| Indoor 1966 Women High Jump Dortmund | Iolanda Balaș |  Romania | 1.76m | Olga Gere-Pulić |  Yugoslavia | 1.73m | Ilia Hans |  West Germany | 1.65m |
| Indoor 1967 Women High Jump Prague | Taisiya Chenchik |  Soviet Union | 1.76m | Linda Knowles |  Great Britain | 1.73m | Jaroslava Králová |  Czechoslovakia | 1.70m |
| Indoor 1968 Women High Jump Madrid | Rita Schmidt |  East Germany | 1.84m | Virginia Bonci | Romania | 1.76m | Antonina Okorokova | Soviet Union | 1.76m |
| Indoor 1969 Women High Jump Belgrade | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | 1.82m | Yordanka Blagoeva |  Bulgaria | 1.82m | Antonina Lazareva | Soviet Union | 1.79m |
| Indoor 1970 Women High Jump Vienna | Ilona Gusenbauer |  Austria | 1.88m | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | 1.82m | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | 1.82m |
| Indoor 1971 Women High Jump Sofia | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.80m | Vera Gavrilova | Soviet Union | 1.80m | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | 1.78m |
| Indoor 1972 Women High Jump Grenoble | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | 1.90m | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | 1.84m | Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | 1.84m |
| _ Indoor 1973/Women High Jump Rotterdam | Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | 1.92m | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | 1.86m | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.86m |
| Indoor 1974 Women High Jump Gothenburg | Rosemarie Witschas | East Germany | 1.90m | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.88m | Rita Kirst | East Germany | 1.88m |
| Indoor 1975 Women High Jump Katowice | Rosemarie Ackermann | East Germany | 1.92m | Marie-Christine Debourse |  France | 1.83m | Annemieke Bouma |  Netherlands | 1.80m |
| Indoor 1976 Women High Jump Munich | Rosemarie Ackermann | East Germany | 1.92m | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.89m | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.89m |
| Indoor 1977 Women High Jump San Sebastián | Sara Simeoni |  Italy | 1.92m | Brigitte Holzapfel | West Germany | 1.89m | Edit Sámuel |  Hungary | 1.86m |
| Indoor 1978 Women High Jump Milan | Sara Simeoni | Italy | 1.94m | Brigitte Holzapfel | West Germany | 1.91m | Urszula Kielan |  Poland | 1.88m |
| Indoor 1979 Women High Jump Vienna | Andrea Mátay | Hungary | 1.92m | Urszula Kielan | Poland | 1.85m | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.80m |
| Indoor 1980 Women High Jump Sindelfingen | Sara Simeoni | Italy | 1.95m | Andrea Mátay | Hungary | 1.93m | Urszula Kielan | Poland | 1.93m |
| Indoor 1981 Women High Jump Grenoble | Sara Simeoni | Italy | 1.97m | Elżbieta Krawczuk | Poland | 1.94m | Urszula Kielan | Poland | 1.94m |
| Indoor 1982 Women High Jump Milan | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.95m | Andrea Bienias | East Germany | 1.99m | Katalin Sterk | Hungary | 1.91m |
| Indoor 1983 Women High Jump Budapest | Tamara Bykova | Soviet Union | 2.03m | Larisa Kositsyna | Soviet Union | 1.94m | Maryse Ewanjé-Epée | France | 1.97m |
| Indoor 1984 Women High Jump Gothenburg | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.95m | Maryse Ewanjé-Epée | France | 1.95m | Danuta Bułkowska | Poland | 1.95m |
| Indoor 1985 Women High Jump Piraeus | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 1.97m | Susanne Helm | East Germany | 1.94m | Danuta Bułkowska | Poland | 1.90m |
| Indoor 1986 Women High Jump Madrid | Andrea Bienias | East Germany | 1.97m | Gabriele Günz | East Germany | 1.94m | Larisa Kositsyna | Soviet Union | 1.94m |
| Indoor 1987 Women High Jump Liévin | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 1.97m | Tamara Bykova | Soviet Union | 1.94m | Susanne Beyer | East Germany | 1.91m |
| Indoor 1988 Women High Jump Budapest | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 2.04m | Heike Redetzky | West Germany | 1.97m | Larisa Kositsyna | Soviet Union | 1.97m |
| Indoor 1989 Women High Jump The Hague | Alina Astafei | Romania | 1.96m | Hanne Haugland |  Norway | 1.96m | Maryse Ewanjé-Epée | France | 1.91m |
| Indoor 1990 Women High Jump Glasgow | Heike Redetzky | West Germany | 2.00m | Britta Vörös | East Germany | 1.94m | Alina Astafei | Romania | 1.94m |
| Indoor 1992 Women High Jump Genoa | Heike Henkel | West Germany | 2.02m | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 2.02m | Yelena Yelesina |  EUN | 1.94m |
| Indoor 1994 Women High Jump Paris | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 1.98m | Desislava Aleksandrova | Bulgaria | 1.96m | Sigrid Kirchmann | Austria | 1.96m |
| Indoor 1996 Women High Jump Stockholm | Alina Astafei |  Germany | 1.98m | Níki Bakogiánni |  Greece | 1.96m | Olga Bolşova |  Moldova | 1.94m |
| Indoor 1998 Women High Jump Valencia | Monica Iagar | Romania | 1.96m | Alina Astafei | Germany | 1.94m | Yelena Yelesina |  Russia | 1.94m |
| Indoor 2000 Women High Jump Ghent | Kajsa Bergqvist |  Sweden | 2.00m | Zuzana Hlavoňová |  Czechia | 1.98m | Olga Kaliturina | Russia | 1.96m |
| Indoor 2002 Women High Jump Vienna | Marina Kuptsova | Russia | 2.03m | Dóra Győrffy | Hungary | 1.98m |
| Indoor 2005 Women High Jump Belgrade | Anna Chicherova | Russia | 2.01m | Ruth Beitia |  Spain | 1.99m | Venelina Veneva | Bulgaria | 1.97m |
| Indoor 2007 Women High Jump Madrid | Tia Hellebaut |  Belgium | ---- | Antonietta Di Martino | Italy | ---- | Ruth Beitia | Spain | ---- |
| Indoor 2009 Women High Jump Birmingham | Ariane Friedrich | Germany | ---- | Ruth Beitia | Spain | ---- | Viktoriya Klyugina | Russia | ---- |
| Indoor 2011 Women High Jump Turin | Antonietta Di Martino | Italy | ---- | Ruth Beitia | Spain | ---- | Ebba Jungmark | Sweden | ---- |
| Indoor 2013 Women High Jump Paris | Ruth Beitia | Spain | ---- | Ebba Jungmark | Sweden | ---- | Emma Green Tregaro | Sweden | ---- |
| Indoor 2015 Women High Jump Prague | Mariya Kuchina | Russia | ---- | Alessia Trost | Italy | ---- | Kamila Lićwinko | Poland | ---- |
| Indoor 2017 Women High Jump Belgrade | Airine Palsyte |  Lithuania | ---- | Ruth Beitia | Spain | ---- | Yuliya Levchenko |  Ukraine | ---- |
| Indoor 2019 Women High Jump Glasgow | Mariya Lasitskene |  ANA | ---- | Yuliya Levchenko | UKR Ukraine | ---- | Airine Palsyte | LTU Lithuania | ---- |
| Indoor 2021 Women High Jump Toruń | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Ukraine | ---- | Iryna Herashchenko | Ukraine | ---- | Ella Junnila |  Finland | ---- |
| Indoor 2023 Women High Jump Istanbul | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Ukraine | ---- | Britt Weerman | Netherlands | ---- | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Ukraine | ---- |
| Indoor 2025 Women High Jump Apeldoorn | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Ukraine | ---- | Angelina Topić |  Serbia | ---- | Engla Nilsson | Sweden | ---- |
