| Indoor 1982 Women 200m Milan | Gesine Walther |  East Germany | 22.80s | Yelena Kelchevskaya |  Soviet Union | 23.35s | Heidi-Elke Gaugel |  West Germany | 23.39s |
| Indoor 1983 Women 200m Budapest | Marita Koch | East Germany | 22.39s | Joan Baptiste |  Great Britain | 23.37s | Christina Sussiek | West Germany | 23.61s |
| Indoor 1984 Women 200m Gothenburg | Jarmila Kratochvílová |  Czechoslovakia | 23.02s | Marie-Christine Cazier |  France | 23.68s | Olga Antonova | Soviet Union | 23.80s |
| Indoor 1985 Women 200m Piraeus | Marita Koch | East Germany | 22.82s | Kirsten Emmelmann | East Germany | 23.06s | Els Vader |  Netherlands | 23.64s |
| Indoor 1986 Women 200m Madrid | Marita Koch | East Germany | 22.58s | Ewa Kasprzyk |  Poland | 22.96s | Kirsten Emmelmann | East Germany | 23.28s |
| Indoor 1987 Women 200m Liévin | Kirsten Emmelmann | East Germany | 23.10s | Blanca Lacambra |  Spain | 23.19s | Marie-Christine Cazier | France | 23.40s |
| Indoor 1988 Women 200m Budapest | Ewa Kasprzyk | Poland | 22.69s | Tatyana Papilina | Soviet Union | 22.79s | Silke Knoll | West Germany | 23.12s |
| Indoor 1989 Women 200m The Hague | Marie-José Pérec | France | 23.21s | Regula Aebi |  Switzerland | 23.38s | Sabine Tröger |  Austria | 23.35s |
| Indoor 1990 Women 200m Glasgow | Ulrike Sarvari | West Germany | 22.96s | Natalya Kovtun | Soviet Union | 23.01s | Galina Malchugina | Soviet Union | 23.04s |
| Indoor 1992 Women 200m Genoa | Oksana Stepicheva |  EUN | 23.18s | Iolanda Oanta |  ROU Romania | 23.23s | Sabine Tröger | AUT Austria | 23.35s |
| Indoor 1994 Women 200m Paris | Galina Malchugina |  Russia | 22.41s | Silke Knoll |  Germany | 22.96s | Jacqueline Poelman | Netherlands | 23.43s |
| Indoor 1996 Women 200m Stockholm | Sandra Myers | Spain | 23.15s | Erika Suchovská |  Czechia | 23.16s | Zlatka Georgieva |  Bulgaria | 23.40s |
| Indoor 1998 Women 200m Valencia | Svetlana Goncharenko | Russia | 22.46s | Melanie Paschke | Germany | 22.50s | Ekaterini Koffa |  Greece | 23.86s |
| Indoor 2000 Women 200m Ghent | Muriel Hurtis | France | 23.06s | Alenka Bikar |  Slovenia | 23.16s | Yekaterina Leshchova | Russia | 23.20s |
| Indoor 2002 Women 200m Vienna | Muriel Hurtis | France | 22.52s | Karin Mayr | Austria | 22.70s | Gabi Rockmeier | Germany | 23.05s |
| Indoor 2005 Women 200m Belgrade | Ivet Lalova | Bulgaria | 22.91s | Karin Mayr-Krifka | Austria | 22.94s | Jacqueline Poelman | Netherlands | 23.42s |
