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| Judo World Championships Men: Open | 
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| 2007 | Rio de Janeiro (bra) | Yasuyuki Muneta (jpn) | Yuriy Rybak (blr) | Mathieu Bataille (fra) |
| Abdullo Tangriev (uzb) | ||||
| 2005 | Cairo (egy) | Dennis van der Geest (net) | Tamerlan Tmenov (rus) | Yuriy Rybak (blr) |
| Yohei Takai (jpn) | ||||
| 2003 | Osaka (jpn) | Keiji Suzuki (jpn) | Indrek Pertelson (est) | Movlud Miraliyev (aze) |
| Abdullo Tangriev (uzb) | ||||
| 2001 | München (ger) | Aleksandr Mikhaylin (rus) | Ariel Zeevi (isr) | Frank Möller (ger) |
| Dennis van der Geest (net) | ||||
| 1999 | Birmingham (gbr) | Shinichi Shinohara (jpn) | Selim Tataroglu (tur) | Harry van Barneveld (bel) |
| Dennis van der Geest (net) | ||||
| 1997 | Paris (fra) | Rajal Kubacki (pol) | Yoshiha Makishi (jpn) | Harry van Barneveld (bel) |
| Dennis van der Geest (net) | ||||
| 1995 | Makuhari (jpn) | David Douillet (fra) | Sergey Kossorotov (rus) | Shinichi Shinohara (jpn) |
| Selim Tataroglu (tur) | ||||
| 1993 | Hamilton (can) | Rajal Kubacki (pol) | Henry Stöhr (ger) | David Khakaleshvili (geo) |
| Naoya Ogawa (jpn) | ||||
| 1991 | Barcelona (spa) | Naoya Ogawa (jpn) | David Khakaleshvili (sov) | Imre Csoosz (hun) |
| Georges Mathonnet (fra) | ||||
| 1989 | Beograd (yug) | Naoya Ogawa (jpn) | Akaky Kibbosalidze (sov) | Kim Kun-Soo (sko) |
| Alexander van der Groeben (wge) | ||||
| 1987 | Essen (wge) | Naoya Ogawa (jpn) | Elvis Gordon (gbr) | Jorge Fis (cub) |
| Henry Stöhr (wge) | ||||
| 1985 | Seoul (sko) | Yoshini Masaki (jpn) | Mohamed Ali Rashwan (egy) | Khabim Biktashev (sov) |
| Will Wilhelm (net) | ||||
| 1983 | Moskva (sov) | Hitoshi Saito (jpn) | Vladimir Kocman (czs) | Andras Oczvar (hun) |
| Robert van de Walle (bel) | ||||
| 1981 | Maastricht (net) | Yasuhiro Yamashita (jpn) | Wojciech Reszko (pol) | Andras Oczvar (hun) |
| Robert van de Walle (bel) | ||||
| 1979 | Paris (fra) | Sumio Endo (jpn) | Vitaliy Kusnetsov (sov) | Radomir Kvacevic (yug) |
| Jean-Luc Rouge (fra) | ||||
| 1975 | Wien (aut) | Haruki Uemura (jpn) | Kazuhiro Ninomiya (jpn) | Dietmar Lorenz (ege) |
| Shota Shoshishvili (sov) | ||||
| 1973 | Lausanne (swi) | Kazuhiro Ninomiya (jpn) | Haruki Uemura (jpn) | Klaus Glahn (wge) |
| Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt (ege) | ||||
| 1971 | Ludwigshafen (wge) | Masatoshi Shinomaki (jpn) | Vitaliy Kusnetsov (sov) | Klaus Glahn (wge) |
| Shinobu Sekine (jpn) | ||||
| 1969 | Mexico City (mex) | Masatoshi Shinomaki (jpn) | Willem Ruska (net) | Ernst Eugster (net) |
| Nobuyuki Sato (jpn) | ||||
| 1967 | Salt Lake City (usa) | Mitsuo Matsunaga (jpn) | Klaus Glahn (wge) | Peter Herrmann (wge) |
| Masatoshi Shinomaki (jpn) | ||||
| 1965 | Rio de Janeiro (bra) | Isao Inokuma (jpn) | Ansor Kobrosachvili (sov) | Ansor Kiknadze (sov) |
| Peter Snijders (net) | ||||
| 1961 | Paris (fra) | Anton Geesink (net) | Koji Sone (jpn) | Kim Tong-Pae (nko) |
| Takeshi Koga (jpn) | ||||
| 1958 | Tokyo (jpn) | Koji Sone (jpn) | Akio Kaminaga (jpn) | Bernard Pariset (fra) |
| Kimiyoshi Yamashiki (jpn) | ||||
| 1956 | Tokyo (jpn) | Shokichi Natsui (jpn) | Youshihiko Yoshimatsu (jpn) | Henri Courtine (fra) |
| Anton Geesink (net) |
