| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Indoor 2024 Women 800m | Tsige Duguma |  ETH | 2:01.90 | Jemma Reekie |  GBR | 2:02.72 | Noelie Yargo |  BEN | 2:03.15 |
| Indoor 2022 Women 800m | Ajeé Wilson |  USA | 1:59.09 | Freweyni Hailu | ETH | 2:00.54 | Halimah Nakaayi |  UGA | 2:00.66 |
| Indoor 2018 Women 800m | Francine Niyonsaba |  BDI | 1:58.31 | Ajee Wilson | USA | 1:58.99 | Shelayna Oskan-Clarke | GBR | 1:59.81 |
| Indoor 2016 Women 800m | Francine Niyonsaba | BDI | 2:00.01 | Ajee Wilson | USA | 2:00.27 | Margaret Nyairera Wambui |  KEN | 2:00.44 |
| Indoor 2014 Women 800m | Chanelle Price | USA | 2:00.09 | Angelika Cichocka |  POL | 2:00.45 | Marina Arzamasova |  BLR | 2:00.79 |
| Indoor 2012 Women 800m | Pamela Jelimo | KEN | 1:58.83 | Nataliia Lupu |  UKR | 1:59.67 | Erica Moore | USA | 1:59.97 |
| Indoor 2010 Women 800m | Mariya Savinova |  RUS | 1:58.26 | Jennifer Meadows | GBR | 1:58.43 | Alysia Johnson | USA | 1:59.60 |
| Indoor 2008 Women 800m | Tamsyn Lewis |  AUS | 2:02.57 | Tetiana Petlyuk | UKR | 2:02.66 | Maria de Lurdes Mutola |  MOZ | 2:02.97 |
| Indoor 2006 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:58.90 | Kenia Sinclair |  JAM | 1:59.54 | Hasna Benhassi |  MOR | 2:00.34 |
| Indoor 2004 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:58.50 | Jolanda Ceplak |  SLO | 1:58.72 | Joanne Fenn | GBR | 1:59.50 |
| Indoor 2003 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:58.94 | Stephanie Graf |  AUT | 1:59.39 | Mayte Martinez |  ESP | 1:59.53 |
| Indoor 2001 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:59.74 | Stephanie Graf | AUT | 1:59.78 | Helena Dziurova-Fuchsova |  CZE | 2:01.18 |
| Indoor 1999 Women 800m | Ludmila Formanova | CZE | 1:56.90 | Maria Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:57.17 | Natalya Tsyganova | RUS | 1:57.47 |
| Indoor 1997 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:58.96 | Natalya Dukhnova | BLR | 1:59.31 | Joetta Clark | USA | 1:59.82 |
| Indoor 1995 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:57.62 | Yelena Afanasyeva | RUS | 1:59.79 | Letitia Vriesde |  SUR | 2:00.36 |
| Indoor 1993 Women 800m | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | MOZ | 1:57.55 | Svetlana Masterkova | RUS | 1:59.18 | Joetta Clark | USA | 1:59.86 |
| Indoor 1991 Women 800m | Christine Wachtel |  GER | 2:01.51 | Violeta Beclea |  ROU | 2:01.75 | Ella Kovacs | ROU | 2:01.79 |
| Indoor 1989 Women 800m | Christine Wachtel |  GDR | 1:59.24 | Tatyana Grebenchuk |  URS | 1:59.53 | Ellen Kiessling | GDR | 1:59.68 |
| Indoor 1987 Women 800m | Christine Wachtel | GDR | 2:01.3 | G. Sedlakova |  TCH | 2:01.8 | Lyubov Kiriuchina | URS | 2:01:9 |
