World record progression 100 m women

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The first World Record in the 100 m for women (athletics (track and field)) was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922. The current record is 10.49 seconds set by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. This is one of the oldest and most controversial records in athletics. Doubts have often been expressed whether this time could have been achieved by a woman without the use of performance enhancing drugs, but there is no scientific evidence that Griffith Joyner used them.

Furthermore, during that meet every single event had been marred by excessive wind. Joyner's 100m WR run measured no wind (+/-0.0 m/s). Controversy over the legitimacy of the official wind gauge is still debated and many track and field statisticians disagree with the ratification of that result. Joyner had not run faster than 10.61s with a legal tailwind (+2.0 m/s) for the rest of the competitive season.

In 1989, another sprinter, Darrell Robinson, claimed that Griffith-Joyner had paid him to obtain human growth hormone. She denied this, calling him a "compulsive, crazy, lying lunatic." Given her premature death it is unlikely that certainty on the matter will ever be possible.

[edit] Manual timing

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Location	Date
12.8	Mary Lines	United Kingdom	Paris, France	August 20, 1922
12.7	Emmy Haux	Germany	Frankfurt, Germany	May 21, 1923
12.8	Marie Mejzlikova	Czech Republic	Prague, Czechoslovakia	May 13, 1923
12.4	Leni Schmidt	Germany	Leipzig, Germany	August 30, 1925
12.2	Leni Junker	Germany	Wiesbaden, Germany	September 13, 1925
12.4	Gundel Wittmann	Germany	Braunschweig, Germany	August 22, 1926
12.2	Leni Junker	Germany	Hanover, Germany	August 29, 1926
12.1	Gertrud Gladitsch	Germany	Stuttgart, Germany	July 3, 1927
12.2	Kinue Hitomi	Japan	Osaka, Japan	May 20, 1928
12.0	Betty Robinson	United States	Chicago, Illinois, United States	June 2, 1928
12.0	Myrtle Cook	Canada	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	July 2, 1928
12.0	Leni Junker	Germany	Magdeburg, Germany	August 1, 1931
12.0	Tollien Schuurman	Netherlands	Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 31, 1930
11.9	Tollien Schuurman	Netherlands	Haarlem, Netherlands	June 5, 1932
11.9	Hilda Strike	Canada	Los Angeles, United States	August 2, 1932
11.9	Käthe Krauss	Germany	London, England	August 11, 1934
11.9	Helen Stephens	United States	Fulton, United States	April 10, 1935
11.8	Helen Stephens	United States	Saint Louis, United States	June 1, 1935
11.6	Helen Stephens	United States	Kansas City, United States	June 8, 1935
11.5	Helen Stephens	United States	Dresden, Germany	August 10, 1936
11.5	Lulu Mae Hymes	United States	Tuskegee	May 6, 1939
11.5	Rowena Harrison	United States	Tuskegee	May 6, 1939
11.5	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	Amsterdam, Netherlands	September 5, 1943
11.5	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	Helsinki, Finland	July 22, 1952
11.4	Marjorie Jackson	Australia	Gifu, Japan	October 4, 1952
11.3	Shirley Strickland	Australia	Warsaw, Poland	August 4, 1955
11.3	Vera Krepkina	Soviet Union	Kiev, Soviet Union	September 13, 1958
11.3	Wilma Rudolph	United States	Rome, Italy	September 2, 1960
11.2	Wilma Rudolph	United States	Stuttgart, West Germany	July 19, 1961
11.2	Wyomia Tyus	United States	Tokyo, Japan	April 15, 1964
11.1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	Prague, Czechoslovakia	July 9, 1965
11.1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	Kiev, Soviet Union	July 31, 1965
11.1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	Santa Barbara, United States	July 2, 1967
11.1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	Mexico City, Mexico	April 21, 1968
11.1	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	Leninakan, Soviet Union	August 15, 1968
11.1	Margaret Bailes	United States	Aurora, Philippines	August 18, 1968
11.1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
11.1	Irena Szewinska	Poland	Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
11.0	Wyomia Tyus	United States	Mexico City, Mexico	October 15, 1968
11.0	Chi Cheng	Chinese Taipei	Vienna, Austria	July 18, 1970
11.0	Renate Meissner	East Germany	Berlin, East Germany	August 2, 1970
11.0	Ellen Strophal	East Germany	Potsdam, East Germany	June 15, 1972
11.0	Eva Gleskova	Czech Republic	Budapest, Hungary	July 1, 1972
10.9	Renate Stecher	East Germany	Leipzig, East Germany	June 30, 1973

[edit] Electronic timing

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Location	Date
11.07	Renate Stecher	East Germany	Munich, West Germany	September 2, 1972
11.04	Inge Helten	West Germany	Fürth, West Germany	June 13, 1976
11.01	Annegret Richter	West Germany	Montreal, Canada	July 25, 1976
10.88	Marlies Oelsner	East Germany	Dresden, East Germany	July 1, 1977
10.88	Marlies Göhr	East Germany	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany	July 9, 1982
10.87	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	Leningrad, Soviet Union	June 3, 1980
10.81	Marlies Göhr	East Germany	Berlin, East Germany	June 8, 1983
10.79	Evelyn Ashford	United States	US Air Force Academy, United States	July 3, 1983
10.76	Evelyn Ashford	United States	Zürich, Switzerland	August 22, 1984
10.49	Florence Griffith Joyner	United States	Indianapolis, United States	July 16, 1988

[edit] See also

• World Record progression 100 m men
• Sprints