Track & Field (Athletics) / World Championships
Atletismo / Campeonatos del Mundo
Women's by Event / Mujeres por Prueba
100 METRES HURDLES / 100 METROS VALLAS
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1983 | Bettine Jahn | GDR | 12.35 | Kerscine Knabe | GDR | 12.42 | Ginka Zagorcheva | BUL | 12.62 |
| 1987 | Ginka Zagorcheva | BUL | 12.34 | Gloria Vibel | GDR | 12.44 | Cornelia Oschkenat | GDR | 12.46 |
| 1991 | Lyudmila Narozhilenko | URS | 12.59 | Gail Devers | USA | 12.63 | Natalia Grigorieva | URS | 12.69 |
| 1993 | Gail Devers | USA | 12.46 | Marina Azyabina | RUS | 12.60 | Lynda Tolbert | USA | 12.67 |
| 1995 | Gail Devers | USA | 12.68 | Olga Shishigina | KZK | 12.80 | Yulia Graudyn | RUS | 12.85 |
| 1997 | Ludmila Engquist | SWE | 12.50 | Svetla Dimitrova | BUL | 12.58 | Michelle Freeman | JAM | 12.61 |
| 1999 | Gail Devers | USA | 12.37 | Glory Alozie | NGR | 12.44 | Ludmila Engquist | SWE | 12.47 |
| 2001 | Anjanette Kirkland | USA | 12.42 | Gail Devers | USA | 12.54 | Olga Shishigina | KAZ | 12.58 |
| 2003 | Perdita Felicien | CAN | 12.53 | Brigitte Foster | JAM | 12.57 | Miesha McKelvy | USA | 12.67 |
| 2005 | Michelle Perry | USA | 12.66 | Delloreen Ennis-London | JAM | 12.76 | Brigitte Foster-Hylton | JAM | 12.76 |
| 2007 | Michelle Perry | USA | 12.46 | Perdita Felicien | CAN | 12.49 | Delloreen Ennis-London | JAM | 12.50 |
| 2009 | Brigitte Foster-Hylton | JAM | 12.51 | Priscilla Lopes-Schliep | CAN | 12.54 | Delloreen Ennis-London | JAM | 12.55 |
| 2011 | Sally Pearson | AUS | 12.28 | Danielle Carruthers | USA | 12.47 | Dawn Harper | USA | 12.47 |
400 METRES HURDLES / 400 METROS VALLAS
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1983 | Ekaterina Fesenko | URS | 54.14 | Anna Ambrosiene | URS | 54.15 | Ellen Fiedler | GDR | 54.55 |
| 1987 | Sabine Bush | GDR | 53.62 | Debra Flintoff-King | AUS | 54.19 | Cornelia Ullrich | GDR | 54.31 |
| 1991 | Tatiana Ledovskaya | URS | 53.11 | Sally Gunnell | GBR | 53.16 | Janeene Vickers | USA | 53.47 |
| 1993 | Sally Gunnell | GBR | 52.74 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | USA | 52.79 | Margarita Ponomariova | RUS | 53.48 |
| 1995 | Kim Batten | USA | 52.61 | Tonja Buford-Bailey | USA | 52.62 | Deon Hemmings | JAM | 53.48 |
| 1997 | Nezha Bidouane | MAR | 52.97 | Deon Hemmings | JAM | 53.09 | Kim Batten | USA | 53.52 |
| 1999 | Daimí Pernia | CUB | 52.89 | Nezha Bidouane | MAR | 52.90 | Deon Hemmings | JAM | 53.16 |
| 2001 | Nezha Bidouane | MAR | 53.34 | Yuliya Nosova | RUS | 54.27 | Daimí Pernía | CUB | 54.51 |
| 2003 | Jana Pittman | AUS | 53.22 | Sandra Glover | USA | 53.65 | Julia Pechonkina Nosova | RUS | 53.71 |
| 2005 | Yuliya Pechonkina Nosova | RUS | 52.90 | Lashinda Demus | USA | 53.27 | Sandra Glover | USA | 53.32 |
| 2007 | Jana Rawlinson (Pittman) | AUS | 53.31 | Yuliya Pechenkina | RUS | 53.50 | Anna Jesien | POL | 53.92 |
| 2009 | Melaine Walker | JAM | 52.42 | Lashinda Demus | USA | 52.96 | Josanne Lucas | TRI | 53.20 |
| 2011 | Lashinda Demus | USA | 52.47 | Melaine Walker | JAM | 52.73 | Natalya Antyukh | RUS | 53.85 |
3,000 METRES STEEPLECHASE / 3.000 METROS OBSTÁCULOS
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 2005 | Dorcus Inzikuru | UGA | 9:18.24 | Yekaterina Volkova | RUS | 9:20.49 | Jeruto Kiptum | KEN | 9:26.95 |
| 2007 | Yekaterina Volkova | RUS | 9:06.57 | Tatyana Petrova | RUS | 9:09.19 | Eunice Jepkorir | KEN | 9:20.09 |
| 2009 | Marta Domínguez | ESP | 9:07.32 | Yuliya Zarudneva | RUS | 9:08.39 | Milcah Chemos Cheywa | KEN | 9:08.57 |
| 2011 | Yuliya Zaripova (Zarudneva) | RUS | 9:07.03 | Habiba Ghribi | TUN | 9:11.97 | Milcah Chemos Cheywa | KEN | 9:17.16 |
4x100-METRE RELAY / 4x100 METROS RELEVOS
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1983 | Silke Gladisch-Möller, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Oelsner-Göhr | GDR | 41.76 | Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas | GBR | 42.71 | Leleith Hodges, Jacky Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey | JAM | 42.73 |
| 1987 | Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall | USA | 41.58 | Silke Gladisch-Möller, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Oelsner-Göhr | GDR | 41.95 | Irina Slyusar, Natalya Voronova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova | URS | 42.33 |
| 1991 | Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey | JAM | 41.94 | Natalya Kovtun, Galina Malchugina, Yelena Vinagradova, Irina Privalova | URS | 42.20 | Grit Breuer, Katrin Krabbe, Sabine Richter, Heike Dreschler-Daute | GER | 42.33 |
| 1993 | Olga Bogoloskaya, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Voronova, Irina Privalova | RUS | 41.49 | Michelle Finn, Gwen Torrence, Wendy Vereen, Gail Devers | USA | 41.49 | Michelle Freeman, Juliet Campbell, Nicole Mitchell, Merlene Ottey | JAM | 41.94 |
| 1995 | Celena Mondie-Milner, Carlette Guidry, Chryste Gaines, Gwen Torrence | USA | 42.12 | Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey | JAM | 42.25 | Melanie Paschke, Silke Lichtenhagen, Silke Knoll, Gabriele Becker | GER | 43.01 |
| 1997 | Chrystie Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers | USA | 41.47 | Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant | JAM | 42.10 | Patricia Girard, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix | FRA | 42.21 |
| 1999 | Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis Thompson, Debbie Ferguson | BAH | 41.92 | Patricia Girard, Muriel Hurtis, Katia Benth, Christine Arron | FRA | 42.06 | Aleen Bailey, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Peta Gaye Dowdie | JAM | 42.15 |
| 2001 | *Melanie Paschke, Gaby Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Marion Wagner | GER | 42.32 | Sylviane Félix, Frédérique Bangué, Muriel Hurtis, Odiah Sidibé | FRA | 42.39 | Juliet Campbell, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Astia Walker | JAM | 42.40 |
| 2003 | Patricia Girard, Muriel Hurtis, Sylviane Félix, Christine Arron | FRA | 41.78 | Angela Williams, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Torri Edwards | USA | 41.83 | Olga Fyodorova, Julia Tabakova, Marina Kislova, Larisa Kruglova | RUS | 42.66 |
| 2005 | Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me´Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams | USA | 41.78 | Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell | JAM | 41.99 | Yuliya Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun | BLR | 42.56 |
| 2007 | Lauryn Williams, Allyson Felix, Mikele Barber, Torri Edwards | USA | 41.98 | Sheri Ann Brooks, Kerron Stewart, Simone Facey, Veronica Campbell | JAM | 42.01 | Olivia Borlee, Hanna Mariën, Elodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert | BEL | 42.75 |
| 2009 | Simone Facey, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey, Kerron Stewart | JAM | 42.06 | Shenique Ferguson, Chandra Sturrup, Christine Amertil, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | BAH | 42.29 | Marion Wagner, Anne Möllinger, Cathlee Tschirch, Verena Sailer | GER | 42.87 |
| 2011 | Bianca Knight, Allyson Felix, Marshevet Myers, Carmelita Jeter | USA | 41.56 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kerron Stewart, Sherone Simpson, Veronica Campbell-Brown | JAM | 41.70 | Olesya Povh, Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen, Hrystyna Stuy | UKR | 42.51 |
01 USA (Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Marion Jones) 41.71. White failed drug test two years later / descalificada por dóping dos años más tarde.
4x400-METRE RELAY / 4x400 METROS RELEVOS
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1983 | Gesine Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam Neubauer | GDR | 3:19.73 | Tatána Kocembova, Milena Matjkovicova, Zuzana Moravcikova, Jarmila Kratochvilova | TCH | 3:20.32 | Yelena Didilenko, Marina Ivanova, Irina Baskakova, Maria Pinigina | URS | 3:21.16 |
| 1987 | Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Emmelmann, Petra Müller, Sabine Busch | GDR | 3:18.63 | Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina | URS | 3:19.50 | Diane Dixon, Denean Howard, Valerie Brisco Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood | USA | 3:21.04 |
| 1991 | Tatyana Ledovskaya, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Olga Bryzgina | URS | 3:18.43 | Rochelle Stevens, Diane Dixon, Jearl Miles-Clark, Lillie Leatherwood | USA | 3:20.15 | Uta Rohländer, Katrin Krabbe, Christine Wachtel, Grit Breuer | GER | 3:21.25 |
| 1993 | Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone, Natasha Kaiser Brown, Jearl Miles Clark | USA | 3:16.71 | Yelena Ruzina, Tatyana Alekseyeva, Margarita Ponomariova, Irina Privalova | RUS | 3:18.38 | Linda Keough, Phylis Smith, Tracy Goddard, Sally Gunnell | GBR | 3:23.41 |
| 1995 | Kim Graham, Rochelle Stevens, Camara Jones, Jearl Miles-Clark | USA | 3:22.39 | Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yuliya Sotnikova, Yelena Andreyeva | RUS | 3:23.98 | Lee Naylor, Renee Poetschka, Melinda Gainsford Taylor, Cathy Freeman | AUS | 3:25.88 |
| 1997 | Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer | GER | 3:20.92 | Maicel Malone, Kim Graham, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles Clark | USA | 3:21.03 | Inez Turner, Lorraine Graham, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards | JAM | 3:21.30 |
| 1999 | Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Natalya Nazarova | RUS | 3:21.98 | Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone, Michele Collins, Jearl Miles-Clark | USA | 3:22.09 | Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer | GER | 3:22.43 |
| 2001 | Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott, Debbie Ann Parris, Lorraine Fenton | JAM | 3:20.65 | Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer | GER | 3:21.97 | Irina Rosikhina, Julia Nosova, Anastasia Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina | RUS | 3:24.92 |
| 2003 | Me´Lisa Barber, Demetria Washington, Jearl Miles Clark, Sanya Richards | USA | 3:22.63 | Olesya Zykina, Julia Pechonkina, Anastasia Kapachinskaya, Natalya Nazarova | RUS | 3:22.91 | Sandie Richards, Allison Beckford, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton | JAM | 3:22.92 |
| 2005 | Yuliya Pechonkina, Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Antyukh, Svetlana Pospelova | RUS | 3:20.95 | Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton | JAM | 3:23.29 | Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu | GBR | 3:24.44 |
| 2007 | DeeDee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Mary Wineberg, Sanya Richards | USA | 3:18.55 | Shericka Williams, Shereefa Lloyd, Davita Prendagast, Novlene Williams | JAM | 3:19.73 | Christine Ohurougu, Marilyn Okoro, Lee McConnell, Nicola Sanders | GBR | 3:20.04 |
| 2009 | Debbie Dunn, Allyson Felix, Lashinda Demus, Sanya Richards | USA | 3:17.83 | Rosemarie Whyte, Novlene Williams-Mills, Shereefa Lloyd, Shericka Williams | JAM | 3:21.15 | Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firoya, Lyudmila Litvinova, Antonina Krivoshapka | RUS | 3:21.64 |
| 2011 | Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix, Jessica Beard, Francena McCorory | USA | 3:18.09 | Rosemarie Whyte, Davita Prendergast, Novlene Williams-Mills, Shericka Williams | JAM | 3:18.71 | Antonina Krivoshapka, Natalya Antyukh, Lyudmila Litvinova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya | RUS | 3:19.36 |
10/20 KILOMETRES WALK / 10/20 KILÓMETROS MARCHA
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1987 | Irina Strakhova | URS | 44:12.00 | Kerry Saxby | AUS | 44:23.00 | Yang Hong | CHN | 44:42.00 |
| 1991 | Alina Ivanova | URS | 42:57:00 | Madelein Svensson | SWE | 43:13.00 | Sari Essayah | FIN | 43:13.00 |
| 1993 | Sari Essayah | FIN | 42:59:00 | Ileana Salvador | ITA | 43:08:00 | Encarnación Granados | ESP | 43:21:00 |
| 1995 | Irina Stankina | RUS | 42:13:00 | Elisabeta Perrone | ITA | 42:16:00 | Elena Nikolayeva | RUS | 42:20:00 |
| 1997 | Ana Rita Sidoti | ITA | 42:55.49 | Olga Kardopolseva | BLS | 43:30.20 | Valentina Tsybulskaya | BLS | 43:49.24 |
| 1999 | Liu Hongyu | CHN | 1h30:50 | Wang Yan | CHN | 1h30:52 | Kerry Saxby-Junna | AUS | 1h31:18 |
| 2001 | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | 1h27:48 | Valentina Tsybulskaya | BLR | 1h28:49 | Elisabetta Perrone | ITA | 1h28:56 |
| 2003 | Yelena Nikolayeva | RUS | 1h26:52 | Gillian O´Sullivan | IRL | 1h27:34 | Valentina Tsybulskaya | BLR | 1h28:10 |
| 2005 | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | 1h25:41 | Ryta Turava | BLR | 1h27:05 | Susana Feitor | POR | 1h28:44 |
| 2007 | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | 1h30:09 | Tatyana Shemyakina | RUS | 1h30:42 | María Vasco | ESP | 1h30:47 |
| 2009 | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | 1h28:09 | Olive Loughnane | IRL | 1h28:58 | Liu Hong | CHN | 1h29:10 |
| 2011 | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | 1h29:42 | Liu Hong | CHN | 1h30:00 | Anisya Kirdyapkina | RUS | 1h30:13 |
(splits) HEPTATHLON (parciales)
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Mark | Silver / Plata | CNT | Mark | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Mark |
| 1983 | Ramona Neubert | GDR | 6714p | Sabine Paetz | GDR | 6662p | Anke Vater | GDR | 6532p |
| 1987 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | 7128p | Larisa Nikitina | URS | 6564p | Jane Frederick | USA | 6502p |
| 1991 | Sabine Baun | GER | 6672p | Liliana Nastase | ROM | 6493p | Irina Belova | URS | 6448p |
| 1993 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | 6837p | Sabine Braun | GER | 6797p | Svetlana Buraga | BLS | 6635p |
| 1995 | Ghada Shoua | SYR | 6651p | Svetlana Moskalets | RUS | 6575p | Rita Inancsi | HUN | 6522p |
| 1997 | Sabine Braun | GER | 6739p | Denise Lewis | GBR | 6654p | Remigija Nazaroviene | LIT | 6566p |
| 1999 | Eunice Barber | FRA | 6861p | Denise Lewis | GBR | 6724p | Ghada Shouaa | SYR | 6500p |
| 2001 | Yelena Prokhorova | RUS | 6694p | Natalya Sazanovich | BLR | 6539p | Sheila Burrell | USA | 6472p |
| 2003 | Carolina Klüft | SWE | 7001p | Eunice Barber | FRA | 6755p | Natalya Sazanovich | BLR | 6524p |
| 2005 | Carolina Klüft | SWE | 6887p | Eunice Barber | FRA | 6824p | Margaret Simpson | GHA | 6375p |
| 2007 | Carolina Klüft | SWE | 7032p | Lyudmila Blonska | UKR | 6832p | Kelly Sotherton | GBR | 6510p |
| 2009 | Jessica Ennis | GBR | 6731p | Jennifer Oeser | GER | 6493p | Kamila Chudzik | POL | 6471p |
| 2011 | Tatyana Chernova | RUS | 6880p | Jessica Ennis | GBR | 6751p | Jennifer Oeser | GER | 6572p |