| Landmarks |
First official world record:
46.74 Nan Gindele USA 1932
First over 50m: 50.32 Klavdiya Mayuchaya URS 1947
First over 60m: 61.38 Elvira Ozolina URS 1964
First over 70m: 70.08 Tatyana Biryulina URS 1980
First over 75m: 75.26 Petra Felke GDR 1985
First over 80m: 80.00 Petra Felke 1988Most
competitions over 75m: Petra Felke 13
With new specification javelin:
Inaugural world record: 67.09 Mirela Tzelili GRE 1999
Current world record: 69.48 Trine Hattestad NOR 2000 |
| Superlatives |
Most Olympic
titles: 2 Ruth Fuchs GDR 1972/1976
Most World titles: 2 Trine Hattestad 1993/1997
Youngest Olympic/World champion: Mihaela Penes ROM 1964 (17) Oldest: Herma Bauma AUT 1948
(33) |
| Three all time greats
|
 Ruth Fuchs (GDR): The only two-time
Olympic champion, she took the event to a new level with six world records, culminating in
a somewhat frustrating 69.96m in 1980. |
 Petra Felke (GDR): Her world
record distance of exactly 80m in 1988, prior to winning the Olympic title, was never
approached and will never now be surpassed as records with the old javelin were scrapped
in 1999. |
Trine Hattestad (NOR): The bouncy Norwegian, the only woman to have collected two
world javelin titles, reached 72.12m with the old model in 1993 and holds the current
world record with 69.48m. |
