List of yo-yo world champions facts for kids

List of World Yo-Yo Champions is the list of the competitors who won the World Yo-Yo Contest. This list includes non-championship divisions.

Governing bodies

Year(s)	Event name	Governing body	Note
1932	World Yo-Yo Championship		Reportedly held in England, United Kingdom.
1992–1995	Yo-Yo Championships	International Jugglers' Association	Organized by Dale Oliver under the auspices of the IJA and held during the annual IJA convention.
1996–1997	World Yo-Yo Championships
1998	World Yo-Yo Championships	HPK Marketing	Organized by Alan Nagao, head of HPK Marketing and owner of hobby shop High Performance Kites. The events were held in conjunction with Bandai and during the height of the yo-yo boom.
1999	World Yo-Yo Competition
2000–2012	World Yo-Yo Contest		Organized by Greg Cohen, owner of hobby shop Infinite Illusions and confectionary Lofty Pursuits.
2013–	World Yo-Yo Contest	International Yo-Yo Federation	Headed by Steve Brown. Event venues rotate between Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Primary solo divisions

Current

1A

Was known as A or "Single A" from 1998 to 2004.

Historical world championships

Year	Category	Winner	2nd	3rd	Ref.
1932		Harvey Lowe	Joe Young
International Jugglers' Association
1992		Dale Oliver	Dale Myrberg	Jennifer Baybrook
1993	Senior	Rocco Ysaguirre	Jon Gates	Mark Hayward
	Amateur	Tom Gates	Masahiro Mizuno	Eric Cohen
1994	Pro-Am	Bill de Boisblanc	Jon Gates	Tom McCoy
	Senior (16 and older)	Mike Taylor Jr.	Bonnie Matthews	Josh Kavanagh
	Junior (12 to 15)	Brett Burkhart	Thai Nguyen	Liubo Yepez
	Novice (11 and under)	Chris Gryndle	Joe Hout	Marshall Wharam
1995	Pro-Am	Bill de Boisblanc	Dale Myrberg	Mike Tayler
	Masters	Mark Hayward	Ron Spears	Masahiro Mizuno
	Senior	Stuart Crump	Michael Harris	Mike Taylor
	Junior (12 to 15)	Jacob Hall	Jason Tracey	Tuan Nguyen
	Novice (11 and under)	Brett Jurgens	Steve Crump	Joe Hout
1996	Pro-Am	Dale Myrberg	Bill de Boisblanc	Mike Tayler
	Masters	'Dazzling' Dave Schulte	Jason Tracy	Masahiro Mizuno
	Senior	Jon Steinman	David Harris	Greg Cohen
	Junior (12 to 15)	Brett Jurgens	Joe Hout
	Novice (11 and under)	Mikey McCabe	Wayne	Abi Maharaj
1997	Pro-Am	Bill de Boisblanc	Alex Garcia	Jennifer Baybrook
	Masters	Nalukai Hookano	Yves Young	Steve Brown

Modern world championships

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
MPK Marketing
1998	Ryoichi Suzuki	Ross Pascual	Masashi Ishiwatari	Steve Brown
1999	Joel Zink	Hironori Mii	Keijiro Hasegawa	Keiichi Kura
World Yo-Yo Contest
2000	Yu Kawada	Hidemasa Semba	Matthew Rose	Chris Vedral
2001	Tomonari 'Black' Ishiguro	Kota Watanabe	Dennis Schleussner	Hidemasa Semba
2002	Yuuki Spencer	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Tomonari 'Black' Ishiguro	Eric Hesterman
2003	Johnnie DelValle	Brent Dellinger	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Yuuki Spencer
2004	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Tomonari 'Black' Ishiguro	Yuuki Spencer	Justin Weber
2005	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Yuuki Spencer	Takayasu Tanaka	Mark Montgomery
2006	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Paul Han	Eric Koloski	Takayasu Tanaka
2007	Yuuki Spencer	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Paul Han	Eric Koloski
2008	John Ando	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Sebastian Brock	Luo Yi Cheng
2009	Shinya Kido	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Chris Fraser	Jensen Kimmitt
2010	Jensen Kimmitt	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Christopher Chia	Yuuki Spencer
2011	Jin-Hao 'Marcus' Koh	Sebastian Brock	Gentry Stein	Hriroyuki Suzuki
2012	Hiroyuki Suzuki	Jin-Hao 'Marcus' Koh	Christopher Chia	Harold Owens III
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	János Karancz	Christopher Chia	Luis Enrique Villasenor	Eric Tran-Ton
2014	Gentry Stein	Takeshi Matsuura	Iori Yamaki	Paul Kerbel
2015	Zach Gormley	Shion Araya	Iori Yamaki	Takeshi Matsuura
2016	Shion Araya	Yamato Murata	Zach Gormley	Gentry Stein
2017	Shion Araya	Andrew Bergen	Gentry Stein	Yamato Murata
2018	Evan Nagao	Takeshi Matsuura	Yuki Nishisako	Shion Araya
2019	Gentry Stein	Evan Nagao	Yuki Nishisako	Nathan Dailey
2023	Mir Kim	Ryuichi Nakamura	Evan Nagao	Connor Seals

2A

Was known as AA or "Double A" from 1998 to 2004.

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
MPK Marketing
1998	Jennifer Baybrook	Takumi Nagase	Alan Batangan	Alex Garcia
1999	Takumi Nagase	Koji Yokoyama	Masaya Shimazaki	Paul Han
World Yo-Yo Contest
2000	Tomoya Kitamura	Koji Yokoyama	Masahiro Tanikawa	Taichi Takagi
2001	Matt Harlow	Koji Yokoyama	John 'JM' McNulty	Kenichiro Tada
2002	Shinji Saito	Yukihiro Suzuki	Koji Yokoyama	Matt Harlow
2003	Shinji Saito	Koji Yokoyama	Yukihiro Suzuki	Masahiro Tanikawa
2004	Shinji Saito	Koji Yokayama (tie)	Ryusei Saito	Justin Weber
		Hiraku Fujii (tie)
2005	Shinji Saito	Koji Yokoyama	Patrick Mitchell	Junya Yamamoto
2006	Shinji Saito	Koji Yokoyama	John Ando	Kiwamu Ebata
2007	Shinji Saito	Koji Yokoyama	Ryusei Saito	Shuhei Kanai
2008	Takuma Yamamoto	Shinji Saito	Hiraku Fujii	Jun Taniguchi
2009	Shinji Saito	Yasushi Furukawa	Hiraku Fujii	Ryo Yamashita
2010	Yasushi Furukawa	Ryo Yamashita	Shu Takada	Masakazu Yamasaki
2011	Shinji Saito	Yasushi Furukawa	Ryo Yamashita	Takuma Yamamoto
2012	Shu Takada	Takuma Yamamoto	Hiraku Fujii	Joseph Harris
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	Takuma Yamamoto	Shu Takada	Ryo Yamashita	Chun Hay Chan
2014	Takuma Yamamoto	Yasushi Furukawa	Hiraku Fujii	Tomoyuki Kaneko
2015	Shinji Saito	Shu Takada	Takuma Yamamoto	Tomoyuki Kaneko
2016	Shu Takada	Hiraku Fujii	Takuma Yamamoto	Shuhei Kanai
2017	Shu Takada	Hiraku Fujii	Takuma Yamamoto	Chenghao Yi
2018	Shu Takada	Takuma Yamamoto	Hiraku Fujii	Man Ki Liu
2019	Takuma Yamamoto	Chun Hay Chan	Hajime Sakauchi	Arata Imai
2023	Hajime Sakauchi	Arata Imai	Arika Kato	Hiraku Fujii

3A

Also known as AAA or "Triple A".

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2003	Daisuke Shimada	Jun Aramaki	Yu Kawada	Paul Yath
2004	Daisuke Shimada	Yuki Tanami	Maya Nakamura	Paul Yath
2005	Daisuke Shimada	Maya Nakamura	Masanobu Iwata	Kentaro Kimura
2006	Paul Yath	Yuki Tanami	Kentaro Kimura	Daisuke Shimada
2007	Yuki Tanami	Kentaro Kimura	Daisuke Shimada	Hank Freeman
2008	Hiroki Miyamoto	Kentaro Kimura	Hank Freeman	Masanobu Iwata
2009	Kentaro Kimura	Hiroki Miyamoto	Taiichiro Higashi	Paul Yath
2010	Minato Furuta	Taiichiro Higashi	Hank Freeman	Takeshi Matsuura
2011	Hank Freeman	Alex Hattori	Taiichiro Higashi	Minato Furuta
2012	Hank Freeman	Wang-Kit Ng	Minato Furuta	Ken Takabayashi
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	Hank Freeman	Patrick Borgerding	Yasuki Tachibana	Kentaro Kimura
2014	Hajime Miura	Hank Freeman	Minato Furuta	Mizuki Takimoto
2015	Hajime Miura	Alex Hattori	Hank Freeman	Mizuki Takimoto
2016	Hajime Miura	Tomoya Kurita	Alex Hattori	Hank Freeman
2017	Hajime Miura	Minato Furuta	Alex Hattori	Tomoya Kurita
2018	Hajime Miura	Alex Hattori	Minato Furuta	Thawhir Iqbal
2019	Hajime Miura	Alex Hattori	Tomoya Kurita	Minato Furuta
2023	Hajime Miura	Minato Furuta	Sora Tahira	Tomoya Kurtia

4A

Also known as "Offstring".

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2003	Eiji Okuyama	Atsushi Yamada	Shingo Terada	Kenji Eto
2004	Tsubasa Onishi	Kunihisa Kawabe	Koichiro Mori	Eiji Okuyama
2005	John Narum	Eiji Okuyama	Jimmy Peng	Tsubasa Onishi
2006	Taiki Nishimura	Tsubasa Onishi	Eiji Okuyama	Rei Iwakura
2007	Eiji Okuyama	Rei Iwakura	Tsubasa Onishi	Atsushi Yamada
2008	Rei Iwakura	John Narum	Yohei Kagawa	Atsushi Yamada
2009	Naoto Okada	Rei Iwakura	Tsubasa Onishi	Bryan Figueroa
2010	Tsubasa Onishi	Rei Iwakura	Naoto Okada	John Narum
2011	Naoto Okada	Bryan Figueroa	Tsubasa Onishi	Ben Conde
2012	Rei Iwakura	Bryan Figueroa	Naoto Okada	Ben Conde
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	Michael Nakamura	Naoto Okada	Chun Hin Chan	Gustavo Amaral
2014	Rei Iwakura	Michael Nakamura	Naoto Okada	Ian Johnson
2015	Naoto Onishi	Takumi Yasumoto	Rei Iwakura	Michael Nakamura
2016	Rei Iwakura	Tsubasa Onishi	Michael Nakamura	Yuki Uchida
2017	Rei Iwakura	Michael Nakamura	Chen Zhao	Yuki Uchida
2018	Hajime Miura	Tsubasa Onishi	Rei Iwakura	Koyo Hashimoto
2019	Rei Iwakura	Tsubasa Onishi	Yuki Uchida	Koyo Hashimoto
2023	Gun Ju Eom	Rei Iwakura	Koyo Hashimoto	Tsubasa Takada

5A

Also known as "Counterweight" or "Freehand".

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2003	Rafael Matsunaga	Makoto Numagami	Shingo Terada	Matt Schmidt
2004	Makoto Numagami	Rafael Matsunaga	Shingo Terada	Andrew Lin Yikai
2005	Maya Nakamura	Makoto Numagami	Andrew Lin Yikai	Rafael Matsunaga
2006	Dana Bennett	Jake Bullock	Andrew 'AJ' Kirk	Tyler Severance
2007	Tyler Severance	Takeshi Matsuura (tie)	Dana Bennett	Miguel Correa
		Sojun Miyamura (tie)
2008	Takeshi Matsuura	Sterling Quinn	Takuma Inoue	Miguel Correa
2009	Takuma Inoue	Miguel Correa	Tyler Severance	Sterling Quinn
2010	Takeshi Matsuura	Sterling Quinn	Miguel Correa	Tyler Severance
2011	Takeshi Matsuura	Takuma Inoue	Samm Scott	Tyler Severance
2012	Takeshi Matsuura	Takuma Inoue	Hiroyasu Ishihara	Hideo Ishida
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	Takeshi Matsuura	Tyler Severance	Samm Scott	Hideo Ishida
2014	Takeshi Matsuura	Jake Elliott	Sora Ishikawa	Ko Kwan Ho
2015	Jake Elliot	Takeshi Matsuura	Sora Ishikawa	Michael Nakamura
2016	Takeshi Matsuura	Jake Elliot	Sora Ishikawa	Naoya Takeuchi
2017	Takuma Inoue	Naoya Takeuchi	Hideo Ishida	Bryan Jardin
2018	Sora Ishikawa	Hideo Ishida	Yoshihiro Abe	Ko Kwan Ho
2019	Hideo Ishida	Yoshihiro Abe	Sora Ishikawa	Naoya Takeuchi
2023	Sora Ishikawa	Shigehiro Yamada	Hideo Ishida	Miggy Hizon

Online World Yo-Yo Contest

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 World Yo-Yo Contest was canceled. Since the World Yo-Yo Contest could not be held as a result of the pandemic and the various travel restrictions it caused, the Online World Yo-Yo Contest was created. As the name suggests, the contests were held online. The winners of the Online World Yo-Yo Contest do not gain the title of World Yo-Yo Champion, however. The title they receive is that of Online World Yo-Yo Champion (in their respective divisions).

1A

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Mir Kim	Akitoshi Tokubuchi	Park Junsang	Kohei Nishimura
2022	Mir Kim	Akitoshi Tokubuchi	Park Junsang	Ryuichi Nakamura

2A

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Shu Takada	Satoshi Yamanaka	Wasakorn Lattilertwi	Kenshiro Osada
2022	Hiraku Fujii	Hajime Sakauchi	Arata Imai	Akira Kato

3A

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Minato Furuta	Tomoya Kurita	Mizuki Takimoto	Qing Yang
2022	Tomoya Kurita	Minato Furuta	Dongyoung Kim	Thawhir Iqbal

4A

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Kaoru Nakamura	Tsubasa Onishi	Yuki Uchida	Tomohiko Zanka
2022	Kaoru Nakamura	Gunju Eom	Tomohiko Zanka	Taiyo Katsumata

5A

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Sora Ishikawa	Yoshihiro Abe	Hideo Ishida	Naoki Uemae
2022	Sora Ishikawa	Jihoo Lee	Yuki Sakamoto	Naoya Takeuchi

Women's

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Miri Kim	Veronika Kamenská	Hobbit Xiao-Wen Wang	Ziyu Meng
2022	Miri Kim	Xueqing Yang	Ziyu Meng	Kira Morrow

Over 40

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2021	Ricardo Marechal	Benjamin McPhee	Tomomi Matsuda	Patrick Jüptner
2022	Lorenzo Sabatini	Ricardo Marechal	Tomoya Isoshima	Tomomi Matsuda

Former

X

The X division was separated into three new divisions (3A, 4A, 5A) in 2003.

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2000	Hironori Mii	Takahiko Hasagawa	'Doctor Popular' Brian Roberts	Shingo Terada
2001	Shingo Terada	Takahiko Hasegawa	Jun Aramaki	Hironiri Mii
2002	Daisuke Shimada	Tsubasa Onishi	Takahiko Hasegawa	Hironiri Mii

CB

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	4th	Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2006	Shinji Saito	Shane Karan	Rei Iwakura	?
2007	Shinji Saito	Ryusei Saito	John Narum	Dave Geigle
2008	Shinji Saito	John Narum	Dave Geigle	Takeshi Matsuura
2009	Shinji Saito	Naoto Okada	Rei Iwakura	Yasushi Furukawa

Winner's table

All champions and runners-up (1899–present)

Rank	Name	1st	2nd	3rd	Total	Years: Division Champion	Years: Division Runner-up
1	Shinji Saito	13	1	0	14	2A (2002, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11, 15); CB (06, 07, 08, 09)	2A (2008)
2	Takeshi Matsuura	7	4	0	11	5A (2008, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16)	5A (2007, 15); 1A (14, 18)
3	Hajime Miura	8	0	0	8	3A (2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23); 4A (18)
4	Rei Iwakura	6	4	4	14	4A (2008, 2009 AP, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19)	4A (2007, 09, 10, 23)
5	Hiroyuki Suzuki	4	5	1	10	1A (2004, 05, 06, 12)	1A (2002, 07, 08, 09, 10)
6	Takuma Yamamoto	4	2	6	12	2A (2008, 13, 14, 19)	2A (2012, 18)
7	Shu Takada	4	2	1	7	2A (2012, 16, 17, 18)	2A (2013, 15)
8	Daisuke Shimada	4	1	5	10	X (2002); 3A (03, 04, 05)
9	Hank Freeman	3	1	3	7	3A (2011, 12, 13)	3A (2014)
10	Tsubasa Onishi	2	5	3	10	4A (2004, 10)	X (2002); 4A (2006, 16, 17, 19)
11	Naoto Okada	2	2	3	7	4A (2009, 11)	CB (2009)
12	Takuma Inoue	2	2	1	5	5A (2009, 17)	5A (2011, 12)
13	Yuuki Spencer	2	1	1	4	1A (2002, 07)	1A (2005)
14	Eiji Okuyama	2	1	1	4	4A (2003, 07)	4A (2005)
15	Shion Araya	2	1	0	3	1A (2016, 17)	1A (2015)
16	Gentry Stein	2	0	2	4	1A (2014, 19)	1A (2017)
17	Yasushi Furukawa	1	3	0	4	2A (2010)	2A (2009, 11, 14)
18	John Narum	1	2	1	4	4A (2005)	4A (2008), CB (08)
19	Kentaro Kimura	1	2	1	4	3A (2009)	3A (2007, 08)
20	Minato Furuta	1	2	3	6	3A (2010)	3A (2017, 23)
	Michael Nakamura	1	2	1	4	4A (2013)	4A (2014, 17)
	Makoto Numagami	1	2	0	3	5A (2004)	5A (2003, 05)
	Yuki Tanami	1	2	0	3	3A (2007)	3A (2004, 07)
	Jake Elliot	1	2	0	3	5A (2015)	5A (2014, 16)
	Tomonari Ishigaru	1	1	1	3	1A (2001)	1A (2004)
	Evan Nagao	1	1	1	3	1A (2018)	1A (2019)
	Maya Nakamura	1	1	1	3	5A (2005)	3A (2005)
	Tyler Severance	1	1	1	3	5A (2007)	5A (2013)
	Hideo Ishida	1	1	2	4	5A (2019)	5A (2018)
	Hironiri Mii	1	1	0	2	X (2000)	1A (1999)
	Rafael Matsunaga	1	1	0	2	5A (2003)	5A (2004)
	Hiroki Miyamoto	1	1	0	2	3A (2008)	3A (2009)
	Jin-Hao Koh	1	1	0	2	1A (2011)	1A (2012)
	Shingo Terada	1	0	3	4	X (2001)
	Yu Kawada	1	0	1	2	1A (2000)
	Dana Bennet	1	0	1	2	5A (2006)
	Zach Gormley	1	0	1	2	1A (2015)
	Jennifer Baybrook	1	0	0	1	2A (1998)
	Joel Zink	1	0	0	1	1A (1999)
	Matt Harlow	1	0	0	1	2A (2001)
	Johnnie DelValle	1	0	0	1	1A (2003)
	Paul Yath	1	0	0	1	3A (2006)
	Taiki Nishimura	1	0	0	1	4A (2006)
	Shinya Kido	1	0	0	1	1A (2009)
	Jensen Kimmitt	1	0	0	1	1A (2010)
	János Karancz	1	0	0	1	1A (2013)
	Naoto Onishi	1	0	0	1	4A (2015)
	Koji Yokoyama	0	8	1	9		2A (1999, 2000, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07)
	Alex Hattori	0	4	2	6		3A (2011, 15, 18, 19)
	Hiraku Fuji	0	3	5	8		2A (2004, 16, 17)
	Takahiko Hasegawa	0	2	1	3		X (2000, 01)
	Sterling Quinn	0	2	0	2		5A (2008, 10)
	Bryan Figueroa	0	2	0	2		4A (2011, 12)
	Ryusei Saito	0	1	3	4		CB (2007)
	Taiichiro Higashi	0	1	3	4		3A (2010)
	Ryo Yamashita	0	1	2	3		2A (2010)
	Christopher Chia	0	1	2	3		1A (2013)
	Yukihiro Suzuki	0	1	1	2		2A (2002)
	Jun Aramki	0	1	1	2		3A (2003)
	Paul Han	0	1	1	2		1A (2006)
	Tomoya Kurita	0	1	1	2		3A (2016)
	Yoshihiro Abe	0	1	1	2		5A (2019)
	Ross Pascual	0	1	0	1		1A (1998)
	Hidemasa Semba	0	1	0	1		1A (2000)
	Brent Dellinger	0	1	0	1		1A (2003)
	Atsushi Yamada	0	1	0	1		4A (2003)
	Kunihisa Kawabe	0	1	0	1		4A (2004)
	Shane Karan	0	1	0	1		CB (2006)
	Jake Bullock	0	1	0	1		5A (2006)
	Sojun Miyamura	0	1	0	1		5A (2007)
	Sebastian Brock	0	1	0	1		1A (2011)
	Wang-Kit Ng	0	1	0	1		3A (2012)
	Takumi Yasumoto	0	1	0	1		4A (2015)
	Yamato Murata	0	1	0	1		1A (2016)
	Andrew Bergen	0	1	0	1		1A (2017)
	Naoya Takeuchi	0	1	0	1		5A (2017)
	Chun Hay Chan	0	1	0	1		2A (2019)

Non-solo divisions

Current

AP

Also known as "Artistic Performance".

Grand Prix

Year	Winner		2nd	3rd		Ref.
World Yo-Yo Contest
2002	Takahiko Hasegawa		Hironori Mii	Shingo Terada
2003	Mark Montgomary		Tomiyuki Watanabe	Dave Bazan
2004	Tomiyuki Watanabe		Yu Kawada	Jennifer Baybrook
2005	Takahiko Hasegawa		Hironori Mii	Tomiyuki Watanabe
2006	Yu Kawada		Tomiyuki Watanabe	Tomonori Ishiguro
2007	Tomonari 'Black' Ishiguro		Rei Iwakura	Steve Brown
2008	John Higby		Rei Iwakura	Tomiyuki Watanabe
2009	Rei Iwakura		Tomiyuki Watanabe	Hironori Mii
2010	Shaqler	Atsushi 'A2C' Yamada John 'Ryuji' Ando Shigesato 'Kuri' Kurita Takeshi 'Woodz' Maruyama	Rei Iwakura	Takahiko Hasegawa
2011	Takahiko Hasegawa		Justin Weber	Hironori Mii
2012	inmot!on	Ivo Studer Jan Schmutz	Takahiko Hasegawa	Tomiyuki Watanabe
International Yo-Yo Federation
2013	Spination	Tomiyuki Watanabe Yu Kawada	Chih-Min Tuan	W.H.O. Theatre	Ren-Zhi Yang Tzu-Wei Chang
2014	Spination	Tomiyuki Watanabe Yu Kawada
2015	Shaqler	Atsushi 'A2C' Yamada John 'Ryuji' Ando Shu Takada Takeshi 'Woodz' Maruyama
2016	Not awarded
2017	inmot!on	Ivo Studer Jan Schmutz
2018	Old Skool Famous	Hiraku Fujii Shuhei Kanai Tsubasa Ōnishi
2019	Shu Takada
2023	Daniel Tamariz

Other awards

Year	Entertainment Award		Artistic Award		Creativity Award		Ref.
	Team	Members	Team	Members	Team	Members
International Yo-Yo Federation
2014	Not awarded		Spination	Tomiyuki Watanabe Yū Kawada	Chih-Min Tuan
2015	Shaqler	Atsushi 'A2C' Yamada John 'Ryuji' Ando Shigesato 'Kuri' Kurita Takeshi 'Woodz' Maruyama	Beat Poin't	Masakazu Yamazaki Tooru Abe	W.H.O Theatre	Chih-Han Chao Ren-Jhih Yang Tzu-Wei Chang Zhao-Xian Pan
2016	Old Skool Famous	Hiraku Fujii Shuhei Kanai Tsubasa Ōnishi	Tomiyuki Watanabe		Not awarded
2017	inmot!on	Ivo Studer Jan Schmutz	Not awarded		Not awarded
2018	Old Skool Famous	Hiraku Fujii Shuhei Kanai Tsubasa Ōnishi	TR-Yo Team	Hong Xin Cham Jia Cheng 'Stanley' Low Jia Xin Lee Jiann Yow Toh Jun Sheng Ho Sin Yu Wee Yong Leong 'Jerard' Loo Zi Hao Chew	Not awarded
2019	Not awarded		Shu Takada		Not awarded
2023	Daniel Tamariz		Ryo Oishi		Daniel Tamariz

Former

Team

Was replaced by the AP division in 2002.

Year	Winner		2nd		3rd		Ref.
	Team	Members	Team	Members	Team	Members
HPK Marketing
1999	Team Heimlech	Alan Batangan Cody Kyabu Ryan Lai Sky Kyabu	Gotemba Pinocchio		Team 4 Angels
1999 (Mega Team)	Hooters	Alan Batagan Allan Leal Casey Kodama Cody Kiyabu Devin Yamada Eric Masumori Gabriel Cabagbag Ian Hoshino Nana Sakamoto Paul Han Ryan Kono Ryan Lai Yves Young	Junk THP Japan	Junpei Suzuki Kazuki Abe Keiichi Kura Keijiro Hasegawa Keita Saito Koji Yokoyama Masaya Shimazaki Takumi Nagase Yuji Hattori Yuji Imatuji Yuki Kudo		Brad Durnas Chris Ciosek Dwane Forter Eric Mitz Eric Twark Jeff Medeiros Jerry Yuan Joey Lacerday Jon McNulty Matt Kubera Matt Rose Mike Carreiro
World Yo-Yo Contest
2000	Team Off String	Hironori Mii Kota Watanabe Shingo Terada Takahiko Hasegawa Yu Kawada	Chocko Ball Family	? ? ? ? ?	Others D	Hidemasa Semba Jun Aramaki Masato Inohara Ryusei Saito
2001	Out of America	Patrick Mitchell	Team TOP	Jun Aramaki Tomiyuki Watanabe	Team Off String	Hironori Mii Kenji Eto Kota Watanabe Shingo Terada Takahiko Hasegawa Yu Kawada

Additional solo divisions

Current

Women only

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2014	Tessa Piccillo	Julia Aleksandra Gutowska	Corli du Toit
2015	Xiao-Wen 'Hobbit' Wang	Beatriz Gallegos 'Betty' Garcia	Reia Torita
2016	Beatriz Gallegos 'Betty' Garcia	Tessa Piccillo	Stephanie Height
2017	Tessa Piccillo	Beatriz Gallegos 'Betty' Garcia	Xiao-Wen 'Hobbit' Wang
2018	Xiao-Wen 'Hobbit' Wang	Ni Kang	Reia Torita
2019	Beatriz Gallegos 'Betty' Garcia	Miri Kim	Tessa Piccillo
2023	Miri Kim	Beatriz Gallegos 'Betty' Garcia	Wan Jiang Liu

40 and over

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2015	Kiyoshi Kawamura	Ken Wong	Isaac Kanarek
2016	Takahiko Hasegawa	Steve Brown	Richard Cobb
2017	Steve Brown	Jose Madrigal	Dale Oliver
2018	Kōji Torita	Man-Kin Wong	Takahiko Hasegawa
2019	Takahiko Hasegawa	Isaac Kanarek	Myk el-Ahrairah

Former

Ladder

Was known as "Compulsory" in 1997 and as "Advanced/Recreational" in 1998 and 1999.

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	Ref.
International Jugglers' Association
1997	Jason Tracy	Kenichi Nakamura	Nalukai Hookano
MPK Marketing
1998	Ed Giulietti	Valerie Krantz	Joel Zink
1999	Ryan Zink	Junichi Morita	Nemec Marcus

Non-yoyo divisions

SpinTop

The SpinTop World Championships are held during the WYCC under the auspices of the International Top Spinners Association (ITSA).

Freestyle

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	John Gates	Steve Brown	Dale Oliver
2001	Felix Avellana	Dale Oliver	Mark Vargas
2002	Dave Bazan	Felix Avellana	Mark Hayward
2003	Miguel Correa	Andre Boulay	Takeshi Kamisato
2004	Matt Ritter	Miguel Correa	Jon Gates
2005	Dave Bazan	Jon Gates	Takeshi Kamisato
2006	Matt Ritter	Takeshi Kamisato	Alan Gray
2007	Matt Ritter	Takeshi Kamisato	Jorge Alcoz
2008	Jon Gates	Mike Hout	Tom Connoly
2009	Jorge Alcoz	Felix Avellana	Mike Hout
2010	Darren Kim	Chris Neff	Mike Hout
2011	Chris Neff	Darren Kim	Omar Garza
2012	Carlos Solís	Brian Caster	Mark Hayward
2013	Gustavo Castro	Tyler Young	Salvador Martinez
2014	Tyler Young	Daniel Konecny	Jakub Konecny
2015	Jorge Alcoz	Kazuhito Miki	Keita Watanabe
2016	Chris Neff	Eli Hickerson	Takahiko Hasegawa
2017	Jakub Konecny	Daniel Konecny	Jose Madrigal
2018	Kanta Tani	Jun Shimamura	Takahiko Hasegawa
2019	Eli Hickerson (tie)		Takahiko Hasegawa
	Jose Madrigal (tie)
2020	Guillem Vizcaino	Kanta Tani	Gerardo Montero
2021	Kanta Tani	Eli Hickerson	Marcus Heineck

Fixed tip

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2011	Mike Hout	Chris Neff	Darren Kim

Ladder

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2013	Eli Hickerson	Miguel Angel Chavez	Kirk Charles

Diabolo

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2007	?	?	?
2008	Ryuya Kaneko ( Japan)	Rei Iwakura ( Japan)	Hadrien Bennaceur ( France)
2009	Rei Iwakura ( Japan)	Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan)	Shane Smith ( Japan)
2010	Kousuke Yoshida ( Japan)	Yu Tsumura ( Japan)	Naoshi Terasawa ( Japan)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Ryuya Kaneko( Japan)	Ouka( Japan)	Yu Tsumura( United States)

Non-world championships

Fixed Axle

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
HPK Marketing
1999	'Dazzling' Dave Schulte ( United States)	Steve Brown ( United States)
World Yo-Yo Contest
2009	Drew Tetz ( United States)	Jeff Coons ( United States)	Ed Haponik ( United States)
2010	Randy Jansen ( United States)	Drew Tetz ( United States)	Stefan Benjamin ( United Kingdom)
2011	Colin Leland ( United States)	Nate Sutter ( United States)	Jacob Jensen ( United States)
2012	Ed Haponik ( United States)	Ben Conde ( United States)	Drew Tetz ( United States)
2013	Ben Conde ( United States)	Nate Sutter ( United States)	Ed Haponik ( United States)
2016	Ed Haponik ( United States)	Mark McBride ( United States)
2019	Kyle Nations ( United States)	John Russeth ( United States)

100m race

One-Hand Loops

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
International Jugglers' Association
1996	Dale Oliver	Dale Myrberg	Bill de Boisblanc
1997	Kenichi Nakamura

Two-Hand Loops

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
International Jugglers' Association
1996	Steve Brown	Mark Anderson	Jon Gates
1997	Alex Garcia

Design contests

Mod

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
World Yo-Yo Contest
2001	Maurice Chavez ( United States)	Alan Gray ( United States)	Takahiro Hasagawa ( Japan)
2002	Maurice Chavez ( United States)	Matt Schmidt ( United States)	Kaz Datashi ( Japan)
2003	Maurice Chavez ( United States)	John Rollins ( United States)	Roberto Jose Dos Santos ( Mexico)
		Alan Gray ( United States)
2004	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)	Frank Difeo ( United States)	John Rollins ( United States)
2005	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)	Marcio Adriano Alves ( Brazil)	Dave Poyzer ( United States)
2006	Scott Stover ( United States)	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)	Dave Poyzer ( United States)
2007	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)	Steve Chase ( United States)	Kokyu Ueda ( Japan)
2008	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)	Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan)
2009	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)	Ettore Ferro ( Italy)	Shinobu Konmoto ( Japan)
2010	Ettore Ferro ( Italy)	Tetsuya Hoshino ( Japan)	Landon Balk ( United States)
2011	Landon Balk ( United States)	Richy Nye ( United States)	Perry Prine ( United States)
2012	Landon Balk ( United States)

Iron Mod

Year	Winner	2nd
World Yo-Yo Contest
2005	Takeshi Kamisato ( United States)	Rob Tsou ( United States)
	Seth Peterson ( United States)	Kyle Weems ( United States)
2006	Eric Wolff ( United States)	Takeshi Kamisato ( United States)
	Alan Gray ( United States)	Seth Peterson ( United States)
2007	Eric Wolff ( United States)	Shinobu Konmato ( Japan)
	Rob Tsou ( United States)	Takahiko Hasegawa ( Japan)
2008	Shinobu Konmato ( Japan)	Eric Wolff ( United States)
	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)	Alan Gray ( United States)
2009	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)	Eric Wolff ( United States)
	Takahiko Hasegawa ( Japan)	Alan Gray ( United States)
2010	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)	Keith Skip Mitton ( Australia)
	Takahiko Hasegawa ( Japan)	Perry Prine ( United States)
2011	Perry Prine ( United States)	Yuumi Shiga ( Japan)
	Landon Balk ( United States)	Takahiko Hasegawa ( Japan)

Diabolo

Ladder (11 and under)

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2007	Will Neiemier ( United States)	?	?
2008	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
2009	Evan McAleenan ( United States)	?	?
2010	Evan McAleenan ( United States)	?	?
2011	?	?	?

Ladder (12 to 16)

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2006	Will Niemeier ( United States)	Melood Benson ( United States)	Dylan Benharris ( United States)
2007	Will Neiemier ( United States)	?	?
2008	Will Niemeier ( United States)	Andrew Ruiz ( United States)	Patrick Borgerding ( United States)
2009	Will Niemeier ( United States)	Andrew Ruiz ( United States)	Shane Smith ( United States)
2010	Will Niemeier ( United States)	?	?
2011	?	?	?

Ladder (17 and over)

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2006	Rei Iwakura ( Japan)	Bennaceur Hadrien ( France)	Abe Ziaimehr ( United States)
2007	Steven Chase ( United States)	?	?
2008	Ryuya Kaneko ( Japan)	Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan)	Hadrien Bennaceur ( France)
2009	David Melons ( Japan)	Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan)	Hiraku Fujii ( Japan)
2010	Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan)	?	?
2011	?	?	?

Sport

String and Looping

7 to 8

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Benjamin Conde ( United States)	Nicholas Walker ( United States)	Ann Connolly ( United States)
2001	Benjamin Conde ( United States)

9 to 10

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Jimmy Young ( United States)	Griffin Cash ( United States)	Kendra Krantz ( United States)
2001	Jonathan Belcher ( United States)	Nicholas Walker ( United States)

11 to 12

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Nicky Kodama ( United States)	Andrew Silverstein ( United States)	Max Bradshaw ( United States)
2001	Mikey McCabe ( United States)	Koichiro Mori ( Japan)	Kevin Elvin ( United States)

13 to 14

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Matthew Haroney ( United States)	Yuusuke Maruyama ( Japan)	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)
2001	Kenta Matsuoka ( Japan)	Brad Dumas ( United States)	Alex Shahparnia ( United States)

15 to 16

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Riley Lester ( United States)	Dave McLallen ( United States)	Jonathan Bryan ( United States)
2001	Rob Kitts ( United States)	Jessica Noll ( United States)

17 to 25

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Yuji Imatsaji ( Japan)	Richard Hertzberg ( United States)	Daniel Wendland ( United States)
2001	Maya Nakamura ( Japan)	Naoto ( Japan)	Saya Sasaki ( Japan)

26 to 45

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Greg Beatty ( United States)	Keijiro Ono ( Japan)	Christal Cullymore ( United States)
2001	Thomas Connolly ( United States)	Glasseye ( United States)	Justin Adam ( United States)

46 to 65

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Stuart Crump ( United States)	Mari McCabe ( United States)
2001	John Bozung ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)

66 to 106

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2001	Gary Hill ( United States)

Beginner

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Sean Curran ( United States)	Mike Busch ( United States)	Tim Skalland ( United States)
2001	Nikoli Zygo ( United States)	Dennis Shatter ( United States)	Mark Leithead ( United States)

Advanced

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Felix Avellana ( United States)	Gary Longoria ( United States)	David Guttenplan ( United States)
2001	Alex Poole ( United States)	Valerie Oliver ( United States)	Hank Freeman ( United States)

Expert

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2000	Jon Gates ( United States)	Steve Brown ( United States)	Dale Oliver ( United States)
2001	Felix Avellana ( United States)	Dale Oliver ( United States)	Mark Vargas ( United States)

String

7 to 8

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	William Nix ( United States)
2003	Merged to "10 and under" division

9 to 10

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Ben Conde ( United States)	Nicholas Walker ( United States)	Graham Nix ( United States)
2003	Merged to "10 and under" division

10 & Under

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Ben Conde ( United States)	John Narum ( United States)
2004	John Bozung	?	?
2005	Isaiah Behhell ( United States)	Josh Ellis ( United States)	Tylor Mollan ( United States)
2006	Sean Micca ( United States)	Kevin Clutter ( United States)	Matthew Stewart ( United States)
2007	Kelly Micca ( United States)	Bradlee Nadeau ( United States)	Tylor Mollan ( United States)
2008	Bryant Baus ( United States)
2009	?	?	Danielle Williams
2010	Dylan Swart ( United States)	Connor O'Malley ( United States)	( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Hajime Sakauchi ( Japan)	Kaleb Zuckerman( United States)

11 to 12

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	John Esfeld ( United States)	Kevin Elvin ( United States)
2003	Nicholsas Walker ( United States)	Ann Connolly ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Ryan Scott ( United States)	Michael Ferdico ( United States)	Andrew Ruiz ( United States)
2006	Dan Dietz ( United States)	Paul Williams ( United States)	Jonathan Schwartz ( United States)
2007	Nick Kozak ( United States)	Ethan Bein ( United States)	Theo Viola ( United States)
2008	Ben de Wet (South Africa)	Omar Iarranaga, ( United States)	Theo Viola ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Morgan Alexander ( United States)	Kenneth La ( United States)	Chandler Hudson ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Brett Jeffery( United States)	Ben Viore( United States)

13 to 14

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Tom Hebblethwaite ( United States)	Koichirou Mori ( United States)	Landon Balk ( United States)
2003	Merged to "13 to 16" division

15 to 16

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Paul Han ( United States)	Adam Denuchy ( United States)	Damian Talavera ( United States)
2003	Merged to "13 to 16" division

13 to 16

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Paul Han ( United States)	Adam Denuchy ( United States)	Damian Talavera ( United States)
2003	Mike McCabe ( United States)	Dennis Slater ( United States)	Nick Gumlaw ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Brandon Murphy ( United States)	Nicholas Walker ( United States)	Mike Cogan ( United States)
2006	Chris Hawley ( United States)	Alex Brant ( United States)	Will Neimeier ( United States)
2007	Alex Brant ( United States)	Mcleod Benson ( United States)	Emmet Yeager ( United States)
2008	Mikhail Baklanov ( United States)	Andrew Ruiz ( United States)	Michael Sparhawk ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Isaac Parris ( United States)	Ben Alexander ( United States)	Marshall Nye ( United States)
2011	Kelly Carney ( United States)	Clare Evans ( United States)	?
2012	Doug Kapinos( United States)	Nic Patane( United States)	Stephanie Haight( United States)

17 to 29

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
Started as "17 to 25" division
2002	Masahiro Tanikawa ( United States)	Jan Schmutz ( Switzerland)	Naoto Ichimura ( Japan)
Changed to "17 to 29" division
2003	Nato Ichimura ( Japan)	Dave Geigle ( Germany)	Mina Tanikawa ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Kengo Okubo ( United States)	Saya Sasaki ( United States)	John Robot ( United States)
2006	Pat Cuartero ( United States)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)	Andrew Robinson ( United States)
2007	Hishida Masanobu ( Japan)	Saul Arjona ( United States)	Pat Cuartero ( United States)
2008	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)	Nathan Crissey ( United States)	Omar Guitierez ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Landon Balk ( United States)	Naoshi Terasawa ( United States)	Boyd Seth ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Sho Aketo( Japan)	Boyd Seth( United States)

30 to 44

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
Started as "26 to 45" division
2002	John Lindberg ( United States)	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Dave Bazan ( United States)
Changed to "30 to 44" division
2003	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Kevin Brumfield ( United States)	John Lindberg ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Russell Bean ( United States)	Isaac Kanarek ( United States)	Andy Brant ( United States)
2006	Andy Smith ( United States)	Isaac Kanarek ( United States)	Kevin Jones ( United States)
2007	Ed Haponik ( United States)	Chadd Gromaski ( United States)	John Shea ( United States)
2008	Man-Kin Wong ( United States)	Chadd Gromaski ( United States)	Isaac Kauarek ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)	Ed Haponik ( United States)	Toby Ratcliffe ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Issac Kanarek( United States)	Ed Haponik( United States)	Bart Cusik( United States)

46 to 65

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	John Bozung ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Bill Elvin ( United States)
2003	Merged to "45 & Over" division

45 & Over

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	John Bozung ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Jack Finn ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Larry Kirby ( United States)	J. Johnoson ( United States)	Tom Connolly ( United States)
2006	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Jack Finn ( United States)
2007	Andy Smith ( United States)	Jim Johnson ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)
2008	Jack Finn ( United States)	Thomas Connelly ( United States)	Barend de Wet (South Africa)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Jack Finn ( United States)	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Tom Connolly( United States)	John Bozung( United States)	Satoru Sakauchi( Japan)

Expert

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Kensuke Goto ( Japan)	Andrew Conde ( United States)	Cody Taylor ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( Japan)	Rob Kitts ( United States)	Ben Tredway ( United States)
2006	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( United States)	Luke Roberts ( United States)	Jake Maloney ( United States)
2007	Alan Grimberg ( United States)	Spencer Parsons ( United States)	Will Neimeier ( United States)
2008	Javier Augusto Martinez ( Mexico)	Alan Grimberg ( United States)	Yu-Pei Liew ( Hong Kong)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Man-Fai　Chan ( Hong Kong)	Connor Scholten ( United States)	Ian Johnson ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Man Fai　Chan ( Hong Kong)	Man Kin Wong ( Hong Kong)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)

Looping

7 to 8　

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	No Entry
2003	Merged to "10 and under" division

9 to 10

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Ben Conde ( United States)
2003	Merged to "10 and under" division

10 & Under

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Ben Conde ( United States)	John Narum ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Tylor Mollan ( United States)	Isaiah Bethell ( United States)
2006	Sean Micca ( United States)	Brian Williams ( United States)	Kelly Micca ( United States)
2007	Tylor Mollan ( United States)	Noah Gendron ( United States)	Kelly Micca　( United States)
2008	Bryant Baus ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	No Entry
2011	?	?	?
2012	Hajime Sakauchi( Japan)

11 to 12

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	John Esfeld ( United States)	Omar Acosta ( United States)
2003	No Entry
2004	?	?	?
2005	Michael Feridco ( United States)	Josef Ameur ( United States)	Kieran O'Sulliva ( United States)
2006	Paul Williams ( United States)	Dan Dietz ( United States)	Joshua Ellis ( United States)
2007	Nathaniel Gendron ( United States)	Nick Kozak ( United States)	Theo Viola ( United States)
2008	Theo Viola ( United States)	Tyler Mollan ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	No Entry
2011	?	?	?
2012	No Entry

13 to 14

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( Japan)	Koichirou Mori ( Japan)	Andrew Conde ( United States)
2003	Merged to "13 to 16" division

15 to 16

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)	Rob Kitts ( United States)	Dominique Vionnet ( United States)
2003	Merged to "13 to 16" division

13 to 16

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Koichiro Mori ( Japan)	Mike McCabe ( United States)	John Esfeld ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Alex Brant ( United States)	Brett Stromp ( United States)
2006	Alex Kim ( United States)	Alex Brandt ( United States)	Spencer Parsons ( United States)
2007	Mcleod Benson ( United States)	Alex Brant ( United States)	Chris Hawley ( United States)
2008	Spencer Parsons ( United States)	Andrew Ruiz ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Isaac Parris ( United States)	Marshall Nye ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Nicholas Patane( United States)	Doug Kapinos( United States)

17 to 29

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
Started as "17 to 25" division
2002	Shota Aizawa ( Japan)	Rob Kitts ( United States)	Mina Tanikawa ( United States)
Changed to "17 to 29" division
2003	Sota Tamechika ( Japan)	Mina Tanikawa ( United States)	Daisuke Urano ( Japan)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Kengo Okubo ( Japan)	Wing-Man Tse ( Hong Kong)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)
2006	Hikaru Igarashi ( Japan)	Atsushi Yamada ( Japan)	Pat Cuartero ( United States)
2007	Patrick Mitchell ( United States)	Joshua Van Dalen ( Netherlands)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)
2008	Benson McLeod ( United States)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)	Nathan Crissey ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Yu Tsumura ( Japan)	Kousuke Yoshida ( Japan)	Naoshi Terasawa ( Japan)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Sho Aketo( Japan)

30 to 44

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
Started as "26 to 45" division
2002	Dave Bazan ( United States)	Tom Connoly ( United States)
Changed to "30 to 44" division
2003	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Kevin Brumfield ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Isaac Kanarek ( Mexico)	Ken Russell ( United States)	Cole Rominger ( United States)
2006	Isaac Kanarek ( Mexico)	Andy Brandt ( United States)	Alicia Ameur ( United States)
2007	Man-Kin Wong ( Hong Kong)	Isaac Kanarek ( Mexico)	John Shea ( United States)
2008	Man-Kin Wong ( Hong Kong)	Isaac Kamarek ( Mexico)	Chadd Gromaski ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Kenichi Iida ( Japan)	Ken Wong ( United States)	Masanobu Hishida ( Japan)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Isaac Kanarek( United States)

46 to 65

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2002	Larry Kilby ( United States)	John Bozung ( United States)
2003	Merged to "10 and under" division

45 & Over

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Larry Kilby ( United States)	John Bozung ( United States)	Stuart Crump ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Jack Finn ( United States)
2006	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Jack Finn ( United States)
2007	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Jack Finn ( United States)
2008	Thomas Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)	Barend de Wet ( South Africa)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Tom Connolly ( United States)	Larry Kilby ( United States)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Satoru Sakauchi( Japan)	Larry Kilby( United States)	Tom Connolly( United States)

Expert

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
2003	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( Japan)	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)	Andrew Conde ( United States)
2004	?	?	?
2005	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( Japan)	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)	Daisuke Simada ( Japan)
2006	Hiroyuki Suzuki ( Japan)	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)	Luke Roberts ( United States)
2007	Chun-Hay Chan ( Hong Kong)	Atsushi Yamada ( Japan)	Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan)
2008	Jake Maloney ( United States)	Paul Williams ( United States)
2009	?	?	?
2010	Yu Tsumura ( Japan)	Kousuke Yoshida ( Japan)	Kenichi Iida ( Japan)
2011	?	?	?
2012	Yu Tsumura( United States)	Liu Manki( Hong Kong)	Mau Fai Chan( Hong Kong)