| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| 2022 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce |  JAM | 10.67s | Sherica Jackson | JAM | 10.73s | Elaine Thompson-Herah | JAM | 10.81s |
| Olympic 2020 Women 100m | Elaine Thompson-Herah | JAM | 10.61s | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.74s | Sherika Jackson | JAM | 10.76s |
| 2019 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.71s | Dina Asher-Smith |  GBR | 10.83s | Marie-Josée Ta Lou |  CIV | 10.90s |
| 2017 Women 100m | Tori Bowie |  USA | 10.85s | Marie-Josée Ta Lou | CIV | 10.86s | Dafne Schippers |  NED | 10.96s |
| Olympic 2016 Women 100m | Elaine Thompson | JAM | 10.71s | Tori Bowie | USA | 10.85s | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.86s |
| 2015 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.76s | Dafne Schippers | NED | 10.81s | Tori Bowie | USA | 10.86s |
| 2013 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.71s | Murielle Ahoure | CIV | 10.93s | Carmelita Jeter | USA | 10.94s |
| Olympic 2012 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.75s | Carmelita Jeter | USA | 10.78s | Veronica Campbell-Brown | JAM | 10.81s |
| 2011 Women 100m | Carmelita Jeter | USA | 10.90s | Veronica Campbell-Brown | JAM | 10.97s | Kelly-Ann Baptiste |  TRI | 10.98s |
| 2009 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser | JAM | 10.73s | Kerron Stewart | JAM | 10.75s | Carmelita Jeter | USA | 10.90s |
| Olympic 2008 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser | JAM | 10.98s | Sherone Simpson | JAM | 10.98s | |||
| Kerron Stewart | JAM | 10.98s | |||||||
| 2007 Women 100m | Veronica Campbell | JAM | 11.01s | Lauryn Williams | USA | 11.01s | Carmelita Jeter | USA | 11.02s |
| 2005 Women 100m | Lauryn Williams | USA | 10.93s | Veronica Campbell | JAM | 10.95s | Christine Arron |  FRA | 11.09s |
| Olympic 2004 Women 100m | Yuliya Nesterenko |  BLR | 10.93s | Lauryn Williams | USA | 10.96s | Veronica Campbell | JAM | 10.97s |
| 2003 Women 100m | Torri Edwards | USA | 10.93s | Zhanna Block |  UKR | 10.99s | Chandra Sturrup |  BAH | 11.02s |
| 2001 Women 100m | Zhanna Pintusevich-Block | UKR | 10.82s | Marion Jones | USA | 10.85a | Ekaterini Thanou |  GRE | 10.91s |
| Olympic 2000 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | 10.75s | Ekaterini Thanou | GRE | 11.12s | Tanya Lawrence | JAM | 10.18s |
| 1999 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | 10.70s | Inger Miller | USA | 10.79s | Ekaterini Thanou | GRE | 10.84s |
| 1997 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | 10.83s | Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich | UKR | 10.85s | Sevatheda Fynes | BAH | 11.03s |
| Olympic 1996 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | 10.94s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 10.94s | Gwen Torrence | USA | 10.96s |
| 1995 Women 100m | Gwen Torrence | USA | 10.85s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 10.94s | Irina Privalova |  RUS | 10.96s |
| 1993 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | 10.82s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 10.82s | Gwen Torrence | USA | 10.89s |
| Olympic 1992 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | 10.82s | Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | 10.83s | Irina Privalova |  EUN | 10.84s |
| 1991 Women 100m | Katrin Krabbe |  GER | 10.99s | Gwen Torrence | USA | 11.03s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 11.06s |
| Olympic 1988 Women 100m | Florence Griffith Joyner | USA | 10.54s | Evelyn Ashford | USA | 10.83s | Heike Drechsler |  GDR | 10.85s |
| 1987 Women 100m | Silke Gladisch-Moller | GDR | 10.90s | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GDR | 11.00s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 11.04s |
| Olympic 1984 Women 100m | Evelyn Ashford | USA | 10.97s | Alice Brown | USA | 11.13s | Merlene Ottey | JAM | 11.16s |
| 1983 Women 100m | Marlies Oelsner-Gohr | GDR | 10.97s | Marita Koch | GDR | 11.02s | Diane Williams | USA | 11.06s |
| Olympic 1980 Women 100m | Liudmila Kondratieva |  URS | 11.06s | Marlies Gohr | GDR | 11.07s | Ingrid Auerswald | GDR | 11.14s |
| Olympic 1976 Women 100m | Annegret Richter |  FRG | 11.08s | Renate Stecher | GDR | 11.13s | Inge Helten | FRG | 11.17s |
| Olympic 1972 Women 100m | Renate Stecher | GDR | 11.07s | Raelene Boyle |  AUS | 11.23s | Silvia Chivas |  CUB | 11.24s |
| Olympic 1968 Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | 11.0s | Barbara Ferrell | USA | 11.1s | Irena Kirszenstein |  POL | 11.1s |
| Olympic 1964 Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | 11.49s | Edith McGuire | USA | 11.62s | Ewa Klobukowska | POL | 11.64s |
| Olympic 1960 Women 100m | Wilma Rudolph | USA | 11.18s | Dorothy Hyman | GBR | 11.43s | Giuseppina Leone |  ITA | 11.48s |
| Olympic 1956 Women 100m | Elizabeth Cuthbert | AUS | 11.5s | Christina Stubnick | GER | 11.7s | Marlene Mathews | AUS | 11.7s |
| Olympic 1952 Women 100m | Marjorie Jackson | AUS | 11.5s | Daphne Hasenjager |  ZAF | 11.8s | Shirley Strickland | AUS | 11.9s |
| Olympic 1948 Women 100m | Fanny Blankers-Koen | NED | 11.9s | Dorothy Manley | GBR | 12.2s | Shirley Strickland | AUS | 12.2s |
| Olympic 1936 Women 100m | Helen Stephens | USA | 11.5s | Stanislava Walasiewicz | POL | 11.7s | Kathe Krauss | GER | 11.9s |
| Olympic 1932 Women 100m | Stanislava Walasiewicz | POL | 11.9s | Hilda Strike |  CAn | 11.9s | Wilhelmina von Bremen | USA | 12.0s |
| Olympic 1928 Women 100m | Elizabeth Robinson | USA | 12.2s | Fanny Rosenfeld | CAn | 12.3s | Ethel Smith |  CAN | 12.3s |
