Candace Hill (born February 11, 1999) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
 She currently attends Rockdale County High School in Conyers, Georgia.
 She became the world's first high school woman to break the 11-second barrier in the 100 meters sprint at the 2015 Brooks PR Invitational on 21 June 2015 in Shoreline, Washington, United States.
Watch the 100m race here Milesplit.
 June 21, 2015.
 Her mark, quickly ratified, is the world youth best, the terminology for world record among athletes before the year of their 18th birthday.
 She will remain eligible for that division through 2016.
 Since the mark was set outside of the sanctioned NFHS season, the mark is not eligible for the NFHS High School Record.
 Out of season marks like this are recognized by "Track and Field News" which has not yet published it as the National High School Record.
 Candace Hill is the first US high school female to run under 11.10 for 100 meters.
Modupe Oshikoya (born 2 May 1954) is a former female track and field athlete from Nigeria, who competed in the women's sprint and long jump events during her career.
 She is a one-time Olympian (1972), and also competed in the heptathlon.
 Oshikoya won a total number of five gold medals at the All-Africa Games (1973 and 1978).
 Oshikoya competed and won Gold for her University in the USA, UCLA in the 100 meters, the Long Jump, 100 meters hurdles and the hepthatlon at the NCAA championships in 1982.
Michelle Bonae Finn-Burrell (born May 8, 1965 in Orlando, Florida) is an American former sprint athlete from Orlando, Florida.
 She graduated from Oak Ridge High School in Orlando.
 She set the Florida State University record for the 100 meters which has lasted over 18 years into the 2006 season.
 She won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics as part of the 4 × 100 meters relay team (heats).
 She also reached the final of the 200 meters at the same event, finishing in seventh place.
 In 1993 Finn was a 100 and 200 m semi-finalist at the World Championships and took the bronze medal at the US national championships for the 200 m.
The first world record in the 100 metres sprint for women was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
 The FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1936.
 The current record is 10.49 seconds set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.
Kathy Bergen (born December 24, 1939) is an American Masters athletics track and field athlete.
 She is the current world record holder in the W70 100 meters and the high jump.
 She also holds the Indoor World records for the W65 high jump, the W70 60 meters, 200 meters and high jump.
 And she holds the American record for the W70 200 meters and the W65 high jump.
 She is the oldest woman to break the 15 second barrier in the 100 meters and to break 32 seconds in the 200 meters.
Helene "Leni" Junker (later Thymm; 8 December 1905 – 9 February 1997) was a German sprint runner who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
 She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m, but failed to reach the final of the individual 100 m event.
 Earlier in 1925 she set a world record in the 110 yards at 12.2 seconds.
Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30/31, 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints.
 He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events.
 He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
 In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220-yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships.
 In his full career as a sprinter, Tolan won 300 races and lost only 7.
David Holding (born 1968) is a British wheelchair athlete.
 Holding was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that affects the spinal cord, and has been in a wheelchair since childhood.
 An accountant by training, he competes as an amateur athlete in wheelchair races of all distances.
 He has won a number of races, but is most well known for being a four-time winner of the London Marathon and the former world record holder and a Paralympic Games gold medal winner in the 100 meter wheelchair race.
 He competed in four Summer Paralympic Games, from 1992 to 2004, in events ranging from the 100 meters to the marathon.
 In addition to his 1996 gold in the 100 meters, he also won two bronze medals: in the 200 meters in 1996 and in the 100 meters in 2000.
Jenna Prandini (born November 20, 1992) is an American track and field athlete, known for sprinting, but originally began her career doing jumping events.
 She is the 2015 National Champion at 200 meters.
 She preceded the National Championship completing her senior year at the University of Oregon winning the 100 meters at the 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
 The previous year she had won the long jump.
 She also was a runner up in the 200 meters both years, runner up in the long jump in 2015 and third place in the 100 meters in 2014.
 Jenna is 2nd female to win NCAA 100 meters & National Outdoor 200 meters in the same year (Merlene Ottey, 1982).
 Prandini qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics at 200 meters by placing third at the Olympic trials.
Willye Brown White (December 31, 1939 – February 6, 2007) was the first American track and field athlete to take part in five Olympics, from 1956 to 1972.
 She was America's best female long jumper of the time and also competed in the 100 meters sprint.
 White was a Tennessee State University Tigerbelle under Coach Ed Temple.

Question: What is the current record for the 100 meters sprint for women?
Answer: 10.49 seconds