| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Olympic 2016 20km Walk | Antonella Palmisano |  ITA | 1:29:12 | Sandra Arenas |  COL | 1:29:37 | Hong Liu |  CHN | 1:29:57 |
| 2019 Women 20km Walk | Hong Liu | CHN | 1:32:53 | Shenjie Qieyang | CHN | 1:33:10 | Liujing Yang | CHN | 1:33:17 |
| 2017 Women 20km Walk | Jiayu Yang | CHN | 1:26:18 | Maria Guadalupe González |  MEX | 1:26:19 | Antonella Palmisano | ITA | 1:26:36 |
| Olympic 2016 20km Walk | Hong Liu | CHN | 1:28:35 | Maria Guadalupe González | MEX | 1:28:37 | Xiuzhi Lu | CHN | 1:28:42 |
| 2015 Women 20km Walk | Hong Liu | CHN | Xiuzhi Lu | CHN | Lyudmyla Olyanovska |  UKR | |||
| 2013 Women 20km Walk | Elena Lashmanova |  RUS | Anisya Kirdyapkina | RUS | Hong Liu | CHN | |||
| Olympic 2012 20km Walk | Elena Lashmanova | RUS | Shenjie Qieyang | CHN | Qieyang Shenjie | CHN | |||
| 2011 Women 20km Walk | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | Hong Liu | CHN | Anisya Kirdyapkina | RUS | |||
| 2009 Women 20km Walk | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | Olive Loughnane |  IRL | Hong Liu | CHN | |||
| Olympic 2008 20km Walk | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | Kjersti Tysse Platzer |  NOR | Elisa Rigaudo | ITA | |||
| 2007 Women 20km Walk | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | Tatyana Shemyakina | RUS | Maria Vasco | RUS | |||
| 2005 Women 20km Walk | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | Ryta Turava |  BLR | Susana Feitor |  POR | |||
| Olympic 2004 Women 20km Walk | Athanasia Tsoumeleka |  GRE | 1:29:12 | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | 1:29:16 | Jane Saville |  AUS | 1:29:25 |
| 2003 Women 20km Walk | |||||||||
| 2001 Women 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 2000 Women 20km Walk | Wang Liping | CHN | 1:29:05 | Kjersti Plätzer | NOR | 1:29:33 | María Vasco |  ESP | 1:30:23 |
