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| 2009 | London (gbr) | |||
| 2007 | Stuttgart (ger) | Cheng Fei (chn) | Hong Su-Jong (nko) | Alicia Sacramone (usa) |
| 2006 | Århus (den) | Cheng Fei (chn) | Alicia Sacramone (usa) | Oksana Chusovitina (ger) |
| 2005 | Melbourne (aus) | Cheng Fei (chn) | Oksana Chusovitina (uzb) | Alicia Sacramone (usa) |
| 2003 | Anaheim (usa) | Oksana Chusovitina (uzb) | Kang Yun-Mi (nko) | -- |
| Yelena Zamolodchikova (rus) | ||||
| 2002 | Debrecen (hun) | Yelena Zamolodchikova (rus) | Natalya Ziganshina (rus) | Oksana Chusovitina (uzb) |
| 2001 | Gent (bel) | Svetlana Khorkina (rus) | Oksana Chusovitina (uzb) | Andrea Raducan (rom) |
| 1999 | Tianjin (chn) | Yelena Zamolodchikova (rus) | Simona Amanar (rom) | Maria Olaru (rom) |
| 1997 | Lausanne (swi) | Simona Amanar (rom) | Zhou Duan (chn) | Gina Gogean (rom) |
| 1996 | San Juan (prc) | Gina Gogean (rom) | Simona Amanar (rom) | Annia Portuondo (cub) |
| 1995 | Sabae (jpn) | Simona Amanar (rom) | -- | Gina Gogean (rom) |
| Liliya Podkopayeva (ukr) | ||||
| 1994 | Brisbane (aus) | Gina Gogean (rom) | Svetlana Khorkina (rus) | Lavinia Milosovici (rom) |
| 1993 | Birmingham (gbr) | Yelena Piskun (blr) | Lavinia Milosovici (rom) | Oksana Chusovitina (uzb) |
| 1992 | Paris (fra) | Henrietta Ónodi (hun) | Svetlana Boginskaya (cis) | Oksana Chusovitina (cis) |
| 1991 | Indianapolis (usa) | Lavinia Milosovici (rom) | Oksana Chusovitina (sov) | -- |
| Henrietta Ónodi (hun) | ||||
| 1989 | Stuttgart (wge) | Olesya Dudnik (sov) | Ciristina Bontas (rom) | -- |
| Brandy Johnson (usa) | ||||
| 1987 | Rotterdam (net) | Yelena Shushunova (sov) | Eugenia Golea (rom) | Aurelia Dobre (rom) |
| 1985 | Montréal (can) | Yelena Shushunova (sov) | Ecaterina Szabo (rom) | Dagmar Kersten (ege) |
| 1983 | Budapest (hun) | Boriana Stoyanova (bul) | Lavinia Agache (rom) | -- |
| Ecaterina Szabo (rom) | ||||
| 1981 | Moskva (sov) | Maxi Gnauck (ege) | Stella Zakharova (sov) | Steffi Kräker (ege) |
| 1979 | Fort Worth (usa) | Dumitrita Turner (rom) | Stella Zakharova (sov) | Nelli Kim (sov) |
| Steffi Kräker (ege) | ||||
| 1978 | Strasbourg (fra) | Nelli Kim (sov) | Nadia Comaneci (rom) | Steffi Kräker (ege) |
| 1974 | Varna (bul) | Olga Korbut (sov) | Lyudmila Turishcheva (sov) | Bozena Perdykulová (czs) |
| 1970 | Ljubljana (yug) | Erika Zuchold (ege) | Karin Janz (ege) | Lyubov Burda (sov) |
| Lyudmila Turishcheva (sov) | ||||
| 1966 | Dortmund (wge) | Vera Cáslavská (czs) | Erika Zuchold (ege) | Natalya Kuchinskaya (sov) |
| 1962 | Praha (czs) | Vera Cáslavská (czs) | Larisa Latynina (sov) | Tamara Manina (sov) |
| 1958 | Moskva (sov) | Larisa Latynina (sov) | Lidiya Kalinina (sov) | -- |
| Tamara Manina (sov) | ||||
| Sofiya Muratova (sov) | ||||
| 1954 | Roma (ita) | Tamara Manina (sov) | -- | Evy Berggren (swe) |
| Anna Petersson (swe) | ||||
| 1950 | Basel (swi) | Helena Rakoczy (pol) | Gertchen Kolar (aut) | Alexandrine Lemoine (fra) |
| 1938 | Praha (czs) | Vlasta Dekanová (czs) | -- | -- |
