| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| 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 |  USAUSA | 10.85s | Marie-Josée Ta Lou |  CIVCIV | 10.86s | Dafne Schippers |  NED | 10.96s |
| Olympic 2016 Women 100m | Elaine Thompson |  JAMJAM | 10.71s | Tori Bowie | USAUSA | 10.85s | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | 10.86s |
| 2015 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | Dafne Schippers | NED | Tori Bowie |  USA | |||
| 2013 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | Murielle Ahoure | CIV | Carmelita Jeter | USA | |||
| Olympic 2012 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | JAM | Carmelita Jeter | USA | Veronica Campbell-Brown | JAM | |||
| 2011 Women 100m | Carmelita Jeter | USA | Veronica Campbell-Brown | JAM | Kelly-Ann Baptiste |  TRI | |||
| 2009 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser | JAM | Kerron Stewart | JAM | Carmelita Jeter | USA | |||
| Olympic 2008 Women 100m | Shelly-Ann Fraser | JAM | Sherone Simpson | JAM | |||||
| Kerron Stewart | JAM | ||||||||
| 2007 Women 100m | Veronica Campbell | JAM | Lauryn Williams | USA | Carmelita Jeter | USA | |||
| 2005 Women 100m | Lauryn Williams | USA | Veronica Campbell | JAM | Christine Arron |  FRA | |||
| Olympic 2004 Women 100m | Yuliya Nesterenko |  BLR | Lauryn Williams | USA | Veronica Campbell | JAM | |||
| 2003 Women 100m | Torri Edwards | USA | Zhanna Block |  UKR | Chandra Sturrup |  BAH | |||
| 2001 Women 100m | Zhanna Pintusevich-Block | UKR | Marion Jones | USA | Ekaterini Thanou |  GRE | |||
| Olympic 2000 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | Ekaterini Thanou | GRE | Tanya Lawrence | JAM | |||
| 1999 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | Inger Miller | USA | Ekaterini Thanou | GRE | |||
| 1997 Women 100m | Marion Jones | USA | Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich | UKR | Sevatheda Fynes | BAH | |||
| Olympic 1996 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | Merlene Ottey | JAM | Gwen Torrence | USA | |||
| 1995 Women 100m | Gwen Torrence | USA | Merlene Ottey | JAM | Irina Privalova |  RUS | |||
| 1993 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | Merlene Ottey | JAM | Gwen Torrence | USA | |||
| Olympic 1992 Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | Irina Privalova |  EUN | |||
| 1991 Women 100m | Katrin Krabbe |  GER | Gwen Torrence | USA | Merlene Ottey | JAM | |||
| Olympic 1988 Women 100m | Florence Griffith Joyner | USA | Evelyn Ashford | USA | Heike Drechsler |  GDR | |||
| 1987 Women 100m | Silke Gladisch-Moller | GDR | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GDR | Merlene Ottey | JAM | |||
| Olympic 1984 Women 100m | Evelyn Ashford | USA | Alice Brown | USA | Merlene Ottey | JAM | |||
| 1983 Women 100m | Marlies Oelsner-Gohr | GDR | Marita Koch | GDR | Diane Williams | USA | |||
| Olympic 1980 Women 100m | Liudmila Kondratieva |  URS | Marlies Gohr | GDR | Ingrid Auerswald | GDR | |||
| Olympic 1976 Women 100m | Annegret Richter |  FRG | Renate Stecher | GDR | Inge Helten | FRG | |||
| Olympic 1972 Women 100m | Renate Stecher | GDR | Raelene Boyle |  AUS | Silvia Chivas |  CUB | |||
| Olympic 1968 Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | Barbara Ferrell | USA | Irena Kirszenstein |  POL | |||
| Olympic 1964 Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | Edith McGuire | USA | Ewa Klobukowska | POL | |||
| Olympic 1960 Women 100m | Wilma Rudolph | USA | Dorothy Hyman | GBR | Giuseppina Leone |  ITA | |||
| Olympic 1956 Women 100m | Elizabeth Cuthbert | AUS | Christina Stubnick | GER | Marlene Mathews | AUS | |||
| Olympic 1952 Women 100m | Marjorie Jackson | AUS | Daphne Hasenjager |  ZAF | Shirley Strickland | AUS | |||
| Olympic 1948 Women 100m | Fanny Blankers-Koen | NED | Dorothy Manley | GBR | Shirley Strickland | AUS | |||
| Olympic 1936 Women 100m | Helen Stephens | USA | Stanislava Walasiewicz | POL | Kathe Krauss | GER | |||
| Olympic 1932 Women 100m | Stanislava Walasiewicz | POL | Hilda Strike |  CAn | Wilhelmina von Bremen | USA | |||
| Olympic 1928 Women 100m | Elizabeth Robinson | USA | Fanny Rosenfeld | CAn | Ethel Smith |  CAN | |||
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 18 | 11 | 8 | 37 |
| 2. Jamaica | 7 | 9 | 7 | 23 |
| 3. East Germany | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4. Australia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 5. Germany | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6. Ukraine | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 7. Poland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8. Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9. Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10.Belarus | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.Canada | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 12.Great Britain | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13.Ivory Coast | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14.Greece | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 15.South Africa | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16.Bahamas | 2 | 2 | ||
| 17.Cuba | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.France | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Italy | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Russia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Trinidad Tobago | 1 | 1 |
