| Year
| Location
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| 2009
| Beograd (ser)
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| 2007
| Bangkok (tha)
| Lao Lishi (chn)
| Paola Espinosa (mex)
| Mai Nakagawa (jpn)
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| 2005
| Izmir (tur)
| Li Ting (chn)
| Cassandra Cardinell (usa)
| Li Na (chn)
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| 2003
| Daegu (sko)
| Li Na (chn)
| Zhang Jun (chn)
| Sara Hildebrand (usa)
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| 2001
| Beijing (chn)
| Wang Rui (chn)
| Cai Yuyan (chn)
| Ri Ok-Rim (nko)
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| 1999
| Palma de Mallorca (spa)
| Fu Mingxia (chn)
| Wang Rui (chn)
| Anne Montminy (can)
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| 1997
| Catania (ita)
| Chi Meilan (chn)
| Julie Danaux (fra)
| Wang Xuan (chn)
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| 1995
| Fukuoka (jpn)
| Eileen Richetelli (usa)
| Irina Vyguzova (kaz)
| Chi Meilan (chn)
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| 1993
| Buffalo (usa)
| Anne Montminy (can)
| Yang Yan (chn)
| Wen Ren (chn)
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| 1991
| Sheffield (gbr)
| Kim Hye-Ok (nko)
| Yang Yan (chn)
| Ryu Un-Sil (nko)
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| 1987
| Zagreb (yug)
| Lu Wei (chn)
| Anzhela Stasyulevich (sov)
| Lin X. (chn)
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| 1985
| Kobe (jpn)
| Lu Wei (chn)
| Michele Mitchell (usa)
| Alla Lobankina (sov)
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| 1983
| Edmonton (can)
| Lu Wei (chn)
| Zhou Jihong (chn)
| Wendy Wyland (usa)
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| 1981
| Bucuresti (rom)
| Chen Xiaoxia (chn)
| Li Yihua (chn)
| Yelena Matushenko (sov)
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| 1979
| Mexico City (mex)
| Chen Xiaoxia (chn)
| Irina Kalinina (sov)
| Chen Shi (chn)
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| 1977
| Sofia (bul)
| Irina Kalinina (sov)
| Yelena Vaytsekhovskaya (sov)
| Barbara Weinstein (usa)
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| 1973
| Moskva (sov)
| Milena Duchková (czs)
| Olga Dmitriyeva (sov)
| Alla Selina (sov)
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| 1970
| Torino (ita)
| Galina Kovalenko (sov)
| Cindy Potter (usa)
| Lani Lonen (usa)
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| 1967
| Tokyo (jpn)
| Lesley Bush (usa)
| Keiko Osaki (jpn)
| Maxine King (usa)
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| 1965
| Budapest (hun)
| Joy Newman (gbr)
| Boguslawa Marcinskowska (pol)
| Szuzsanna Sziegethy (hun)
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| 1963
| Porto Alegre (bra)
| Bärbel Urban (wge)
| Helga Berg (wge)
| Tuzi Sato (bra)
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| 1961
| Sofia (bul)
| Liz Ferris (gbr)
| Irmgard Lurf (aut)
| Emilia Negulescu (rom)
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