Template:470 Open World Championship medallists

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1970 Lake Lacanau  France
Yves Carré
Hervé Carré
 France
Philippe Follenfant
Hubert Follenfant
 France
Didier Poisson
Denis Londeix
1971 Ostend  Netherlands
Tom van Essen
Wouter van Essen
 France
Philippe Follenfant
Hubert Follenfant
 France
Bruno Demartial
Bernard Demartial
1972 Montreal  Netherlands
Sjoerd Vollebregt
Erik Vollebregt
 France
Philippe Follenfant
Hubert Follenfant
 Netherlands
Tom van Essen
Wouter van Essen
1973 Kiel  Denmark
Henrik Söderlund
Age Börresen
 United States
Peter Commette
Michael Loeb
 Netherlands
Joop van Werkhoven
Robert van Werkhoven
1974 Naples  Spain
Antonio Gorostegui
Manuel Albalat
 France
Philippe Lecrit
Dominique Duvallet
 Spain
Juan Santana
Francisco Colom
1975 New York  France
Marc Laurent
Roger Surmin
 France
Philippe Follenfant
Hubert Follenfant
 France
Jean-François Fountaine
Claire Fountaine
1976 not held
1977 Shizuoka  United States
David Ullman
Tom Linskey
 Japan
Kazunori Komatsu
Yasuyuki Hakomori
 New Zealand
Mark Paterson
David Mackay
1978 Marstrand  United States
David Ullman
Tom Linskey
 Canada
Gerry Roufs
Charles Robitaille
 West Germany
John Pudenz
Ulrich Kittmann
1979 Medemblik  Japan
Miyuki Kay
Ryo Komiya
 France
Laurent Delage
Hervé Wattine
 France
Stéphane Richer
Philippe Claude
1980 Porto Alegre  United States
David Ullman
Tom Linskey
 France
Laurent Delage
Hervé Wattine
 France
Stéphane Richer
Philippe Claude
1981 Quiberon  New Zealand
David Barnes
Hamish Willcox
 United States
Steve Benjamin
Chris Steinfeld
 Italy
Tommaso Chieffi
Enrico Chieffi
1982 Cascais  East Germany
Jörn Borowski
Eckbert Swensson
 France
Daniel Peponnet
Pascal Champaloux
 New Zealand
David Barnes
Hamish Willcox
1983 Weymouth  New Zealand
David Barnes
Hamish Willcox
 West Germany
Wolfgang Hunger
Jochen Hunger
 Israel
Shimshon Brokman
Eitan Friedlander
1984 Auckland  New Zealand
David Barnes
Hamish Willcox
 New Zealand
Chris Dickson
Joe Allen
 New Zealand
Peter Evans
Sean Reeves