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| Sailing World Championships 420 | 
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| Year | Location | 
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| 2010 | Haifa (isr) | |||
| 2009 | Riva del Garda (ita) | Greece | New Zealand | Great Britain |
| (Antonios Tsimpoukelis, George Karonis) | (Francisco Lardies, Finn Drummond) | (Ben Palmer, Konrad Weaver) | ||
| 2008 | Athínai (gre) | Greece | Greece | Italy |
| (Michalis Mileos, Evangelos-Vasileio Mitakis) | (Vasilis Papoutsoglou, Akilas Drougas) | (Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti, Lorenzo de Felice) | ||
| 2007 | Auckland (nzl) | New Zealand | New Zealand | New Zealand |
| (Carl Evans, Peter Burling) | (Simon Cooke, Scott Illingworth) | (Rowan Swanson, Bruce Kennedy) | ||
| 2006 | Las Palmas (spa) | New Zealand | New Zealand | France |
| (Carl Evans, Peter Burling) | (Simon Cooke, Scott Illingworth) | (Fernando Lodos, Julien Pulve) | ||
| 2005 | Brest (fra) | Portugal | Italy | Spain |
| (Tomas da Silva, Francisco Gomes) | (Alfredo Capodanno, Vittorio Papa) | (Pablo Santurde, Abelardo Quevedo) | ||
| 2004 | Mornington (aus) | Australia | Australia | Australia |
| (Nathan Wilmot, Malcolm Page) | (Mathew Belcher, Rike Ziegelmayer) | (Nathan Outteridge, Ayden Menzies) | ||
| 2003 | Hayling Island (gbr) | Spain | France | France |
| (José Antonio Medina, Onan Barreiros) | (Nicolas Duron, Sébastian Durand) | (Morgan Lagravière, Noé Delpech) | ||
| 2002 | Tavira (por) | India | Great Britain | France |
| (Farokh Tarapore, Vikas Kapila) | (Nic Asher, Elliot Willis) | (Morgan Lagravière, Noé Delpech) | ||
| 2001 | Ravenna (ita) | Italy | Spain | Italy |
| (Michel Mazzotti, Guilia Mazzotti) | (R. Medina, J. Cerezo) | (B. Danti, F. Geggio) | ||
| 2000 | La Rochelle (fra) | Australia | Italy | Greece |
| (Mathew Belcher, Daniel Belcher) | (Luca Matteo Bursic, Thomas Jacob) | (Mileos Michaelis, Theodores Polighrondis) | ||
| 1999 | Athínai (gre) | France | ||
| (Nicolas Charbonnier, David Deguine) | ||||
| 1998 | Palamós (spa) | France | ||
| (Nicolas Charbonnier, David Deguine) | ||||
| 1997 | Newport (usa) | France | ||
| (W. Sanchez-Diez, Gabriol) | ||||
| 1996 | Blankenberge (bel) | Portugal | ||
| (M. Fortunato, M. Nunes) | ||||
| 1995 | Fremantle (aus) | Australia | ||
| (Roger Perrett, Teague Czislowski) | ||||
| 1994 | Plymouth (gbr) | Great Britain | ||
| (John Merricks, Ian Lovering) | ||||
| 1993 | Marstrand (swe) | Italy | ||
| (Marcello Luciani, Dario Luciani) | ||||
| 1992 | Sdot-Yam (isr) | Spain | ||
| (Gustavo Martínez, Dimias Wood) | ||||
| 1991 | Rimini (ita) | Great Britain | ||
| (Steve Irish, Greg Irish) | ||||
| 1990 | Crozon-Morgat (fra) | France | ||
| (Christian Gout, Jean Gout) | ||||
| 1989 | (yug) | France | Great Britain | Great Britain |
| (David Ravet, Bertrand Loyal) | (Steve Irish, Greg Irish) | (Johm Merricks, Rob Wilson) | ||
| 1988 | Belmont (aus) | France | West Germany | France |
| (W. Sanchez-Diez, Bertrand Dumortier) | (Christian Halm, Alexander Halm) | (Jean-François Berthet, Gwendoel Berthet) | ||
| 1987 | Balatonfüred (hun) | France | ||
| (Jean-François Berthet, Gwendoel Berthet) | ||||
| 1986 | Nieuwpoort (bel) | France | ||
| (Eric Godard, Christophe Godard) | ||||
| 1984 | Annapolis (usa) | West Germany | West Germany | Canada |
| (A. Andruleit, H. Andruleit) | (Filimonow, Stöckmann) | (Ellis, Ferrow) | ||
| 1982 | Adelaide (aus) | Australia | USA | West Germany |
| (Ferris, McKay) | (Brown, ?) | (Etten, ?) | ||
| 1980 | Quiberon (fra) | Israel | France | France |
| (Brockan, Friedlaender) | (Brenac, Mikuelis) | (Jaffrezeic, Berthonneau) | ||
| 1979 | Canakkale (tur) | Italy | West Germany | New Zealand |
| (Di Salle, Vassalo) | (Möller, Möller) | (Dickson, Wilcox) | ||
| 1978 | København (den) | France | Great Britain | Spain |
| (Pollet, Johanssen) | (Cathy Foster, Wendy Hilder) | (Sallent, Isnard) | ||
| 1975 | Medemblik (net) | USA | France | Netherlands |
| (Witehurst, ?) | (Russo, ?) | (Carels, ?) |
