Modern Women's World Records vs. Historical Men's World Records

Unable to find a webpage that had all this material easily available, I decided to make one.

The table below contains track & field world record information taken from Wikipedia. On the left is the current women's world record. On the right is the first historical men's world record that surpassed today's best female performance. (The list is limited to those events that have a world record progression page on Wikipedia.)

Current Women's Record		Historical Men's Record
100m Florence Griffith Joyner 10.49	1988	Charlie Paddock 10.4	1921
4 x 100m East Germany 41.37	1985	United States 41.0	1924
800m Jarmila Kratochvílová 1:53.28	1983	Ted Meredith 1:51.9	1912*
1500m Qu Yunxia 3:50.46	1993	Jules Ladoumegue 3:49.2	1930
1 Mile Svetlana Masterkova 4:12.56	1996	Paavo Nurmi 4:10.4	1923
3000m Wang Junxia 8:06:11	1993	Gunder Hägg 8:01.2	1942
5000m Tirunesh Dibaba 14:11.15	2008	Taisto Maki 14:08.8	1939
10000m Wang Junxia 29:31.78	1993	Emil Zátopek 29:28.2	1949
Marathon Paula Radcliffe 2:15:25	2003	Sergey Popov 2:15:17	1958
High Jump Stefka Kostadinova 2.09m	1987	Lester Steers 2.10m	1941
Long Jump Galina Chistyakova 7.52m	1988	Peter O'Connor 7.61m	1901*
Triple Jump Inessa Kravets 15.50m	1995	Daniel Ahearn 15.52m	1911
Pole Vault Yelena Isinbayeva 5.01m	2005	John Pennel 5.05m	1963

* There is no men's record on the Wikipedia world record progression page that would be defeated by today's female world record holder. The entry listed is the first world record recognized in the world record progression page.

Subsequently:
Modern Women's World Records vs. Historical Men's World Records — Part II


See Also:
Michael Phelps v. Mark Spitz (comparing Spitz's performance against today's female records)