| Year
| Location
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| 2012
| London (gbr)
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| 2008
| Beijing (chn)
| Shawn Johnson (usa)
| Nastia Liukin (usa)
| Cheng Fei (chn)
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| 2004
| Athínai (gre)
| Catalina Ponor (rom)
| Carly Patterson (usa)
| Alexandra Eremia (rom)
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| 2000
| Sydney (aus)
| Liu Xuan (chn)
| Yekaterina Lobaznyuk (rus)
| Yelena Produnova (rus)
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| 1996
| Atlanta (usa)
| Shannon Miller (usa)
| Liliya Podkopayeva (ukr)
| Gina Gogean (rom)
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| 1992
| Barcelona (spa)
| Tetyana Lysenko (cis)
| Lu Li (chn)
| --
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| Shannon Miller (usa)
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| 1988
| Seoul (sko)
| Daniela Silivas (rom)
| Yelena Shushunova (sov)
| Phoebe Mills (usa)
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| Gabriela Potorac (rom)
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| 1984
| Los Angeles (usa)
| Simona Pauca (rom)
| --
| Kathy Johnson (usa)
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| Ecaterina Szabo (rom)
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| 1980
| Moskva (rus)
| Nadi Comaneci (rom)
| Yelena Davydova (sov)
| Natalya Shaposhnikova (sov)
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| 1976
| Montréal (can)
| Nadia Comaneci (rom)
| Olga Korbut (sov)
| Teodora Ungureanu (rom)
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| 1972
| München (wge)
| Olga Korbut (sov)
| Tamara Lazakovich (sov)
| Karin Janz (ege)
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| 1968
| Mexico City (mex)
| Natalya Kuchinskaya (sov)
| Vera Cáslavská (czs)
| Larissa Petrik (sov)
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| 1964
| Tokyo (jpn)
| Vera Cáslavská (czs)
| Tamara Manina (sov)
| Larisa Latynina (sov)
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| 1960
| Roma (ita)
| Eva Bosáková-Vechtová (czs)
| Larisa Latynina (sov)
| Sofiya Muratova (sov)
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| 1956
| Melbourne (aus)
| Ágnes Keleti (hun)
| Eva Bosáková-Vechtová (czs)
| --
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| Tamara Manina (sov)
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| 1952
| Helsinki (fin)
| Nina Bocharova (sov)
| Mariya Gorokhovskaya (sov)
| Margit Korondi (hun)
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