| Index | |||||||||
| Swimming | |||||||||
| Swimming - Women`s World Records - Long Course | |||||||||
| Click on underlined Swimmer to access photograph and career highlights | |||||||||
| 50 Metres Breaststroke | 100 Metres Breaststroke | 200 Metres Breaststroke | |||||||
| 1960 | Urselmann | FDR | 1.19.10. | Urselmann | FDR | 2.50.20. | |||
| Kuper | DDR | 1.19.00. | Lonsbrough | GBR | 2.49.50. | ||||
| 1961 | Gobel | DDR | 1.18.20. | Beyer | DDR | 2.48.00. | |||
| 1962 | |||||||||
| 1963 | |||||||||
| 1964 | Kolb | DDR | 1.17.90. | Prozumenshchikova | URS | 2.47.70. | |||
| Babanina | URS | 1.17.20. | Prozumenshchikova | URS | 2.45.40. | ||||
| 1965 | Babanina | URS | 1.16.50. | Prozumenshchikova | URS | 2.45.30. | |||
| 1966 | Prozumenshchikova | URS | 1.15.70. | Prozumenshchikova | URS | 2.40.80. | |||
| Ball | USA | 1.15.60. | Ball | USA | 2.40.50. | ||||
| 1967 | Ball | USA | 1.14.80. | Ball | USA | 2.39.50. | |||
| Ball | USA | 1.14.60. | |||||||
| 1968 | Ball | USA | 1.14.20. | Ball | USA | 2.38.50. | |||
| 1969 | |||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||
| 1971 | |||||||||
| 1972 | Carr | USA | 1.13.58 | ||||||
| 1973 | |||||||||
| 1974 | Vogel | DDR | 1.12.91 | Schott | DDR | 2.37.89 | |||
| Justen | DDR | 1.12.55 | Linke | DDR | 2.36.44 | ||||
| Vogel | DDR | 1.12.28 | Linke | DDR | 2.34.99 | ||||
| 1975 | |||||||||
| 1976 | Nitschke | DDR | 1.11.93 | Koshevaia | URS | 2.33.35 | |||
| Anke | DDR | 1.11.11 | |||||||
| Anke | DDR | 1.10.86 | |||||||
| 1977 | |||||||||
| 1978 | Bogdanova | URS | 1.10.31 | Bogdanova | URS | 2.33.32 | |||
| Kachushite | URS | 2.33.11 | |||||||
| Kachushite | URS | 2.31.42 | |||||||
| 1979 | Varganova | URS | 2.31.09 | ||||||
| Kachushite | URS | 2.28.36 | |||||||
| 1980 | Geweniger | DDR | 1.10.20. | ||||||
| Geweniger | DDR | 1.10.11 | |||||||
| 1981 | Geweniger | DDR | 1.09.52 | ||||||
| Geweniger | DDR | 1.09.39 | |||||||
| Geweniger | DDR | 1.08.60. | |||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||
| 1983 | Geweniger | DDR | 1.08.51 | ||||||
| 1984 | Gerasch | DDR | 1.08.29 | ||||||
| 1985 | Horner | DDR | 2.28.33 | ||||||
| 1986 | Gerasch | DDR | 1.08.11 | Gerasch | DDR | 2.28.20. | |||
| Horner | DDR | 2.27.40. | |||||||
| 1987 | Horner | DDR | 1.07.91 | ||||||
| 1988 | Higson | CAN | 2.27.27 | ||||||
| Horner | DDR | 2.26.71 | |||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||
| 1992 | Nall | USA | 2.25.92 | ||||||
| Nall | USA | 2.25.35 | |||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
| 1994 | Riley | AUS | 1.07.69 | Brown | AUS | 2.24.76 | |||
| 1995 | |||||||||
| 1996 | Denman | AUS | 31.82 | Heyns | RSA | 1.07.46 | |||
| Heyns | RSA | 1.07.02 | |||||||
| 1997 | |||||||||
| 1998 | Heyns | RSA | 30.95 | ||||||
| 1999 | Heyns | RSA | 30.83 | Heyns | RSA | 1.06.99 | Heyns | RSA | 2.24.69 |
| Heyns | RSA | 1.06.95 | Heyns | RSA | 2.24.51 | ||||
| Heyns | RSA | 1.06.52 | Heyns | RSA | 2.24.42 | ||||
| Heyns | RSA | 2.23.64 | |||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
| 2001 | Hui Qi | CHN | 2.22.99 | ||||||
| 2002 | Baker | GBR | 30.57 | ||||||
| 2003 | Jones | AUS | 1.06.37 | Beard | USA | 2.22.99 | |||
| 2004 | Jones | AUS | 2.22.96 | ||||||
| Beard | USA | 2.22.44 | |||||||
| 2005 | Edmistone | AUS | 30.45 | Hardy | USA | 1.06.20. | Jones | AUS | 2.21.72 |
| 2006 | Edmistone | AUS | 30.31 | Jones | AUS | 1.05.71 | Jones | AUS | 2.20.54 |
| Jones | AUS | 1.05.09 | |||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||
| 2008 | Soni | USA | 2.20.22 | ||||||
| 2009 | Reason | CAN | 30.23 | Soni | USA | 1.04.84 | Pierse | CAN | 2.20.12 |
| Efimova | RUS | 30.09 | Hardy | USA | 1.04.45 | ||||
| Hardy | USA | 29.95 | |||||||
| Hardy | USA | 29.80 | |||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| 2012 | Soni | USA | 2.20.00 | ||||||