women's track history

Here I go again
My women's all top top ten

100- 1.Florence Griffith Joyner 2.Marlies Gohr 3.Evelyn Ashford 4.Wyomia Tyus 5.Gail Devers 6.Marion Jones 7.Renate Stecher 8.Wilma Rudolph 9.Marjorie Jackson 10.Elizabeth Robinson
200- 1.Marita Koch 2.Irenea Szewinska 3.Merlene Ottey 4.Florence Griffith-Joyner 5.Barbel Eckert
6.Betty Cuthbert 7.Gwen Torrence 8.Marion Jones 9.Renate Stecher 10,Fannie Blankers-Koen
400- 1.Marita Koch 2.Irenea Szewinska 3.Marie Josie Perec 4.Cathey Freeman 5.Jarmila Kratchovilova 6.Maria Itkina 7.Olga Bryzgina 8.Sim Kim Dan 9.Monika Zehert 10.Colette Beeson
800- 1.Nadyezhda Olizaryenko 2.MarieMutola 3.Jarmila Kratchovilova 4.Anna Quirot 5.Hildegard
Falck 6.Nina Otkalenko 7.Sim Kim Dan 8.Sigun Wodars 9.Lyudmila Shevtsova 10.Yedokiya Vasilyeva
1500- 1.Tatyane Kazankina 2.Lyudmila Bragaina 3.
Tatyane Samolenko 4.Qu Junxia 5.Gunhild Hoff-
Meister 6.Doina Melinte 7.Sveltlana Masterkova 8.
Karen Burnliet 9.Mary Decker Slaey 10.Hassiba
Boulmerka
3000- 1.Lyudmila Bragina 2.Tatyana Kazankina 3.
Tatyane Samolenko 4.Wang Junxia 5.Grete Waitz
6.Mary Decker-Slaney 7.Svetlana Ulmsaova 8.Maricia Puica 9.Zhang Linli 10.Gabriela Szabo
5000- 1.Gabriela Szabo 2.Ingrid Kristiansen 3.Wang Junxia 4.Sonia O'Sullian 5.Fernanda Ribeiro 6.Zola Budd
10,000- 1.Ingrid Kristiansen 2.Wang Junxia 3.Olga
Bondarenko 4.Deragtu Tulu 5.Gete Wami 6.Fernanda
Ribeiro 7.Zhung Huandi 8.Liz McCoglan 9.Mary Decker-Slaney 10.Sally Barsosio
Marathon- 1.Paula Radcliffe 2.Grete Waitz 3.Joan
Beniot 4.Ingrid Kristiansen 5.Rosa Mota 6.Jac-
queline Hansen 7.Catherine Ndereba 8.Telga Leroupe 9.Wanda Panfil 10.Naoko Takahashi
Walks- 1.Irina Stankina 2.Yelona Nikolayeva 3.Nilsson 4.Olsson 5.Johansson 6.Simu 7.Ghen Yueling 9.Oilmpiada Ivanova 10.Sari Essayah
110 Hurdles- 1.Gail Devers 2.Yodanda Donkova 3.
Shirley de le Hunty 4.Karen Balzer 5.Anneliese
Erhardt 6.Irina Press 7.Johanna Klier 8.Fanny
Blankers-Koen 9.Mildred Didriksen 10.Ludmila
Engqvist
400 Hurdles- 1.Sally Gunnell 2.Tatyane Ledovskaya
3.Kim Batten 4.Nezha Bidouane 5.Deon Hemmings
6.Sandra Farmer-Patrick 7.Karin Rossley 8.Tatyana
Zelentsova 9.Sabrine Busch 10.Marina Sepanova
High Jump- 1.Stefka Kostadinova 2.Iolanda Balas
3.Rosemarie Ackermann 4.Ulrike Meyfarth 5.Sara
Simeoni 6.Tamara Bykova 7.Dorothy Odom-Tyler
8.Jean Shiley 9.Mildred Didriksen 10.Louise Ritter
Pole Vault- 1.Stacy Dragila 2.Svetlana Feofanova
3.Emma George 4.Caiyun Sun 5.Chunhon Zhang 6.Tatiana Grigorieva
Long Jump- 1.Heike Drechsler 2.Elzbieta Krzesinka
3.Jackie Joyner-Kersee 4.Tatyane Shchelkanova 5.
Mary Rand 6.Anisoara Cusmir 7.Yvette Williams 8.
Angel voigt 9.Fiona May 10.Vilma Bardauskiene
Triple Jump- 1.Inessa Kravets 2.Anna Biryukova
3.Tatyana Lebedeva 4.Iva Prandzheva 5.Galina
Chistyakova 6.Tereza Marinova 7.Sarka Kasparkova
8.Huiring Li 9.Paraskevi Tsiamita 10.Ashia Hansen
Shot Put- 1.Nazezhda Chizova 2.Tamara Press 3.Galina Zybina 4.Natalya Lisovskaya 5.Ilona
Slupianek 6.Helene Fibingerova 7.Margitta Gummell
8.Astrid Kumbermuss 9.Giesla Mauermayer 10,Huang
Zhihong
Discus Throw- 1.Faina Melenik 2.Tamara Press 3.
Nina Dumbadze 4.Evelin Jahl 5.Liesel Westermann
6.Lillian Copeland 7.Ellina Zverava 8.Gisla
Mauermayer 9.Nina Ponomaryova 10.Martina Hellmann
Hammer Throw- 1.Olga Kuzenkova 2.Mihaela Melinte
3.Kamila Skoilmowska 4.Sveltana Sudak 5.Lyudmila
Gubkina 6.Lisa Misipeka
Javelin Throw- 1.Ruth Fuchs 2.Petre Felke 3.Elvira Ozolina 4.Trine Hattestad 5.Dana Zatopkova 6.Mihaela Penes 7.Fatima Whitbread 8.
Mireia Tzelli 9.Mildred Didriksen 10.Herma
Bauma
Penth/Hepth- 1.Jackie Joyner-Kersee 2.Irina Press
3.Ramona Neubert 4.Burglinde Pollak 5.Giesla
Mauermayer 6.Ghada Shousaa 7.Siegrun Siegl 8.
Nadezhda Tkachenko 9.Mary Peters 10.Alexandra
Chudina

[parkerclay]

Re: women's track history

FloJo cannot be #1!! Even if you believe that she was clean, she only had one good year. Now her season in 1988 was remarkable but you can't put her #1 based on a single season!!

Re: women's track history

Sure Flo-Jo is #1... when you run THAT much faster than anyone else in history,before or since, then the choice is clear. Maybe she wasn't clean, but how many others on the list should we discount on that basis? Heck, Iolanda Balas maybe wasn't even a woman! Flo-Jo has to be the best.

Re: women's track history

Re: Balas. I'm sure that the late Ion Soter, Balas' husband for more than 20 years (and prior to that her coach) would have something appropriate to say about jhc68's absurd speculation.

[jsquire]

Re: women's track history

IF you think like T&FN's world rankings committee (and that's a big if) then you can't rank Flojo #1 in the 100. They say time and time again that one race does not make a whole season, no matter how good it was. In a career mindset, then, one season does not make a whole career. Of course, if you're looking at how dominant someone was at their peak, it's hard to top Flojo.

You missed someone in the 100 -- Helen Stephens. She had an undefeated career. She never lost to Stella Walsh, and that's a "woman" we know for sure wasn't a woman.