KOBE, Japan, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese para-athlete Wen Xiaoyan set a new world record by winning the women's 100m T37 final at the Para Athletics World Championships on Tuesday. The 27-year-old sprinter crossed the finish line in 12.27 seconds at the Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kob...
The race for Flo-Jo's 100m world record: Can Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson or Sha'Carri Richardson make history in 2023? Three-and-a-half decades after the women's 100m world record was set, could this be the year it is finally broken? Olympics.com looks at the main c...
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PARIS -- The United States set a new world record as they claimed their eighth swimming gold medal of the Paris Games by winning the women's 4x100m medley relay final on Sunday. The US team of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske clocked three minutes 49.63 seconds, ...
BUDAPEST, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse shattered women's 100m backstroke world record at 58.10 seconds en route to her victory at the 17th FINA World Championships here on Tuesday. The previous record of 58.12 seconds was set by Gemma Spofforth of Britain in Rome in ...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the five-time world champion in the women’s 100m and leads the Jamaican team of four but how about US star Sha'Carri Richardson?. Find out who the favourites are for women’s 100m title, event schedule, and ...
The short course world record in the 100m freestyle for women is held by Libby Trickett of Australia, who has broke the record three times in a 4 year period. Currently the mark is 51.01 which Trickett swam at the Australian Short Course Championships in Hobart, Australia in the summer of...
Kaylee McKeown, right, reacts with Minna Atherton after setting a new World Record in the Women's 100m Backstroke Final at the Australian Swimming Trials for Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games qualification, at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (Dave...
Gretchen Walsh lowered her own world record during the women’s 100m individual medley semifinal at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest, Hungary with a time of 55.71 seconds. Highlights More Highlights Clips HIGHLIGHTS0:47 CONCACAF Yriarte's head...
Women's World Record ProgressionThe women's 100m World Record has had this evolution (the more recent records are listed first).Time (seconds)AthleteNationalityDate 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner USA July 16, 1988 10.76 Evelyn Ashford USA August 22, 1984 10.79 Evelyn Ashford USA July 3, 1983 ...