| 1986 |
Madrid |
Tom JAGER (USA) |
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Dano HALSALL (SUI) |
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Matt BIONDI (USA) |
| 1991 |
Perth |
Tom JAGER (USA) |
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Matt BIONDI (USA) |
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Gennadij PRIGODA (URS) |
| 1994 |
Roma |
Aleksandr POPOV (RUS) |
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Gary HALL Jr. (USA) |
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Raimundas MAJOLIS (LTU) |
| 1998 |
Perth |
Bill PILCZUK (USA) |
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Aleksandr POPOV (RUS) |
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Ricardo BUSQUETS (PUR) |
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Michael KLIM (AUS) |
| 2001 |
Fukuoka |
Anthony ERVIN (USA) |
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Pieter VAN DEN HOOGENBAND (OLA) |
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Roland SCHOEMAN (RSA) |
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Tomohiro YAMANOI (JPN) |
| 2003 |
Barcellona |
Alexandr POPOV (RUS) |
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Mark FOSTER (GBR) |
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Pieter VAN DEN HOOGENBAND (OLA) |
| 2005 |
Montreal |
Roland SCHOEMAN (SAF) |
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Duje DRAGANJA (CRO) |
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Bartosz KIZIEROWSKI (POL) |
| 2007 |
Melbourne |
Benjamin WILDMAN-TOBRINER (USA) |
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Cullen JONES (USA) |
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Stefan NYSTRAND (SVE) |
| 2009 |
Roma |
Cesar CIELO FILHO (BRA) |
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Frédérick BOUSQUET (FRA) |
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Amaury LEVEAUX (FRA) |
| 2011 |
Shanghai |
Cesar CIELO FILHO (BRA) |
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Luca DOTTO (ITA) |
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Alain BERNARD (FRA) |
| 2013 |
Barcellona |
Cesar CIELO FILHO (BRA) |
| |
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Vladimir MOROZOV (RUS) |
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Geoge BOVELL (TTO) |
| 2015 |
Kazan |
Florent MANAUDOU (FRA) |
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Nathan ADRIAN (USA) |
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Bruno FRATUS (BRA) |
| 2017 |
Budapest |
Caeleb DRESSEL (USA) |
| |
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Bruno FRATUS (BRA) |
| |
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Benjamin PROUD (GBR) |
| 2019 |
Gwangju |
Caeleb DRESSEL (USA) |
| |
|
Bruno FRATUS (BRA) |
| |
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Kristián GOLOMÉEV (GRE) |
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|
bronzo non assegnato |
| 2022 |
Budapest |
Benjamin PROUD (GBR) |
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|
Michael ANDREW (USA) |
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Maxime GROUSSET (FRA) |
| 2023 |
Fukuoka |
Cameron McEVOY (AUS) |
| |
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Jack ALEXY (USA) |
| |
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Benjamin PROUD (GBR) |
| 2024 |
Doha |
Vladyslav BUKHOV (UKR) |
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Cameron McEVOY (AUS) |
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Benjamin PROUD (GBR) |
| 2025 |
Singapore |
Cameron McEVOY (AUS) |
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Benjamin PROUD (GBR) |
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Jack ALEXY (USA) |