| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Indoor 2024 Women Shot Put | Sarah Mitton |  CAN | 20.22m | Yemisi Ogunleye |  GER | 20.19m | Chase Jackson |  USA | 19.67m |
| Indoor 2022 Women Shot Put | Auriol Dongmo |  POR | 20.43m | Chase Ealey | USA | 20.21m | Jessica Schilder |  NED | 19.48m |
| Indoor 2018 Women Shot Put | Anita Márton |  HUN | 19.62m | Danniel Thomas-Dodd |  JAM | 19.22m | Lijiao Gong |  CHN | 19.08m |
| Indoor 2016 Women Shot Put | Michelle Carter | USA | 20.21m | Anita Márton | HUN | 19.33m | Valerie Adams |  NZL | 19.25m |
| Indoor 2014 Women Shot Put | Valerie Adams | NZL | 20.67m | Christina Schwanitz | GER | 19.94m | Lijiao Gong | CHN | 19.24m |
| Indoor 2012 Women Shot Put | Valerie Adams | NZL | 20.54m | Nadzeya Ostapchuk |  BLR | 20.42m | Michelle Carter | USA | 19.58m |
| Indoor 2010 Women Shot Put | Nadzeya Ostapchuk | BLR | 20.85m | Valerie Vili | NZL | 20.49m | Natallia Mikhnevich | BLR | 20.42m |
| Indoor 2008 Women Shot Put | Valerie Vili | NZL | 20.19m | Nadzeya Ostapchuk | BLR | 19.74m | Meiju Li | CHN | 19.09m |
| Indoor 2006 Women Shot Put | Natallia Khoroneko | BLR | 19.84m | Nadine Kleinert | GER | 19.64m | Olga Ryabinkina |  RUS | 19.24m |
| Indoor 2004 Women Shot Put | Svetlana Krivelyova | RUS | 19.90m | Yumileidi Cumba |  CUB | 19.31m | Nadine Kleinert | GER | 19.05m |
| Indoor 2003 Women Shot Put | Irina Korzhanenko | RUS | 20.55m | Nadezhda Ostapchuk | BLR | 20.31m | Astrid Kumbernuss | GER | 19.86m |
| Indoor 2001 Women Shot Put | Larisa Peleshenko | RUS | 19.84m | Nadezhda Ostapchuk | BLR | 19.24m | Svetlana Krivelyova | RUS | 19.18m |
| Indoor 1999 Women Shot Put | Svetlana Krivelyova | RUS | 19.08m | Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska |  POL | 19.00m | Teri Steer-Tunks | USA | 18.86m |
| Indoor 1997 Women Shot Put | Vita Pavlysh |  UKR | 20.00m | Astrid Kumbernuss | GER | 19.92m | Irina Korzhanenko | RUS | 19.49m |
| Indoor 1995 Women Shot Put | Kathrin Neimke | GER | 19.40m | Connie Price-Smith | USA | 19.12m | Grit Hammer | GER | 19.02m |
| Indoor 1993 Women Shot Put | Svetlana Krivelyova | RUS | 19.57m | Stephanie Storp | GER | 19.37m | Zhang Liuhong | CHN | 19.32m |
| Indoor 1991 Women Shot Put | Sui Xinmei | CHN | 20.54m | Huang Zhihong | CHN | 20.33m | Natalya Lissovskaya |  URS | 20.00m |
| Indoor 1989 Women Shot Put | Claudia Losch |  FRG | 20.45m | Huang Zhihong | CHN | 20.25m | Christa Wiese |  GDR | 19.75m |
| Indoor 1987 Women Shot Put | Natalya Lissovskaya | URS | 20.52m | Ilona Briesenick | GDR | 20.28m | Claudia Losch | FRG | 20.14m |
| Unofficial | |||||||||
| Indoor 1985 Women Shot Put | Natalya Lisovskaya | URS | 20.07m | Ines Müller | GDR | 19.68m | Nunu Abashidze | URS | 18.82m |
