| Index | ||||||||
| Athletics | ||||||||
| Marathon Women - City Races | ||||||||
| Click on underlined Athletes to access photograph and career highlights | ||||||||
| Chicago | Berlin | Tokyo / Yokohama | Paris | |||||
| 1974 | Von Haase | FDR | ||||||
| 1975 | Bochroeder C. | FDR | ||||||
| 1976 | Von Haase | FDR | ||||||
| 1977 | Doolittle | USA | Brandt | FDR | ||||
| 1978 | Larson | USA | Blaschke | FDR | ||||
| 1979 | Michalek | USA | Von Haase | FDR | Smith J. | GBR | Forster | SUI |
| 1980 | Petersen | USA | Puettmann | FDR | Smith J. | GBR | Adams | GBR |
| 1981 | Gandy | USA | Stephan | FDR | Staudt | CAN | Langlace | FRA |
| 1982 | Conz | USA | Lochhead | GBR | Ivanova | URS | Cienka | FRA |
| 1983 | Mota | POR | Holdsworth | GBR | Sasaki | JPN | Courtade | FRA |
| 1984 | Mota | POR | Jakab | HUN | Dorre | DDR | Levesques | FRA |
| 1985 | Samuelson | USA | Ilands | BEL | Dorre | DDR | Hurst | GBR |
| 1986 | Kristiansen | NOR | Teske | FDR | Mota | POR | Lelut-Rebelo | FRA |
| 1987 | - | Presler | FDR | Dorre | DDR | Cobos | ESP | |
| 1988 | Rainsberger | USA | Kokowska | POL | Cunha | POR | Cunha | POR |
| 1989 | Rainsberger | USA | Tikkanen | FIN | Klochko | URS | Kojima | JPN |
| 1990 | Cunha | POR | Pippig | GER | Xie | CHN | Yamamoto | JPN |
| 1991 | Hamrin | SWE | Kokowska | POL | Tanigawa | JPN | ¬ | |
| 1992 | Somers | USA | Pippig | GER | McColgan | GBR | Titova | RUS |
| 1993 | Lemettinen | FIN | Kokowska | POL | Yegorova | RUS | Yoshida | JPN |
| 1994 | Johnson | USA | Dorre | GER | Yegorova | RUS | Tanigawa | JPN |
| 1995 | Lemettinen | FIN | Pippig | GER | Asari | JPN | Nagy | HUN |
| 1996 | Sutton | GBR | de Reuck | RSA | Fujimura | JPN | Tecuta | ROM |
| 1997 | Sutton | GBR | McKiernan | IRL | Ito | JPN | Razdroguina | RUS |
| 1998 | Chepchumba | KEN | Renders | BEL | Asari | JPN | Carroll | AUS |
| 1999 | Chepchumba | KEN | Loroupe | KEN | Yanaguchi | JPN | Costea | POR |
| 2000 | Ndereba | KEN | Matsuo | JPN | Chepchumba | KEN | Renders | BEL |
| 2001 | Ndereba | KEN | Takahashi N. | JPN | Tulu | ETH | Barsosio | KEN |
| 2002 | Radcliffe | GBR | Takahashi N. | JPN | Mrashani | TAN | Renders | BEL |
| 2003 | Zakharova | RUS | Hashimoto | JPN | Alemu | ETH | Omwanza | KEN |
| 2004 | Tomescu-Dita | ROM | Shibui | JPN | Genovese | ITA | Kosgei | KEN |
| 2005 | Kastor | USA | Noguchi | JPN | Takahashi N. | JPN | Grigorieva | RUS |
| 2006 | Adere | ETH | Wami | ETH | Tosa | JPN | Timofeyeva | RUS |
| 2007 | Adere | ETH | Wami | ETH | Noguchi | JPN | Magarsa | ETH |
| 2008 | Grigoryeva | RUS | Mikitenko | GER | Ozaki | JPN | Komu | KEN |
| 2009 | Shobukhova | RUS | Besuye | ETH | Abitova | RUS | Baysa | ETH |
| 2010 | Shobukhova | RUS | Kebede | ETH | Ozaki | JPN | Baysa | ETH |
| 2011 | Shobukhova | RUS | Kiplagat F. | KEN | Kizaki | JPN | Jeptoo | KEN |