| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| 2023 Women Long Jump | Ivana Vuleta |  SRB | 7.14m | Tara Davis-Woodhall |  USA | 6.91m | Alina Rotaru-Kottmann |  ROU | 6.88m |
| 2022 Women Long Jump | Malaika Mihambo |  GER | 7.12m | Ese Brume |  NGR | 7.02m | Leticia Oro Melo |  BRA | 6.89m |
| Olympic 2020 Women Long Jump | Malaika Mihambo | GER | 7.00m | Brittney Reese | USA | 6.97m | Ese Brume | NGR | 6.97m |
| 2019 Women Long Jump | Malaika Mihambo | GER | 7.30m | Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk |  UKR | 6.92m | Ese Brume | NGR | 6.91m |
| 2017 Women Long Jump | Brittney Reese | USA | 7.02m | Darya Klishina |  ANA | 7.00m | Tianna Bartoletta | USA | 6.97m |
| Olympic 2016 Women Long Jump | Tianna Bartoletta | USA | 7.17m | Brittney Reese | USA | 7.15m | Ivana Španovic | SRB | 7.08m |
| 2015 Women Long Jump | Tianna Bartoletta | USA | Shara Proctor |  GBR | Ivana Španovic | SRB | |||
| 2013 Women Long Jump | Brittney Reese | USA | Blessing Okagbare | NGR | Ivana Španovic | SRB | |||
| Olympic 2012 Women Long Jump | Brittney Reese | USA | 7.12m | Elena Sokolova |  RUS | 7.07m | Janay Deloach | USA | 6.89m |
| 2011 Women Long Jump | Brittney Reese | USA | Olga Kucherenko | RUS | Ineta Radevica |  LAT | |||
| 2009 Women Long Jump | Brittney Reese | USA | Tatyana Lebedeva | RUS | Karin Mey Melis |  TUR | |||
| Olympic 2008 Women Long Jump | Maurren Higa Maggi | BRA | 7.04m | Blessing Okagbare | NGR | 7.03m | Chelsea Hammond |  JAM | 6.91m |
| 2007 Women Long Jump | Tatyana Lebedeva | RUS | Lyudmila Kolchanova | RUS | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | |||
| 2005 Women Long Jump | Tianna Madison | USA | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | Eunice Barber |  FRA | |||
| Olympic 2004 Women Long Jump | Tatyana Lebedeva | RUS | 7.07m | Irina Simagina | RUS | 7.05m | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | 7.05m |
| 2003 Women Long Jump | Eunice Barber | FRA | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | George Anju Bobby |  IND | |||
| 2001 Women Long Jump | Fiona May |  ITA | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | Niurka Montalvo |  ESP | |||
| Olympic 2000 Women Long Jump | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GER | 6.99m | Fiona May | ITA | 6.92m | Tatyana Kotova | RUS | 6.83m |
| 1999 Women Long Jump | Niurka Montalvo | ESP | Fiona May | ITA | Marion Jones | USA | |||
| 1997 Women Long Jump | Lyudmila Galkina | RUS | Niki Xanthou |  GRE | Fiona May | ITA | |||
| Olympic 1996 Women Long Jump | Chioma Ajunwa | NGR | 7.12m | Fiona May | ITA | 7.02m | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | 7.00m |
| 1995 Women Long Jump | Fiona May | ITA | Niurka Montalvo |  CUB | Irina Mushailova | RUS | |||
| 1993 Women Long Jump | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GER | Larisa Berezhnaya | UKR | Renata Nielsen |  DEN | |||
| Olympic 1992 Women Long Jump | Heike Drechsler | GER | 7.14m | Inessa Kravets |  EUN | 7.12m | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | 7.07m |
| 1991 Women Long Jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GER | Larisa Berezhnaya |  URS | |||
| Olympic 1988 Women Long Jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | 7.40m | Heike Drechsler |  GDR | 7.22m | Galina Tchistiakova | URS | 7.11m |
| 1987 Women Long Jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | Yelena Belevskaya | URS | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GDR | |||
| Olympic 1984 Women Long Jump | Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir | ROU | 6.96m | Valeria Ionescu | ROU | 6.81m | Susan Hearnshaw | GBR | 6.80m |
| 1983 Women Long Jump | Heike Daute-Drechsler | GDR | Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu | ROU | Carol Lewis | USA | |||
| Olympic 1980 Women Long Jump | Tatiana Kolpakova | URS | 7.06m | Brigitte Wujak | GDR | 7.04m | Tatiana Skachko | URS | 7.01m |
| Olympic 1976 Women Long Jump | Angela Voigt | GDR | 6.72m | Kathy McMillan | USA | 6.66m | Lidiya Alfeeva | URS | 6.60m |
| Olympic 1972 Women Long Jump | Heide Rosendahl |  FRG | 6.78m | Diana Yorgova |  BUL | 6.77m | Eva Suranova |  TCH | 6.67m |
| Olympic 1968 Women Long Jump | Viorica Viscopoleanu | ROU | 6.82m | Sheila Sherwood | GBR | 6.68m | Tatyana Talysheva | URS | 6.66m |
| Olympic 1964 Women Long Jump | Mary Denise Rand | GBR | 6.76m | Irena Kirszenstein |  POL | 6.60m | Tatyana Shchelkanova | URS | 6.42m |
| Olympic 1960 Women Long Jump | Vera Krepkina | URS | 6.37m | Elzbieta Krzesinska | POL | 6.27m | Hildrun Claus | GER | 6.21m |
| Olympic 1956 Women Long Jump | Elzbieta Krzesinska | POL | 6.35m | Willye White | USA | 6.09m | Nadezhda Dvalishvili | URS | 6.07m |
| Olympic 1952 Women Long Jump | Yvette Williams |  NZL | 6.24m | Aleksandra Tshudina | URS | 6.14m | Shirley Cawley | GBR | 5.92m |
| Olympic 1948 Women Long Jump | Olga Gyarmati |  HUN | 5.70m | Noemi Simonetto de Portela |  ARG | 5.60m | Ann-Britt Leyman |  SWE | 5.58m |
