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| 2009 | London (gbr) | |||
| 2007 | Stuttgart (ger) | Nastia Liukin (usa) | Li Shanshan (chn) | -- |
| Steliana Nistor (rom) | ||||
| 2006 | Århus (den) | Iryna Krasnianska (ukr) | Sandra Izbasa (rom) | Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (can) |
| 2005 | Melbourne (aus) | Nastia Liukin (usa) | Chellsie Memmel (usa) | Catalina Ponor (rom) |
| 2003 | Anaheim (usa) | Fan Ye (chn) | Catalina Ponor (rom) | Lyudmila Yezhova (rus) |
| 2002 | Debrecen (hun) | Ashley Postell (usa) | Oana Ban (rom) | Irina Yarotska (ukr) |
| 2001 | Gent (bel) | Andrea Raducan (rom) | Lyudmila Yezhova (rus) | Sun Xiaojiao (chn) |
| 1999 | Tianjin (chn) | Ling Jie (chn) | Andrea Raducan (rom) | Olga Raschupkina (ukr) |
| 1997 | Lausanne (swi) | Gina Gogean (rom) | Svetlana Khorkina (rus) | Kui Yuanyuan (chn) |
| 1996 | San Juan (prc) | Dina Kochetkova (rus) | Alexandra Marinescu (rom) | Dominique Dawes (usa) |
| Liu Xuan (chn) | ||||
| 1995 | Sabae (jpn) | Mo Huilan (chn) | Dominique Moceanu (usa) | -- |
| Liliya Podkopayeva (ukr) | ||||
| 1994 | Brisbane (aus) | Shannon Miller (usa) | Liliya Podkopayeva (ukr) | Oksana Fabrichnova (rus) |
| 1993 | Birmingham (gbr) | Lavinia Milosovici (rom) | Dominique Dawes (usa) | Gina Gogean (rom) |
| 1992 | Paris (fra) | Kim Zmeskal (usa) | Li Yifang (chn) | -- |
| Maria Neculita (rom) | ||||
| 1991 | Indianapolis (usa) | Svetlana Boginskaya (sov) | Tatyana Gutsu (sov) | Lavinia Milosovici (rom) |
| Betty Okino (usa) | ||||
| 1989 | Stuttgart (wge) | Daniela Silivas (rom) | Olesya Dudnik (sov) | Gabriela Potorac (rom) |
| 1987 | Rotterdam (net) | Aurelia Dobre (rom) | Yelena Shushunova (sov) | Svetlana Boginskaya (sov) |
| Ecaterina Szabo (rom) | ||||
| 1985 | Montréal (can) | Daniela Silivas (rom) | Ecaterina Szabo (rom) | Yelena Shushunova (sov) |
| 1983 | Budapest (hun) | Olga Mostepanova (sov) | Hana Ricna (czs) | Lavinia Agache (rom) |
| 1981 | Moskva (sov) | Maxi Gnauck (ege) | Chen Wenyan (chn) | Tracey Talavera (usa) |
| Wu Jiani (chn) | ||||
| 1979 | Fort Worth (usa) | Vera Cerna (czs) | Nelli Kim (sov) | Regina Grabolle (ege) |
| 1978 | Strasbourg (fra) | Nadia Comaneci (rom) | Yelena Mukhina (sov) | Emilia Eberle (rom) |
| 1974 | Varna (bul) | Lydumila Turishcheva (sov) | Olga Korbut (sov) | Nelli Kim (sov) |
| 1970 | Ljubljana (yug) | Erika Zuchold (ege) | Cathy Rigby-McCoy (usa) | Larisa Petrik (sov) |
| Christina Schmitt (ege) | ||||
| 1966 | Dortmund (wge) | Natalya Kuchinskaya (sov) | Vera Cáslavská (czs) | Larisa Petrik (sov) |
| 1962 | Praha (czs) | Eva Bosaková (czs) | Larisa Latynina (sov) | Anikó Ducza (hun) |
| Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda (jpn) | ||||
| 1958 | Moskva (sov) | Larisa Latynina (sov) | Sofiya Muratova (sov) | Keiko Tanaka (jpn) |
| 1954 | Roma (ita) | Keiko Tanaka (jpn) | Eva Bosaková (czs) | Ágnes Keleti (hun) |
| 1950 | Basel (swi) | Helena Rakoczy (pol) | Marja Nutti (ita) | Licia Macchini (ita) |
| 1938 | Praha (czs) | Vlasta Dekanová (czs) | -- | -- |
