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 50 →

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Each step is a documented record; red marks the fully automatic timing era; hollow marks were rescinded, not ratified or are pending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
10.54	+0.9	Elaine Thompson-Herah Not ratified	JAM	Eugene, United States	21 Aug 2021
10.61	−0.6	Elaine Thompson-Herah Not ratified	JAM	Tokyo, Japan	31 Jul 2021
10.61	+1.2	Florence Griffith Joyner Not ratified	USA	Indianapolis, United States	17 Jul 1988
10.70	+1.6	Florence Griffith Joyner Not ratified	USA	Indianapolis, United States	17 Jul 1988
10.49	±0.0	Florence Griffith Joyner	USA	Indianapolis, United States	16 Jul 1988	38 yrs
10.76	+1.7	Evelyn Ashford	USA	Zürich, Switzerland	22 Aug 1984	3 yrs
10.79	+0.6	Evelyn Ashford	USA	US Air Force Academy, United States	3 Jul 1983	1 yr
10.81	+1.7	Marlies Göhr	GDR	Berlin, East Germany	8 Jun 1983	25 d
10.88	+1.9	Marlies Göhr	GDR	Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany	9 Jul 1982	334 d
10.88	+2.0	Marlies Göhr	GDR	Dresden, East Germany	1 Jul 1977	5 yrs
11.01	+0.6	Annegret Richter	FRG	Montreal, Canada	25 Jul 1976	341 d
11.04	+0.6	Inge Helten	FRG	Fürth, West Germany	13 Jun 1976	42 d
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
11.07	+0.2	Renate Stecher	GDR	Munich, West Germany	2 Sep 1972	278 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
11.07	+1.2	Wyomia Tyus	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	15 Oct 1968	1 yr
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
11.2	+0.7	Wilma Rudolph	USA	Stuttgart, West Germany	19 Jul 1961	3 yrs
11.3	+0.8	Wilma Rudolph	USA	Rome, Italy	2 Sep 1960	320 d
11.3	+1.4	Vera Krepkina	URS	Kyiv, Soviet Union	13 Sep 1958	1 yr
11.3	+1.4	Shirley Strickland	AUS	Warsaw, Poland	4 Aug 1955	3 yrs
11.4	+1.7	Marjorie Jackson	AUS	Gifu, Japan	4 Oct 1952	2 yrs
11.5	+1.7	Marjorie Jackson	AUS	Helsinki, Finland	22 Jul 1952	74 d
11.5		Fanny Blankers-Koen	NED	Amsterdam, Netherlands	13 Jun 1948	4 yrs
11.5		Fanny Blankers-Koen Not ratified	NED	Amsterdam, Netherlands	5 Sep 1943
11.5		Rowena Harrison Not ratified	USA	Tuskegee	6 May 1939
11.5		Lulu Mae Hymes Not ratified	USA	Tuskegee	6 May 1939
11.6		Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	Berlin, Germany	1 Aug 1937	10 yrs
11.5		Helen Stephens Not ratified	USA	Dresden, Germany	10 Aug 1936
11.6		Helen Stephens	USA	Kansas City, United States	8 Jun 1935	2 yrs
11.8		Helen Stephens Not ratified	USA	Saint Louis, United States	1 Jun 1935
11.9		Helen Stephens Not ratified	USA	Fulton, United States	10 Apr 1935
11.7		Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	Warsaw, Poland	26 Aug 1934	286 d
11.9		Käthe Krauß Not ratified	GER	London, England	11 Aug 1934
11.8		Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	Poznań, Poland	17 Sep 1933	343 d
11.9		Hilda Strike Not ratified	CAN	Los Angeles, United States	2 Aug 1932
11.9		Stanisława Walasiewicz	POL	Los Angeles, United States	1 Aug 1932	1 yr
11.9		Tollien Schuurman	NED	Haarlem, Netherlands	5 Jun 1932	57 d
12.0		Leni Junker Not ratified	GER	Magdeburg, Germany	1 Aug 1931
12.0		Tollien Schuurman	NED	Amsterdam, Netherlands	31 Aug 1930	1 yr
12.0		Myrtle Cook	CAN	Halifax, Canada	2 Jul 1928	2 yrs
12.0		Betty Robinson Not ratified	USA	Chicago, Illinois, United States	2 Jun 1928
12.2		Kinue Hitomi	JPN	Osaka, Japan	20 May 1928	43 d
12.1		Gertrud Gladitsch Not ratified	GER	Stuttgart, Germany	3 Jul 1927
12.2		Leni Junker Not ratified	GER	Hanover, Germany	29 Aug 1926
12.4		Gundel Wittmann	GER	Braunschweig, Germany	22 Aug 1926	1 yr
12.2		Leni Junker Not ratified	GER	Wiesbaden, Germany	13 Sep 1925
12.4		Leni Schmidt Not ratified	GER	Leipzig, Germany	30 Aug 1925
12.7		Emmi Haux Not ratified	GER	Frankfurt, Germany	21 May 1923
12.8		Marie Mejzlíková Not ratified	TCH	Prague, Czechoslovakia	13 May 1923
12.8		Mary Lines	GBR	Paris, France	20 Aug 1922	4 yrs
13.6		Marie Mejzlíková	TCH	Prague, Czechoslovakia	5 Aug 1922	15 d

Rows link to a profile only where the athlete appears on a published list. Struck marks were rescinded or never ratified, and ^A marks a performance at altitude; both come from the source article's own key and markers, and eras are kept as it lists them. Nothing is inferred.