| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | date | |||
| 2012 | Camille Muffat |  FRA | Allison Schmitt |  USA | Rebecca Adlington |  GBR | 29.07 |
| 2008 | Rebecca Adlington |  GBR | Katie Hoff |  USA | Joanne Jackson | GBR | 11.08 |
| 2004 | Laure Manaudou |  FRA | Otylia Jędrzejczak |  POL | Kaitlin Sandeno | USA | |
| 2000 | Brooke Bennett | USA | Diana Munz | USA | Claudia Poll | CRC | |
| 1996 | Michelle Smith | IRL | Dagmar Hase |  GER | Kirsten Vlieghuis |  NED | |
| 1992 | Dagmar Hase | GER | Janet Evans | USA | Hayley Lewis |  AUS | |
| 1988 | Janet Evans | USA | Heike Friedrich |  GDR | Anke Möhring | GDR | |
| 1984 | Tiffany Cohen | USA | Sarah Hardcastle | GBR | June Croft | GBR | |
| 1980 | Ines Diers | GDR | Petra Schneider | GDR | Carmela Schmidt | GDR | 22.07 |
| 1976 | Petra Thümer | GDR | Shirley Babashoff | USA | Shannon Smith |  CAN | |
| 1972 | Shane Gould | AUS | Novella Calligaris | ITA | Gudrun Wegner | GDR | 30.08 |
| 1968 | Debbie Meyer | USA | Linda Gustavson | USA | Karen Moras | AUS | |
| 1964 | Virginia Duenkel | USA | Marilyn Ramenofsky | USA | Terri Stickles | USA | 18.10 |
| 1960 | Chris von Saltza | USA | Jane Cederqvist |  SWE | Tineke Lagerberg | NED | 01.09 |
| 1956 | Lorraine Crapp | AUS | Dawn Fraser | AUS | Sylvia Ruuska | USA | 07.12 |
| 1952 | Valéria Gyenge |  HUN | Eva Novak | HUN | Evelyn Kawamoto | USA | 02.08 |
| 1948 | Ann Curtis | USA | Karen-Margrete Harup | DEN | Catherine Gibson | GBR | 07.08 |
| 1936 | Hendrika Mastenbroek | NED | Ragnhild Hveger | DEN | Lenore Wingard | USA | 15.08 |
| 1932 | Helene Madison | USA | Lenore Kight | USA | Jennie Maakal | SAF | 13.08 |
| 1928 | Martha Norelius | USA | Maria Braun | NED | Josephine McKim | USA | 06.08 |
| 1924 | Martha Norelius | USA | Helen Wainwright | USA | Trudy Ederle | USA | |
| 1920 | Ethelda Bleibtrey | USA | Margaret Woodbridge | USA | Frances Schroth | USA | |
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