South Korea 10/01/88
(Tatyana Ledovskaya 50.12, Olga Nazarova 47.82, Maria Pinigina 49.43, Olga Bryzgina 47.80)

Heptathlon 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) Seoul, South Korea 9/23-24/88

Joeface

I have watched the Flo-Jo 100m WR on you tube,very much like bolts , no one anywhere near her. It is strange that no one has ever come near it , Considering things like Ben Johnsons time was it 9.86 and doped up has been surpassed by clean athelitics and was at one time consider almost impossible to repeat.And as u said the fallen Marion Jones got no where near Flo's time.
and this years results

FRASER Shelly-Ann JamaicaJamaica Dec 27 1986 4 0.190 10.78 PB

0.29 is along way out.

titan18

You never know with the Russians.Dibaba and Radcliffe are the only athletes there that I think are clean

shels4ever

titan18 wrote: »

You never know with the Russians.Dibaba and Radcliffe are the only athletes there that I think are clean

what makes you say that, if someone has tested positive then all world records should be take away, until then i dont see the point in this.

robinph

Bit Radcliffes times are significantly faster than anyone esle has ever managed and until last weekend I think that the time in every marathon she had ever finished was up in the fastest ten womens times ever. Not suggesting that she isn't clean, or that some of the ones from the '80's are clean, but if it's based on how close anyone else can get to you then she'd be questionable as well surely?

shels4ever

And what aout the irish 1500m record, with the top class guys we have had it has stood for such a long time...

ZiggyStardust

shels4ever wrote: »

And what aout the irish 1500m record, with the top class guys we have had it has stood for such a long time...

Disagree,
Ray Flynn broke that record on his way to breaking the Irish mile record in Oslo.
At the time Ireland had some of the best milers in the world. Coghlan, Flynn and O'Sullivan.
We haven't had milers of that quality since or even close. James Nolan? No. Think it's too short for Cragg. Maybe was too long for Matthesws.

record looks likely to stand for another few years unless Chamney moves up and develops or Costello and D'arcy come along.

shels4ever

Thats my point, just because a record has stood doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it, That is a great record and will take some beating and i can see it still been there in 5 years time.

Joeface

not sure if this is still right

4x1500 m

West Germany

August 17 1977

longest standing world record.

thirtyfoot

Joeface wrote: »

not sure if this is still right

4x1500 m

West Germany

August 17 1977

longest standing world record.

Nobody bothers with it which is way it still stands. I remember being in Belfield in '84 or '85 and the irish boys broke the 4 x 1 mile record at the time.

robinph

4x1500m has probably never been raced since 1977 though so doesn't really count.

Dodge

Tingle wrote: »

Nobody bothers with it which is way it still stands. I remember being in Belfield in '84 or '85 and the irish boys broke the 4 x 1 mile record at the time.

Funnily enough iw as just talking about that the other day. I was there too.

if you look at the events with newer records they're all "newer" events. 5,000m only became a championship event in 95/96, steeplechase is even newer.

Also a lot of the marathon records are in mixed events. The world best for women only is a truer record, adn there's only 1/2 of thema year

ZiggyStardust

Who was on the team? Flynn, O'Mara, Coghlan and O'Sullivan? Does ot still stand?

thirtyfoot

ZiggyStardust wrote: »

Who was on the team? Flynn, O'Mara, Coghlan and O'Sullivan? Does ot still stand?

Seems to be. I was a kid and our relay team won that day with 3 relay changes a lot slicker than the Jamaicans in the 4 x 100 today!

My old favourite is still Belfield, now badly worn but also a world-record track. It's just hard to believe it's 23 years since John O'Shea of GOAL had the idea of staging a world four-mile relay attempt with his dream team of Coghlan, Ray Flynn, Marcus O'Sullivan and Frank O'Mara.

Coghlan was badly out of shape but still did his bit, and anchored by Flynn, the team clocked a world record 15:49.08. The record still stands, and one of the few pictures Flynn has on the wall of his athletics agency office in Tennessee is of that team.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0712/1215787862623.html

eagle eye

I nearly choked on my coffee when Tony O'Donohoe described the reason for the 4x100m world record standing so long being because of the amount of practice done on baton changes.

ZiggyStardust

Tingle wrote: »

Seems to be. I was a kid and our relay team won that day with 3 relay changes a lot slicker than the Jamaicans in the 4 x 100 today!

My old favourite is still Belfield, now badly worn but also a world-record track. It's just hard to believe it's 23 years since John O'Shea of GOAL had the idea of staging a world four-mile relay attempt with his dream team of Coghlan, Ray Flynn, Marcus O'Sullivan and Frank O'Mara.

Coghlan was badly out of shape but still did his bit, and anchored by Flynn, the team clocked a world record 15:49.08. The record still stands, and one of the few pictures Flynn has on the wall of his athletics agency office in Tennessee is of that team.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0712/1215787862623.html

Thanks
Just as you mention John O'Shea there I remember there is a picture of this in Coghlan's book. Haven't read it yet though.