1947 1969 no rankings done 1970 1...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 2... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 3... Burkhard Leuschke (East Germany) 4... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 5... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 6...Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 7...Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 8...Herbert Meier (West Germany) 9...Peter Schuster (West Germany) 10...Horst-Rüdiger Magnor (West Germany) 1971 1... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 2... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 3...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 4... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 5...Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 6.. Bernhard Nermerich (West Germany) 7...Igor Della Rossa (Soviet Union) 8...Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 9...Paul Nihill (Great Britain) 10...Larry Young (US) 1972 1...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 2... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 3...Larry Young (US) 4... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 5... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 6...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 7...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 8... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 9...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 10...Gabriel Hernandez (Mexico) Yohann Diniz won the 17 Worlds with history s second-fastest time Note: multiple Russian walkers are in the process of having major results annulled, meaning that changes are coming in the Rankings for many years in the last decade or so GIANCARLO COLOMBO/photo run 1
1973 1...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 2... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 3...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 4...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 5... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 6... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 7... Sergey Bondarenko (Soviet Union) 8...Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 9... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 10...Vladimir Svetsnikov (Soviet Union) 1974 1...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 2... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 3... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 4... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 5... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 6...Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 7...Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 8...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 9... Sergey Bondarenko (Soviet Union) 10... Matthias Kroel (East Germany) 1975 1...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 2... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 3...Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 4...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 5...Vladimir Svetsnikov (Soviet Union) 6...Gerard Lelievre (France) 7... Raúl González (Mexico) 8... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 9... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 10... Vladimir Machnev (Soviet Union) 1976 1... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 2...Enrique Vera (Mexico) 3... Reima Salonen (Finland) 4... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 5... Matthias Kroel (East Germany) 6...Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 7... Paolo Grecucci (Italy) 8... Stefan Müller (East Germany) 9... Ralf Knutter (East Germany) 10...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 1977 2... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 3... Paolo Grecucci (Italy) 4... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 5...Enrique Vera (Mexico) 6...Daniel Bautista (Mexico) 7... Ralf Knutter (East Germany) 8...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 9...László Sátor (Hungary) 10...Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 1978 2...Jorge Llopart (Spain) 3... Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 4...Jan Ornoch (Poland) 5... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 6... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 7... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 8... Reima Salonen (Finland) 9... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 10... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 1979 2...Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 3...Enrique Vera (Mexico) 4... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 5...Jorge Llopart (Spain) 6... Vladimir Rezayev (Soviet Union) 7...Vyacheslav Fursov (Soviet Union) 8...Petr Myelnik (Soviet Union) 9... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 10... José Marin (Spain) 1980 2...Jorge Llopart (Spain) 3... Raúl González (Mexico) 4...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 5... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 6... Uwe Dünkel (East Germany) 7... José Marin (Spain) 8...Bengt Simonsen (Sweden) 9...Vyacheslav Fursov (Soviet Union) 10... Stanisław Rola (Poland) 2
1981 2... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 3... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 4... Uwe Dünkel (East Germany) 5... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 6... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 7...Marcel Jobin (Canada) 8...Jorge Llopart (Spain) 9...Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 10... Arturo Bravo (Mexico) 1982 2... Reima Salonen (Finland) 3... José Marin (Spain) 4... Felix Gomez (Mexico) 5...Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 6... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 7... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 8... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 9... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 10...Bogusław Duda (Poland) 1983 1... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 2... José Marin (Spain) 3... Raúl González (Mexico) 4... Sergey Yung (Soviet Union) 5... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 6... Reima Salonen (Finland) 7... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 8...Jorge Llopart (Spain) 9...Gerard Lelievre (France) 10...François Lapointe (Canada) 1984 1... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 2... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 3... Raúl González (Mexico) 4...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 5...Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 6... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 7... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 8...Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 9... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 10... Reima Salonen (Finland) 1985 2...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 3... Erling Andersen (Norway) 4... Reima Salonen (Finland) 5... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 6... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 7...Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 8... Axel Noack (East Germany) 9... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 10... Raffaello Ducceschi (Italy) 1986 2... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 3... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 4... Sergey Protsishin (Soviet Union) 5... Reima Salonen (Finland) 6... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 7... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 8...Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 9... Nikolay Frolov (Soviet Union) 10...Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 1987 2... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 4...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 5... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 6...Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 7... Raffaello Ducceschi (Italy) 8... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 9... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 10...Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 1988 1... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 2... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 4...Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 5... José Marin (Spain) 6... Simon Baker (Australia) 7...Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 8... Raffaello Ducceschi (Italy) 9... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 10...Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 3
1989 1... Simon Baker (Australia) 2...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 3...Stanislav Vezhel (Soviet Union) 4...Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 5...Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 6... Vitaliy Popovich (Soviet Union) 7...Vitaliy Matsko (Soviet Union) 8... Vyacheslav Smirnov (Soviet Union) 9... Valeriy Spitsyn (Soviet Union) 10...Anatoliy Grigoryev (Soviet Union) 1990 1...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 2...Bernd Gummelt (East Germany) 3... Simon Baker (Australia) 4... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 5... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 6... Andrey Plotnikov (Soviet Union) 7...Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 8...Stanislav Vezhel (Soviet Union) 9...Basilio Labrador (Spain) 10... José Marin (Spain) 1991 1... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 2...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 3...Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 4...Hartwig Gauder (Germany) 5... Simon Baker (Australia) 6... Vitaliy Popovich (Soviet Union) 7...Ronald Weigel (Germany) 8...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 9...Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 10... Giuseppe De Gaetano (Italy) 1992 1...Andrey Perlov (Russia) 2... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 3...Ronald Weigel (Germany) 4... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 5...Roman Mrázek (Czechoslovakia) 6...Hartwig Gauder (Germany) 7... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 8...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 9...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 10... José Marin (Spain) 1993 1...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 2...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 3... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 4...Tim Berrett (Canada) 5... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...German Sánchez (Mexico) 7... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 8... René Piller (France) 9...Basilio Labrador (Spain) 10...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 1994 1... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 2... Thierry Toutain (France) 3...Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 4... Valentí Massana (Spain) 5...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 6... René Piller (France) 7... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 8... German Skurygin (Russia) 9...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 10... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 1995 1...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 2...Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 3... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 4...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 5... Yongshen Zhao (China) 6...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 7... René Piller (France) 8... Aleksandar Raković (Yugoslavia) 9... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 10... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 1996 2...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 3... Valentí Massana (Spain) 4... Arturo Di Mezza (Italy) 5... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 6... Ignacio Zamudio (Mexico) 7...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 8... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 9...Daniel García (Mexico) 10...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 4
1997 1...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 2... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 3... Oleg Ishutkin (Russia) 4...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 5... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 6...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 7...Sylvain Caudron (France) 8... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 9...Fumio Imamura (Japan) 10...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 1998 2...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 3...Valentin Kononen (Finland) 4... Andrey Plotnikov (Russia) 5... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 6... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 7...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 8... Santiago Pérez (Spain) 9...Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 10...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 1999 1... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 2... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 3... Ivano Brugnetti (Italy) 4... Curt Clausen (US) 5... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 6... Valentí Massana (Spain) 7... Robert Ihly (Germany) 8...Craig Barrett (New Zealand) 9...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 10... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 2000 2...Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 3...Joel Sánchez (Mexico) 4... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 5... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...Nathan Deakes (Australia) 7...Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 8... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 9...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 10...Modris Liepins (Latvia) 2001 2...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 3... Edgar Hernández (Mexico) 4...Vladimir Potemin (Russia) 5...Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 6... Valentí Massana (Spain) 7... Curt Clausen (US) 8... Marco Giungi (Italy) 9... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 10... Santiago Pérez (Spain) 2002 1...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 2... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 3... German Skurygin (Russia) 4... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 5... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 6... Stepan Yudin (Russia) 7...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 8... Denis Langlois (France) 9... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 10...Modris Liepins (Latvia) 2003 2... German Skurygin (Russia) 3...Andreas Erm (Germany) 4...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 5... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 6...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 7... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8...Trond Nymark (Norway) 9... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 10... Denis Langlois (France) 2004 2... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 3...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 4...Chaohong Yu (China) 5...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 6... Yuriy Andronov (Russia) 7... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8... German Skurygin (Russia) 9...Alatan Gadasu (China) 10... Santiago Pérez (Spain) 5
2005 1... Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 2...Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 3... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 4...Trond Nymark (Norway) 5...Chengliang Zhao (China) 6...Chaohong Yu (China) 7... Yuriy Andronov (Russia) 8...Omar Zepeda (Mexico) 9... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 10...Yucheng Han (China) 2006 1... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 2... Yohann Diniz (France) 3...Trond Nymark (Norway) 4... Yuriy Andronov (Russia) 5...Nathan Deakes (Australia) 6... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 7...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 8... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 9...Horacio Nava (Mexico) 10...Marco De Luca (Italy) 2007 1...Nathan Deakes (Australia) 2... Yohann Diniz (France) 3... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 4... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 5...Vladimir Kanaykin (Russia) 6...Erik Tysse (Norway) 7...Trond Nymark (Norway) 8... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 9...Chao Sun (China) 10...Oleg Kistkin (Russia) 2008 1... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 2... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 3... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 5...Erik Tysse (Norway) 6...Horacio Nava (Mexico) 7...Yuki Yamazaki (Japan) 8...Rafał Fedaczyński (Poland) 9... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 10... Luke Adams (Australia) 2009 1... Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 2...Trond Nymark (Norway) 3...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 4... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 5...André Höhne (Germany) 6... Luke Adams (Australia) 7... Jared Tallent (Australia) 8... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 9...Marco De Luca (Italy) 10...Jarkko Kinnunen (Finland) 2010 1... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 2... Yohann Diniz (France) 3...Horacio Nava (Mexico) 4... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 5... Jared Tallent (Australia) 6... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 7...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 8... Tianfeng Si (China) 9...Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 10...Yuki Yamazaki (Japan) 2011 1... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 2... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 3... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4... Tianfeng Si (China) 5... Yohann Diniz (France) 6... Luke Adams (Australia) 7... Koichiro Morioka (Japan) 8... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 9... Faguang Xu (China) 10...Chil-Sung Park (South Korea) 2012 1... Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 2... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3... Tianfeng Si (China) 4...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 5... Igor Yerokhin (Russia) 6... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 7...Jianbo Li (China) 8... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 9... Łukasz Nowak (Poland) 10... Koichiro Morioka (Japan) 6
2013 1... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 2... Mikhail Ryzhov (Russia) 3... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4... Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 5... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 6... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 7... Yohann Diniz (France) 8... Ivan Noskov (Russia) 9... Erick Barrondo (Guatemala) 10... Łukasz Nowak (Poland) 2014 1... Yohann Diniz (France) 2... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 3... Mikhail Ryzhov (Russia) 4...Ivan Noskov (Russia) 5... Jared Tallent (Australia) 6... Takayuki Tanii (Japan) 7... Aleksey Bartsaykin (Russia) 8... Ivan Banzeruk (Ukraine) 9...Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 10...Marco De Luca (Italy) 2015 1... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 4... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 3... Takayuki Tanii (Japan) 2... Jared Tallent (Australia) 5...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 6... Lin Zhang (China) 7...Wei Yu (China) 8...Andrés Chocho (Ecuador) 9...Jesus Ángel García (Spain) 10...Quentin Rew (New Zealand) 2016 1... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 2... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 4... Evan Dunfee (Canada) 5...Wei Yu (China) 6...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 7... Yohann Diniz (France) 8...Håvard Haukenes (Norway) 9...Caio Bonfim (Brazil) 10...Zhendong Wang (China) 2017 1... Yohann Diniz (France) 2... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 3...Kai Kobayashi (Japan) 4...Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 5...Satoshi Maruo (Japan) 6... Máté Helebrandt (Hungary) 7...Rafał Augustyn (Poland) 8...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 9...Marco De Luca (Italy) 10...Carl Dohmann (Germany) 2018 1... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 2... Hayato Katsuki (Japan) 3...Satoshi Maruo (Japan) 4...Maryan Zakalnytskyy (Ukraine) 5... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 6... Qin Wang (China) 7...Rafał Augustyn (Poland) 8... Dzmitry Dziubin (Belarus) 9...Håvard Haukenes (Norway) 10... Rui Wang (China) 7