1947 1969 (no rankings done) 1970 1...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 2... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 3... Vladimir Golubnichiy (Soviet Union) 4... Nikolay Smaga (Soviet Union) 5...Gennadiy Agapov (Soviet Union) 6... Gerhard Sperling (East Germany) 7...Noel Freeman (Australia) 8...Wilf Wesch (West Germany) 9... Boris Yakovlyev (Soviet Union) 10... Dave Romansky (US) kazu eguchi/photo run 1971 1... Nikolay Smaga (Soviet Union) 2... Gerhard Sperling (East Germany) 3...Paul Nihill (Great Britain) 4...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 5... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 6... Phil Embleton (Great Britain) 7...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 8... Boris Yakovlyev (Soviet Union) 9.. Siegfried Zschiegner (East Germany) 10...Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 1972 1...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 2... Vladimir Golubnichiy (Soviet Union) 3... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 4... Gerhard Sperling (East Germany) 5...Paul Nihill (Great Britain) 6... Nikolay Smaga (Soviet Union) 7...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 8...Jan Ornoch (Poland) 9...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 10...Larry Young (US) Note: multiple Russian walkers are in the process of having major results annulled, meaning that changes are coming in the Rankings for man years in close to the last decade Jefferson Pérez really spread out his 4 titles: 96, 03, 05 & 07 1
1973 1... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 2...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 3...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 4...Ron Laird (US) 5... Nikolay Smaga (Soviet Union) 6...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 7...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 8.. Siegfried Zschiegner (East Germany) 9... Stefan Tzukev (Bulgaria) 10...Armando Zambaldo (Italy) 1974 1... Vladimir Golubnichiy (Soviet Union) 2...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 3...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 4...Roger Mills (Great Britain) 5.. Siegfried Zschiegner (East Germany) 6...Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 7...Armando Zambaldo (Italy) 8... Raúl González (Mexico) 9...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 10...Jan Ornoch (Poland) 1975 2...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 3... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 4...Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 5...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 6... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 7... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 8... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 9...Jan Ornoch (Poland) 10... Brian Adams (Great Britain) 1976 2...Peter Frenkel (East Germany) 3... Hans-Georg Reimann (East Germany) 4... Raúl González (Mexico) 5...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 6... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 7...Armando Zambaldo (Italy) 8... Vladimir Golubnichiy (Soviet Union) 9...Angel Flores (Mexico) 10...Gérard Lelièvre (France) 1977 2... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 3...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 4... Raúl González (Mexico) 5...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 6...Gérard Lelièvre (France) 7... Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (Soviet Union) 8...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 9...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 10...Armando Zambaldo (Italy) 1978 2...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 3... Pyotr Pochenchuk (Soviet Union) 4...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 5... Boris Yakovlyev (Soviet Union) 6... Raúl González (Mexico) 7... José Marin (Spain) 8...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 9...Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) 10... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 1979 2... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 3... Boris Yakovlyev (Soviet Union) 4... Nikolay Vinnichenko (Soviet Union) 5...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 6... Pyotr Pochenchuk (Soviet Union) 7... Reima Salonen (Finland) 8... Felix Gómez (Mexico) 9... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 10...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 1980 1...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 2...Daniel Bautista (Mexico) 3... Pyotr Pochenchuk (Soviet Union) 4...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 5... Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (Soviet Union) 6... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 7... Nikolay Vinnichenko (Soviet Union) 8... Werner Heyer (East Germany) 9...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 10... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 2
1981 1... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 2...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 3...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 4...Alessandro Pezzatini (Italy) 5... Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (Soviet Union) 6... José Marin (Spain) 7...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 8... Pyotr Pochenchuk (Soviet Union) 9... Ralf Kowalsky (East Germany) 10...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 1982 1... José Marin (Spain) 2...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 3...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 4... Pavol Blažek (Czechoslovakia) 5... Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (Soviet Union) 6...Gérard Lelièvre (France) 7... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 8...Alessandro Pezzatini (Italy) 9...Carlo Mattioli (Italy) 10... Raúl González (Mexico) 1983 1...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 2... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 3... Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (Soviet Union) 4...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 5... José Marin (Spain) 6...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 7...Gérard Lelièvre (France) 8...Marcellino Colín (Mexico) 9... Pavol Blažek (Czechoslovakia) 10...Guillaume Leblanc (Canada) 1984 1... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 2... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3... Raúl González (Mexico) 4...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 5... Ralf Kowalsky (East Germany) 6... Sergey Protsyshin (Soviet Union) 7... Nikolay Polozov (Soviet Union) 8...Anatoliy Solomin (Soviet Union) 9... Erling Andersen (Norway) 10... Reima Salonen (Finland) 1985 1... José Marin (Spain) 2...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 3... Viktor Mostovik (Soviet Union) 4...Roland Wieser (East Germany) 5... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 6...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 7...Guillaume Leblanc (Canada) 8...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 9... Sergey Protsyshin (Soviet Union) 10... Anatoliy Gorshkov (Soviet Union) 1986 1...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 2...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 3... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 4... Miguel Prieto (Spain) 5... Viktor Mostovik (Soviet Union) 6... Walter Arena (Italy) 7... Pavol Blažek (Czechoslovakia) 8... Aleksey Pershin (Soviet Union) 9...Guillaume Leblanc (Canada) 10... Reima Salonen (Finland) 1987 1...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 2...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 3... José Marin (Spain) 4... Viktor Mostovik (Soviet Union) 5... Carlos Mercenario (Mexico) 6... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 7... Axel Noack (East Germany) 8...Roman Mrázek (Czechoslovakia) 9...Querubín Moreno (Colombia) 10... Anatoliy Gorshkov (Soviet Union) 1988 1...Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia) 2... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 4... José Marin (Spain) 5...Roman Mrázek (Czechoslovakia) 6...Mikhail Shchennikov (Soviet Union) 7... Carlos Mercenario (Mexico) 8... Axel Noack (East Germany) 9...Giovanni de Benedictis (Italy) 10...Guillaume Leblanc (Canada) 3
1989 1...Frants Kostyukevich (Soviet Union) 2...Mikhail Shchennikov (Soviet Union) 3... Yevgeniy Misyulya (Soviet Union) 4...Roman Mrázek (Czechoslovakia) 5... Viktor Mostovik (Soviet Union) 6...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 7... Walter Arena (Italy) 8... Pavol Blažek (Czechoslovakia) 9... Thierry Toutain (France) 10... Jean-Claude Corre (France) 1990 1... Pavol Blažek (Czechoslovakia) 2... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 3...Daniel Plaza (Spain) 4... Thierry Toutain (France) 5...Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 6... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 7... Walter Arena (Italy) 8...Mikhail Shchennikov (Soviet Union) 9... Valentí Massana (Spain) 10...Bernd Gummelt (East Germany) 1991 1...Mikhail Shchennikov (Soviet Union) 2...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 3... Yevgeniy Misyulya (Soviet Union) 4...Giovanni de Benedictis (Italy) 5... Ernesto Canto (Mexico) 6... Thierry Toutain (France) 7... Walter Arena (Italy) 8... Valentí Massana (Spain) 9...Daniel Plaza (Spain) 10... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 1992 1...Daniel Plaza (Spain) 2...Guillaume Leblanc (Canada) 3...Giovanni de Benedictis (Italy) 4...Maurizio Damilano (Italy) 5... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 7... Shaoguo Chen (China) 8... Stefan Johansson (Sweden) 9...Jimmy McDonald (Ireland) 10...Daniel García (Mexico) 1993 1... Valentí Massana (Spain) 2...Giovanni de Benedictis (Italy) 3...Daniel Plaza (Spain) 4...Daniel García (Mexico) 5...Alberto Cruz (Mexico) 6... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 7...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 8... Robert Ihly (Germany) 9... Igor Kollár (Slovakia) 10... Bernardo Segura (Mexico) 1994 1...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 2... Bernardo Segura (Mexico) 3...Daniel García (Mexico) 4...Yevgeniy Misyulya (Belarus) 5... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...Lingtang Bo (China) 7... Shaoguo Chen (China) 8...Giovanni de Benedictis (Italy) 9...Mingjun Tan (China) 10...Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador) 1995 1... Michele Didoni (Italy) 2... Zewen Li (China) 3...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 4... Valentí Massana (Spain) 5...Yevgeniy Misyulya (Belarus) 6... Ilya Markov (Russia) 7... Bernardo Segura (Mexico) 8... Denis Langlois (France) 9... Nick A Hern (Australia) 10... Shaoguo Chen (China) 1996 2... Ilya Markov (Russia) 3... Bernardo Segura (Mexico) 4... Nick A Hern (Australia) 5...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 6... Rishat Shafikov (Russia) 7...Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 8... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 9...Yevgeniy Misyulya (Belarus) 10...Vladimir Andreyev (Russia) 4
1997 1...Daniel García (Mexico) 3...Mikhail Shchennikov (Russia) 4... Zewen Li (China) 5...Yevgeniy Misyulya (Belarus) 6... Ilya Markov (Russia) 7... Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (Belarus) 8... Julio Martínez (Guatemala) 9... Rishat Shafikov (Russia) 10...Guohui Yu (China) 1998 1... Ilya Markov (Russia) 3...Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 4... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 6...Daniel García (Mexico) 7... Nick A Hern (Australia) 8...Andreas Erm (Germany) 9...Sándor Urbanik (Hungary) 10...Ivan Trotskiy (Belarus) 1999 1... Ilya Markov (Russia) 2... Bernardo Segura (Mexico) 3...Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador) 4...Daniel García (Mexico) 6...Guohui Yu (China) 7...Alessandro Gandellini (Italy) 8...Vladimir Andreyev (Russia) 9... Zewen Li (China) 10... Igor Kollár (Slovakia) 2000 1... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2... Noé Hernández (Mexico) 3...Vladimir Andreyev (Russia) 4...Andreas Erm (Germany) 5...Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador) 6... Roman Rasskazov (Russia) 7... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 8...Nathan Deakes (Australia) 9...Alessandro Gandellini (Italy) 10...Alejandro López (Mexico) 2001 1... Roman Rasskazov (Russia) 2...Viktor Burayev (Russia) 3... Ilya Markov (Russia) 6... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 7...David Márquez (Spain) 8...Joel Sánchez (Mexico) 9... Satoshi Yanagisawa (Japan) 10...Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador) 2002 1... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 3...Vladimir Andreyev (Russia) 4...Alejandro López (Mexico) 5... Noé Hernández (Mexico) 6...Juan Manuel Molina (Spain) 7...Viktor Burayev (Russia) 8...Yevgeniy Misyulya (Belarus) 9... Andrey Stadnichuk (Russia) 10...Alessandro Gandellini (Italy) 2003 2... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 3... Roman Rasskazov (Russia) 4... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 5... Noé Hernández (Mexico) 6... Luke Adams (Australia) 7...Ivan Trotskiy (Belarus) 8...David Márquez (Spain) 9... Ilya Markov (Russia) 10...David Domínguez (Spain) 2004 1... Ivano Brugnetti (Italy) 3... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 6...Juan Manuel Molina (Spain) 7...Hongjun Zhu (China) 8...Vladimir Andreyev (Russia) 9...André Höhne (Germany) 10...Yucheng Han (China) 5
2005 2... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 3...Juan Manuel Molina (Spain) 5... Ilya Markov (Russia) 6...André Höhne (Germany) 7...Vladimir Stankin (Russia) 8... Hatem Ghoula (Tunisia) 9...Hongjun Zhu (China) 10... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 2006 1... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 3...Yucheng Han (China) 5... Hatem Ghoula (Tunisia) 6... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 7...Viktor Burayev (Russia) 8... Gaobo Li (China) 9... Ilya Markov (Russia) 10...João Vieira (Portugal) 2007 2... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 3... Hatem Ghoula (Tunisia) 4...Vladimir Kanaykin (Russia) 5... Yohann Diniz (France) 6... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 7... Luke Adams (Australia) 8...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 9... Giorgio Rubino (Italy) 10...Erik Tysse (Norway) 2008 1...Valeriy Borchin (Russia) 3... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4... Francisco Fernández (Spain) 5... Hao Wang (China) 6... Luke Adams (Australia) 7... Ivano Brugnetti (Italy) 8...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 9... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 10...Erik Tysse (Norway) 2009 1...Valeriy Borchin (Russia) 2... Hao Wang (China) 3... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 4... Giorgio Rubino (Italy) 5... Luis Fernando López (Colombia) 6... Jared Tallent (Australia) 7...Erik Tysse (Norway) 8...Jesús Sánchez (Mexico) 9... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 10...João Vieira (Portugal) 2010 1...Stanislav Yemlyanov (Russia) 2... Hao Wang (China) 3... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 4... Yafei Chu (China) 5... Andrey Krivov (Russia) 6... Luis Fernando López (Colombia) 7...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 8... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 9...Ding Chen (China) 10...João Vieira (Portugal) 2011 1...Valeriy Borchin (Russia) 2...Vladimir Kanaykin (Russia) 3... Zhen Wang (China) 4...Stanislav Yemelyanov (Russia) 5... Luis Fernando López (Colombia) 6...Hyun-Sub Kim (South Korea) 7... Yafei Chu (China) 8... Yusuke Suzuki (Japan) 9...Erick Barrondo (Guatemala) 10...Ding Chen (China) 2012 1...Ding Chen (China) 2... Zhen Wang (China) 3...Erick Barrondo (Guatemala) 4...Zelin Cai (China) 5... Eder Sánchez (Mexico) 6... Jared Tallent (Australia) 7... Miguel Ángel López (Spain) 8... Andrey Krivov (Russia) 9...Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 10...Andrey Ruzavin (Russia) 6
2013 1... Aleksandr Ivanov (Russia) 2...Ding Chen (China) 3... Miguel Ángel López (Spain) 4...Denis Strelkov (Russia) 5...João Vieira (Portugal) 6...Ruslan Dmytrenko (Ukraine) 7... Takumi Saito (Japan) 8...Inaki Gomez (Canada) 9...Christopher Linke (Germany) 10... Dane Bird-Smith (Australia) 2014 1...Ruslan Dmytrenko (Ukraine) 2...Zelin Cai (China) 3... Yusuke Suzuki (Japan) 4... Miguel Ángel López (Spain) 5... Zhen Wang (China) 6... Aleksandr Ivanov (Russia) 7...Denis Strelkov (Russia) 8...Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 9...Eiki Takahashi (Japan) 10... Andriy Kovenko (Ukraine) 2015 1... Miguel Ángel López (Spain) 2... Zhen Wang (China) 3... Yohann Diniz (France) 4...Benjamin Thorne (Canada) 5... Yusuke Suzuki (Japan) 6...Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 7...Zelin Cai (China) 8...Caio Bonfim (Brazil) 9...Ding Chen (China) 10... Eider Arévalo (Colombia) 2016 1... Zhen Wang (China) 2...Zelin Cai (China) 3... Dane Bird-Smith (Australia) 4...Caio Bonfim (Brazil) 5...Christopher Linke (Germany) 6...Daisuke Matsunaga (Japan) 7... Tom Bosworth (Great Britain) 8... Matteo Giupponi (Italy) 9... Manuel Soto (Colombia) 10...Inaki Gomez (Canada) 2017 1... Eider Arévalo (Colombia) 2... Sergey Shirobokov (Russia) 3...Caio Bonfim (Brazil) 4...Lebogang Shange (South Africa) 5...Christopher Linke (Germany) 6... Dane Bird-Smith (Australia) 7... Kaihua Wang (China) 8...Álvaro Martín (Spain) 9... Miguel Ángel López (Spain) 10...Luís Alberto Amezcua (Spain) 2018 1... Koki Ikeda (Japan) 2... Kaihua Wang (China) 3... Massimo Stano (Italy) 4... Toshikazu Yamanishi (Japan) 5...Álvaro Martín (Spain) 6... Xiangqian Jin (China) 7...Isamu Fujisawa (Japan) 8... Eider Arévalo (Colombia) 9... Diego García Carrera (Spain) 10...Eiki Takahashi (Japan) 7