Women · World record

100 Metres

The current record and its documented progression: 45 ratified records from 1922 to 1988, with 24 not ratified shown in place.

Current recordRatified

10.490.0

Florence Griffith Joyner USAIndianapolis · 16 Jul 1988

38 years standing0.27 s improvementAll-time top 25 →

Record progression

Each step is a documented record; red marks the fully automatic timing era; hollow marks were rescinded, not ratified or are pending

10.4913.60

19221933 · Walasiewicz 11.81961 · Rudolph 11.21972 · Glesková 11.02021 · Thompson-Herah 10.54

Documented records

45 ratified · 24 not ratified · most recent first · Wikipedia (EN) revision 1370156405, imported 2 Sep 2026

Mark	Wind	Athlete	Nation	Venue	Date	Stood
10.8	+1.8	Renate Stecher	GDR	Dresden, East Germany	20 Jul 1973	2 yrs
10.9		Renate Stecher Not ratified	GDR	Leipzig, East Germany	30 Jun 1973
10.9	+1.9	Renate Stecher	GDR	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	7 Jun 1973	43 d
11.0	+1.4	Eva Glesková	TCH	Budapest, Hungary	1 Jul 1972	63 d
11.0	+1.9	Ellen Strophal	GDR	Potsdam, East Germany	15 Jun 1972	16 d
11.0	−1.5	Renate Stecher	GDR	Potsdam, East Germany	3 Jun 1972	12 d
11.0	+1.7	Renate Stecher	GDR	Berlin, East Germany	31 Jul 1971	308 d
11.0	+1.9	Renate Meißner	GDR	Berlin, East Germany	2 Aug 1970	363 d
11.0	+1.9	Chi Cheng	TPE	Vienna, Austria	18 Jul 1970	15 d
11.0	+1.2	Wyomia Tyus	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	15 Oct 1968	0 d
11.1	+1.8	Irena Szewińska	POL	Mexico City, Mexico	14 Oct 1968	1 d
11.1		Barbara Ferrell Not ratified	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	14 Oct 1968
11.1		Margaret Bailes Not ratified	USA	Aurora, Philippines	18 Aug 1968
11.1	±0.0	Lyudmila Samotyosova	URS	Leninakan, Soviet Union	15 Aug 1968	60 d
11.1		Wyomia Tyus Not ratified	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	21 Apr 1968
11.1	+0.3	Barbara Ferrell	USA	Santa Barbara, United States	2 Jul 1967	1 yr
11.1	+0.2	Wyomia Tyus	USA	Kyiv, Soviet Union	31 Jul 1965	1 yr
11.1	+2.0	Irena Kirszenstein	POL	Prague, Czechoslovakia	9 Jul 1965	22 d
11.1	+2.0	Ewa KłobukowskaEwa Kłobukowska ran 11.1 to set a new world record along with teammate Irena Kirszenstein. But she was disqualified from competition in 1967 owing to a chromosome defect, and her world record was rescinded in 1970.	POL	Prague, Czechoslovakia	9 Jul 1965	0 d
11.2	+0.2	Wyomia Tyus	USA	Tokyo, Japan	15 Oct 1964	267 d

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