_ Indoor 1966/Women 400m Dortmund | Helga Henning | West Germany | ---- | Libuše Macounová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Maeve Kyle | Ireland | ---- |
_ Indoor 1967/Women 400m Prague | Karin Wallgren | Sweden | ---- | Lia Louer | Netherlands | ---- | Ljiljana Petnjarić | Yugoslavia | ---- |
_ Indoor 1968/Women 400m Madrid | Natalya Pechonkina | Soviet Union | ---- | Gisela Köpke | West Germany | ---- | Tatyana Arnautova | Soviet Union | ---- |
_ Indoor 1969/Women 400m Belgrade | Colette Besson | France | ---- | Christel Frese | West Germany | ---- | Rosemary Stirling | Great Britain | ---- |
_ Indoor 1970/Women 400m Vienna | Marilyn Neufville | Great Britain | ---- | Christel Frese | West Germany | ---- | Colette Besson | France | ---- |
_ Indoor 1971/Women 400m Sofia | Vera Popkova | Soviet Union | ---- | Inge Bödding | West Germany | ---- | Maria Sykora | Austria | ---- |
_ Indoor 1972/Women 400m Grenoble | Christel Frese | West Germany | ---- | Inge Bödding | West Germany | ---- | Erika Weinstein | West Germany | ---- |
_ Indoor 1973/Women 400m Rotterdam | Verona Bernard | Great Britain | ---- | Waltraud Dietsch | East Germany | ---- | Renate Siebach | East Germany | ---- |
_ Indoor 1974/Women 400m Gothenburg | Jelica Pavličić | Yugoslavia | ---- | Nadezhda Ilyina | Soviet Union | ---- | Waltraud Dietsch | East Germany | ---- |
_ Indoor 1975/Women 400m Katowice | Verona Elder | Great Britain | ---- | Nadezhda Ilyina | Soviet Union | ---- | Inta Kļimoviča | Soviet Union | ---- |
_ Indoor 1976/Women 400m Munich | Rita Wilden | West Germany | ---- | Jelica Pavličić | Yugoslavia | ---- | Inta Kļimoviča | Soviet Union | ---- |
_ Indoor 1977/Women 400m San Sebastián | Marita Koch | East Germany | ---- | Verona Elder | Great Britain | ---- | Jelica Pavličić | Yugoslavia | ---- |
_ Indoor 1978/Women 400m Milan | Marina Sidorova | Soviet Union | ---- | Rita Bottiglieri | Italy | ---- | Karoline Käfer | Austria | ---- |
_ Indoor 1979/Women 400m Vienna | Verona Elder | Great Britain | ---- | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Karoline Käfer | Austria | ---- |
_ Indoor 1980/Women 400m Sindelfingen | Elke Decker | West Germany | ---- | Karoline Käfer | Austria | ---- | Tatyana Goyshchik | Soviet Union | ---- |
_ Indoor 1981/Women 400m Grenoble | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Natalya Bochina | Soviet Union | ---- | Verona Elder | Great Britain | ---- |
_ Indoor 1982/Women 400m Milan | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Dagmar Rübsam | East Germany | ---- | Gaby Bußmann | West Germany | ---- |
_ Indoor 1983/Women 400m Budapest | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Kirsten Siemon | East Germany | ---- | Rositsa Stamenova | Bulgaria | ---- |
_ Indoor 1984/Women 400m Gothenburg | Taťána Kocembová | Czechoslovakia | ---- | Erika Rossi | Italy | ---- | Rositsa Stamenova | Bulgaria | ---- |
_ Indoor 1985/Women 400m Piraeus | Sabine Busch | East Germany | ---- | Dagmar Neubauer | East Germany | ---- | Alena Bulířová | Czechoslovakia | ---- |
_ Indoor 1986/Women 400m Madrid | Sabine Busch | East Germany | ---- | Petra Müller | East Germany | ---- | Ann-Louise Skoglund | Sweden | ---- |
_ Indoor 1987/Women 400m Liévin | Mariya Pinigina | Soviet Union | ---- | Gisela Kinzel | West Germany | ---- | Cristina Pérez | Spain | ---- |
_ Indoor 1988/Women 400m Budapest | Petra Müller | East Germany | ---- | Helga Arendt | West Germany | ---- | Dagmar Neubauer | East Germany | ---- |
_ Indoor 1989/Women 400m The Hague | Sally Gunnell | Great Britain | ---- | Marina Shmonina | Soviet Union | ---- | Anita Protti | Switzerland | ---- |
_ Indoor 1990/Women 400m Glasgow | Marina Shmonina | Soviet Union | ---- | Iolanda Oanță | Romania | ---- | Judit Forgács | Hungary | ---- |
_ Indoor 1992/Women 400m Genoa | Sandra Myers | Spain | ---- | Olga Bryzgina | EUN | ---- | Yelena Golesheva | EUN | ---- |
_ Indoor 1994/Women 400m Paris | Svetlana Goncharenko | Russia | ---- | Tatyana Alekseyeva | Russia | ---- | Viviane Dorsile | France | ---- |
_ Indoor 1996/Women 400m Stockholm | Grit Breuer | Germany | ---- | Olga Kotlyarova | Russia | ---- | Tatyana Chebykina | Russia | ---- |
_ Indoor 1998/Women 400m Valencia | Grit Breuer | Germany | ---- | Ionela Târlea | Romania | ---- | Helena Fuchsová | Czechia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2000/Women 400m Ghent | Svetlana Pospelova | Russia | ---- | Natalya Nazarova | Russia | ---- | Helena Fuchsová | Czechia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2002/Women 400m Vienna | Natalya Antyukh | Russia | ---- | Claudia Marx | Germany | ---- | Karen Shinkins | Ireland | ---- |
_ Indoor 2005/Women 400m Belgrade | Svetlana Pospelova | Russia | ---- | Svetlana Usovich | Belarus | ---- | Irina Rosikhina | Russia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2007/Women 400m Madrid | Nicola Sanders | Great Britain | ---- | Ilona Usovich | Belarus | ---- | Olesya Zykina | Russia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2009/Women 400m Birmingham | Antonina Krivoshapka | Russia | ---- | Nataliya Pyhyda | Ukraine | ---- | Darya Safonova | Russia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2011/Women 400m Turin | Denisa Rosolová | Czechia | ---- | Olesya Krasnomovets | Russia | ---- | Kseniya Zadorina | Russia | ---- |
_ Indoor 2013/Women 400m Paris | Perri Shakes-Drayton | Great Britain | ---- | Eilidh Child | Great Britain | ---- | Moa Hjelmer | Sweden | ---- |
_ Indoor 2015/Women 400m Prague | Nataliya Pyhyda | Ukraine | ---- | Indira Terrero | Spain | ---- | Seren Bundy-Davies | Great Britain | ---- |
_ Indoor 2017/Women 400m Belgrade | Floria Gueï | France | ---- | Zuzana Hejnová | Czechia | ---- | Justyna šwięty | Poland | ---- |
_ Indoor 2019/Women 400m Glasgow | Léa Sprunger | Switzerland | ---- | Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo | Belgium | ---- | Lisanne de Witte | Netherlands | ---- |
_ Indoor 2021/Women 400m Toruń | Femke Bol | Netherlands | ---- | Justyna šwięty-Ersetic | Poland | ---- | Jodie Williams | Great Britain | ---- |
_ Indoor 2023/Women 400m Istanbul | Femke Bol | Netherlands | ---- | Lieke Klaver | Netherlands | ---- | Anna Kiełbasińska | Poland | ---- |
_ Indoor 2025/Women 400m Apeldoorn | Lieke Klaver | Netherlands | ---- | Henriette Jæger | Norway | ---- | Paula Sevilla | Spain | ---- |