|
Year
|
Host
|
World Champion
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
4th
|
Best team
|
Best Lady
|
|
2006
|
Mito
 Japan |
 Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
 Makoto Suekuni 
Singapore |
 Ben Seeley 
United States |
 Tetsuya Nakajima
Japan |
Japan |
 Toshimi Tsuji
Japan |
|
2005
|
Reykjavik
 Iceland |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
 Kwang Wook Lee 
South Korea |
 Takuji Kashiwabara 
France |
 Tamaki Miyaoka
Japan |
Japan |
 Hisako Hoshi
Japan |
|
2004
|
London
 United Kingdom |
Ben Seeley
United States |
Makoto Suekuni
Japan |
 Brian Rose
United States |
 Andreas Höhne 
Germany |
United States |
|
|
2003
|
Stockholm
 Sweden |
Ben Seeley
United States |
Makoto Suekuni
Japan |
Andreas Höhne
Germany |
 Hiroshi Goto
Japan |
Japan |
|
|
2002
|
Amsterdam
 Netherlands |
 David Shaman
Netherlands |
Ben Seeley
United States |
 Imre Leader
United Kingdom |
Takuji Kashiwabara
France |
United States |
|
|
2001
|
New York
United States |
Brian Rose
United States |
 Raphael Schreiber
United States |
 Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
Japan |
 Matthias Berg
Germany |
United States |
|
|
2000
|
Copenhagen
 Denmark |
 Takeshi Murakami Japan |
Brian Rose
United States |
 Stéphane Nicolet
France |
 Tim Krzywonos 
Canada |
United States |
|
|
1999
|
Milan  Italy |
David Shaman
Netherlands |
Tetsuya Nakajima
Japan |
 Kazune Aoki
Japan |
 Jan Kristian Haugland 
Norway |
Japan |
|
|
1998
|
Barcelona
 Spain |
Takeshi Murakami
Japan |
 Emmanuel Caspard
France |
 Dominique Penloup
France |
 Tatsuya Mine
United States |
France |
|
|
1997
|
Athens
 Greece |
Makoto Suekuni
Japan |
 Graham Brightwell
United Kingdom |
 Donato Barnaba
Italy |
 Marc Tastet
France |
United Kingdom |
|
|
1996
|
Tokyo
Japan |
Takeshi Murakami
Japan |
Stéphane Nicolet
France |
 Garry Edmead
United Kingdom |
 Joel Feinstein
United Kingdom |
United Kingdom |
|
|
1995
|
Melbourne
 Australia |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
David Shaman
United States |
Tatsuya Mine
United States |
Emmanuel Caspard
France |
United States |
|
|
1994
|
Paris
France |
 Masaki Takizawa
Japan |
 Karsten Feldborg
Denmark |
Marc Tastet
France |
Imre Leader
United Kingdom |
France |
|
|
1993
|
London
United Kingdom |
David Shaman
United States |
Emmanuel Caspard
France |
 Philippe Juhem
France |
 Noboyuki Takizawa
Japan |
United States |
|
|
1992
|
Barcelona
Spain |
Marc Tastet
France |
David Shaman
United Kingdom |
 Francesco Marconi
Italy |
 Nils Berner
Sweden |
United Kingdom |
|
|
1991
|
New York
United States |
 Shigeru Kaneda
Japan |
 Paul Ralle
France |
David Shaman
United States |
Brian Rose
United States |
United States |
|
|
1990
|
Stockholm
Sweden |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
 Didier Piau
France |
Paul Ralle
France |
Brian Rose
United States |
France |
|
|
1989
|
Warszawa
 Polen |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
Graham Brightwell
United Kingdom |
Peter Bhagat
United Kingdom |
David Shaman
United States |
United Kingdom |
|
|
1988
|
Paris
France |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
Graham Brightwell
United Kingdom |
Imre Leader
United Kingdom |
Takeshi Murakami
Japan |
United Kingdom |
|
|
1987
|
Milan
Italy |
 Kenichi Ishii
Japan |
Paul Ralle
France |
David Shaman
United States |
Karsten Feldborg
Denmark |
United States |
|
|
1986
|
Tokyo
Japan |
Hideshi Tamenori
Japan |
Paul Ralle
France |
David Shaman
United States |
Imre Leader
United Kingdom |
||
|
1985
|
Athens
Greece |
Masaki Takizawa
Japan |
 Paolo Ghirardato
Italy |
David Shaman
United States |
 Neil Stephenson
United Kingdom |
||
|
1984
|
Melbourne
Australia |
Paul Ralle
France |
 Ryo-Ichi Taniguchi
Japan |
Ted Landau
United States |
David Sharman
United Kingdom |
||
|
1983
|
Paris
France |
Kenichi Ishii
Japan |
Imre Leader
United Kingdom |
Brian Rose
United States |
Paolo Ghirardato
Italy |
||
|
1982
|
Stockholm
Sweden |
 Kunihito Tanida
Japan |
David Shaman
United States |
Pier Andrea Morolli
Italy |
Luc Bruyninckx 
Belgium |
||
|
1981
|
Brussels
Belgium |
 Hidenori Maruoka
Japan |
Brian Rose
United States |
Pier Andrea Morolli
Italy |
 Francois Pingaud
France |
||
|
1980
|
London
United Kingdom |
 Jonathan Cerf
United States |
 Takuya Mimura
Japan |
Vincenzo Peccerillo
Italy |
Alain Serneels
Belgium |
||
|
1979
|
Rome
Italy |
 Hiroshi Inoue
Japan |
Jonathan Cerf
United States |
Joseph Alan Woch
United Kingdom |
Vincenzo Peccerillo
Italy |
||
|
1978
|
New York
United States |
Hidenori Maruoka
Japan |
 Carol Jacobs
United States |
Leve Arsenault
Canada |
Jeff Davison
United Kingdom |
||
|
1977
|
Tokyo
Japan |
Hiroshi Inoue
Japan |
 Thomas Heiberg
Norway |
Carol Jacobs
United States |
Joseph Alan Woch
United Kingdom |