| World women's all-time best discus |
| 1 | 76.80 | Gabriele Reinsch | GDR | 630923 | 1 | Neubrandenburg | 880709 |
| 2 | 74.56 | Zdenka [Bartonova] Silhava ¶ | CS | 540615 | 1 | Nitra | 840826 |
| 3 | 74.56 | Ilke Wyludda | GDR | 690328 | 1 | Neubrandenburg | 890723 |
| 4 | 74.08 | Diana [Sachse] Gansky | GDR | 631214 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 870620 |
| 5 | 73.84 | Daniela Costian ¶ | ROM | 650430 | 1 | Bucuresti | 880430 |
| 6 | 73.36 | Irina Meszynski | GDR | 620324 | 1 | Praha | 840817 |
| 7 | 73.28 | Galina [Yermakova] Savinkova | URS | 530715 | 1 | Donyetsk | 840908 |
| 8 | 73.22 | Tsvetanka Khristova ¶ | BUL | 620314 | 1 | Kazanluk | 870419 |
| 9 | 73.10 | Gisela [Reissmüller] Beyer | GDR | 600716 | 1 | East Berlin | 840720 |
| 10 | 72.92 | Martina [Opitz] Hellman | GDR | 601212 | 1 | Potsdam | 870820 |
| 11 | 72.14 | Galina Murashova | URS | 551222 | 2 | Praha | 840817 |
| 12 | 71.80 | Maria [Petkova] Vergova | BUL | 501103 | 1 | Sofia | 800713 |
| 13 | 71.68 | Xiao Yanling | CHN | 680327 | 1 | Beijing | 920314 |
| 14 | 71.58 | Ellina [Kisheyeva] Zvereva ¶ | URS | 601116 | 1 | Leningrad | 880612 |
| 15 | 71.50 | Evelin [Jahl] Schlaak-Jahl | GDR | 560328 | 1 | Potsdam | 800510 |
| 16 | 71.30 | Larisa Korotkevich | RUS | 670103 | 1 | Sochi | 920529 |
| 17 | 71.22 | Ria Stalman | NED | 521211 | 1 | Walnut, Ca | 840715 |
| 18 | 70.88 | Hilda Elisa Ramos ¶ | CUB | 640901 | 1 | La Habana | 920508 |
| 19 | 70.80 | Larisa Mikhalchenko | URS | 630216 | 1 | Kharkov | 880618 |
| 20 | 70.68 | Maritza Marten | CUB | 630816 | 1 | Sevilla | 920718 |
| 21 | 70.50 | Faina [Melnik] Veleva | URS | 450709 | 1 | Sochi | 760424 |
| 22 | 70.34 | Silvia Madetzky | GDR | 620624 | 3 | Athína | 880516 |
| 23 | 70.02 | Natalya Sadova | RUS | 720615 | 1 | Thessaloniki | 990623 |
| 24 | 69.86 | Valentina [Styepanenko, Zolotykh] Kharchenko | URS | 49 | 1 | Fyodosiya | 810516 |
| 25 | 69.72 | Svetla [Mitkova] Sinirtas | BUL | 640617 | 2 | Sofia | 870815 |
| 26 | 69.68 | Mette Bergmann | NOR | 621109 | 1 | Florö, NOR | 950527 |
| 27 | 69.51 | Franka Dietzsch | GER | 680122 | 1 | Wiesbaden | 990508 |
| 28 | 69.50 | Florenta [Tacu, Ionescu] Craciunescu | ROM | 550507 | 1 | Stara Zagora | 850802 |
| 29 | 69.08 | Carmen Romero | CUB | 501006 | 1 | La Habana | 760417 |
| 30 | 69.08 | Mariana [Ionescu] Lengyel | ROM | 530414 | 1 | Constanta | 860419 |
| 31 | 68.94 | Irina Yatchenko | BLR | 651031 | 1 | Nice | 920715 |
| 32 | 68.92 | Sabine Engel | GDR | 540421 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 770625 |
| 33 | 68.80 | Nicoleta [Gradinaru] Grasu | ROM | 710911 | 1 | Poiana Brasov | 990807 |
| 34 | 68.64 | Margitta [Ludewig, Droese] Pufe | GDR | 520910 | 1 | West Berlin | 790817 |
| 35 | 68.62 | Yu Hourun | CHN | 640709 | 1 | Beijing | 880506 |
| 36 | 68.62 | Hou Xuemei | CHN | 620217 | 1 | Tianjin | 880904 |
| 37 | 68.60 | Nadezhda Kugayevskikh | URS | 600419 | 1 | Orel | 830830 |
| 38 | 68.58 | Lyubov Zverkova | URS | 550614 | 1 | Kiev | 840622 |
| 39 | 68.52 | Beatrice Faumuina | NZL | 741023 | 1 | Oslo | 970704 |
| 40 | 68.38 | Olga [Burova, Davydova] Chernyavskaya | RUS | 630917 | 2 | Sochi | 920529 |
| 41 | 68.18 | Tatyana [Starodubtseva] Lesovaya | URS | 560424 | 1 | Alma-Ata | 820923 |
| 42 | 68.18 | Irina Khval | URS | 620517 | 1 | Moskva | 880708 |
| 43 | 68.18 | Bárbara Hechavarría | CUB | 660806 | 1 | La Habana | 890217 |
| 44 | 67.96 | Argentina Menis | ROM | 480719 | 1 | Bucuresti | 760515 |
| 45 | 67.90 | Petra [Wendlandt] Sziegaud | GDR | 581017 | 1 | East Berlin | 820519 |
| 46 | 67.82 | Tatyana Byelova | URS | 620512 | 1 | Irkutsk | 870810 |
| 47 | 67.80 | Stefenia Simova ¶ | BUL | 630605 | 1 | Stara Zagora | 920627 |
| 48 | 67.70 | Anastasia Kelesidou | GRE | 721128 | 2 | Rethymnon | 990529 |
| 49 | 67.54 | Svetlana [Vidyeneyeva] Petrova | URS | 511219 | 1 | Brest | 780924 |
| 50 | 67.50 | Li Qiumei | CHN | 740420 | 1 | Beijing | 940510 |
| 51 | 67.48 | Meg Ritchie | GBR | 520706 | 1 | Walnut, Ca | 810426 |
| 52 | 67.40 | Brigitte [Sander] Michel | GDR | 560819 | 2 | Halle | 790614 |
| 53 | 67.34 | Irina Shabanova | URS | 640802 | 1 | Krasnodar | 870815 |
| 54 | 67.32 | Natalya [Baranova] Gorbachova | URS | 470724 | 1 | Leningrad | 830604 |
| 55 | 67.26 | Svetla [Guleva] Bozhkova | BUL | 510313 | 2 | Sofia | 800705 |
| 56 | 67.16 | Simona [Sapunaru] Andrusca | ROM | 620324 | 2 | Bucuresti | 850601 |
| 57 | 67.12 | Antonina Patoka | URS | 640112 | 1 | Leningrad | 890713 |
| 58 | 67.06 | Ingra Manecke | FRG | 560331 | 1 | Fürth | 820529 |
| 59 | 67.02 | Gabriele Hinzmann | GDR | 470531 | 1 | Potsdam | 730901 |
| 60 | 67.02 | Ulla Lundholm | FIN | 570120 | 1 | Helsinki | 830823 |
| 61 | 67.00 | Jana Günther | GDR | 680107 | 6 | Potsdam | 870820 |
| 62 | 66.94 | Nadezhda Yerokha | URS | 521026 | 1 | Leselidze | 800323 |
| 63 | 66.76 | Min Chunfeng | CHN | 690317 | 1 | Dalian | 910507 |
| 64 | 66.67 | Yelena Antonova | UKR | 720616 | 1 | Rio de Janeiro | 000514 |
| 65 | 66.60 | Astrid Kumbernuss | GDR | 700205 | 1 | East Berlin | 880720 |
| 66 | 66.60 | Qiu Qiaoping ¶ | CHN | 711031 | 1 | Hiroshima | 940430 |
| 67 | 66.54 | Maria-Cristina Betancourt | CUB | 471215 | 1 | La Habana | 810213 |
| 68 | 66.48 | Marta [Kripli] Bacskai | HUN | 601001 | 3 | Budapest | 860811 |
| 69 | 66.48 | Li Quimei | CHN | 740926 | 2 | Shanghai | 971018 |
| 70 | 66.42 | Anetta [Khorina] Salak | URS | 590802 | 1 | Tallinn | 860618 |
| 71 | 66.40 | Ines [Reichenbach] Müller | GDR | 590102 | 3 | East Berlin | 850922 |
| 72 | 66.30 | Ludmila Isayeva | URS | 490326 | 1 | Kaunas | 790811 |
| 73 | 66.30 | Jana Lauren | GDR | 700628 | 1 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | 890618 |
| 74 | 66.18 | Renata Katewicz | POL | 650502 | 1 | Lodz | 880807 |
| 75 | 66.16 | Manuela Tirneci | ROM | 690226 | 1 | Snagov | 920530 |
| 76 | 66.10 | Carol Cady | USA | 620606 | 1 | San José | 860531 |
| 77 | 66.08 | Cao Qi ¶ | CHN | 740115 | 1 | Beijing | 930912 |
| 78 | 66.06 | Svetlana [Melnikova] Orlova | URS | 510129 | 2 | Torino | 790804 |
| 79 | 66.00 | Olga Nikishina | UKR | 660429 | 1 | Odessa, UKR | 940520 |
| 80 | 66.00 | Cheng Xianhong | CHN | 681024 | 3 | Shanghai | 971018 |
| 81 | 65.96 | Grit [Hammer] Haupt | GDR | 660604 | 3 | Leipzig | 840713 |
| 82 | 65.94 | Tatyana Berezhnaya | URS | 560711 | 3 | Donyetsk | 800909 |
| 83 | 65.90 | Seilala Sua | USA | 780225 | 1 | Sacramento, Ca | 000717 |
| 84 | 65.86 | Lisa-Marie Vizaniari | AUS | 711214 | 2 | Melbourne, AUS | 970302 |
| 85 | 65.68 | Andrea Thieme | GDR | 640608 | 1 | Leipzig | 880525 |
| 86 | 65.64 | Elisabeta Neamtu | ROM | 601016 | 2 | Bucuresti | 880514 |
| 87 | 65.62 | Aretha Hill | USA | 760814 | 1 | La Jolla, Ca | 980328 |
| 88 | 65.58 | Tatyana Styepanova | URS | 51 | 1 | Tula | 820806 |
| 89 | 65.50 | Irina Ivannikova | URS | 500225 | 1 | Leningrad | 820617 |
| 90 | 65.48 | Svetlana [Sukhova] Motuzenko | URS | 541225 | 1 | Vilnius | 850707 |
| 91 | 65.42 | Xing Ailan | CHN | 650223 | - | Beijing | 880430 |
| 92 | 65.40 | Teresa Machado | POR | 690722 | 1 | San Jacinto, Tx | 980503 |
| 93 | 65.38 | Valentina Styepushina | URS | 500822 | Q | Kiev | 760623 |
| 94 | 65.36 | Larisa Baranova | URS | 610629 | 1 | Sochi | 870926 |
| 95 | 65.34 | Kristin Kuehl | USA | 700730 | 1 | St. Paul, Mn | 000408 |
| 96 | 65.32 | Ursula Kreutel | FRG | 650914 | 2 | Kamp-Lintfort | 900915 |
| 97 | 65.30 | Irina Dmitriyeva | URS | 590902 | 1 | Leselidze | 840908 |
| 98 | 65.30 | Suzy Powell | USA | 760903 | 1cC | Modesto, Ca | 000513 |
| 99 | 65.26 | Olga [Koryagina] Andrianova | URS | 490612 | | | 76 |
| 100 | 65.22 | Agnes Herczeg ¶ | HUN | 500828 | 1 | Debrecen | 820530 |
| 101 | 65.20 | Vera [Agromakova] Safonova | URS | 480929 | 1 | Kaluga | 770823 |
| 102 | 65.20 | Leslie Deniz | USA | 620525 | 1 | Tempe, Az | 840407 |
| 103 | 65.20 | Liu Fengying | CHN | 790126 | Q | Chengdu | 970531 |
| 104 | 65.18 | Renata Gustaityte | LIT | 740407 | 1 | Palanga | 000628 |
| 105 | 65.14 | Austrite Mikelite | LIT | 690505 | 1 | Kaunas | 910510 |
| 106 | 65.13 | Stiliani Tsikouna | GRE | 721019 | 1 | Trikala | 000730 |
| 107 | 65.12A | Valentina Ivanova II | RUS | 630501 | 1 | Pietersburg | 010127 |
| 108 | 65.10 | Irina Poszaritskaja | URS | 58 | 1 | Baku | 840914 |
| 109 | 65.06 | Malda Lange | URS | 610529 | 1 | Valmiera | 880911 |
| 110 | 65.00 | Elju [Gunyakova] Kubi | EST | 510325 | 1 | Tallinn | 870826 |
| 111 | 64.96 | Liesel [Krieg] Westermann | FRG | 441102 | 1 | Zürich | 720812 |
| 112 | 64.92 | Skaidrite Baikova | URS | 500326 | 1 | Jekabpils | 810809 |
| 113 | 64.92 | Vera Melentyeva | URS | 55 | 2 | Orel | 830830 |
| 114 | 64.90 | Nina Samsonova | URS | 511207 | 3 | Kiev | 820821 |
| 115 | 64.90 | Yu Xin | CHN | 770223 | 1 | Jinzhou | 000715 |
| 116 | 64.82 | Ekaterini Voggoli | GRE | 701030 | 2 | Patra | 990801 |
| 117 | 64.80 | Ilona Zakharchenko | UKR | 670616 | 1 | Kiev | 920716 |
| 118 | 64.78 | Carmen Ionescu | CAN | 510726 | 1 | Montréal | 760526 |
| 119 | 64.70 | Natalya Burlutskaya | URS | 521203 | 1 | Odessa | 790408 |
| 120 | 64.68 | Lyubov Urakova | URS | 550614 | 3 | Krasnodar | 830529 |
| 121 | 64.68 | Venissa Head | GBR | 560901 | 1 | Athína | 830718 |
| 122 | 64.63 | Anja [Gündler] Möllenbeck | GER | 720318 | 1 | Obersuhl | 980531 |
| 123 | 64.62 | Luan Zhili | CHN | 730106 | Q | Jinan | 930603 |
| 124 | 64.60 | Natalya [Petrova] Akhrimenko | URS | 550512 | 1 | Leningrad | 800820 |
| 125 | 64.58 | Radostina [Vasekova] Bakhchevanova | BUL | 501210 | 1 | Plovdiv | 760707 |
| 126 | 64.58 | Cristina Boit-Parjol | ROM | 680514 | 1 | Bucuresti | 880709 |
| 127 | 64.54 | Anna Söderberg | SWE | 730611 | 1 | Aremark | 990731 |
| 128 | 64.50 | Ludmila Novikova | URS | 640129 | 1 | Leningrad | 890819 |
| 129 | 64.44 | Lyudmila Filimonova | BLR | 710322 | 1 | Minsk | 980504 |
| 130 | 64.42 | Zhao Yonghua | CHN | 690122 | 2 | Beijing | 930912 |
| 131 | 64.40 | Ilona [Schoknecht, Briesenick] Slupianek ¶ | GDR | 560924 | 2 | Potsdam | 770717 |
| 132 | 64.36 | Yelena Kovalyova | URS | 610831 | 1 | Orel | 840620 |
| 133 | 64.34 | Vasilka [Malusheva] Stoeva | BUL | 400114 | 3 | München | 720910 |
| 134 | 64.25 | Oksana [Mert] Andrsina | TUR | 730301 | 2 | Krasnodar | 990530 |
| 135 | 64.24 | Anne [Paavolainen] Känsäkangas | FIN | 600621 | 1 | Nivala | 830728 |
| 136 | 64.22 | Ludmila Platonova | URS | 641118 | 1 | Odessa | 880502 |
| 137 | 64.20 | Natalya Labadze | URS | 550512 | 1 | Dnepropetrovsk | 800906 |
| 138 | 64.20 | Ute Rekeschat | GDR | 570625 | 4 | Cottbus | 810531 |
| 139 | 64.18 | Svetlana Savchenko | URS | 650317 | 2 | Volgograd | 890610 |
| 140 | 64.10 | Atanaska Angelova | BUL | 720921 | 1 | Stara Zagora | 960713 |
| 141 | 64.08 | Edie Boyer | USA | 660215 | 1 | San José | 960601 |
| 142 | 64.04 | Jitka Prouzova | CS | 501205 | 3 | Bratislava | 780610 |
| 143 | 64.00 | Gabriela Hanulakova | CS | 570306 | 4 | Nitra | 840826 |
| 144 | 64.00 | Connie Price-Smith | USA | 620603 | 1 | San José | 920530 |
| 145 | 63.98 | Lyudmila [Shcherbakova] Khmelevskaya | URS | 400330 | 1 | Minsk | 761006 |
| 146 | 63.98 | Barbara Beuge | FRG | 600811 | 1 | Linz | 870808 |
| 147 | 63.97 | Joanna Wisniewska | POL | 720524 | 2 | Palma de Mallorca, ESP | 990712 |
| 148 | 63.96 | Zhang Yaqing | CHN | 770115 | 5 | Shanghai | 971018 |
| 149 | 63.92 | Valentina Korsak | URS | 56 | 1 | Irpinsk | 840512 |
| 150 | 63.92 | Vladimira [Palyzova, Malatova] Racková ¶ | CS | 670515 | 1 | Limassol | 930605 |
| 151 | 63.90 | Iveta Garancha | URS | 640917 | 1 | Murjani | 870509 |
| 152 | 63.88 | Corrie de Bruin | NED | 761026 | 1 | Kerkrade | 980524 |
| 153 | 63.86 | Jacqueline Goormachtigh | NED | 700228 | 1 | Lisse | 980502 |
| 154 | 63.80 | Tatyana Simashova | URS | 58 | 1 | Yerevan | 811012 |
| 155 | 63.80 | Zhang Hui | CHN | 670815 | 1 | Beijing | 930731 |
| 156 | 63.73 | Alison Lever | AUS | 721013 | 1 | Sydney, AUS | 000225 |
| 157 | 63.70 | Helgi Parts | URS | 370915 | 1 | Tallinn | 801002 |
| 158 | 63.68 | Oksana Yesipchuk | RUS | 761213 | 2 | Tula | 000602 |
| 159 | 63.67 | Li Yanfeng | CHN | 790515 | 1 | Tianjin | 990508 |
| 160 | 63.66 | Karin Illgen | GDR | 410407 | 1 | Leipzig | 700727 |
| 161 | 63.66 | Agnese [Andrei] Maffeis | ITA | 650309 | 1 | Milano | 960612 |
| 162 | 63.60 | Doris Gutewort | FRG | 541203 | 2 | Fürth | 820529 |
| 163 | 63.58 | Lyudmila Gnidyenko | URS | 51 | 1 | Dnepropetrovsk | 790918 |
| 164 | 63.56 | Lacy Barnes-Mileham | USA | 641223 | 1 | La Jolla, Ca | 960330 |
| 165 | 63.54 | Valentina Mezentseva | URS | 480921 | | | 76 |
| 166 | 63.54 | Ewa Siepsiak | POL | 570101 | 1 | Poznan | 870523 |
| 167 | 63.52 | Ilga Smeikste | URS | 660110 | 1 | Pärnu | 880713 |
| 168 | 63.52 | Dagmar Galler | FRG | 611220 | 4 | Ingolstadt | 900710 |
| 169 | 63.48 | Larisa Zakorko | URS | 640221 | 1 | Krakow | 900605 |
| 170 | 63.44 | Natalya Lisovskaya | URS | 620716 | 1 | Bolzano | 820516 |
| 171 | 63.43 | Viktoriya Boyko | UKR | 740120 | 1 | Kiev | 010518 |
| 172 | 63.32 | Becky Levi | USA | 621108 | 1 | Tucson | 880611 |
| 173 | 63.28 | Ursula Weber | AUT | 600926 | 2 | Schwechat, Aut | 900603 |
| 174 | 63.26 | Helena [Zlabkova] Vyhnalova | CS | 440715 | 1 | Praha | 750716 |
| 175 | 63.23 | Sabine Sievers | GER | 750303 | 2 | Erfurt | 990703 |
| 176 | 63.22 | Lorna Griffin | USA | 560609 | 1 | Long Beach, Ca | 800524 |
| 177 | 63.20 | Marzena Wysocka | POL | 690217 | 1 | Lublin | 990606 |
| 178 | 63.19 | Milina Robert-Michon | FRA | 790718 | 1 | Luminy | 000628 |
| 179 | 63.18 | Jana Harter | GDR | 660626 | 2 | Dresden | 850707 |
| 180 | 63.18 | Eha Rünne | EST | 630525 | 2 | Pärnu | 880713 |
| 181 | 63.12 | Claudia Losch | GDR | 600110 | 1 | Hamm | 850628 |
| 182 | 63.12 | Heike [Dittrich] Hartwig | GER | 621230 | 3 | Budapest | 860913 |
| 183 | 63.06 | Vilma Zubaitite | URS | 631108 | 1 | Krasnodar | 880405 |
| 184 | 63.02 | Barbara Regel | GDR | 480602 | | Jena | 760115 |
| 185 | 63.02 | Natalya Zakharova | URS | 570320 | 1 | Dnepropetrovsk | 810720 |
| 186 | 63.02 | Larisa [Kuleshina] Mednikova | URS | 630104 | 1 | Alma-Ata | 860626 |
| 187 | 63.02 | Neelam Jaswant Singh | IND | 710108 | 1 | Trivandrum | 000812 |
| 188 | 63.00 | Gael [Mulhall] Martin ¶ | AUS | 560827 | 1 | Melbourne, AUS | 790111 |
| 189 | 63.00 | Idalmis Leyva | CUB | 680725 | 1 | La Habana | 900615 |
| 190 | 62.96 | Simone Rüdrich | GDR | 611124 | 1 | Rostock | 840704 |
| 191 | 62.94 | Ilga Bertulsone | LAT | 660110 | 1 | Riga | 920531 |
| 192 | 62.90 | Nina Tselishcheva | URS | 510223 | | | 77 |
| 193 | 62.88 | Donka Khristova | BUL | 560408 | 3 | London | 780702 |
| 194 | 62.86 | Tamara Danilova | URS | 390730 | 4 | München | 720910 |
| 195 | 62.75A | Ana Fernández | CUB | 791215 | 1 | Ciudad de México | 990530 |
| 196 | 62.74 | Zhang Cuilan | CHN | 730406 | 1 | Shijiazhuang | 950420 |
| 197 | 62.66 | Alice Matejkova | CZE | 690111 | 1 | Kladno | 970608 |
| 198 | 62.64 | Bao Dongying | CHN | 730413 | 4 | Beijing | 930912 |
| 199 | 62.64 | Areti Abatzi | GRE | 740514 | 2 | Athína | 010617 |
| 200 | 62.60 | Danuta [Gwardecka] Rosani | POL | 510430 | 1 | Bydgoszcz | 760622 |
| 201 | 62.58 | Viktoria Kochetova | URS | 670618 | 4 | Moskva | 880904 |
| 202 | 62.56 | Olga Lidia Gomez | CUB | 660630 | 4 | La Habana | 920521 |
| 203 | 62.52 | Maria Badea | ROM | 600115 | 2 | Bucuresti | 810619 |
| 204 | 62.52 | Galina Koshkaryova | URS | 610527 | 1 | Riga | 820606 |
| 205 | 62.52 | Birgit Braun | GDR | 601217 | 7 | Potsdam | 820610 |