Template:420 Open World Championship medallists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1973 Adelaide	Australia Wangel Giles
1974 Kiel	France Alain Chourgnoz Denis Cerda
1975 Medemblik	United States Whitehurst	France Russo	Netherlands Carels
1976 Barrington	United States Stephen Taylor Joan Massey
1977 Baiona	United States Stephen Taylor Joan Massey	Israel
1978 Jyllinge	France Pollet Johanssen	Great Britain Cathy Foster Wendy Hilder	Spain Sallent Isnard
1979 Tróia	Italy Di Salle Vassalo	West Germany Möller Möller	New Zealand Dickson Wilcox
1980 Quiberon	Israel Shimshon Brokman Eitan Friedlander	France Brenac Mikuelis	France Jaffrezeic Berthonneau
1982 Adelaide	Australia Ferris McKay	United States Brown	West Germany Etten
1984 Annapolis	West Germany A. Andruleit H. Andruleit	West Germany Filimonow Stöckmann	Canada Ellis Ferrow
1986 Nieuwpoort	France Eric Godard Christophe Godard
1987 Balatonfüred	France Jean-François Berthet Gwendoel Berthet	France Eric Godard Christophe Godard	Spain José Miguel Ramis Antonio Morro
1988 Lake Macquarie	France W. Sanchez-Diez Bertrand Dumortier	West Germany Christian Halm Alexander Halm	France Jean-François Berthet Gwendoel Berthet
1989 Mošćenička Draga	France David Ravet Bertrand Loyal	Great Britain Steve Irish Greg Irish	Great Britain John Merricks Rob Wilson
1990 Crozon	France Christian Gout Jean Gout
1991 Rimini	Great Britain Steve Irish Greg Irish
1992 Caesarea	Spain Gustavo Martínez Dimias Wood
1993 Marstrand	Italy Marcello Luciani Dario Luciani
1994 Plymouth	Great Britain John Merricks Ian Lovering
1995 Fremantle	Australia Roger Perrett Teague Czislowski
1996 Blankenberge	Portugal M. Fortunato M. Nunes
1997 Newport	France W. Sanchez-Diez Gabriol	Italy L. Chiarugi E. Trumpy
1998 Palamós	France Nicolas Charbonnier David Deguine