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| Year | Venue | Winner | Second | Third |
| 1928 | Reims | Edmond Soussa | Carel Koopman | Otto Unshelm |
| 1929 | Brussels | Edmond Soussa | Emile Zaman | Arnoud Sengers |
| 1930 | Amsterdam | Hendrik J. Robijns | Edmond Soussa | Arnoud Sengers |
| 1931 | Barcelona | Enrique Miró | Edmond Soussa | Arnoud Sengers |
| 1932 | Vichy | Hendrik J. Robijns | Claudio Puigvert | Franz Aeberhard |
| 1933 | Cairo | Hendrik J. Robijns | Edmond Soussa | Claudio Puigvert |
| 1934 | Barcelona | Claudio Puigvert | Jacques Davin | Jean Albert |
| 1935 | Algiers | Alfred Lagache | Claudio Puigvert | Emile Zaman |
| 1936 | New York | Edward L. Lee | Eugene Deardorff | Edmond Soussa |
| 1937 | Köln | Alfred Lagache | August Tiedtke | Arnoud Sengers |
| 1938 | Buenos Aires | Augusto Vergez | Jean Fransisco Vergez | Alfred Lagache |
| | 1939 to 1947: not held | | |
| 1948 | Buenos Aires | Rene Vingerhoedt | Jose Bonomo | Augusto Vergez |
| | 1949 to 1951: not held | | |
| 1952 | Buenos Aires | Pedro L. Carrera | August Tiedtke | Carlos Friedenthal |
| 1953 | Antwerp | Enrique Navarra | Rene Vingerhoedt | Pedro L. Carrera |
| | 1954 to 1957: not held | | |
| 1958 | Barcelona | Enrique Navarra | Rene Vingerhoedt | August Tiedtke |
| | 1959: not held | | |
| 1960 | Buenos Aires | Rene Vingerhoedt | Carlos Monestier | José Bonomo |
| 1961 | Amsterdam | Adolfo Suarez | Egidio Vieira | Bernard Siguret |
| | 1962: not held | | |
| 1963 | Neuss | Raymond Ceulemans | Johann Scherz | Enrique Navarra |
| 1964 | Ostend | Raymond Ceulemans | Marcelo Lopez | Roger Hanoun |
| 1965 | Hilversum | Raymond Ceulemans | Johann Scherz | Koya Ogata |
| 1966 | Buenos Aires | Raymond Ceulemans | Enrique Navarra | Alfonso González |
| 1967 | Lima | Raymond Ceulemans | Humberto Suguimizu | Keizo Kubo |
| 1968 | Düren | Raymond Ceulemans | Koya Ogata | Johann Scherz |
| 1969 | Tokyo | Raymond Ceulemans | Koya Ogata | Diego Martínez |
| 1970 | Las Vegas | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Johann Scherz |
| 1971 | Groningen | Raymond Ceulemans | Rini van Bracht | Henny de Ruyter |
| 1972 | Buenos Aires | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Peter Thøgersen |
| 1973 | Cairo | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Humberto Suguimizu |
| 1974 | Antwerp | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Raymond Ceulemans | Yoshio Yoshihara |
| 1975 | La Paz | Raymond Ceulemans | Rini van Bracht | Nobuaki Kobayashi |
| 1976 | Ostend | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Junichi Komori |
| 1977 | Tokyo | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Yoshio Yoshihara |
| 1978 | Las Vegas | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Junichi Komori |
| 1979 | Lima | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Yoshio Yoshihara |
| 1980 | Buenos Aires | Raymond Ceulemans | Yohio Yoshihara | Nobuaki Kobayashi |
| 1981 | Cairo | Ludo Dielis | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Johann Scherz |
| 1982 | Guayaquil | Rini van Bracht | Yohio Yoshihara | Carlos Hallon |
| 1983 | Aix-les-Bains | Raymond Ceulemans | Richard Bitalis | Nobuaki Kobayashi |
| 1984 | Krefeld | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Ludo Dielis | Raymond Ceulemans |
| 1985 | Heeswijk-Dinther | Raymond Ceulemans | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Junichi Komori |
| 1986 | Las Vegas | Avelino Rico | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Raymond Ceulemans |
| 1987 | Cairo | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Frank Torres | Arturo Bone |
| 1988 | 6 x World Cup | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Nobuaki Kobayashi | Raymond Ceulemans |
| 1989 | 5 x World Cup | Ludo Dielis | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Raymond Ceulemans |
| 1990 | 6 x World Cup | Raymond Ceulemans | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Ludo Dielis |
| 1991 | 5 x World Cup | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Raymond Ceulemans | Dick Jaspers |
| | 1992 and 1993: not held | | |
| 1994 | Aalborg | Rini van Bracht | Edgar Bettzieche | Brian Knudsen |
| 1995 | Grubbenvorst | Jozef Philipoom | John Tijssens | Nobuaki Kobayashi |
| 1996 | Hattingen | Christian Rudolph | Daniel Sánchez | Gerhard Kostistansky |
| 1997 | Grubbenvorst | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Raimund Burgman | Marco Zanetti |
| 1998 | Rezé | Daniel Sánchez | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Christian Rudolph |
| 1999 | Bogotá | Frédéric Caudron | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Dick Jaspers |
| 2000 | Saint-Étienne | Dick Jaspers | Tonny Carlsen | Marco Zanetti |
| 2001 | Luxembourg | Raymond Ceulemans | Marco Zanetti | Luis Miguel Ávila |
| 2002 | Randers | Marco Zanetti | Dion Nelin | Dick Jaspers |
| | | | Ramón Rodríguez |
| 2003 | Valladolid | Semih Saygıner | Filippos Kasidokostas | Torbjörn Blomdahl |
| | | | Marco Zanetti |
| 2004 | Rotterdam | Dick Jaspers | Filippos Kasidokostas | Nikos Polychronopoulos |
| | | | Jacob Haack-Sørensen |
| 2005 | Lugo | Daniel Sánchez | Jean Paul de Bruijn | Eddy Leppens |
| | | | Peter de Backer |
| 2006 | Sankt Wendel | Eddy Merckx | Nikos Polychronopoulos | Peter de Backer |
| | | | Dick Jaspers |
| 2007 | Cuenca | Ryuuji Umeda | Daniel Sánchez | Dick Jaspers |
| | | | Ramón Rodríguez |
| 2008 | Sankt Wendel | Marco Zanetti | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Peter de Backer |
| | | | Jérémy Bury |
| 2009 | Lausanne | Filippos Kasidokostas | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Leppens |
| | | | Marco Zanetti |
| 2010 | Sluiskil | Daniel Sánchez | Eddy Leppens | Choi Sung-won |
| | | | Javier Palazon |
| 2011 | Lima | Dick Jaspers | Marco Zanetti | Javier Palazón |
| | | | Daniel Sánchez |
| 2012 | Porto | Eddy Merckx | Choi Sung-won | Frédéric Caudron |
| | | | Marco Zanetti |
| 2013 | Antwerp | Frédéric Caudron | Filippos Kasidokostas | Alexander Salazar |
| | | | Dick Jaspers |
| 2014 | Seoul | Choi Sung-won | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Seo Hyun-min |
| | | | Jean Paul de Bruijn |
| 2015 | Bordeaux | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Kang Dong-koong | Eddy Merckx |
| | | | Dani Sánchez |
| 2016 | Bordeaux | Daniel Sánchez | Kim Haeng-jik | Semih Saygıner |
| | | | Eddy Leppens |
| 2017 | Santa Cruz | Frédéric Caudron | Eddy Merckx | Minh Cam Ma |
| | | | Marco Zanetti |
| 2018 | Cairo | Dick Jaspers | Jérémy Bury | Nguyễn Quốc Nguyên |
| | | | Semih Saygıner |
| 2019 | Randers | Torbjörn Blomdahl | Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến | Sameh Sidhom |
| | | | Semih Saygıner |
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