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| Biathlon World Championships Men: 20 km | 
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| 2009 | Pyeongchang (sko) | |||
| 2008 | Östersund (swe) | Emil Hegle Svendsen (nor) | Ole Einar Bjørndalen (nor) | Maksim Maksimov (rus) |
| 2007 | Antholz (ita) | Raphaël Poirée (fra) | Michael Greis (ger) | Michal Slesingr (cze) |
| 2005 | Hochfilzen (aut) | Roman Dostal (cze) | Michael Greis (ger) | Ricco Gross (ger) |
| 2004 | Oberhof (ger) | Raphaël Poirée (fra) | Tomasz Sikora (pol) | Ole Einar Bjørndalen (nor) |
| 2003 | Khanty-Mansiysk (rus) | Halvard Hanevold (nor) | Vesa Hietalahti (fin) | Ricco Gross (ger) |
| 2001 | Pokljuka (svn) | Paavo Puurunen (fin) | Vadim Sachurin (blr) | Ilmars Bricis (lat) |
| 2000 | Oslo (nor) | Wolfgang Rottmann (aut) | Ludwig Gredler (aut) | Frank Luck (ger) |
| 1999 | Oslo (nor) | Sven Fischer (ger) | Ricco Gross (ger) | Vadim Sachurin (blr) |
| 1997 | Brezno-Osrblie (svk) | Ricco Gross (ger) | Oleg Rychenkov (blr) | Ludwig Gredler (aut) |
| 1996 | Ruhpolding (ger) | Sergey Tarasov (rus) | Vladimir Dratchev (rus) | Vadim Sachurin (blr) |
| 1995 | Antholz (ita) | Tomasz Sikora (pol) | Jon Åge Tyldum (nor) | Oleg Rychenkov (blr) |
| 1993 | Borovec (bul) | Andreas Zingerle (ita) | Sergey Tarasov (rus) | Sergey Chepikov (rus) |
| 1991 | Lahti (fin) | Mark Kirchner (ger) | Aleksandr Popov (sov) | Eirik Kvalfoss (nor) |
| 1990 | Minsk (sov) | Valeriy Medvedzev (sov) | Sergey Chepikov (sov) | Anatoliy Zhdanovich (sov) |
| 1989 | Freistritz (aut) | Eirik Kvalfoss (nor) | Gisle Fenne (nor) | Fritz Fischer (wge) |
| 1987 | Lake Placid (usa) | Frank-Peter Rötsch (ege) | Josh Thompson (usa) | Jan Matous (czs) |
| 1986 | Oslo (nor) | Valeriy Medvedzev (sov) | André Sehmisch (ege) | Alfred Eder (aut) |
| 1985 | Ruhpolding (wge) | Yuriy Kachkarov (sov) | Frank-Peter Rötsch (ege) | Tapio Piipponen (fin) |
| 1983 | Antholz (ita) | Frank Ullrich (ege) | Frank-Peter Rötsch (ege) | Peter Angerer (wge) |
| 1982 | Minsk (sov) | Frank Ullrich (ege) | Eirik Kvalfoss (nor) | Terje Krogstad (nor) |
| 1981 | Lahti (fin) | Heikki Ikola (fin) | Frank Ullrich (ege) | Erkki Antila (fin) |
| 1979 | Ruhpolding (wge) | Klaus Siebert (ege) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) | Sigleif Johansen (nor) |
| 1978 | Hochfilzen (aut) | Odd Lirhus (nor) | Frank Ullrich (ege) | Eberhard Rösch (ege) |
| 1977 | Lillehammer (nor) | Heikki Ikola (fin) | Sigleif Johansen (nor) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) |
| 1975 | Antholz (ita) | Heikki Ikola (fin) | Nikolay Kruglov (sov) | Esko Saira (fin) |
| 1974 | Minsk (sov) | Juhani Suutarinen (fin) | George Girnitsa (rom) | Tor Svendsberget (nor) |
| 1973 | Lake Placid (usa) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) | Gennadiy Kovalyev (sov) | Tor Svendsberget (nor) |
| 1971 | Hämeenlinna (fin) | Dieter Speer (ege) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) | Magnar Solberg (nor) |
| 1970 | Östersund (swe) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) | Tor Svendsberget (nor) | Viktor Mamatov (sov) |
| 1969 | Zakopane (pol) | Aleksandr Tikhonov (sov) | Rinnat Safin (sov) | Magnar Solberg (nor) |
| 1967 | Altenberg (ege) | Viktor Mamatov (sov) | Stanislav Szczepaniak (pol) | Jon Istad (nor) |
| 1966 | Garmisch-Partenk. (wge) | Jon Istad (nor) | Josef Sobczak-Gasienica (pol) | Vladimir Gundarzev (sov) |
| 1965 | Elverum (nor) | Olav Jordet (nor) | Nikolay Pusanov (sov) | Antti Tyrväinen (fin) |
| 1963 | Seefeld (aut) | Vladimir Melanin (sov) | Antti Tyrväinen (fin) | Hannu Pösti (fin) |
| 1962 | Hämeenlinna (fin) | Vladimir Melanin (sov) | Antti Tyrväinen (fin) | Valentin Pzhenitsyn (sov) |
| 1961 | Umeå (swe) | Kalevi Huuskonen (fin) | Aleksandr Privalov (sov) | Paavo Repo (swe) |
| 1959 | Courmayer (ita) | Vladimir Melanin (sov) | Dmitriy Sokolov (sov) | Sven Agge (swe) |
| 1958 | Saalfelden (aut) | Adolf Wiklund (swe) | Olle Gunneriusson (swe) | Viktor Butakov (sov) |
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Notes: competition format: 1958-2008: 20 km Individual 1999: due to low temperatures moved from Kontiolahti (fin) to Oslo (nor) |
