List of Olympic records in athletics
Women's records

List of Olympic records in athletics

Section Title: Women's records
Table Section Text: None

Event	Record	Athlete(s)	Nation	Games	Date	Ref(s)

100 metres	10.62	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States (USA)	1988 Seoul	September 24, 1988

200 metres	♦21.34	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States (USA)	1988 Seoul	September 29, 1988

400 metres	48.25	Marie-José Pérec	France (FRA)	1996 Atlanta	July 29, 1996

800 metres	1:53.43	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union (URS)	1980 Moscow	July 27, 1980

1,500 metres	3:53.96	Paula Ivan	Romania (ROU)	1988 Seoul	September 26, 1988

5,000 metres	14:26.17	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya (KEN)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 19, 2016

10,000 metres	♦29:17.45	Almaz Ayana	Ethiopia (ETH)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 12, 2016

Marathon	2:23:07	Tiki Gelana	Ethiopia (ETH)	2012 London	August 5, 2012

100 metres hurdles	12.35	Sally Pearson	Australia (AUS)	2012 London	August 7, 2012

400 metres hurdles	52.64	Melaine Walker	Jamaica (JAM)	2008 Beijing	August 20, 2008

3,000 m steeplechase	8:58.81	Gulnara Galkina-Samitova	Russia (RUS)	2008 Beijing	August 17, 2008

4×100 m relay	♦40.82	Tianna Madison Allyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter	United States (USA)	2012 London	August 10, 2012

4×400 m relay	♦3:15.17	Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olga Bryzgina	Soviet Union (URS)	1988 Seoul	October 1, 1988

20 km walk	1:25:02	Elena Lashmanova	Russia (RUS)	2012 London	August 11, 2012

High jump	2.06 m	Yelena Slesarenko	Russia (RUS)	2004 Athens	August 28, 2004

Long jump	7.40 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States (USA)	1988 Seoul	September 29, 1988

Pole vault	5.05 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia (RUS)	2008 Beijing	August 18, 2008

Triple jump	15.39 m	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon (CMR)	2008 Beijing	August 17, 2008

Shot put	22.41 m	Ilona Slupianek	East Germany (GDR)	1980 Moscow	July 24, 1980

Discus throw	72.30 m	Martina Hellmann	East Germany (GDR)	1988 Seoul	September 29, 1988

Hammer throw	82.29 m	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland (POL)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 15, 2016

Javelin throw	71.53 m	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba (CUB)	2004 Athens	August 27, 2004

Heptathlon	♦7291 pts	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States (USA)	1988 Seoul	September 24, 1988

Sentence(s)

At the London 2012 Olympics marathon Tiki Gelana had an Olympic record with a time of 2:23:07 hours.

final_sentence: At the London 2012 Olympics marathon Tiki Gelana had an Olympic record with a time of 2:23:07 hours.